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Blue Waters Symposium 2019

6:00pm PDT

Registration Homestead Lobby

7:00am PDT

Graduate Fellows Meeting & Breakfast Fireside Room Breakfast Great Hall Registration Homestead Lobby

8:30am PDT

Welcome - NCSA Homestead

9:00am PDT

Speaker: David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Homestead

10:00am PDT

Break Homestead Lobby

10:30am PDT

[Physics] Caroline Riedl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Mapping Proton Quark Structure using Petabytes of COMPASS Data Heritage [Atmospheric & Climate Science] Susan Bates, NCAR (PI: Ryan Sriver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): An Examination of Midlatitude Storms and Storm Tracks in the CESM1.3: Resolution Dependence, Coupling... Homestead [Computer Science] Edward Hutter (PI: Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Communication-optimal QR factorization: Performance and Scalability on Varying Architectures Landmark

10:50am PDT

[Physics] Michael Wagman (PI: Phiala Shanahan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Dark matter interactions with nuclei Heritage [Atmospheric & Climate Science] Clay Tabor, University of Connecticut: High Resolution Simulation of the Last Glacial Maximum Homestead [Computer Science] Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Scaling methods for phylogeny estimation to large-datasets using divide-and-conquer Landmark

11:10am PDT

[Physics] Gabor Toth, University of Michigan: OpenMP parallelization of the complex magnetohydrodynamic model BATS-R-US Heritage [Atmospheric & Climate Science] Holly Malinson (PI: Sonia Lasher-Trapp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Connecting Microscale Processes to Mesoscale Phenomena: Improving Cold Pool Parameterizations... Homestead [Computer Science] Luke Olson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Utilizing machine topology in numerical algorithms Landmark

11:30am PDT

[Physics] David Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Phase Transitions in Dense Hydrogen Heritage [Atmospheric & Climate Science] Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Evolving Air Quality Under the Changing Climate: Enhanced Understanding through Blue Waters Homestead [Biosciences] Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida: Simulation of Viral Infection Propagation Through Air Travel Landmark

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Homestead Lawn Registration Fireside Gallery

1:30pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Mauro Rodriguez (PIs: Eric Johnsen, University of Michigan, and Zhen Xu, University of Michigan): High-fidelity Numerical Simulations of Collapsing Cavitation Bubbles near Solid and Elastically Deformable... Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Philipp Moesta, University of California, Berkeley: Magnetic field amplification in binary neutron star merger remnants Homestead [Biosciences] Victor Anisimov, NCSA (PI: Jerry Bernholc, North Carolina State University) : The use of petaflop simulations in optimization of Amber force field Landmark

1:50pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Junji Huang (PI: Lian Duan, Missouri University of Science and Technology): Direct Numerical Simulation of Pressure Fluctuations Induced by Supersonic Turbulent Boundary Layers Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] John Hawley, University of Virginia: Tilted Disks Around Black Holes: Investigating the Alignment Mechanism Homestead [Biosciences] Robert L. Cieri, The University of Utah: Computational fluid dynamics modeling reveals a unique net-unidirectional pulmonary airflow patterns in monitor lizards (Varanidae) Landmark

2:10pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Oliver M. F. Browne, University of Kentucky: Efficient Strategy for Tracking Wavepackets in Hypersonic Boundary Layers Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Forrest W. Glines, Michigan State University: Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Turbulence in the Compressible Magnetized Taylor-Green Vortex Homestead [Biosciences] Mahmoud Moradi, University of Arkansas: Employing Microsecond-Level Simulations of Membrane Proteins to Capture Their Millisecond-Level Behaviors Landmark

2:30pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] P. K. Yeung, Georgia Institute of Technology: Computing Petascale Turbulence on Blue Waters: Advances Achieved and Lessons Learned Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Michael L. Norman, University of California, San Diego: Realistic Simulations of the Intergalactic Medium: A Scalable Gravity Solver for Enzo-E Homestead [Biosciences] Igor Vorobyov (PI: Colleen Clancy, University of California, Davis): Investigating the Molecular Mechanisms of Drug Induced Cardiac Arrhythmias Landmark

2:50pm PDT

[Astronomy & Astrophysics] Yueying Ni (PI: Tiziana DiMatteo, Carnegie Melon University: BlueTides simulation: Predictions for the first galaxies and quasars at the cosmic dawn Homestead

3:00pm PDT

Break Great Hall Foyer

3:30pm PDT

The Birth of Planet Earth, Narrated by Richard Dormer Homestead

6:00pm PDT

Poster Session & Reception Heritage Gallery

7:00pm PDT

Dinner - Speaker: Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory Great Hall

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Great Hall Registration Fireside Gallery

8:30am PDT

Brian Bates: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Homestead

9:30am PDT

Graduate Fellow Awards Homestead

10:00am PDT

Break Homestead Lobby

10:30am PDT

[Engineering] Nagendra Athreya (PI: Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Electronic Detection Of DNA-Nicks Using 2D Solid-State Nanopore Transistors Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Thomas Quinn, University of Washington: Unified Modeling of Galaxy Populations in Clusters Homestead [Biosciences] Aleksei Aksimentiev, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Resolving the Structure of Viral Genomes with Atomic Precision Landmark

10:50am PDT

[Engineering] Mattia Gazzola, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Harnessing viscous streaming in complex active systems: mini-bots in fluids Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Andrew Emerick, Columbia University: Enabling Exascale Astrophysics: Galaxy-Scale Simulations with Enzo-E Homestead [Biociences] Chunyuan Diao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Continental-scale remote monitoring of invasive species dynamics through petascale high performance computing system Landmark

11:10am PDT

[Engineering] Samuel H.R. Whitman, University of Colorado Boulder: Simulation of Bluff-Body-Stabilized Flames Using PeleC, a Combustion Code for Exascale Computing Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Eliu Huerta Escudero, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Deep Learning at Scale: A Paradigm Shift for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Homestead [Biosciences] Ivan Raikov (PI: Ivan Soltesz, Stanford University): Full-scale biophysical modeling of hippocampal networks during spatial navigation Landmark

11:30am PDT

[Atmospheric and Climate Science] Kelton Halbert (PI: Leigh Orf, University of Wisconsin): Simulation and analysis of severe thunderstorms on Blue Waters Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Adam Burrows, Princeton University: Three-Dimensional Supernova Explosion Simulations Homestead [Biosciences] Jennifer Hays, University of Virginia: Hybrid MD/spectroscopic refinement of heterogeneous conformational ensembles on Blue Waters Landmark

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Homestead Lawn

1:30pm PDT

[Atmospheric & Climate Science] Ryan Sriver, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The response of tropical cyclone activity to increasing CO2 in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Forrest Glines (PI: Brian O'Shea, Michigan State University): Exploring the extremes of galaxy formation using Blue Waters Homestead [Social Sciences] Wendy Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: A Massively Parallel Evolutionary Metropolis-Try Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithm for Spatial State Space Traversal Landmark

1:50pm PDT

[Atmospheric & Climate Science] Katelyn A. Barber, University of North Dakota: Characteristics of Tropical and Midlatitude out-of-cloud Convectively-induced Turbulence from High Resolution Convective Simulation... Heritage [Astronomy and Astrophysics] O. Koshkarov (PI: Vadim Roytershteyn, Los Alamos National Laboratory): Spectral/Discontinuous Galerkin approach to fully kinetic simulations of plasma turbulence with reduced velocity... Homestead [Social Sciences] Yongyang Cai, Ohio State University: Climate Policy in a Dynamic Stochastic Economy Landmark

2:10pm PDT

[Atmospheric & Climate Science] Robert J. Trapp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Implementation and Use of a Global Nonhydrostatic Model (MPAS) for Extended Prediction Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University: Simulations of tilted black hole accretion Homestead [Earth Sciences] Salme Cook, University of New Hampshire: Nutrient Loads from Estuaries to the Coastal Ocean: The Role of Resolution and Vegetation on Numerical Estimates Landmark

2:30pm PDT

[Atmospheric & Climate Science] Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks: Sensitivity of Arctic Sea Ice Simulations to Treatment of Sea Ice Dynamics Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Alex Gurvich, Northwestern University: GPU Accelerated Time-Dependent Chemistry in the Context of Galaxy Formation with WIND Homestead [Earth Sciences] Paul Morin, University of Minnesota: Title of Presentation TBD Landmark

3:00pm PDT

Break Great Hall Foyer

3:30pm PDT

[Computer Science] Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University: The Power of Many: The Next Frontier Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Scott Noble, University of Tulsa (PI: Manuela Campanelli, Rochester Institute of Technology): Accretion Dynamics of BlackHole Binaries Homestead [Physics] Joao N. B. Rodrigues (PI: Lucas K. Wagner, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Charge-spin coupling as a probe of correlated materials Landmark

3:50pm PDT

[Astronomy & Astrophysics] Elaad Applebaum, Rutgers University: Looking Out for the Little Guy: A Comprehensive Study of Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies Heritage [Chemistry] Micheline Soley, Harvard University: Escaping from an ultracold inferno: computational chemistry at a new frontier in the ultracold KRb dimer reaction Homestead [Physics] Tomas Dytrych (PI: Jerry Draayer, Louisiana State University): Advancing first-principle symmetry-guided nuclear modeling for studies of nucleosynthesis and fundamental symmetries in nature Landmark

4:10pm PDT

[Chemistry] Darius Teo, Duke University: Unraveling functional hole hopping pathways in the [4Fe4S]-containing DNA primase Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Huanqing Chen (PI: Nick Gnedin, University of Chicago): Modeling Quasar Radiative Feedback during Cosmic Reionization Homestead [Physics] Mark Neubauer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Deep Learning for Higgs Boson Identification and Searches for New Physics at the Large Hadron Collider Landmark

4:30pm PDT

[Astronomy & Astrophysics] Paul Woodward and Huaqing Mao, University of Minnesota: Attacking the Shell Merger Problem in Massive Stars with PPMstar Homestead [Physics] Sean Seyler, Arizona State University: Hydrodynamics beyond Navier-Stokes: mass and energy transport in nanofluidic flows through the lens of the numerical model Landmark

7:00pm PDT

Dinner on your own TBA

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Great Hall Registration Fireside Gallery

9:00am PDT

Speaker: Dan Stanzione, TACC Homestead

10:00am PDT

Break Homestead Lobby

10:30am PDT

[Engineering] Michael Howard, University of Texas at Austin: Manipulating small droplets in microchannels with complex fluids Heritage [Earth Sciences] Zebin Cao (PI: Lijun Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Extending Plate Tectonics into the Earth's Interior using Supercomputers Homestead [Biosciences] Ameen Eetemadi (PI: Ilias Tagkopoulos, University of California Davis): Towards self-learning agents in era of high-throughput omics Landmark

10:50am PDT

[Engineering] Joshua L. Lansford, University of Delaware: Electron Density-Based Machine Learning for Accelerating Quantum Calculations Heritage [Earth Sciences] Philip Maechling (PI: John Vidale, University of Southern California): A CyberShake Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Model for Northern California Homestead [Biosciences] Jodi Hadden, University of Delaware: The hepatitis B capsid through the computational microscope Landmark

11:10am PDT

[Engineering] Erman Guleryuz (PI: Seid Koric, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Improving Virtually Guided Certification for Product Design with Implicit FEA Software LS-DYNA Heritage [Earth Sciences] Weijia Kuang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (PI: Nikolaos K. Pavlis, National Geospatial-Information Agency): Forecast Geomagnetic Secular Variation using NASA GEMS Data Assimilation System Homestead [Biosciences] Noah Trebesch (PI: Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Incorporating Proteins into Geometrically Complex, Cell-Scale Membrane Models Landmark

11:30am PDT

[Engineering] Seong-Mook Cho, Colorado School of Mines (PI: Brian G. Thomas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Multiphase Modeling of Defect Formation Mechanisms in Steel Continuous Casting Heritage [Earth Sciences] Shanna Chu, Stanford University: Source Processes of Intermediate-Depth Earthquakes Homestead [Biosciences] Alvin Yu (PI: Gregory Voth, University of Chicago): Coarse-grained simulations of TRIM5 restriction of HIV capsids Landmark

12:00pm PDT

Lunch Homestead Lawn

1:30pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Amir Taqieddin (PI: Narayana Aluru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Multiscale Simulations of Electronic and Fluidic Nanoscale Systems Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Nikolai Pogorelov, University of Alabama in Huntsville: Modeling Physical Processes in the Solar Wind and Local Interstellar Medium Homestead [Biosciences] Thomas Cheatham, University of Utah: Reproducibility, convergence and accuracy in biomolecular simulation of nucleic acids conformational ensembles Landmark

1:50pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Walter Torres, Duke University: The transport and dynamics of wave-driven reef jets under the influence of stratification and rotation Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Dinshaw Balsara, University of Notre Dame: SIMULATING TWO-FLUID MHD TURBULANCE AND DYNAMOS And A NOVEL PARADIGM FOR GEODESIC MESH MHD Homestead [Biosciences] Juan Perilla, University of Delaware: Seven years of HIV research on Blue Waters: past, present and future Landmark

2:10pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Tulin Kaman University of Arkansas: Efficient Use of HPC Resources for Turbulent Mixing Simulations Heritage [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Donald Petravick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Dark Energy Survey: Using BW for Experimental Astrophysics Homestead [Material Science] Purnima Ghale (PI: Harley T. Johnson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Development of large scale electronic structure computations and applications Landmark

2:30pm PDT

[Fluid Systems] Jefferson M. Davis (PI: Christoph Brehm, University of Kentucky): Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulence Suppression in Rotating Pipe Flows Heritage [Materials Science] Kisung Kang (PI: Andre Schleife, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): First-principles study of voltage-induced switching, optical properties, and heat capacity of antiferromagnetic... Landmark [Astronomy & Astrophysics] Nicole Rosato, Rochester Institute of Technology: Improved Initial Lapse and Shift for Binary Black Hole Simulations Homestead

2:50pm PDT

[Astronomy & Astrophysics] Eric Lentz, University fo Tennesse: Variations in massive star explosions Homestead

3:00pm PDT

Break Great Hall Foyer

3:30pm PDT

Data Movement Discussion Homestead

6:00pm PDT

Reception Great Hall Foyer

7:00pm PDT

Dinner - Blue Waters Awards Great Hall

7:00am PDT

Breakfast Great Hall

8:30am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: Data Management and best-practices for data movement Landmark

9:00am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: Job resiliency and application fault-tolerance Landmark

9:30am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: Python in HPC, Part A: General HPC Topics Landmark

10:00am PDT

Break Great Hall Foyer

10:15am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: Python in HPC, Part B Landmark

10:45am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: Machine Learning/AI Landmark

11:15am PDT

Mini-tutorial/Workshop: New compute and IO technologies Landmark

11:45am PDT

Lunch Great Hall Foyer