| Presenter |
School/Affiliation |
Presentation Title |
|
Keynote |
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Erik Demaine |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Origami, Linkages, and Polyhedra: Folding with Algorithms
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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Session I |
| Ian Parrish |
Princeton University |
The Magnetothermal Instability and its Applications
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Paul Bauman |
University of Texas |
Adaptive Multiscale Modeling of Polymeric Materials
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Aron Cummings |
Arizona State University |
The Spin-Hall Effect in Quantum Wires
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Dan Vergano |
USA Today |
(Luncheon)
|
|
2007 Howes Scholar Awards |
| Kristen Grauman |
University of Texas at Austin |
Scalable Image Recognition and Retrieval
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Jaydeep Bardhan |
Argonne National Laboratory |
PDE-Constrained Optimization of Biomolecule Electrostatics
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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Session II |
| Tod Pascal |
California Institute of Technology |
Calculation of entropy from Molecular Dynamics:
First Principles Thermodynamics
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Christina Payne |
Vanderbilt University |
Molecular Dynamics Study of a Rapid DNA
Sequencing Device
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
|
| Mark Rudner |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Solid State Physics at the Nanoscale: Control
of Classical and Quantum Degrees of Freedom
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Jeff Hammond |
University of Chicago |
E Pluribus Duo
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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Session III |
| Samuel Stechmann |
New York University |
Models of Convectively Coupled Waves in the
Tropical Atmosphere
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| William Conley |
Purdue University |
A Theoretical Examination of Carbon Nanotubes
as a Nano Jump Rope
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
|
| Brandon Wood |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Understanding Superionic Behavior from First-principles
Molecular Dynamics
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
|
| Krzysztof Fidkowski |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
A Cut-Cell Adaptive Method for High-Order
Discretizations of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Mala Radhakrishnan |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Computational Design of Two Mutant Erythropoietin (Epo)
Receptors that Bind Epo in a Specific Heterodimeric State, Allowing for Novel
Experiments
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| William Triffo |
Rice University |
Structure for a Physiologic Model: Electron Tomography of the
Outer Hair Cell Lateral Wall
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Allan Wollaber |
University of Michigan |
A Hybrid Monte Carlo-Deterministic Method for Global,
Time-Dependent Photon Transport Calculations
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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Special session on high-performance computing |
| Horst Simon |
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
What Supercomputers Do, and What Supercomputers Still Can’t Do
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
|
|
William Tang |
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
Scientific Discovery via Supercomputing in Plasma Physics
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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Session IV |
| Michael Wolf |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Combinatorial Optimization of Matrix-Vector Multiplication
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Peter Kekenes-Huskey |
California Institute of Technology |
moleculeGL, a Monte Carlo-based torsion sampling protocol
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Brian Taylor |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Spinning Detonation in a Circular Tube
[ PDF ]
[ Flash ]
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| Jonna Hamilton |
American Institute of Physics Congressional Science Fellow |
(Luncheon)
A science fellow’s perspective from Capitol Hill
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