2024 Agenda

2024 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review

Sunday, July 14 - Thursday, July 18
Hilton Washington DC National Mall The Wharf

Updated July 2, 2024
Sunday, July 14
5:00 – 9:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
6:30 – 7:00pm Incoming Fellows Gathering — L'Enfant Ballroom
Informal meet-and-greet for members of the DOE CSGF's 2024 incoming class.
7:00 – 7:30pm Fellows' Welcome Session — L'Enfant Ballroom
A pre-meeting gathering of incoming and first- through fourth-year fellows hosted by Krell program staff.
7:30 – 9:00pm Making Connections Reception — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Opportunity for all attendees to gather and socialize in an informal setting; light refreshments provided. Guests are welcome to bring a favorite card or board game to play in self-organized small groups.
Monday, July 15
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: 2024 Fellows' Individual Portraits — McPherson
9:00 – 9:30am Welcome & Introduction of the DOE CSGF's 2024 Cohort — L'Enfant Ballroom
Jeffrey Hittinger— Director, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:30 – 9:45am DOE Office of Science Welcome
Ceren Susut — Associate Director of Science for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
9:45 – 10:00am DOE NNSA Welcome
Thuc Hoang— Director, Office of Advanced Simulation & Computing and Institutional R&D Programs, U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
10:00 – 10:15am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
10:15 – 10:30am Introduction of the 2024 Frederick Howes Scholars — L'Enfant Ballroom
Judith Hill— Computational Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumna
10:30 – 11:00am Howes Scholar Presentation
Kyle Bushick — Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE CSGF Alumnus
"Building Tools for Digital Laboratories"
11:00 – 11:30am Howes Scholar Presentation
Quentarius Moore — MTS Software Development Engineer, Advanced Micro Devices; DOE CSGF Alumnus
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch & Civics Talk — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Leland Cogliani— Senior Principal, Lewis-Burke Associates LLC
Session I — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: David Rabson — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
1:15 – 1:35pm Ellis Torrance — University of North Carolina at Greensboro
"Evolution of Homologous Recombination Rates Across Bacteria"
1:35 – 1:55pm Marc Davis — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Quantum Circuit Optimization for Fault Tolerant Quantum Computing"
1:55 – 2:15pm Laura Nichols — Vanderbilt University
"Defect Activation Through Hydrogen Release in Semiconductors"
2:15 – 2:25pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
2:15 – 3:00pm Practicum Coordinator Session (laboratory representatives only) — Mt Vernon
Session II — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Margaret Lentz — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
2:25 – 2:45pm Danilo Perez Jr — New York University
"Hierarchical Kalman Filter Reveals Multi-Timescale Neural Dynamics in the Orbitofrontal Cortex"
2:45 – 3:05pm Mary LaPorte — University of California, David
"Plant Breeding and HPC: Learning From Kernels"
3:05 – 3:25pm Albert Musaelian — Harvard University
"Scaling Equivariant Machine Learning for Atomic-Scale Simulations"
3:00 – 4:00pm DOE Laboratories' Showcase Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:30pm Photo Session: 2024 Fellows' Group Portrait — McPherson
4:00 – 6:00pm DOE Laboratories' Showcase — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Laboratory representatives will be on site to talk practicum, postdoc and long-term employment opportunities.
Tuesday, July 16
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes I — McPherson
8:00 – 8:45am Program of Study Session (fellows only) — Mt Vernon
9:00 – 9:15am Announcements — L'Enfant Ballroom
John Dolbow — Assistant Vice President for Research, and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote
Daniel Reed— Presidential Professor in Computer Science, University of Utah
"Reinventing HPC"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session III — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Dr. Si Hammond — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
10:20 – 10:40am Ethan Epperly — California Institute of Technology
"Randomly Pivoted Cholesky: Faster Matrix Approximation for Scientific Machine Learning"
10:40 – 11:00am Margot Fitz Axen — University of Texas at Austin
"The Impact of Cosmic Rays on Molecular Cloud Collapse and Star Formation"
11:00 – 11:20am Kaishu Mason — University of Pennsylvania
"Generalized Linear Models for Spatial Transcriptomic Data"
11:20 – 11:40am Justin Porter — Rice University
"Prediction and Modeling of Nonlinear Vibration in Bolted Connections"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session IV — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Kevin Elzie — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
1:20 – 1:40pm Santiago Vargas — University of California, Los Angeles
"Ab Initio Enhancement of Machine Learning on Complex Chemistries"
1:40 – 2:00pm Alexandra Baumgart — California Institute of Technology
"Reduced Order Chemistry Modeling for Detonations"
2:00 – 2:20pm Graham Pash — University of Texas at Austin
"Towards Predictive Digital Twins With Applications to Precision Oncology"
2:20 – 2:40pm Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session V — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: David Etim — Advanced Simulation and Computing,
U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
2:40 – 3:00pm Nishad Maskara — Harvard University
"Towards Useful Quantum Simulation With Reconfigurable Rydberg Atom Arrays"
3:00 – 3:20pm Ariel Kellison — Cornell University
"Numerical Fuzz: A Type System for Rounding Error Analysis"
3:20 – 3:40pm David Rogers — Stanford University
"Model-Driven Verification of Enhanced Weathering"
3:40 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
4:00 – 4:30pm Outgoing Fellows Session (with Portrait Retakes to Follow) — Mt Vernon
5:00 – 6:30pm Fellows' Poster Session (2021 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Wednesday, July 17
8:00am – 5:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:00 – 8:45am Photo Session: Fellows & Alumni Portrait Retakes II — McPherson
9:00 – 9:15am Communicate Your Science & Engineering (CYSE) Essay Award Announcement — L'Enfant Ballroom
Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
9:15 – 10:00am Keynote
Mark Taylor— E3SM Chief Computational Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
"Global Cloud Resolving Atmospheric Modeling on Exascale Computers"
10:00 – 10:20am Break — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Session VI — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Hal Finkel — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
10:20 – 10:40am Luis Rangel DaCosta — University of California, Berkeley
"Simulation and Machine Learning for Atomic-Scale Characterization of Nanomaterials With Transmission Electron Microscopy"
10:40 – 11:00am Ian DesJardin — University of Maryland, College Park
"Multifluid Simulation of Ion Acoustic Solitons Arising From a Charged Source and Comparison to the Forced Korteweg–de Vries Model"
11:00 – 11:20am Margaret Trautner — California Institute of Technology
"Operator Learning for PDEs: Function Space Theory Meets Machine Learning"
11:20 – 11:40am Grant Johnson — Princeton University
"A Conservative Discontinuous Galerkin Algorithm for Particle Kinetics on Smooth Manifolds"
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch — Gallery Ballroom, Second Floor
Session VII — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderator: Christine Chalk — Advanced Scientific Computing Research,
U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science
1:20 – 1:40pm Anthony Degleris — Stanford University
"Optimal Power Grid Expansion Planning Using Differentiable Electricity Models"
1:40 – 2:00pm Rachel Robey — University of Colorado Boulder
"Approaches to Multi-Scale Challenges in Measurements and Modeling of Geophysical Flows"
2:00 – 2:20pm Kiran Eiden — University of California, Berkeley
"Computational Modeling of Astrophysical Explosions With Central Engines"
2:20 – 2:40pm Nikita Kozak — Stanford University
"Leveraging Steerable Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Data-Driven Flow Modeling"
2:40 – 3:30pm Fellows' Poster Session Set Up — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
3:30 – 5:00pm Fellows' Poster Session (2022 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
5:00 – 6:30pm Fellows' Poster Session (2023 Cohort) — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer/Solarium
Thursday, July 18
8:00am – 12:00pm Registration — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
8:30 – 10:00am Interactive Professional Development Workshop — L'Enfant Ballroom
Paul Sutter— Research Professor of Theoretical Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University; Visiting Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University; DOE CSGF Alumnus
"Communicating Your Science Workshop"
10:00 - 10:30am Break & Hotel Check Out — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
10:30am - 12:00pm Science Communication Panel — L'Enfant Ballroom
Moderated by Paul Sutter, alumni panelists will explore and discuss science communication in the context of their own unique experiences as graduate students, faculty, laboratory scientists and beyond.
  • Casey Berger — Assistant Professor, Bates College (2015 Cohort)
  • Priya Donti — Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Co-Founder and Chair, Climate Change AI (2017 Cohort)
  • Kelly Kochanski — Data Scientist (Climate Analytics), McKinsey & Company (2016 Cohort)
  • Jason Torchinsky — Postdoctoral Appointee, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico (2019 Cohort)
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch — L'Enfant Ballroom Foyer
Sandwich/salad buffet for sit-down dining in the adjacent Solarium, or to grab and go for those with departing flights.
1:00 – 4:00pm CSGF+1 — L'Enfant Ballroom
Optional programming curated/facilitated by and for DOE CSGF fellows and alumni.