2006 Seminars

Title Speaker Date
An Interactive Environment for Combinatorial Supercomputing John R. Gilbert, University of California, Santa Barbara December 14, 2006

Funding Opportunities at the NSF/Computer and Information Sciences & Engineering (CISE) Directorate

Almadena Yurevna Chtchelkanova National Science Foundation

December 14, 2006
Shirako: Virtual Machine Hosting for Networked Clusters Laura Grit, Duke University December 11, 2006
Stabilized Finite Element Modeling of Plasma Flow Instabilities Juan Pablo Trelles, University of Minnesota December 7, 2006
Partition-of-unity finite elements and iterative solvers for large-scale ab initio electronic-structure calculations John E. Pask, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory December 6, 2007

Estimation of Gas Dynamics Scalability (1st Paper) Estimation of Heat Conduction Scalability (2nd Paper)

Sergey Belyaev, VNIIEF, Institute of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (ITMF) December 5, 2006
Design Optimization with Insufficient Data using Possibility and Evidence Theories Zissimos P. Mourelatos, Oakland University December 4, 2006
An Anisotropic Sparse Grid Stochastic Collocation Method for Partial Differential Equations with Random Input Data Clayton Webster, Florida State University November 28, 2006
Tweaking compounds badly - towards a molecular grand-canonical ensemble density functional theory O. Anatole von Lilienfeld, New York University November 28, 2006

Self-Interaction-Free Exchange-Correlation Energy Functional for Thermodynamics and Kinetics

Weitao Yang, Duke University November 9, 2006

Hybrid Cellular Automata: a biologically-inspired structural optimization technique

John E. Renaud, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

November 2, 2006
AMG for Reformulated Maxwell's Equations Chris Siefert, Sandia National Laboratories October 31, 2006

A Primer on Complexity
Part 1:  Inverse Power Laws – October 23, 2006, Part 2:  Fractional Calculus – October 24, 2006

Bruce J. West, Chief Scientist
Mathematics and Information Science Directorate Army Research Office

October 23 & October 24, 2006
Virtual I/O Scheduler: an Adaptable Scheduler of Schedulers

Seetharami Seelam, The University of Texas at El Paso

October 10, 2006
A New Flexible MPI Collective I/O Implementation

Kenin Coloma, Northwestern University

September 12, 2006

Mechanical Properties of Metal-Organic Framework-5 from First Principle

Matthew Shindel, Johns Hopkins University

September 12, 2006

Investigation of a cohesive zone model for simulating void nucleation and its connection to nuclear safety assessment

Shannon Goff, Stanford University

August 29, 2006

Towards the Incorporation of Dynamic Adaptation into Operating Systems

Patricia Teller, University of Texas at El Paso

August 28, 2006

The Focused Ion-Beam Tool for site-Specific Atom-Probe Tomography Analysis of CU Alloys

Jessica Riesterer, University of Minnesota

August 22, 2006

Nanofiller Strengthening of Polyurethane Foams:  Building a Better Surfboard

Bevan Weissman, Brown University

August 22, 2006

The Immersed Finite Element Method for Incompressible Flow Computations

Adrian Kopacz, Northwestern University

August 22, 2006

Modeling Polycrystalline Mechanics via The eXtended Finite Element Method

Jessica Sanders, Duke University

August 15, 2006

A Generalized Finite Element Method for Polycrystals and Three-Dimensional Branched Discontinuities

C. A. Duarte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

August 10, 2006

Partition-of-unity finite elements and iterative solvers for large-scale ab initio electronic-structure calculations

John E. Pask, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

August 9, 2006
Adsorption of Nucleotide Monophosphates on Carbon Nanotubes

Tiffany Iaconis, NECIS Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology

August 8, 2006

Part 1:  Physics Issues
Part 2:  Computer Science

           

Erik DeBenedictis* (PI), Jerry Floro*%, Peter Kogge#, Robert Hull%, Craig Lent#, Sarah Murphy*#, Mike Niemier#, Marco Ottavi*, Aaron Prager*#, Greg Snider# (*Sandia, #Notre Dame, %U. Virginia)

August 8, 2006
Atomic Level Variation of Elastic Moduli

Nicholas Burgess, Lehigh University

August 8, 2006

Microfluidic Immunoassay Using Gel Electrophoresis for Early Stage Pathogen Detection

Ke Jun (Serena) Wang, University of California, Berkeley

August 8, 2006
Cleaning Techniques and Mechanical Properties of Diatom Frustules

Trent Lynch, University of Colorado

August 8, 2006

Efficient and Robust Techniques for the Simulation of Fast/Slow Systems

Ting Mei, University of Minnesota

August 7, 2006
Scalable Security in Petabyte Storage Systems

Ethan L. Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz       

August 7, 2006

Ultrafast Laser Ablation for Micromachining, Nanosurgery, and LIBS

Adela Ben-Yakar and Bob Moser,
The University of Texas at Austin

August 2, 2006

Nanoscale Lily Pads

David Robinson, Sandia National Laboratories August 2, 2006

Extensions of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) to Higher Order Data

Morten Morup, Technical University of Denmark 

August 2, 2006
Stress Analysis at the Atomic Scale

Terry Delph, Lehigh University 

August 1, 2006

Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis of new Fluorescent MOFs and growth of MOF5 thin films on SAMs

Vincent Liu July 26, 2006
Nano is Big: A First-Principles Electronic Structure Viewpoint Normand Modine, Sandia National Laboratories July 26, 2006
Computational Neuroscience

Lakshminarayan “Ram” Srinivasan
Harvard Medical School

July 26, 2006

How To Give a Talk: Advice on Preparing and Presenting Technical Talks in the Mathematical Sciences

Tamara Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories July 19, 2006
Foams for Surfboards LeRoy Whinnery, Sandia National Laboratories July 12, 2006
Multiscale Simulation Tools for Heterogeneous Materials

Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University

July 11, 2006
Modeling Electric Field Guided Assembly of Nano/Bio Filaments

Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University

July 10, 2006

Nanostructures from Heteroepitaxial Growth:  Insights from Modeling and Multiple Scales

Mark Asta, UC Davis July 6, 2006

Metal Organic Frameworks: Ultrahigh Surface Area Nanoporous Materials for Detection and Separations

Mark D. Allendorf, Sandia National Laboratories July 5, 2006
Shape Optimization in Microfluidics Kevin Long, Sandia National Laboratories June 28, 2006
“Bayesian inference with detailed physical models” Youssef Marzouk, Sandia National Laboratories June 22, 2006

Current Capabailities and Challenges in Computatioal Nanosciences

H. Eliot Fang, Sandia National Laboratories June 21, 2006
"High-order methods in computational electromagnetism"

Randy Paffenroth, California Institute of Technology

June 19, 2006
"The eDR method for Derivative-free Probability Analysis" and "Bayesian introduction, Bayesian reliability analysis and design"

Byeng D. Youn, Michigan Technological University

June 15, 2006

A Brief Survey of Atomistic-to-Continuum (AtC) Coupling

Michael Parks, Sandia National Laboratories June 14, 2006
Efficient Simulation of Quantum Circuits

George F. Viamontes, University of Michigan

June 12, 2006
Transport of Fluid, Current and Analytes in Nanofluidic Channels

Dimiter N. Petsev, University of New Mexico    

June 8, 2006

Information extraction from reduced order models using Shannon entropy-based approach

Patricia Astrid, Shell Global Solutions International

June 7, 2006
Molecular Dynamics

Steve Plimpton, Sandia National Laboratories

June 7, 2006
The Simulation and Modeling of Turbulent Flows Krishnan Mahesh, University of Minnesota June 1, 2006
BioXyce: A circuit simulation framework for modeling and understanding host pathogen interactions

Elebeoba May, Sandia National Laboratories

May 31, 2006
A Scalable Preconditioner for the Wigner-Poisson Equations

Tim Kelley, North Carolina State University

May 25, 2006

Modeling and Simulation in the Adaptive VOrticity Control Enabled flight (AVOCET) Program

           

Ari Glezer (Georgia Institute of Technology), Arne Pearlstein (University of Illinois), Anthony Leonard (California Institute of Technology), Robert Moser (University of Texas)

May 11, 2006
Modeling Pandemic Influenza in the United States

Timothy C. Germann, Los Alamos National Laboratory

May 10, 2006
Extended Finite Element Method (X-FEM) Short Course

Professor John E. Dolbow,
Duke University

May 8 through May 11, 2006
Controlling Decoherence in Superconducting Qubits

Lara Faoro, Princeton University

April 20, 2006

Reduction techniques for the numerical solution to nonlinear stochastic PDEs

Clayton Webster, Florida State University

April 19, 2006
An Illustrative Discussion of Equation of State Modelling

Igor V. Lomonosov, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia

April 6, 2006
Interconnect Driven Server Architecture

Brian Hurley, CEO, Liquid Computing, Mike Kemp, CTO, Liquid Computing    

April 5, 2006

A PRAM Low Development-Time Roadmap for General-Purpose Parallel Computing

Uzi Viskin, University of Maryland for Advanced Computer Studies

March 23, 2006

Multibody Dynamics Algorithm for Multiscale Modeling of Materials and Biomechanical Systems

Rudranarayan M. Mukherjee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

March 9, 2006

A new hp method for the -grad(div) and Stokes operators in non- Cartesian geometry

Ralf Gruber, EPFL March 3, 2006
Constraint-Based Robot Motion Planning in Complex Environments Russ Gayle, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill February 28, 2006
Light Weight Processing for MPI

Arun Rodrigues, Notre Dame University

February 27, 2006

Oscillator-AC: Restoring Rigour to Linearized Small-Signal Analysis of Oscillators

Ting Mei, University of Minnesota February 24, 2006
Quantum Microarchitectures

Mark Oskin, University of  Washington

February 20, 2006
Novel methods for robust quantum computation

Dave Bacon, University of Washington

February 20, 2006
Modeling semiconductor devices and plasma processes Phillip J. Stout, Freescale Semiconductor February 16, 2006
A shock capturing method for inert and reactive multi-material flows

Jeffrey W. Banks, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

February 15, 2006
Embedded Floating-Point Units in FPGAs

Michael Beauchamp, University of Washington   

February 13, 2006

Electromagnetic Inverse Problem Involving Distributions of Dielectric Parameters

Nathan Gibson, North Carolina State University

February 6, 2006

Development and Application of a Sundance-Based Simulator to Model Non-Darcy Flow Through Porous Media

Jill Reese, North Carolina State University

February 1, 2006
A Generalized Inexact SQP Framework for Large-Scale Optimization

Denis Ridzal, Rice University

January 30, 2006
Post-Silicon Debug Using On-Chip Instrumentation Peter Levin, DAFCA, Inc. January 10, 2006
The Pup Matching Problem and Congestion Games Carol Meyers, MIT January 9, 2006