2024 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

First-, second- and third-year students present their research during the annual Fellows' Poster Session.

Tuesday, July 16 — 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, July 17 — 3:30-6:30 p.m.

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present their latest findings. The format allows all attendees — including fellow presenters — to ask questions of and engage in discussion with one another.

This year's poster session will be split between two days, with groupings as follows:

2021 Class (third-year fellows) – Tuesday, July 16 at 5:00 p.m.
2022 Class (second-year fellows) – Wednesday, July 17 at 3:30 p.m.
2023 Class (first-year fellows) – Wednesday, July 17 at 5:00 p.m.

First-, second- and third-year fellows: Please closely review Krell's Guidelines for Poster Presentation document which outlines session logistics, poster size limitations, printing options and helpful tips for presenting your work.

Poster Presentation Schedule

2021 Fellows — Presenting Tuesday, July 16 from 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:45 p.m.
1	Olivia Asher	Assessing the Diversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Spore Associated Fungi and Bacteria Using Metagenomics and Culturing
3	Alexandra Ballow	Investigating an Interesting Categorical Action
5	Bryn Barker	Satisfying the Fluctuation Dissipation Balance With Adaptive Mesh Refinement
7	Vivek Bharadwaj	High-Performance Row-Sampling for Khatri-Rao Products
9	Souradip Ghosh	Ripple: Asynchronous Programming for Spatial Dataflow Architectures
11	Bowen Jing	AlphaFold Meets Flow Matching for Generating Protein Ensembles
13	Caleb Ju	Deep Reinforcement Learning of Local Trading Strategy for Grid-Scale Renewable Energy Integration
15	Madeleine Kerr	Mantle Avalanches in Venus-Like Stagnant Lid Planet
17	Abigail Poteshman	Leveraging Topological Constraints to Accelerate Spontaneous Electric Polarization Calculations
19	Paulina Rodriguez	Medical Device Modeling: A Case Study in Building Credibility With Limited Reproducibility
21	Samuel Varner	Application of Machine Learned Potentials to Bulk and Interfacial Aqueous Solutions
23	Victor Zendejas Lopez	Direct Numerical Simulation of Spatially Evolving Statistically Stationary Planar Mixing Layers
28	Lucy Brown	A Novel Slip Boundary Condition for Contact Angle Modeling Using Phase Field Methods
Group II - Presenting 5:45-6:30 p.m.
2	Lucas Attia	Inverse Design of Upconverting Nanoparticles via Deep Learning on Physics-Infused Heterogeneous Graphs
4	Zoe Barbeau	Numerical Analysis of Particle in Cell Methods in 2D
6	Paul Beckman	Butterfly-Accelerated Gaussian Random Fields on Manifolds
8	Ishani Ganguly	Efficient Connectome Analyses for Identifying Bottleneck Neurons in Behaviorally-Relevant Pathways
10	Juan Gomez	Attack-Aware Noise Calibration for Private Machine Learning
12	Gabrielle Jones	Controlling Topological Defects in Curved Spherical Crystals of Hard Superballs
14	Olorundamilola Kazeem	Advancing Speech Recognition With Vocal Tract Kinematics
16	Joy Kitson	Scaling an Agent-Based Epidemic Simulation on State-Level Digital Twins
18	Sonia Reilly	Bayesian Inversion of PDE-Based Problems Using Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations
20	Courtney Shafer	Evaluation of Modeled Subglacial Discharge From the Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Southern Ocean
22	Julia Wei	Sampling From Variational SU(2)-Symmetric Quantum States
2022 Fellows — Presenting Wednesday, July 17 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Group I - Presenting 3:30-4:15 p.m.
25	Caleb Adams	Modeling Fire Effects on Soil Carbon Cycling
27	Elizabeth Bennewitz	Simulating Meson Scattering on Spin Quantum Simulators
29	Jackson Burns	Development of a Descriptor-Based Foundation Model for Molecular Property Prediction
31	Ashlynn Crisp	Scaling the Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process
33	Zachary Espinosa	The Shortwave Cloud-SST Feedback Amplifies Multi-Decadal Variability in the Southeast Pacific: Implications for Observed Cooling
35	Joshua Fernandes	Electrical Signal Propagation Along Biological Membranes
37	Mary Gerhardinger	Solving a Crisis in Cosmology
39	McKenzie Hagen	Evaluating Regularized Modeling Methods for Calcuating Functional Connectivity
41	Alexander Johnson	Core Tracking with Massless-Aggregation-Particles (MAPs)
43	McKenzie Larson	The Impact of Vertical Coordinates on Ice Shelf Cavity Simulations in MPAS-Ocean
45	Kerri Lu	Quantifying Uncertainty in Area and Effect Size Estimation from Remote Sensing Maps
47	Tristan Maxson	Understanding Structure of Supported Ag Nanoparticles by Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials
49	Miruna Oprescu	Is it Correlation or Causation? Uncertainty Quantification in Estimating Causal Effects with Unobserved Confounding
51	Carlyn Schmidgall	Unraveling the Controls on Arctic Ocean Salinity Stratification Through E3SM-Arctic Tracer Release Experiments
53	Emily Williams	Deep Operator Networks for Reduced-Order Modeling
Group II - Presenting 4:15-5:00 p.m.
24	Daniel Abdulah	Towards a GCM Emulator for Exoplanet Applications
26	Christopher Anderson	The Interplay of Binary and Quantitative Structure on the Stability of Mutualistic Networks
30	Nina Cao	Fabrication and Simulation of Artificial Cilia With Unique Integrated Proprioceptive Sensing Mechanisms
32	Max Daniels	Model Selection in Physics-Informed Machine Learning
34	Otto Fajen	The Ultrafast Photochemistry of Thymine: Predictions From Coupled Cluster Theory and the Hole-Hole Tamm-Dancoff Approximation
36	Nina Filippova	Understanding Stellar Multiplicity Through Disk Fragmentation and Pre-Stellar Core Evolution
38	Gil Goldshlager	Leveraging Randomized Linear Algebra to Accelerate the Training of Neural Network Wavefunctions
40	Michael Ito	Learning Laplacian Positional Encodings for Heterophilous Graphs
42	Katherine Keegan	An Adversarial ML Approach to Parameter Learning in Quantum Chromodynamics
44	Jerry Liu	Can Transformers Solve Least Squares to High Precision?
46	Storm Mata	On the Stability of Coupled Mesoscale-Microscale Simulations: A Case Study in the Southern Great Plains Region
48	Franz O'Meally	Towards the Direct Numerical Simulation of Fuel Droplet Combustion in Detonation Waves
50	Mansi Sakarvadia	Understanding and Mitigating Memorization in Language Models
52	Michael Tynes	On-the-fly Learning in Large Distributed Simulation Workflows
54	Joel Ye	Neural Data Transformer 3: A Foundation Model for Motor Cortical Decoding
2023 Fellows — Presenting Wednesday, July 17 from 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Group I - Presenting 5:00-5:45 p.m.
55	Zachary Andalman	Efficient Star Formation in Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn
57	Luke Bhan	Neural Operators for Approximating Gain Kernels in PDE Control
59	Amelia Chambliss	Quadratic Flux-Minimizing Maps for Characterization of Energetic Particle Transport Mechanisms in Quasihelical and Quasiaxisymmetric Stellarators
61	Cameron Coles	Characterizing Spatiotemporal Patterns of Spongy Moth Defoliation in Upstate New York Using Sentinel-2
63	Amil Dravid	Interpreting the Weight Space of Customized Diffusion Models
65	Isabella Dula Razzolini	Using Loon to Comprehensively Observe Gravity Wave Properties
67	Jacob Halpern	Initial Coil Configurationss for the Columbia REconfigurable eXperiment (C-REX): A Hybrid Tokamak-Stellarator
69	Juampablo Heras Rivera	Improving Glioma Segmentation in Low-Resolution Domains With Transfer Learning
71	Elyssa Hofgard	Relaxed Equivariant Graph Neural Networks
73	Abigail Keller	The Transition from Resistance to Acceptance: Managing a Marine Invasive Species in a Changing World
75	David Krasowska	Task Based Programming for Processing in Memory HPC Clusters
77	Adam Lechowicz	Chasing Convex Functions With Long-term Constraints
79	Fiona Majeau	Comparing Time-Domain Simulation Methods for Systems With Heterogeneous Generation
81	Joshua Melendez-Rivera	Classical and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics for Strain-Induced Reactions of 2D Materials: A Coupled Mechanochemistry and Nanotribology Study
83	Kirill Nagaitsev	Eliminating Hardware Interrupts With Dispersed Interrupt Polling
85	Melissa Rasmussen	The Hard Life of Floatovoltaics: Modeling Wind-Driven Oscillations of Floating Solar Panels
87	Gabriel Rios	How do Tropical Cyclones Impact the Large-Scale Climate? An Exploration Using Global Climate Models
89	Joseph Torsiello	3D Tomography (3DT) of Fundamental Partons
91	Michael Walker	Direct Numerical Simulation of Flame Annihilation in Turbulent Premixed Combustion
Group II - Presenting 5:45-6:30 p.m.
56	Alexandra Bardon	Convergent Effects of Different Anesthetics on Changes in Phase Alignment of Cortical Oscillations
58	Amanda Bowden	Part 1. Changes in Madden-Julian Oscillation Activity and Easterly Waves in a Warmer Climate Using CESM2, and Part 2. The Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in the HENS Model Using TECA-BARD
60	Lauren Chua	Learning Design Rules and Generating Reactive Training Data for Energy Efficient and Deconstructable Polymerizations Using High Throughput Virtual Screening Workflows
62	Luis Delgado Granados	Unitary Dynamics for Open Quantum Systems With Density-Matrix Purification
64	Mohit Dubey	Development of a Forced Advection Sampling Technique (FAST) for Quantification of Orphan Well Methane Emissions
66	Michelle Garcia	Elucidating the Binding Modes of Small Molecules That Modulate the Aggregation Propensity of Hiapp
68	Emma Hart	Paired Autoencoders for Inference and Regularization
70	Iran Hernandez Imbert	Modeling Simplified Fracture Networks in Enhanced Geothermal Systems Using a Phase-Field Model for Crack Nucleation
72	Benjamin Holmgren	Optimal Multi-Robot Motion Planning in a Planar Polygonal Environment
74	Patrick Kim	Towards Semi-Implicit Methods for the GX Gyrokinetics Code
76	James Larsen	Feedback-Based Quantum Algorithms for the Poisson Equation
78	Brandon Lee	Direct Optimization of Neoclassical Ion Transport in Stellarator Reactors
80	Ethan Meitz	High-Temperature Heat Capacity of Vibrational Modes
82	Benjamin Moyer	Improvements to a Probabilistic Joint Inversion of Magnetic and Gravimetric Data
84	Jennifer Paige	A Spatial Understanding of Coral Dynamics Under Multiple Stressors
86	Pavan Ravindra	A Machine Learning Force Field Study of Hydrogen Bonding in Nanoconfined Water
88	Kathlynn Simotas	3D Hydrodynamical Simulations of Supernova Outflows
90	Cristian Villatoro	Encoding for Multi-Fidelity Neural Network Surrogates
92	Sienna White	How do Hydrodynamic Conditions Influence Algal Species Competition in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta?