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2007 Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference

 June 18-21, 2007 
Washington, DC
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Monday, June 18
5:00 - 6:00 pm New Fellows Registration & Photo Session - Ashlawn
5:30 - 6:30 pm Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
6:30 - 8:00 pm New Attendees Dinner - Atrium Ballroom
Introduction to DOE CSGF Program (James Corones, Krell Institute)
Tuesday, June 19
7:30 - 8:15 am Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
7:30 - 8:30 am Registration - Lower Lobby
8:30 - 8:45 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
James Corones, President, Krell Institute
8:45 - 9:00 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Michael Strayer, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Dave Crandall, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:15 - 10:15 am Keynote - Grand Ballroom
Erik Demaine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms”
10:15 - 10:30 am Break

Session I - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorGeorge Seweryniak, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

10:30 - 10:50 am “The Magnetothermal Instability and its Applications”
Ian Parrish, Princeton University
10:50 - 11:10 am “Adaptive Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric Materials”
Paul Bauman, University of Texas
11:10 - 11:30 am “The Spin-Hall Effect in Quantum Wires”
Aron Cummings, Arizona State University
11:35 - 12:50 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest award winners
Dan Vergano, USA Today
1:00 - 1:30 pm 2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation
Introduction by Dan Hitchcock, Senior Technical Advisor for Advanced Scientific Computing Research, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy - Grand Ballroom
1:30 - 2:15 pm 2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
“Scalable Image Recognition and Retrieval”
Kristen Grauman, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
2:15 - 3:00 pm 2007 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
“PDE-Constrained Optimization of Biomolecule Electrostatics”
Jaydeep Bardhan, Wilkinson Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
3:00 - 3:20 pm Break

Session II - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorNjema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

3:20 - 3:40 pm “Calculation of entropy from Molecular Dynamics: First Principles Thermodynamics”
Tod Pascal, California Institute of Technology
3:40 - 4:00 pm “Molecular Dynamics Study of a Rapid DNA Sequencing Device”
Christina Payne, Vanderbilt University
4:00 - 4:20 pm “Solid State Physics at the Nanoscale: Control of Classical and Quantum Degrees of Freedom”
Mark Rudner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4:20 - 4:40 pm “E Pluribus Duo”
Jeff Hammond, University of Chicago
5:00 - 6:30 pm Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 pm Opening remarks
Njema Frazier, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
7:15 pm Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows Social
7:30 pm CSGF and SSGF Fellows Social – Johnny’s Half Shell
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Wednesday, June 20
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Session III - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorChristine Chalk, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

9:00 - 9:20 am “Models of Convectively Coupled Waves in the Tropical Atmosphere”
Samuel Stechmann, New York University
9:20 - 9:40 am “A theoretical examination of carbon nanotubes as a nano jump rope”
William Conley, Purdue University
9:40 - 10:00 am “Understanding Superionic Behavior from First-principles Molecular Dynamics”
Brandon Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:00 - 10:20 am “A Cut-Cell Adaptive Method for High-Order Discretizations of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations”
Krzysztof Fidkowski, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:20 - 10:40 am Break
10:40 - 11:00 am “Computational Design of Two Mutant Erythropoietin (Epo) Receptors that Bind Epo in a Specific Heterodimeric State, Allowing for Novel Experiments”
Mala Radhakrishnan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:00 - 11:20 am “Structure for a Physiologic Model: Electron Tomography of the Outer Hair Cell Lateral Wall”
William Triffo, Rice University
11:20 - 11:40 am “A Hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic Method for Global, Time-Dependent Transport Calculations”
Allan Wollaber, University of Michigan
11:40 - 12:40 pm Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session
Moderated by CSGF Alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
12:40 pm Free Time (Lunch on your own)
4:00 pm Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 pm DOE CSGF & SSGF Fellows’ Poster Session/Reception - Grand Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 pm Opening Remarks
Walt Polansky, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
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Thursday, June 21
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Special session on high-performance computing

9:00 - 9:45 am Horst Simon, Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Services, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
9:45 - 10:30 am William Tang, Chief Scientist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory  [abstract]
10:30 - 11:00 am Discussion and Q&A
11:00 - 11:20 am Break
Time for hotel checkout if needed

Session IV - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorThuc Hoang, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

11:20 - 11:40 am “Combinatorial Optimization of Matrix-Vector Multiplication”
Michael Wolf, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:40 - 12:00 pm “moleculeGL, a Monte Carlo-based torsion sampling protocol”
Peter Kekenes-Huskey, California Institute of Technology
12:00 - 12:20 pm “Spinning Detonation in a Circular Tube”
Brian Taylor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:30 - 1:30 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Speaker: Jonna Hamilton, American Institute of Physics Congressional Science Fellow
“A science fellow’s perspective from Capitol Hill”
Meeting Concludes
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