Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico


Evaluating the accuracy of the Zhang-MacFarlane deep convective parameterization in the grey zone of a global atmospheric model
Gabriel Rios, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Taylor, Chief Computational Scientist, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Multi-metric Validation Assessment for Small Sample Validation Experiment Dataset
Paulina Rodriguez, George Washington University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Brian Carnes, Doctor, V&V,UQ Credibility Processes, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Uncertainty Quantification and Sensitivity Analysis for Hypersonic Analysis
Paulina Rodriguez, George Washington University
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Sarah L. Kieweg, Principal Member of the Technical Staff (mentor), Verification & Validation, Uncertainty Quantificat, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Explicit Polarization in Ionomer Melts
Christopher Balzer, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Amalie Frischknecht, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Demonstration for Domain Decomposed Parallel PDE Solver for Meshes
Louis Jenkins, University of Rochester
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Ryan Viertel, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Simulation Modeling Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Learning Transferable Neural Network Surrogates for Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory
Kyle Lennon, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Sivasankaran Rajamanickam, Dr., Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Models of Sequence Memory and Prediction Using On-chip Plasticity on Loihi
Jack Lindsey, Columbia University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Brad Aimone, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Cognitive and Emerging Computing Group , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Improved Vertical Remap Accuracy
Jason Torchinsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Taylor, , Computational Science Org. 01446, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Quantum dimension reduction
Margaret Trautner, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Ojas Parekh, , Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Randomized Algorithms for Sparse Matrix Block Discovery.
Willow Ahrens, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Erik Boman, PMTS, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Uncertainty Quantification on Ionization Models in 1D Kinetic Simulations
Claire Kopenhafer, Michigan State University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Thomas Mattsson, Manager, High Energy Density Physics Theory, Org. 1641, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Singular graph editing for hex meshable singular graphs
Paul Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Scott A. Mitchell, Principal Member Technical Staff, Center for Computing Research, Sandia National Lab, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Predicting Tribochemically Induced Reactions of Two-Dimensional Materials
Quentarius Moore, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Chandross, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Computational Materials and Data Science, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Thermomechanical Basis of Friction in MoS2
Quentarius Moore, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Chandross, Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Computational Materials and Data Science, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Optimized Algorithm for High-efficiency Atom Transport
Zane Crawford, Michigan State University
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Martin, Harry S. Truman Postdoctoral Fellow, 1000 (Org. 1728), Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Finite Element in Angle Charged Particle Transport
Mario Ortega, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2017
Practicum Supervisor: Len Lorence, Manager, Radiation Effects Theory Department, 01341, , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Release Isentropes for Aluminum
Aurora Pribram-Jones, University of California, Irvine
Practicum Year: 2013
Practicum Supervisor: Michael Desjarlais, Senior Scientist, High Energy Science Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Large Scale Conflict in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Rogelio Cardona-Rivera, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: James C. Forsythe, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Org 1462, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Subgraph Isomorphism for Multithreaded Architectures
Claire Ralph, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2011
Practicum Supervisor: Vitus Leung, PhD, Computer Science Research Institute, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Subgraph Isomorphism Algorithms for Multithreaded Architectures
Claire Ralph, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2010
Practicum Supervisor: Vitus Leung, PhD, , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Applying the Two Temperature Model to Radiation Damage in an Amorphizing Material
Carolyn Phillips, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Crozier, , Multiscale Dynamic Material Modelling, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Biophysical basis for community-level infectious disease models
Danilo Scepanovic, Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Robert Glass, , NISAC (Nat'l Infrastructure Sim. and Anal. Ctr.), Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Explicit multiscale time integrator for transient dynamic simulations
Cameron Talischi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2009
Practicum Supervisor: Martin Heinstein, , Computational Solid Mechanics/Structural Dynamics, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Developing database tools to process data for use in large-scale airline optimization models
Brian Levine, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2008
Practicum Supervisor: Dean Jones, , 6323, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Variational Multiscale and Monotone Methods for Magnetohydrodynamics
John Evans, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: John Shadid, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Computational Sciences Group, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Implementation of a particle migration application for the Stochastic Parallel PARticle Kinetic Simulator (SPPARKS) framework
Kristi Harris, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Aidan P. Thompson, Principle Member of Technical Staff, Multiscale Computational Materials Methods, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
A Vector Finite-Element Implementation for Modeling Inhomogeneous Waveguides
David Ketcheson, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Hung (Jacques) Loui, Truman Fellow, Dept. 5345 SAR Sensors Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Designing DNA biosensors for the detection of genetic variation
Miler Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: Elebeoba E. May, , Computational Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Understanding Resveratrol, its stilbene derivatives and potential targets
Ariella Sasson, Rutgers University
Practicum Year: 2007
Practicum Supervisor: W. Michael Brown, Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
A Study of Computational Approaches for Parameter Estimation in the Escherichia coli K-12 Central Metabolic System
Jimena Davis, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Elebeoba E. May, , Computational Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Nanotubes Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Asegun Henry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Steven Plimpton, Dr, Computational Biology Dept, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Characterization of Distributed Micro-releases of Pathogens
Michael Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2006
Practicum Supervisor: Karen Devine, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Computation, Computers, Inform. and Math (CCIM), Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Coarse-grained MD simulations of biomembrane phase transitions
Erik Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Paul Crozier, , Computational Materials and Molecular Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Theoretical and Experimental Examination of the Dynamic Response of Carbon Nanotubes
William Conley, Purdue University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Stephen W. Howell, Technical Staff, Micro-Total-Analytical Systems, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Free energy profile of ion diffusion through silicate pores via WHAM
Peter Kekenes-Huskey, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Paul S. Crozier, , , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Simulation of Z-pinches
Ian Parrish, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Thomas Mehlhorn, Manager, HEDP Theory, HEDP Theory/ICF Target Deisgn, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Molecular Dynamics Study of the Gating Mechanism of Synechococcus RuBisCO
Christina Payne, Vanderbilt University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Paul S. Crozier, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Information, Computation and Engineering Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Applying Spatially Varying Material Strengths to Simulate High-Rate Fragmentation of Armor-Grade Ceramics
Michael Veilleux, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 2005
Practicum Supervisor: Rebecca M. Brannon, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Geomechanics Dept 6117, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Modeling Impact Mechanics using PRESTO
Paul Bauman, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Rod May, , Materials Models and Physics, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Molecular Modeling of Triglycerides and Vegetable Oils
Mary Biddy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: John Curro, , , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Molecular dynamics simulations of grafted polyelectrolytes on apposing walls
Owen Hehmeyer, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Stevens, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Materials & Process Sciences Center (in Div. 1000), Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of a large solute in charged nanopore
Tod Pascal, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Aidan P. Thompson, , Computational Materials and Molecular Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Finding the Code: Looking for Error Correcting Codes in the binding region of E.Coli mRNA (continuing the effort from the previous summer)
David Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Elebeoba May, Senior Member Technical Staff, Computational Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Samuel Schofield, University of Arizona
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Mark A. Christon, , Computational Physics R&D Dept., Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Investigation of the Conformal Changes of Rubisco
Obioma Uche, Princeton University
Practicum Year: 2004
Practicum Supervisor: Paul S. Crozier, , Computational Materials and Molecular Biology, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Cellular Concrete Studies: Model Calibration and Simulation Results
Kristine Cochran, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Shawn Burns, Dr., Computational Physics Research and Development, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Optimal robot base placement for automatic weld planning
Sommer Gentry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Arlo Ames, Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Real-Time Three-Dimensional Visualization of Standard Light Microscope Image Sequences
Michael Greminger, University of Minnesota
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: David Kozlowski, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Intelligent Systems and Robotics Center, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Finding the Code: Looking for Error Correcting Codes in the binding region of E.Coli mRNA
David Schmidt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2003
Practicum Supervisor: Elebeoba May, Senior Member Technical Staff, Computational Biology Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
High-Order Positivity Preserving Algorithms for Transport Processes
Benjamin Kirk, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Robert MacKinnon, , , Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Slip Model Accuracy in MEMS Flows
Matthew McNenly, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2002
Practicum Supervisor: Wahid Hermina, Manager, Microscale Science and Noncontinuum Transport, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
"Defining linear problems for Trilinos"
Allison Baker, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Rich Lehoucq, Principal Member of Technical Staff, Computational Math and Algorithms, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Redundant Serial Manipulator Workspace Dexterity Design for Mobile Robot
Eric Lee, Rutgers University
Practicum Year: 2001
Practicum Supervisor: Pablo Garcia, Department Manager, Intelligent Systems Principles Department, ISRC, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
The Use of Single Fiber Models for the Prediction of Novel Oxygenator Performance
Kenneth Gage, University of Pittsburgh
Practicum Year: 1999
Practicum Supervisor: Randy Schunk, DMTS Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Incompressible Fluid Mechanics, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Gradient Driven Diffusion in Nanoporous Media
Marcus Martin, University of Minnesota
Practicum Year: 1998
Practicum Supervisor: Grant Heffelfinger, , Computational Materials Science Department, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Connecting Gas Phase and Surface Problems in Modeling CVD Reactors
Rajesh Venkataramani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 1996
Practicum Supervisor: Harry Moffat, , Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Implementation of CUERVO on the IBMSP2
Melinda Sirman, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 1995
Practicum Supervisor: David Gartling, , Engineering Sciences Center, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Upwind Leap-Frog Scheme on Massively Parallel Message Passing Computers
Brian Gunney, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 1994
Practicum Supervisor: Scott Hutchinson, , Computational Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Simulation of Residual Oil Hydroprocessing Units on Massively Parallel Supercomputers
James Comer, North Carolina State University
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: James Tomkins, , Massively Parallel Computing Research Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Modelling Toroidal Solder Drop
Stephen Cronen-Townsend, Cornell University
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: Elizabeth Holm, , Metallurgy and Joining Technology, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico
Optimization of Reliability Models Under Uncertainty
Laura Swiler, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 1993
Practicum Supervisor: James Campbell, , Energy and Environment Division, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico