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2008 Department of Energy
Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference

 June 17-19, 2008 
Washington, DC









 Past Conferences 

AGENDA

Monday, June 16
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 17
7:30 - 8:45 am Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
7:30 - 8:45 am Registration - Lower Lobby
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Barbara Helland, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
9:30 - 9:45 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
David Crandall, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 - 10:45 am Keynote - Grand Ballroom
Randall LeVeque, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
“Literate Programming and Reproducible Research in Computational Science”
10:45 - 11:00 am Break

Session I - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorGeorge Seweryniak, Office of Science, DOE

11:00 - 11:20 am “Modeling of Multiphase Flow in Porous Medium Systems”
Amber Sallerson Jackson, University of North Carolina
11:20 - 11:40 am “When Life Hands You Lemons – Optimize Away!”
Stefan Wild, Cornell University
11:40 - 12:00 pm “Modeling the world’s cities: an examination of global urban maps and their implications for conservation planning”
David Potere, Princeton University
12:00 - 1:30 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest award winners
1:45 - 2:00 pm 2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Award Announcement and Presentation
Introduction by David Brown, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Grand Ballroom
2:00 - 2:45 pm 2008 Frederick Howes Scholar Talk
Mala Radhakrishnan, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wellesley College
2:45 - 3:00 pm Break

Session II - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorMichael Kreisler, U.S. Department of Energy

3:00 - 3:20 pm “Efficient techniques for quantifying uncertainty”
Jasmine Foo, Brown University
3:20 - 3:40 pm “Simulating Everything: Computer Simulations of Galaxy Clusters and Synthetic Observations”
John ZuHone, University of Chicago
3:40 - 4:00 pm “An explicit approach to stochastically modeling fatigue crack formation”
Michael Veilleux, Cornell University
4:00 - 4:20 pm “Fluctuation theorem in colloidal systems with quenched disorder”
Jeffrey Drocco, Princeton University
5:00 - 6:30 pm Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 pm Opening remarks
Kim Yates, National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE
7:00 pm Fellows meet in Lobby to walk to Fellows’ Social
7:30 pm CSGF and SSGF Fellows’ Social – La Tasca, Penn Quarter
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Wednesday, June 18
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer
8:30 - 9:30 am “Discovering new science through HPC: An Alumna’s Story”
Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute
9:45 am Fellows meet in lobby to walk to group photo site
10:00 - 10:30 am Group photograph
10:30 - 10:40 am Break

Session III - Grand Ballroom
Moderator  Lali Chatterjee, Office of Science, DOE

10:40 - 11:00 am “Phasing for Pedigrees when SNPs are Densely Packed”
Bonnie Kirkpatrick, University of California, Berkeley
11:00 - 11:20 am “Hydrodynamic Simulations of Colloidal Suspensions with Short-Range Attraction and Long-Range Repulsion: Microstructure and Rheology”
Michael Bybee, University of Illinois
11:20 - 11:40 am “Quantifying Uncertainty in the Estimation of Probability Distributions”
Jimena Davis, North Carolina State University
11:40 - 12:00 pm “A Novel Algorithm for Creating Coarse-Grained Implicit Solvent Models for Simulation of Surfactant Systems”
Erik Allen, MIT
12:00 - 1:00 pm Alumni/CSGF Fellows Session
Moderated by CSGF Alum Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
1:00 pm Free Time (Lunch on your own) / Congressional visits as scheduled
3:00 pm Optional Meeting
HPC Focus Group/Information Gathering Session
Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute - Monticello Room
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
Michael Kreisler, National Nuclear Security Administration, DOE
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Thursday, June 19
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer

Session IV - Grand Ballroom
ModeratorDaniel Hitchcock, Office of Science, DOE

Special Session on High Performance Computing (HPC)

9:00 - 9:30 am Barbara Helland, Office of Science, DOE
DOE facilities for HPC
9:30 - 10:00 am Robert Harrison, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Scientific Discovery Advanced by HPC
10:00 - 10:30 am David Skinner, NERSC
SciDAC Outreach Center
10:30 - 11:00 am Open discussion on HPC
11:00 - 11:30 am Break (Time for hotel checkout if needed)
11:30 - 1:00 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Speaker: Charles H. Romine, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Meeting Concludes
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