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2009 Department of Energy
Stewardship Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Fellows’ Conference
 June 13-16, 2009 
Washington, DC








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AGENDA

Download the HPC Workshop agenda (Monday, July 13, 2009).

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Monday, July 13
5:30 - 6:30 pm Registration & Photo Session for new FellowsAshlawn
5:30 - 6:30 pm Registration - Base of Stairs, Lower Lobby
7:00 - 8:30 pm

DOE NNSA SSGF DinnerSagamore Hill
Overview of the DOE NNSA SSGF Program
John Ziebarth, Krell Institute

Tuesday, July 14
7:30 - 8:45 am Breakfast Buffet - Atrium Ballroom
8:00 – 9:00 am Registration - Grand Ballroom Foyer
9:00 - 9:15 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
James Corones, President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Patricia Dehmer, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 - 9:45 am

Welcome - Grand Ballroom
Tom D'Agostino, National Nuclear Security Administration,
U.S. Department of Energy

9:45 - 10:30 am

Keynote - Grand Ballroom
“Transparency and Knowledge: A Legacy Opportunity for the Nation's
Electric Infrastructure”
J. Michael Davis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

10:30 - 10:40 am Break

DOE NNSA SSGF Session – Montpelier Room, Mezzanine Level
Introduction: Christopher Deeney, National Nuclear Security Administration,
U.S. Department of Energy
Moderator: Alan Wan, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

10:40 - 11:00 am “First-Principles Simulations of Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressure”
Miguel Morales, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
11:00 - 11:20 am “Data Analysis of Neutron Capture Measurements on Arsenic-75 Using DANCE”
Paul Ellison, University of California, Berkeley
11:20 - 11:40 am “Nanosecond Broadband Spectroscopy for Laser-Driven Compression Experiments”
Dylan Spaulding, University of California, Berkeley
11:40 - 12:00 pm “Mineral Properties Under Extreme Conditions - Change in the Equation of State of Mg-silicate Perovskite by Fe Spin Transition and Fe-Al Site Mixing”
Krystle Catalli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:00 - 1:15 pm Luncheon - Atrium Ballroom
Presentation to DOE CSGF Essay Contest winners

DOE NNSA SSGF Session – Montpelier Room, Mezzanine Level
Moderator: Robert Hanrahan, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:30 - 2:15 pm “Can Complex Material Behavior be Predicted?”
Michael Ortiz, California Institute of Technology
2:15 - 3:00 pm "High Energy Density Physics Research at Sandia National Laboratories"
Ramon Leeper, Sandia National Laboratories

3:00 - 3:20 pm Break, Montpelier Foyer

DOE NNSA SSGF Session –Montpelier Room, Mezzanine Level
Moderator: J. Bradley Beck, Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:20 - 3:40 pm “Liquid Lithium Divertor Development for the National Spherical Torus Experiment”
Laura Berzak, Princeton University
3:40 - 4:00 pm “HYDRA Simulations of Radiating Shock Experiments”
Forrest Doss, University of Michigan

4:00 - 4:20 pm “Calculations in the 68Ni Region”
Angelo Signoracci, Michigan State University
5:00 - 6:30 pm

Reception and DOE Lab Poster Session - Atrium Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 pm - Opening Remarks
Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak, National Nuclear Security Administration,
U.S. Department of Energy

7:00 pm Fellows and Alumni meet in hotel lobby to walk to social
7:30 pm DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social
Piedmont Room at Clyde's of Gallery Place
707 7th Street, NW
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Wednesday, July 15
8:30 - 10:30 am Free Time

Session III
- Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Osni Marques, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
10:40 - 11:00 am “Analyzing Simulation Data Using Bayesian Theorem”
David Rogers, University of Cincinnati
11:00 - 11:20 am “First-principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Hydrogen-bonding Fluids”
Matt McGrath, Peace Corps
11:20 - 11:40 am “Stability and Stegotons: Understanding Waves through Computation”
David Ketcheson, University of Washington
11:45 – 1:00 pm

DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Session Springwood Room, Lower Level
Moderated by DOE CSGF Alumna Mayya Tokman, University of California, Merced
(Lunch available for attendees)

1:30 – 2:30 pm

HPC Roundtable Discussion Springwood Room, Lower Level
Moderated by Mary Ann Leung, Krell Institute

2:45 – 4:15 pm

Writing Tips and Traps: How to Compete for a Reader's Time
(and Grant Money)
Springwood Room, Lower Level
Randy Black, Office of Research Development at the University of California, Irvine

4:00 pm Fellows set up for Poster Session - Grand Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 pm

Fellows Poster Reception - Grand Ballroom
5:10 - 5:25 pm - Opening Remarks
Anna Palmisano, Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy

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Thursday, July 16
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast - Grand Ballroom Foyer


Session IV
- Grand Ballroom
Moderator: Robert Hanrahan, National Nuclear Security Administration,
U. S. Department of Energy

9:00 - 9:20 am “Genetic Tuning of Morphological Variability”
Oaz Nir, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:20 - 9:40 am  “Modular Organization and Composition of RNA”
Miler Lee, University of Pennsylvania
9:40 - 10:00 am “Rotational Stabilization of Magnetically Collimated Jets”
Christopher Carey, University of Wisconsin
10:00 - 10:20 am Break
10:20 - 10:40 am  “The Mechanical Properties of the Sliding DNA Clamp PCNA”
Joshua Adelman, University of California, Berkeley
10:40 - 11:00 am  “Breaking Ground in Earthquake Simulation: Extended Finite Element Methods for Repeated Earthquake Rupture”
Ethan Coon, Columbia University
11:00 - 11:20 am  “Sequential Optimal Design of Neurophysiology Experiments to Maximize Information Using Generalized Linear Models”
Jeremy Lewi, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:20 - 12:00 pm Break
12:00 - 1:30 pm

Luncheon Atrium Ballroom
Fellows Poster Contest Winners Announcement
Adam Rosenberg, Congressional Staff Member, Committee on Science and Technology


Meeting Concludes
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