Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Modeling fire effects on soil carbon
Caleb Adams, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Fernanda Santos, Scientist, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Transient stability of fusion power plants on the electric grid
Amelia Chambliss, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Slaven Peles, Senior Computational Scientist, , Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Optimizing microhydropower installation in the Qualla Boundary
Abigail Keller, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Evin Carter, Wildlife Ecologist, Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Increasing the maximum stable step with empirical Runge-Kutta schemes
Daniel Abdulah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Matthew Norman, , Scientific Computing Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mode Connectivity of QCBMs when Fitting the 5 qubit 1D Cluster State
Alexandra Ballow, Montana State University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Kathleen Hamiliton, Dr., Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
QuantumScents: Quantum-Mechanical Properties for 3.5k Olfactory Molecules
Jackson Burns, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: David Rogers, Dr., National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Is Mode Connectivity Explainable by LOCC Equivalence
Alexandra Ballow, Montana State University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Kathleen E. Hamilton, Dr., Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Advancing understanding of sub-seasonal scale land-atmosphere-ocean processes that influence compound heat and drought extremes.
Joy Kitson, University of Maryland, College Park
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Moetasim, Ashfaq, Computational Earth Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Investigating Infinite Sound Speed Approximations for Cloud Models
Rachel Robey, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Matt Norman, Computational Climate Scientist, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Random walk with restart on gene networks
Boyan Xu, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Daniel Jacobson, Computational Systems Biologist, Biosciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A QMC+DFT Study of the Volume Collapse Phase Transition in MnS2
Jennifer Coulter, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Paul R. Kent, Senior R&D Staff, CPSFM/CNMS, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
On developing accurate and robust krylov methods for matrix product states
Edward Hutter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Dmitry Liakh, , Scientific Computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dynamics of Charged Polymers
Kevin Silmore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Rajeev Kumar/Bobby Sumpter, Research Scientist/Interim Director, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A computational approach to biodiversity change: does function follow richness?
Kari Norman, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Alison Boyer, Dr, Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Optimizing FLASH Multipole Gravity for Exascale
Hannah Klion, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Bronson Messer, Senior R&D Staff Member, National Center for Computational Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Grain boundary stability and Li-ion diffusion across grain boundaries in lithium lanthanum titante
Kathleen Alexander, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Bobby Sumpter, Director for the Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Taskloaf: A library for simplifying distributed task parallelism
Thomas Thompson, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Ed D'Azevedo, Dr., Compute Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Petascale Simulations of Lignin, Cellulose, and Cellulases
Joshua Vermaas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2014
Practicum Supervisor: Jeremy Smith, Director and Governor's Chair, Center for Molecular Biophysics , Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Verification of Quantum Analog Digital (QuAD) Systems
Sarah Loos, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Ryan S. Bennink, Research Scientist, Cyberspace Sciences and Information Intelligence, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The sustainability of cellulosic biofuel crop produciton in a changing climate
Jamie Smedsmo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Henriette Jager, Research Scientist, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Use of Multi-sphere method to build discrete element model of granular materials from tomographic imagery
Andrew Stershic, Duke University
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Srdjan Simunovic, Senior Research Staff, Computer Science and Math Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Numerical Solution of PDE's with Evolving Boundaries in a High Order Multiresolution Framework
Jeffrey Donatelli, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: George Fann, Ph.D., Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High Performance Stencil Computations on GPUs
Samuel Skillman, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Wayne Joubert, Computer Scientist, OLCF (Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility), Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Preparing the FLASH code for large-scale simulation
Paul Sutter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Rebecca Hartman-Baker, Computational Scientist, Scientific Computing Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Isotopic depletion in three-dimensional neutron transport
Joshua Hykes, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Kevin Clarno, R&D Staff, Computational Nuclear Engineer, Nuclear Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Vertical Sensitivity Fix for CAM Shallow Moist Convective Parameterization Scheme
Matthew Norman, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: John Drake, Computational Earth Sciences Group Leader, Computer Sciences and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A conditional-strategy model accounts for spatiotemporal life-history variation in Snake River fall Chinook salmon
Alex Perkins, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Yetta Jager, , Environmental Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Electrostatics and Electrodynamics with Multiresolution Methods
Matthew Reuter, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Robert J. Harrison, Technical Group Leader, Computer Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A performance-based load balancing scheme for MADNESS
Paul Sutter, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Harrison, , Computational Chemical Sciences Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Computational Studies of Polymers for Photovoltaics and Solid-State Lighing
Jack Deslippe, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Fernando Reboredo, Dr., Materials Science & Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Modeling the Diffusive Effects of Shock and Detonation wave Reflections
John Lewis Ziegler, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Ralf Deiterding, Dr., Computational Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Discovery of Gene Circuit Architecture from Noise Correlations
Natalie Cookson, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Simpson, Principal Investigator, Molecular-Scale Engineering and Nanoscale Technolo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
BIO014: Next generation simulations in biology
David Rogers, University of Cincinnati
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Pratul Agarwal, Staff Scientist, Computational Biology Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Investigating Alternative Explosive Mechanisms for Type II Supernovae Using the FLASH Code
John ZuHone, University of Chicago
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Bronson Messer, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Physics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Mass Lumping in CENTRM
Teresa Bailey, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Kevin Clarno, R & D Staff, Reactor Analysis, Nuclear Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Support of the LandScan Population Mapping Project
David Potere, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Budhu Bhaduri, Group Leader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Analysis of Soil Moisture in the CCSM2 global climate model
Matthew Wolinsky, Duke University
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: David J. Erickson, Senior Research Staff Member, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Electronic structure, methods and applications: Solving a sparse generalized eigenvalue problem and permalloy.
Kristopher Andersen, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: William Shelton, Senior Research Staff Member, Computer Science and Mathematics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Spatial and temporal coarse-graining techniques for molecular simulations
Ahmed Ismail, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: William Shelton, Group Leader, Computational Condensed Physics Matter Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Critical Examination of the Practicality of Adjoint Monte Carlo Transport for External Beam Radiation Therapy Inverse Treatment Planning
Michael Kowalok, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: John C. Wagner, Research Staff Member, Nuclear Science and Technology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Computational Science at the Terascale
Collin Wick, University of Minnesota
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Peter T. Cummings, Distinguished Scientist, Chemical Technology Division
, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Parallelizing Fish Population Models
Kevin Glass, University of Oregon
Practicum Year: 1997
Practicum Supervisor: Kenny Rose, , Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Use of Wavelet Theory to Study Turbulent Transport in Fusion Reaction
Corey Graves, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 1997
Practicum Supervisor: David Newmar, , Fusion Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A Modified Eight-node Crack-tip Element
Charles Gerlach, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Len Gray, , Energy and Math, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Model for Coherent Modes in Tokomak Discharges with Weak Negative Central Shear
Eric Held, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Jean-Noel Leboeuf, , Fusion Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Characterization of Effect of Loading of Power Supplies on Injection Plugs on Laboratory Microchip
Rajeev Surati, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Ramsey, , Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Stabilization Using Artificial Neural Networks
Sven Khatri, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: Vladimir Protopopescu, , Computer Science & Math Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Development of a Higher Order Polynomial Nodal Code in Cylindrical Geometry
Brian Moore, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 1994
Practicum Supervisor: Jess Gehin, , Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Error Analysis of the Nodal Expansion Method in One Dimensional Cartesian Geometry
Chris Penland, Duke University
Practicum Year: 1994
Practicum Supervisor: Yousry Azmy, , Engineering Physics and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1-GHz Correlation Processor for Single-Bit Data
Amanda Duncan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: Gary Alley, , Monolithic Systems Development, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Electron Self-energy in Simple Metals
Clifton Richardson, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 1992
Practicum Supervisor: Gerald Mahan, , Solid State Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory