Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


Extracting and Aligning Knowledge from Foundation Models
Amil Dravid, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Shusen Liu, Staff Research Scientist, Machine Intelligence Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Protective host Targeted Engineered CRISPR-Cas Therapeutics (PROTECT)
Michael Ito, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Jay Thiagarajan, Principal machine learning scientist, Machine Intelligence Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Exploring the Suitability of Interpolation-Based Discrete Event Handling for Inclusion into SUNDIALS
Fiona Majeau, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Carol Woodward, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Center for Applied Scientific Computing (CASC), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Automated Calibration of the Simple Cloud-Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM)
Jennifer Paige, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Peter Caldwell, Group leader, Climate Modeling , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
An investigation of the shock-driven RM (Richtmyer-Meshkov) instability under reshock conditions
Victor Zendejas Lopez, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Rieben, Staff Scientist/Project Lead, WCI, Design Physics Division, WSC Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Adding a Wall Model to MIRANDA's Turbulence Library
Bryn Barker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Britton Olson, Computational Physicist, Weapons and Complex Integration, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Accelerating Computations with Radial Basis Functions in MFEM with Tensor Decompositions
Lucy Brown, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Brody Bassett, Computational Physicist, Design Physics Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Could recent cooling in the East Pacific be due to natural variability?
Zachary Espinosa, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Zelinka, Staff Scientist, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercompari, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A physics-based model of permanent set in solid network polymeric materials
Joshua Fernandes, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Mike Puso, Engineer, , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Towards a RANS turbulence capability in Marbl for shock-driven Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities
Victor Zendejas Lopez, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Rieben, Staff Scientist/Project Lead, WCI, Design Physics Division, WSC Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Developing Algorithms for Thermal-Mechanical Time Integration
Justin Porter, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Puso, Computational Physicist, Computational Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Data-driven approaches for interpretable NMR simulations: Probing local disorder in native oxide films on Ti
Kyle Bushick, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Brandon Wood, Staff Scientist, Quantum Simulation Group - Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Automated Computational Steering Using Flexible In-Situ Triggers
Margaret Lawson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Matt Larsen, Scientific software developer , Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Development and benchmarking of a massively parallel phase-field model for the study of diffusionless phase transitions in polycrystalline materials
Guy Moore, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Tae Wook Heo, Staff Scientist, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Moment Methods for Thermal Radiative Transfer
Samuel Olivier, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Terry Haut, Staff Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Variable Eddington Factor Method for Thermal Radiative Transfer
Samuel Olivier, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2020
Practicum Supervisor: Terry Haut, , Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Modeling physical origins of dephasing in open qubit systems
Dipti Jasrasaria, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Vincenzo Lordi, Group Leader, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Non-equilibrium properties of complex metal hydrides from molecular dynamics simulations
Jonas Kaufman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Brandon Wood, Staff Scientist, Materials Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Collaborative Autonomy for Space Situational Awareness
Julia Ebert, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Schneider, Research Scientist, Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Robust anomaly detection with GANs
Jenelle Feather, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Using high-performance computing to build a better model of self-organized snow
Kelly Kochanski, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Barry Rountree, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Four Dimensional Continuum Kinetic Modeling of Magnetized Plasmas
Ian Ochs, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Dick Berger, Research scientist, WCI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Rayleigh Quotient Method for Criticality Eigenvalue Problems in Neutron Transport
Mario Ortega, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Teresa S. Bailey, Deterministic Transport Project Lead, Advanced Simulation and Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Higher-Order Advection-Based Remap of Magnetic Fields in an Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian Code
Brian Cornille, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel White, Engineer, Computational Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
DRL4ALE: DRL Prediction of Expert Mesh Relaxation in ALE
Noah Mandell, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Ming Jiang, Computer Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Algebraic Multigrid Preconditioners for High-order Finite Element solvers
Thomas Anderson, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Tzanio Kolev, Computational Mathematician, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Detection of CRISPR genetic engineering in pathogen genomes
Hannah De Jong, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Tom Slezak, Associate Program Leader, Bioinformatics, Global Security Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Energy conserving, linear scaling, real space first principles molecular dynamics.
Ian Dunn, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Jean-Luc Fattebert, Computer Scientist, Project Leader, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reproducing Kernel Method Extensions to ASPH
Nicholas Frontiere, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: John Michael Owen, S&E MTS 4, AX, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Cardioid - a high-resolution computational model of the deforming heart
Omar Hafez, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: David Richards, Physicist, CMMD, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Optimizing memory traffic in pF3D
Eileen Martin, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Steve Langer, Physicist, AX, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Analysis of energy transfer between spatial scales in a turbulent, coaxial jet
Daniel Rey, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Gregory Burton, , Computational Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Laser-Induced Plate Buckling
Omar Hafez, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: James S. Stolken, Staff Scientist, Computational Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
High-density additively manufactured parts using integrated data mining and simulation
Aaron Sisto, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Chandrika Kamath, , Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Rank Reduction Methods in Nuclear Structure Theory
Robert Parrish, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Nicolas Schunck, Research Staff, Nuclear Theory and Modeling Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Constant Pressure Quantum Monte Carlo for the Study of Hydrogen at High Pressures
Brenda Rubenstein, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Berni Alder, Consultant and Lawrence Livermore, Quantum Simulations Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Design of numerical linear algebra kernels for QBox (DFT)
Edgar Solomonik, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Todd Gamblin, Dr, CASC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Molecular Dynamics concerning crystal growth in non-equilibrium flows including shear flow.
Mary Benage, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: James Belak, Physicist, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Modeling Mixing in Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
Sanjeeb Bose, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Oleg Schilling, Physicist, AX, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Plasma Transport Coefficients for Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Amanda Randles, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: David Richards, , ISCR, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Constant Pressure Quantum Algorithm for Exploring the Hydrogen Phase Diagram at High Pressures
Brenda Rubenstein, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Berni Alder, Consultant and Lawrence Livermore, Quantum Simulations Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Modified Treatment of Sources in Implicit Monte Carlo Radiation Transport
Travis Trahan, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Nicholas A. Gentile, Physicist, AX Division, WCI, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A coupled Maxwell-Schrodinger code to simulate the optical properties of nanostructures
Ying Hu, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel White and Tiziana Bond, Computational Engineering Group Leader (Dan), Engineering Technologies Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hydrodynamic analysis of LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Engine)
Britton Olson, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Andrew Cook, Physicist, AX, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Uncertainty Quantification Strategic Initiative (UQSI): A pipeline for model ensemble selection.
Hayes Stripling, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Gardar Johannesson, Applied Statistician, A/X, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Looking for cats in bosonic flows
Gregory Crosswhite, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Jonathan DuBois, Dr., H-Division, Quantum Simulation Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ab-initio simulation of heavy-metal azide detonations under shocks
Alejandro Rodriguez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Evan J. Reed, E. O. Lawrence Fellow, Materials Research, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ring opening dynamics of the sliding DNA clamp PCNA
Joshua Adelman, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Barsky, Permanent staff scientist (Computational Biochemis, Biology and Biotechnology Division; CMLS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Identifying Genome Sequencing Problems Using Active Learning
Jeremy Lewi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Mingkun Li, , Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Particle Interactions in DNA-laden Flows
Michael Bybee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: David Trebotich, Computational Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Clustering Proteins According to Structural Features
Brent Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Carol L. Ecale Zhou, Group Leader, Bio-defense Informatics Group, Energy, Environment, and Biology Division (EEBI), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Ab initio Monte Carlo simulations of the vapor-liquid coexistance of water
Matthew McGrath, University of Minnesota
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Christopher Mundy, Technical Staff, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Locally-optimal methods to solve eigenvalue problems in electronic structure calculations
Kristopher Andersen, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: John E. Pask, Postdoctoral Research Physicist, H Division: Metals and Alloys Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Piecewise Linear Finite Element Discretization of the Diffusion Equation
Teresa Bailey, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Zika, , , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Incorporating Electrokinetic Effects into the EBNavierStokes Embedded Boundary Incompressible Fluid Solver
Kevin Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: David Trebotich, Computational Scientist, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Computation of Cellular Detonation
Brian Taylor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: William (Bill) Henshaw, , Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Further Work on a Parallel, Adaptive Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method using SAMRAI and PETSc
Boyce Griffith, New York University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Richard Hornung, Dr., Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Molecular dynamics study of plasticity and bending stiffness in thin films
Matt Fago, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Rudd, Physicist, PAT/H-Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Parallel, Adaptive Implementation of the Immersed Boundary Method using SAMRAI
Boyce Griffith, New York University
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Richard Hornung, Dr., Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Utilizing the SAMRAI framework to write adaptive mesh refinement, distributed memory, parallel PDE solvers
Elijah Newren, University of Utah
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Richard Hornung, , CASC, Applied Mathematics Group, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Overture:Object oriented tools for solving computational fluid dynamics and combustion problems in complex moving geometry.
Nathan Crane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Dan Quinlan, , Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Particle-In-Cell (PIC) methods have a long history in plasma simulation.
Justin Koo, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: A. Bruce Langdon, , X-Division, L-038, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Modeling Chemical Kinetics in Turbulent Combustion Simulations Using Overture
Diem-Phuong Nguyen, University of Utah
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: William (Bill) Henshaw, , CASC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Numerical Simulation of the Multi-band Hubbard Model
Robert Sedgewick, University of California, Santa Barbara
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Andrew McMahan, Staff Scientist, H Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Overture:Object oriented tools for solving computational fluid dynamics and combustion problems in complex moving geometry.
Nathan Crane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Dan Quinlan, , , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Positronium wavefunctions in bulk solid
Michael Feldmann, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Giulia Galli and Randy Hood, Quantum Monte Carlo Development, H, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Lagrangian Based Higher Order Godunov Scheme for the Euler Equations.
Charles Hindman, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Rick Pember, , , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Enhancing the embedded boundary capabilities of SAMRAI.
Jason Hunt, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Rick Pember, , Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The Validity of Paraxial Approximations in the Simulation of Laser-Plasma Interactions
Edward Hyde, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Milo Dorr and Xabier Garaizar, , , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Coupling Reaction Models in Overture for CFD simulations involving complex geometry.
Diem-Phuong Nguyen, University of Utah
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: William (Bill) Henshaw, , CASC, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2D and 3D models of a rabbit sinoatrial node cell using Overture and CVODE.
Christopher Oehmen, University of Memphis/University of Tennessee, HSC
Practicum Year: 2000
Practicum Supervisor: Anders Petersson, Applied Mathematician, Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Large-Scale Data Mining & Pattern Recognition
Matthew Giamporcaro, Boston University
Practicum Year: 1999
Practicum Supervisor: Chandrika Kamath, , , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
A Portable and Parallel Code for Modeling Multiphase Flow
Jeffrey Butera, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Steve Ashby, , Center for Computational Sciences & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Flexible Communication Mechanisms for Block-Structured Applications
Stephen Fink, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Charles Rendleman, , Center for Computational Sciences & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Linear System Solving in Lanczos-Based Model Reduction
Eric Grimme, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Steven Ashby, , Center for Computational Sciences & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Completion and Benchmarking of the GT-SCALE Code
Todd Postma, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Jor-Shan Choi, , Fission Energy and Systems Safety Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
An Adaptive Projection Method for Modeling Mesoscale Atmospheric Flows
Daniel Martin, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 1994
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, , Center for Computational Sciences & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Modeling a Fixed Bed Reactor
Rick Propp, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 1994
Practicum Supervisor: John Bell, , Center for Computational Sciences & Engineering, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Implications of Asymmetric Mass Loss on the Number of Comets Around Other Single Stars
Joel Parriott, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: Charles Alcock, , Institute Geophysics & Planetary Physics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory