Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


Numerical Analysis and Acceleration of Particle-Particle Particle-Mesh Method using Cabana
Zoe Barbeau, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Phil Colella, Senior Scientist, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Solving long horizon optimal control with distributed optimization and randomized numerical linear algebra.
Luke Bhan, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, Professor/Group Lead, Machine Learning and Analytics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Strength and Impacts of Atmospheric Rivers in the ERA5 & HENS using TempestExtremes
Amanda Bowden, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: William D. (Bill) Collins, Associate Laboratory Director, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bayesian Variable Selection on Quantum Computers
Ashlynn Crisp, Portland State University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Bert de Jong, Sr. Scientist, Group Lead, Dept. Head, Computational Science Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Physics-informed diagnostics: improving PINN performance with information-based model selection
Max Daniels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, PhD, Machine Learning & Analytics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Flow Matching for Probabalistic Forecasting of Time Series
Emma Hart, Emory University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Sherry Xiaoye Li, Senior Scientist and Group Lead, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Developing and evaluating deep learning segmentation models in the biological and medical domain.
Juampablo Heras Rivera, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Daniela Ushizima, Staff Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Application of Topological Data Analysis to Amorphous Materials
Elyssa Hofgard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Sinead Griffin, Staff Scientist , Materials Science (Molecular Foundry), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Randomized preconditioning based on approximate range deflation
Caleb Ju, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, Group Lead (Machine Learning and Analytics), Scientific Data, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Distributed Subgraph GNN Training with Local Graph Clustering
Katherine Keegan, Emory University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Aydin Buluc, Senior Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Watermarking scientific data
Kerri Lu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, Professor, Scientific Data Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Multiphase Modeling of Cohesive Particle-Laden Flows
Franz O'Meally, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Ann Almgren, Senior Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Mitigating Memorization In Language Models
Mansi Sakarvadia, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, Group Lead for the Machine Learning and Analytics , Scientific Data (SciData) Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Patterns of generalization in pretrained neural data models.
Joel Ye, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Kristofer Bouchard, Professor, Scientific Data, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Inverse Design of Upconverting Nanoparticles via Deep Learning on Physics-Infused Heterogeneous Graphs
Lucas Attia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Samuel Blau, Staff Scientist, Energy Technologies Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Butterfly factorization from matrix-vector products
Paul Beckman, New York University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Xiaoye Sherry Li, Senior Scientist & Group Lead, Applied Mathematics and Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Probabilistic Noise Conversion for Simulating Open Quantum Systems
Elizabeth Bennewitz, University of Maryland, College Park
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Bert de Jong, Dr., Department Head, Computational Science Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Surface snow properties at the SAIL site
Marianne Cowherd, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Feldman, , Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reinforcement Learning for De Novo Molecule Design in Photovoltaic Cell Applications
Ishani Ganguly, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Wibe de Jong, Group Lead, Sr. Scientist, Acting Dept. Head, Computational Science Department , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Evaluating Methods of Calculating Connectivity from Functional MRI
McKenzie Hagen, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Kristopher Bouchard, Lead, Computational Biosciences Group, Computation, Computational Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Load Balancing Nyx Cosmological Code
Alexander Johnson, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Zarija Lukic, Dr., Scientific Data Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Does In-Context Operator Learning Generalize to Domain-Shifted Settings?
Jerry Liu, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Mahoney, , Machine Learning and Analytics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Learning Polarizable Force Field Parameters for Ionic Liquids using Graph-Neural Networks
Shehan Parmar, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Kristin Persson, Professor, Dept of Materials Science and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Iterative Phasing with Noise Projection for Fluctuation X-Ray Scattering
Sonia Reilly, New York University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Jeffrey Donatelli, , Mathematics Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Disentangling order-4 tensors using Riemannian optimization
Julia Wei, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Chao Yang, Senior Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Development and Implementation of Optimized PEXSI Algorithms for Twisted Bilayer Graphene Systems
Jalen Harris, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Lin Lin, Dr., Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Relativistic Fluid Modeling for Wake-Field Acceleration Plasmas in WarpX
Grant Johnson, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Remi Lehe, Physicist Research Scientist, Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Extreme Events in a Data-Driven Deep Learning Weather Model: Fuzzy Verification and FourCastNet
Timothy Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Bill Collins, Technical Co-manager, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adaptive Remapping for PIC Methods
Zoe Barbeau, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Phil Colella, Senior Scientist, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fluctuating Hydrodynamics and the Rayleigh-Plateau Instability
Bryn Barker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, Senior Scientist, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
TBD: Exploration into Quantum Speech Processing using Quantum Pixel Representations and Compression for Keyword Recognition
Olorundamilola Kazeem, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Wibe Albert (Bert) de Jong, Group Leader, Senior Scientist, Computational Science Department - ARCQ/AIDE-QC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Method development for high-throughput polarization calculations
Abigail Poteshman, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Jeffrey Neaton, Senior Faculty Scientist, Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Advancing Free-Form Deformation for Aerodynamic Design
Nikita Kozak, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Per-Olof Persson, Mathematician Faculty Scientist/Engineer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Revisiting approaches for binning and taxonomic annotation of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi in environmental samples
Arianna Krinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Frederik Schulz, Research Scientist, New Lineages of Life Group, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Proposal for near-term quantum simulation of strongly-correlated molecules with Rydberg Atom Arrays
Nishad Maskara, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Jeff Neaton, Faculty Senior Scientist, Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences, Molecular, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Estimating MAG Quality
Kaishu Mason, University of Pennsylvania
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Dr, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Kernel View of Quantum Machine Learning on Array Data
Albert Musaelian, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Wibe (Bert) de Jong, Group Leader & Senior Scientist , Computational Chemistry, Materials and Climate Gro, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Evolutionary Analysis of Prophage Genomes
Ellis Torrance, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Simon Roux, PI, Research Scientist, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BarrierNet: Adapting Message Passing Neural Networks to Refine the Search for optimal reaction networks in Lithium Ion Battery Solid Electrolyte Interfaces
Santiago Vargas, University of California, Los Angeles
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Kristin Persson, , Material Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simulating Supermassive Black Holes in Nyx
Lindsey Byrne, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Zarija Lukic, Research Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quantum Subspace Diagonalization
Ethan Epperly, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Lin Lin, Faculty Scientist, Mathematics Group Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling Superluminous Type 1a Supernovae
Margot Fitz Axen, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Peter Nugent, Dr., Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Randomized Sampling for Training Hypergraph Neural Networks
Koby Hayashi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Aydın Buluç, Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simulating U(1) gauge theories using quantum computers
Christopher Kane, University of Arizona
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Christian Bauer, Doctor, Physics Division, Theory Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Uncovering eukaryotes from a 20-year metagenomic time series from Lake Mendota
Arianna Krinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Tanja Woyke, Interim Deputy of User Programs, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Multimodal analysis of plant root composition as a function of drought
Laura Nichols, Vanderbilt University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Daniela Ushizima, Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
6D Bricks: Extending the Bricks Data Layout for Near-Roofline Performance in High-Dimensional Application Code
Benjamin Sepanski, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Samuel Williams, Dr., Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Molecular Dataset Summarization
Caitlin Whitter, Purdue University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Yu-Hang Tang, Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Disentangling the Relative Impacts of Temperature and VPD on Tropical Forest GPP
Claire Zarakas, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Charles Koven, Staff Scientist, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Using Reference Map Technique in AMReX to model microswimmers
Yuexia Lin, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Ann Almgren, Group leader of CCSE, CRD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Learning Quantum Error Models
William Moses, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Wibe (Bert) de Jong, Group Leader & Senior Scientist, Computational Chemistry, Materials and Climate Gro, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
SNIFS Software and Pipeline Upgrades
Michael Tucker, University of Hawaii
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Greg Aldering, , , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Preconditioning Techniques for the Marginalized Graph Kernel
Caitlin Whitter, Purdue University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Aydın Buluç, Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
An acceleration framework for parameter estimation using implicit sampling and adaptive
Robert Baraldi, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Matthew Zahr, Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Research Division, Mathematics Grou, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ultrafast Electron Detector Enabled by High Performance Computing
Gabriela Correa, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Peter Alexander Ercius, Staff Scientist, National Center for Electron Microscopy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Direct evaluation of dynamical large-deviation rate functions using a variational ansatz
Daniel Jacobson, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Whitelam, Staff Scientist, Theory Facility, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Application of AMReX to an Eulerian method to simulate fluid-structure interactions
Yuexia Lin, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Ann Almgren, Group Leader of CCSE, CCSE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Genome Constellation
Kayla McCue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Group Leader, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Climate Science, Deep Learning, and Pattern Discovery: The Madden-Julian Oscillation as a Test Case
Benjamin Toms, Colorado State University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Mr. Prabhat, , National Energy Research Scientific Computing, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computational discovery of novel two-dimensional CO2 reduction photocatalysts
Steven Torrisi, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Kristin Persson, Professor & Staff Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Charged Pion Scattering with Massive QED
Casey Berger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Andre Walker-Loud, Staff Scientist, Nuclear Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dynamical Models of Biological Subtraction in Genetic Circuits
Nicholas Boffi, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Professor, Dr., Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Exploring methods to compress deep neural networks using union of intersections
Alex Kell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Kristofer Bouchard, Research Scientist, Life Sciences and Computational Research Divisions, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Exploration of the Electronic Landscape
Sukin Sim, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Jarrod McClean, Luis W. Alvarez fellow, Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Dynamic Load Balancing for Storm Surge Applications
Maximilian Bremer, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Cy Chan, Computer Research Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Spark Based Metagenome Assembler
Jordan Hoffmann, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Staff Scientist, Group Lead, JGI/Genomics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computational Optimization of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters
Adam Riesselman, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Sam Deutsch, Synthetic Biology Group Lead, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Numerical Methods for the Drag-Coupled Particles in Viscous Flow
Jay Stotsky, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Dan Martin and Phil Colella, Mathematician Staff Scientist/Engineer, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Network design for quantifying urban CO2 emissions: Assessing tradeoffs between precision and network density
Alexander Turner, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Ronald C. Cohen, Faculty Scientist, Energy and Environment Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Analysis of high throughput screens using CRISPRi and adapting CRISPRi for probing phage infections
Joy Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Division Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High-dimensional variable selection and shrinkage in pseudolikelihood estimators of the inverse covariance matrix
Alnur Ali, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Sang-Yun Oh, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Automating Image Processing for Planet and TNO Searches in PTF" (unofficial)
Ryan McKinnon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Peter Nugent, Division Deputy for Scientific Engagement, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A Hartree-Fock Application using UPC++ and the New DArray Library
David Ozog, University of Oregon
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Kathy Yelick, Associate Lab Director, Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Robust Estimation of Auditory Cortex Tuning and Connectivity
Danielle Rager, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Kristofer Bouchard, Dr., Life Sciences (primary), Computational Research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Parallel algorithms for maximum-cardinality high-weight graph matching
Adam Sealfon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Aydın Buluç, Research Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Reactive force field modelling of silicate sorption on the hematite r-plane
Brenhin Keller, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Glenn Waychunas, Senior Scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Geochemistry Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
FASTERp: A Feature Array Search Tool for Estimating Resemblance of protein sequences
Derek Macklin, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Staff Scientist, Group Lead, Genomics (at the Joint Genome Institute), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bidi: scalable bit-distance calculations using MPI + OpenCL
Sarah Middleton, University of Pennsylvania
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Dr., Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A convolutional free-space propagator for Maxwell's equations in free-space with application to PIC methods
Victor Minden, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Group Lead / Senior Scientist, Computational Research / Numerical Algorithms, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Metagenomic Assembly by K-mer Histogram Peelback
Daniel Strouse, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Rokhsar, Chief Informatics Officer/Eukaryote Spr Prgrm Head, Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Estimating urban carbon dioxide fluxes at high resolution from in situ observations
Alexander Turner, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Ronald C. Cohen, Faculty Scientist, Energy and Environment Technologies, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hydrodynamic Simulations of high multiplicity proton proton collisions at a center of mass energy of 13 TeV
Dragos Velicanu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Matthew Luzum, Dr, Nuclear Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) and embedded boundaries (EB) in Chombo
Curtis Lee, Duke University
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Hans Johansen, Researcher, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Computational Research Division, LBNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High-speed visualization of/interaction with ALS data for previewing algorithm parameter tweaks
Justin Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Dula Parkinson, Beamline Scientist, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Monte Carlo Radiation Transport in Compact Binary Merger Disks
Sherwood Richers, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Kasen, Professor, Physics, Astronomy, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Inferring the ecological niches of thousands of microbial species using synthetic ecosystems
Chris Smillie, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Dr, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Shape of Climate: Topological Data Analysis on Climate Data
Melissa Yeung, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Dmitriy Morozov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Visualization Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Solving 1,000 Puzzles with 8 Billion Small Pieces: Assembling Draft Genomes from the Cow Rumen Metagenome
Aleah Caulin, University of Pennsylvania
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Staff Scientist, Genomics (at the Joint Genome Institute), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Accuracy checks of Chombo's mapped multiblock framework
Seth Davidovits, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Director Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Parallelizing three-dimensional viscoelastic models
Phoebe DeVries, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Roland Burgmann, Dr., Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shirley Compact Basis
Maxwell Hutchinson, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: David Prendergast, Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High resolution global constraints on atmospheric carbon dioxide with a novel statistical framework
Scot Miller, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Inez Fung, , Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Time Integration and Nonlinear Solvers for the Speedup of the Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method
Matthew Zahr, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Per-Olof Persson, Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Model-based detection of interactions from time-series data
Edward Baskerville, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Simulation of Porous Media Flow in a Nuclear Waste Repository
Leslie Dewan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, CCSE Director, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Christopher Eldred, Colorado State University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, , Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Low Mach Number Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
Thomas Fai, New York University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, Dr., Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Grouping molecules of similar orientation in single-molecule diffraction experiments
Charles Frogner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Chao Yang, Staff, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Developing a Fast Algorithm for Classifying Unknown Proteins
Irene Kaplow, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, , Joint Genome Institute, Genomic Technologies Dept., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Global constraints on atmospheric CO2 concentrations and CO2 sources
Scot Miller, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Inez Fung, Faculty staff scientist, Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Detecting genomic-level regulatory strategies in Shewanella MR-1
Troy Ruths, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling stratified tidal flow with adaptive mesh refinement
Sean Vitousek, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Dr., Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stochastic Population Dynamics in Structured Populations
Carl Boettiger, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Professor, The Division of Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Exploration of Novel Parallel Algorithms for Short Read Assembly
Scott Clark, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Zhong Wang, Staff Scientist, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Driving biofuel production with a synthetic oscillator
Tal Danino, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Jay Keasling, Dr., Berkeley National Labs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Electronic structure calculations to screen solar PV materials
Anubhav Jain, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Jeff Neaton, Facility Director, Theory of Nanostructured Materials Facility, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A Comparison of Helicos and Illumina RNA-sequencing platforms
Eric Chi, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Paul T Spellman, Computational Scientist, Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Engineering gold nanostructures for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
Ying Hu, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: James Schuck & Jeff Neaton, Staff Scientist & Facility Director, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Overall group: Chombo my work: Artificial Viscosity for 4th order accurate Finite Volume Schemes
Eric Liu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Group Leader, Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
DeepSky
Douglas Mason, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Peter Nugent, Staff Scientist, Computational Cosmology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Atmospheric Modeling using Chombo
Britton Olson, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Senior Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Calculation of Side Chain Conformational Entropy and the Discrimination of Native Protein Structures from Decoy Sets
Jenelle Bray, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Teresa Head-Gordon, Professor, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Can yields of a biofuel candidate Isopentenol be increased using oscillatory promoters?
Tal Danino, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Jay Keasling, Dr., Physical Biology, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computational Analysis of CRISPR Mechanism, Function, and Evolution
Robin Friedman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Jennifer A. Doudna, Professor, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The Design of Orthogonal Components for a Transcription Attenuation System
Sarah Richardson, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
High Performance 3-D Image Reconstruction for Molecular Structure Determination
Julianne Chung, Emory University
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Chao Yang, Scientific Computing Group (SCG) Staff, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Application of adaptive mesh refinement to particle-in-cell methods
Peter Norgaard, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, , Computing Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Extremum-Preserving Limiters for the Piecewise Linear Method and Piecewise Parabolic Method
Michael Sekora, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, Senior Staff Scientist, Computational Research Division, LBNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Automated Sorting of Large All Versus All BLAST Datasets
Benjamin Smith, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Ernest Szeto, , Computational Research Div [CRBD], Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling Ideal MHD collimation from differential rotation using an upwinding scheme with adaptive mesh refinement
Christopher Carey, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, , Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Quaternary structure and stability of glycine mutated Amyloid Beta fibrils
Kevin Kohlstedt, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Teresa Head-Gordon, Assistant Professor, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Stochastic modeling of HIV Tat-transactivation
Etay Ziv, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Algorithm Refinement for the Stochastic Burgers' Equation
Jasmine Foo, Brown University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, Dr., Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A Numerical Study of the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on Large Amplitude Internal Waves
Amber Jackson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, Group Leader, CCSE, Computational Research Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Towards a Mechanistic Model of Agonist-Induced Calcium Signaling in Macrophage Cells
Mala Radhakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Chemistry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tomography of molecular machines central to mechanotransduction in hair cells
William Triffo, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Manfred Auer, Staff Scientist, Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Transfer-matrix approach to phonon defect scattering in three-dimensional carbon structures with thermoelectric applications
Brandon Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Joel Moore, Research Scientist, Materials Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
"Prediction of Regulatory Motifs Controlling the Expression and Processing of MicroRNA Genes in Drosophila" "Prediction of Regulatory Motifs Controlling the Expression and Processing of MicroRNA Ge
Benjamin Lewis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Eisen, Dr., Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Improving the Performance of the Scaled Matrix/Vector Multiplication with Vector Addition in Tau3P, an Electromagnetic Solver.
Michael Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Esmond Ng, Scientific Computing Group Leader, National Energy Research Scientific Computing, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
A Fourth Order Accurate Adaptive Mesh Refinement Method for Poisson's Equation
Michael Barad, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, , Applied Numerical Algorithms Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Characterization of a Pulse-Generating Gene Circuit Using Quantitative Real-Time PCR
Michael Driscoll, Boston University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Adam Arkin, Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Automatic segmentation and labeling of images of different cell types
Kristen Grauman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Bahram Parvin, Group leader, staff scientist, Computing Sciences, Imaging and Informatics Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Learning RNA Secondary Structure using Marginalized Kernels on Graphs
Yan Karklin, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen Holbrook, Dr., Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley N, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Inference of Protein-DNA Binding Specificity From Structure
Julian Mintseris, Boston University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Eisen, Dr., Life Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Numerical Simulations of the Lyman Alpha Forest
Gregory Novak, University of California, Santa Cruz
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Martin J. White, Professor, Physics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Polymorphisms in Ciona intestinalis
Joshua Waterfall, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Rokhsar, Faculty Scientist/Department Head, Physical Biosciences Division/JGI, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Investigation of quantum well states in Copper-Cobalt thin films.
Mary Ann Leung, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Andrew Canning, Research Scientist, Scientific Computing, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Implementing an embedded boundary algorithm for gas dymamics in EBChombo.
Benjamin Keen, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Phillip Colella, , Applied Numerical Algorithms Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Parallelization of the Ewald Summation Method in Molecular Dynamics
Heather Netzloff, Iowa State University
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Teresa Head-Gordon, , Physical Biosciences and Life Science, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Modeling Multiphase Fluid Flow with Level Set Methods
Catherine Norman, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Ann Almgren, , Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
RNA Gene Finding In Eukaryote
Catherine Quist, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen R. Holbrook, Staff Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Project 1 (A) "Archiving the 1999 AMANDA Data Set" Project 2 (B) "Enlarging the Gamma-Ray Burst Sample for AMANDA"
Rellen Hardtke, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Stewart Loken and George Smoot, , , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Computational Neuroscience of C. Elegans and Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells During Development
Asohan Amarasingham, Brown University
Practicum Year: 1999
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Rokhsar, , , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Measuring the Extensional Elasticity of the Red Blood Cell Using Micropipette Aspiration
William Marganski, Boston University
Practicum Year: 1999
Practicum Supervisor: Jamie Butler, , , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Implementation Issues in Haptic Visualization
J. Dean Brederson, University of Utah
Practicum Year: 1998
Practicum Supervisor: Edward Bethel, , Visualization Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Numerical Experiments with Optimal Predictions Method
Eugene Ingerman, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 1998
Practicum Supervisor: Alexandre Chorin, , , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Image Recovery Using Multiple Holograms
Brandoch Calef, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 1997
Practicum Supervisor: Malcolm Howells, , AFRD, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Using the Space Transformations to solve the Three Dimensional Flow Equation
Marc Serre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 1997
Practicum Supervisor: Garrison Sposito, , Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Integration of physical and genetic genome maps
John Guidi, University of Maryland
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Manfred Zorn, , Information and Computing Sciences, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Slug Tests Under Saturated/Unsaturated Flow: A Richard's Equation Perspective
Philip Weeber, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: T.N. Narasimhan, , Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Parallel Computation using OVERFLOW: Overlapping Grid Navier-Stokes Flow Solver
Edwin Blosch, University of Florida
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: James Sethian, , Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Examination of Image Reconstruction from Transmission Data
Jack Lemmon, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: Thomas Budinger, , Center for Functional Imaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory