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2015 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

First-, second- and third-year students present their research during the annual Fellows' Poster Session.The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to gain exposure to the breadth of research supported by the DOE CSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and the session is divided into two groups so all participants have the chance to view the displays and ask questions of their peers.

Group I — Presenting 5:15-6:00 p.m.

Biology
Poster Number Name Title
1 Britni Crocker The Spatial Distribution of the Human Cortical Response to Single-pulse Electrical Stimulation
3 Jonathan Gootenberg Characterization of CRISPR Systems With High-throughput Sequencing to Diversify the Molecular Toolset
5 Isha Jain Organelle Crosstalk in Disease and Health
7 Derek Macklin Toward a Whole-Cell Model of Escherichia coli
9 Danielle Rager Proprioceptive Feedback Modulates Motor Cortical Tuning During Brain-machine Interface Control
11 Mukarram Tahir Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Solvent-exposed Lipid Tail Protrusions
13 Joy Yang Assessing Models That Control for Phylogeny for Inferring Genetic Effect in Bacterial Datasets
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
15 Samuel Blau Using Massively Parallelized Coupled Cluster to Identify Promising Novel Organic Photovoltaics
17 Adam Sealfon Distances and Shortest Paths With Differential Privacy
Earth Science
Poster Number Name Title
19 Brenhin Keller Volcanic-Plutonic Parity and the Differentiation of the Continental Crust
21 Eileen Martin Analyzing Ambient Seismic Noise Collected by Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS)
23 Thomas Thompson Boundary Element Analysis of Active Mountain Building at the Himalayan Range Front
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
25 Kathleen Alexander First Principles Study of Grain Boundaries in Lithium Lanthanum Titanate
27 Justin Lee Denoised Wigner Distribution Deconvolution Via Low-rank Matrix Completion
29 Andrew Till The Finite-Element With Discontiguous Support Multigroup Method
Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
31 Thomas Anderson Simulation of Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Suppression
33 Miles Lubin JuMP: A Modeling Language for Mathematical Optimization
35 Daniel Rey Data Assimilation Methods for Dynamical Systems With Poor Observability
37 Melissa Yeung Identification of Lagrangian Coherent Structures as a Generalized Eigenvalue Problem
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
39 Hilary Egan Statistical Properties of Magnetic Fields in Simulated Galaxy Clusters
41 Nicholas Frontiere CRKSPH: A Novel Approach to SPH Simulation
43 Thomas Holoien Two Years of Discoveries From the All-Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae
47 Sherwood Richers Monte Carlo Neutrino Transport in Post-merger Disks
49 Dragos Velicanu Studies of Jet-track Correlations in Pb-Pb Collisions With CMS

Group II — Presenting 6:15-7:00 p.m.

Biology
Poster Number Name Title
2 Hannah De Jong CrispR: A Tool for Allele-specific CRISPR/Cas9 Assay Design
4 Jordan Hoffmann Modeling Cell Movements and Mechanics in Insect Embryogenesis
6 Alex Kell Computational Similarities Between Visual and Auditory Cortex Studied With Convolutional Neural Networks and Functional MRI
8 Sarah Middleton Subcellular Zipcodes: Finding the Signals That Direct RNA Localization in Neurons
10 Adam Riesselman Recoding the Salmonella typhimurium LT2 Genome
12 Alexander Williams A Clustering Algorithm to Identify Latent Cell Types From DNA Methylation Patterns
Computer Science
Poster Number Name Title
14 Alnur Ali Disciplined Convex Stochastic Programming: A New Framework for Stochastic Optimization
16 David Ozog A Performance Analysis of SIMD Algorithms for Monte Carlo Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Cores
18 Daniel Strouse Compression for Prediction: The Deterministic Information Bottleneck
Earth Science
Poster Number Name Title
20 Jesse Lopez Application of a Sediment Model to Estimate Light Attenuation in Estuarine Environments
22 David Plotkin High-resolution Modeling of Tropical Cyclones Using Rare Event Simulation
24 Alexander Turner Estimating Urban Carbon Dioxide Fluxes at High Resolution From In Situ Observations
Engineering
Poster Number Name Title
26 Thomas Catanach Power System Dynamic Estimation
28 Andrew Stershic Implementation of the Thick Level-Set Method for Brittle Fragmentation
30 Gerald Wang Why are Fluid Densities So Low in Carbon Nanotubes?
Mathematics
Poster Number Name Title
32 Julian Kates-Harbeck Evolutionary Dynamics Under Nonlinear Frequency-depenent Selection
34 Victor Minden A Real-space Green's Function Method for the Numerical Solution of Maxwell's Equations in Free Space
36 Jay Stotsky Modeling and Simulation of the Biomechanics of Biofilms With Heterogeneous Rheological Properties
Physics
Poster Number Name Title
38 Chelsea Harris Solar Power Tower Lifetime Predictions: Lab to Computer and Back Again
40 Kyle Felker Numerical Methods for General Relativistic Radiative Transfer
42 Morgan Hammer Investigating Ultrafast Excited-state Proton Transfer With Nonadiabatic Dynamics Simulations
44 Eric Isaacs Origin of Phase Instability in Battery Cathode Materials From Correlated Electronic Structure Calculations
48 Adam Richie-Halford Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the BCS-BEC Crossover at Finite Temperature
50 Kathleen Weichman Envelope Model Simulation of Realistic Laser Pulses at the Texas Petawatt Laser