Argonne National Laboratory


Active Learning to Accelerate ABF Grid Sampling
Michelle Garcia, Dartmouth College
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Juan De Pablo , Liew Family Professor in Molecular Engineering, Center for Molecular Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
Constraining Early Dark Energy models with a power spectra emulator
Mary Gerhardinger, University of Pennsylvania
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Salman Habib, Director of Argonne's Computational Science, Computational Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Generation and Validation of Intrinsically Disorder Protein Complexes from Diffusion Models
Ethan Meitz, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Science Leader 1, Data Science and Learning, Argonne National Laboratory
Trans-dimensional Bayesian model selection and parameter estimation for high-throughput characterization of spin defects in semiconductors
Abigail Poteshman, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: F. Joseph Heremans, Staff Scientist, Materials Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Machine Learning + Hybrid Monte Carlo (ML+HMC) Simulation in Lattice QCD
Joseph Torsiello, Temple University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: James Osborn, Computational Scientist, Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Improving the hyperbolic partial differential equation (PDE)-constrained dynamic optimization of an oscillatory bioreactor using surrogate modeling
Krystian Ganko, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Sven Leyffer, Senior Computational Mathematician / R&D Leader, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Automatic characterization of random spin baths in semiconductors
Abigail Poteshman, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: F. Joseph Heremans, Scientist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Ergodicity at the Transition Between Non-Thermalizing Phases and Analog Routes to Quantum Error Correction
Rahul Sahay, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Ivar Martin, Physicist, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Application of Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials to Interfaces
Samuel Varner, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Juan J. de Pablo, Senior Scientist, Materials Science, CME, Argonne National Laboratory
Implementation of Selected Configuration Interaction Methods for Molecules and Solids with Integral-Driven Computations for Exascale Calculations
Luis Rangel DaCosta, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Anouar Benali, Staff Scientist, Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Learning Interatomic Potentials using Symbolic Regression for Si-based Systems
Shehan Parmar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Dr., Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Mapping Circuits for Distributed Quantum Computing by Graph Partitioning
Marc Davis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Computer Scientist, Data Science and Learning, Argonne National Laboratory
Almost Indirect Methods for Constrained Optimization on the GPU
Anthony Degleris, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Michel Schanen, Assistant Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Machine learning-driven multiscale modeling of genomic evolution of SARS-CoV-2
Danilo Perez Jr, New York University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Scientist, Data Science and Learning, Argonne National Laboratory
Spectral Density Calculations for Solid Materials using Selected Configuration Interaction
Luis Rangel DaCosta, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Anouar Benali, Staff Scientist, Computational Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Reinforcement Learning for Retrosynthetic Pathway Planning
Scott Emmons, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Prasanna Balaprakash, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Compiler Abstractions and Transformations for High Performance Parallel Computing
William Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Johannes Doerfert, Assistant Computer Scientist, Division Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory
AI-enabled integration of Cryo-EM and multi-resolution simulations to understand the SARS-CoV-2replication-transcription complex machinery
Anda Trifan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist, Data Science & Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Guiding the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Filters
Robert Baraldi, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2020
Practicum Supervisor: Sven Leyffer, Project Leader/Sr. Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science , Argonne National Laboratory
Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for Molecular Dynamics simulations
Anda Trifan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2020
Practicum Supervisor: Arvind Ramanathan, Computational Biologist, Data Science & Learning Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Neutrinos in HACC - Reducing noise in cosmological N-body simulations with neutrino particles
James Sullivan, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Salman Habib, Group Leader/Senior Physicist, High Energy Physics, Argonne National Laboratory
Computational and Experimental Studies of Liquid Structure
Malia Wenny, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Byeongdu Lee, Physicist, X-Ray Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Automated Thermochemistry and Kinetics for Combustion
Sarah Elliott, University of Georgia
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Klippenstein, Dr., Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
Optimization under uncertainty using chance constraints
Morgan Kelley, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Sven Leyffer, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Calculation of free energy profiles for reactions on metal surfaces using advanced sampling methods
Thomas Ludwig, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Juan de Pablo, Professor, Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Phonon bottlenecks in low dimensional materials
Nicholas Rivera, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Pierre Darancet, Staff Scientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Using PETSc to parallelize finite element simulations of arbitrarily curved and deforming surfaces
Amaresh Sahu, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Barry Smith, Senior Computing Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Non-gaussianity in cosmological simulations
Zachary Weiner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Katrin Heitmann and Salman Habib, , High Energy Physics/Cosmology, Argonne National Laboratory
Computational Calculations of the Effects of Defects on HfO2 Properties
Emily Crabb, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Olle G. Heinonen, Materials Scientist & Strategic Initiative Lead, Computational Chemistry and Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Automated Thermochemistry for Combustion
Sarah Elliott, University of Georgia
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Klippenstein, Dr., Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
Nonlinear Robust Optimization
Carson Kent, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Sven Leyffer, Senior Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Halo Occupation Distribution Modeling of RedMagic Galaxies
Andres Salcedo, The Ohio State University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Salman Habib, , High Energy Physics , Argonne National Laboratory
Inverse optimization technique for targeted self-assembly of nanostructures
Mukarram Tahir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Stefan Wild, Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Computational Studies on Inhomogeneous Surface Plasmon Polaritons in Metamaterials
Gerald Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Gray, Group Leader, Theory and Modeling, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
Massively Parallelized Equation-Of-Motion Coupled Cluster Singles and Doubles (EOMCCSD) for Excited State Characterization
Samuel Blau, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Jeff Hammond, Assistant Computational Scientist, Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory
Performance Analysis of Full-Core Reactor Simulations on the Xeon Phi Architecture
David Ozog, University of Oregon
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Andrew Siegel, Director, CESAR, Math and Computer Science / Nuclear Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
High Resolution Modeling of Tropical Cyclones
David Plotkin, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Jacob, Computational Climate Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Metabolic Modeling of Trophic Interactions in Microbial Communities
Andrew Stine, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Christopher Henry, Computational Biologist , Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Argonne National Laboratory
Enhancing scalability of the coastal ocean model SELFE
Jesse Lopez, Oregon Health and Science University
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Jed Brown, Argonne Scholar, Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory
Applying DFT to the study of charge density effects in fullerene semiconductors
Kenley Pelzer, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Seth Darling, Nanoscientist, Center for Nanoscale Materials, Argonne National Laboratory
p3calc: An efficient tool for calculating properties of potential energy surfaces for chemical kinetics
Jason Bender, University of Minnesota
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Klippenstein, , Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Argonne National Laboratory
Molecular Dynamics Simulations for Extracting Phase Field Model Parameters
Carmeline Dsilva, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Mihai Anitescu, Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Parallelization and optimization of lattice-Boltzmann method
Christopher Ivey, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Ramesh Balakrishnan, Computational Scientist, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory
PU-Accelerated Coarse-Grained Simulations of Polymer-Nanotube Complexes
Zachary Ulissi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Gregory Voth, Distinguished Service Professor, Computation Institute, Argonne National Laboratory
Fragment molecular orbital molecular dynamics on the BlueGene/P
Kurt Brorsen, Iowa State University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Graham Fletcher, Project Specialist, Leadership Computer Facility, Argonne National Laboratory
A Linearly Constrained Augmented Lagrangian Method for PDE-Constrained Optimization
Evan Gawlik, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Todd Munson, Dr., Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Algorithms for Local and Parallel Structured Tensor Contractions
Devin Matthews, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Jeff Hammond, Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, Argonne National Laboratory
Conserving angular momentum in the master equation
Kenley Pelzer, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Klippenstein, Chemist, Chemistry (Chemical Dynamics in the Gas Phase), Argonne National Laboratory
A framework for parallel symmetric tensor contractions
Edgar Solomonik, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Jeff Hammond, Dr, ALCF, Argonne National Laboratory
Investigation of Scalable Adjoint Frameworks for Multi-physics Nuclear Reactor Simulations
Hayes Stripling, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Mihai Anitescu, Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Investigating Hybrid Programming through Solid Mechanics
Piotr Fidkowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Pavan Balaji, Assistant Computer Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Universal Gradient Enhanced Kriging Methods for Surrogate Modeling in Nuclear Engineering
Brian Lockwood, University of Wyoming
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Mihai Anitescu, Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Application of Anisotropic Diffusion Tensor in 3-D and Implementation in DIF3D
Travis Trahan, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Smith, Dr., Nuclear Reactor Analyst, Nuclear Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Parallel Implementation of Charge and Thermal Transport Simulation in Carbon Nanotubes
Zlatan Aksamija, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Fischer, Computational Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Approximate Dynamic Programing Models of Public Health Emergency Response
Kathleen King, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Sven Leyffer, Computational Mathematician, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Genome wide analysis of epigenetic features during development of Drosophila melanogaster.
Paul Loriaux, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Kevin White, Director, IGSB, Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Systematic comparison of very different computational neuronal network models of epilepsy
Anne Warlaumont, University of Memphis
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Hereld, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Optimization of simulation-based optimization problems with constraints on the computational budget
Stefan Wild, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Jorge More, Senior Computational Mathematician -Director, LANS, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Finite element model of mantle convection in icy satellites including grain size-dependent viscosity
Emma Rainey, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Matthew Knepley, , , Argonne National Laboratory
A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations on Structured Meshes.
Krzysztof Fidkowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Fischer, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Developing a Full-scale Implementation of the Hessian-implicit Primal-dual Method
Jaydeep Bardhan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Jorge More, , Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Non-newtonian dynamics and thermal structure in subduction zones: applying the Portable Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computing (PETSc) to a highly non-linear problem in CFD
Richard Katz, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Barry Smith, Scientist (?), Mathematics and Computer Science Division, ANL, Argonne National Laboratory
Krylov Based Exponential Propagators
Daniel Horner, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Fischer, , Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Sediment Particle Dynamics
Samuel Schofield, University of Arizona
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Fischer, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Variation in Metabolic Pathways
Pauline Ng, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Natalia Maltsev, Asst. Comp. Biologist, MCS-Mathematics & Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Investigation of the suitability of WENO schemes for the Rayleigh-Taylor instability
John Costello, University of Arizona
Practicum Year: 1999
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Fischer, , Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory
Developing the Beam Element for Finite Element System Using Absolute Nodal Coordinate Formulation
Larisa Goldmints, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 1998
Practicum Supervisor: Thomas Canfield, , , Argonne National Laboratory
Implementation of Von Mises plasticity in SUMAA3D - a scalable unstructured mesh algorithms and applications package
William Barry, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Plassmann, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
A Simplex Based Primal-Dual Algorithm for Finding a Perfect Two-Matching in an Undirected Graph
Paul Bunch, Purdue University
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Wright, , Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Performance Optimization and Parallelization of FANS-3D
Kent Carlson, Florida State University
Practicum Year: 1992
Practicum Supervisor: William Gropp, , Mathematics and Computer Science, Argonne National Laboratory