2008 Seminars

Title Speaker Date

An Algorithm for Solving Workforce Allocation and Utilization Problems

Dr. Ada Barlatt, University of Michigan December 9, 2008
A General Model of Socio-Economic Right-Skew Distributions Paul Ormerod, Volterra Consulting December 1, 2008

Sculptorand its Arbitrary Shape Deformation (morphing) technology

Dr. Mark Landon, founder and CTO of Optimal Solutions Software December 1, 2008
Some Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Statistics Timothy B. Terriberry November 24, 2008

Protein-protein interaction investigated by steered molecular dynamics simulation

Michel Cuendet - Olivier Michielin's Molecular Modeling Group, Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics November 20, 2008

Characterizing HPC Application Sensitivity to OS Interference Using Kernel-level Noise Injection

Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories November 14, 2008
Quantum Information Processing: Spingineering the Future

Dr. Andrew Landahl, Research Assistant Professor Department of Physics and Astronomy

November 11, 2008
BRACES: Bayesian Reliability Analysis for Complex Engineered Systems Paul Boggs, Sandia National Laboratories November 11, 2008
Multi-Scale Analysis of Heterogeneous Media in the Linearized Peridynamic Formulation

Prof. Robert Lipton, Department of Mathematics Louisiana State University

November 10, 2008

Multicore Forum
Talk 1 Adapting Codes for a Heterogeneous Multi-core Red Storm
Talk 2 Design Issues for Numerical Libraries on Scalable Multicore Computers

Talk 1 Speaker: Doug Doerfler, SNL
Talk 2 Speaker: Mike Heroux, SNL
October 20, 2008
Titan Toolkit Tutorial Brian Wylie (Sandia National Laboratories), Tim Shead (Sandia National Laboratories), and Jeff Baumes (Kitware Inc) October 9, 2008
Heirarchical Structure and the Prediction of Missing Links in Networks Cris Moore, University of New Mexico and Santa Fe Institute October 1, 2008
Experimental Program Analysis Joseph Ruthruff, Sandia National Laboratories September 23, 2008
Benchmarking Multiscale Methods Ronald Miller, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University Sepember 22, 2008
Towards a Predictive Criterion for Homogeneous Dislocation Nucleation In Crystalline Solids Ronald Miller, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Carleton University September 21, 2008
Mechanisms for Spatial Organization in Quantum Dot Self-Assembly Da Gao September 11, 2008
Visualization of Tidal and Reserve Ventilation from Four Dimensional Computed Tomography Thomas Guerrero and Richard Castillo, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Edward Castillo, Mathematics Department, University of California at Irvine September 4, 2008
Stochastic Modeling of EGFR/ErbB Signaling Pathways with Spatial Resolution and Single Molecule Details Genie Hsieh, UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept September 2, 2008
Talk 1: Towards uncertainty modeling in high speed reacting flows
Talk 2: To intrude or not to intrude
Talk 1 Speaker: Gianluca Iaccarino
Talk 2 Speaker: Paul Constantine
August 26, 2008
Challenges of surface modeling and reconstruction Joel D. Daniels, University of Utah August 20, 2008
Hard Problems along a Trip through Time: Verifying and Visualizing the Temporal Behavior of Concurrent Systems Tod Amon, Sandia National Laboratories August 19, 2008
Problems in Network Visualization and How to Solve Them Nathaniel Dean, Texas State University August 18, 2008
Talk 1: The Los Alamos Roadrunner Hybrid Petascale Supercomputer
Talk 2: "Bottom up” reimplementation of the Jayenne Project’s Implicit Monte Carlo for Roadrunner
Talk 1 Speaker: Ben Bergen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Talk 2 Speaker: Timothy Kelley, Los Alamos National Laboratory
August 13, 2008
Low Power, Radiation-hardened Sequential Circuit Technique for Radiation-hardened Process John K. McIver, III, Micro-RDC August 8, 2008
Numerical Methods for Coarse-Grained Molecular Systems Eric Cyr, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign July 23, 2008
Modeling Microstructurally Small Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Al7075 David Littlewood, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY
July 9, 2008
Predictive Model Validation for System Risk Management Byeng Dong Youn, University of Maryland June 26, 2008
Extraction and Applications of Skeletons in Finite Element Mesh Generation Dr. William Roshan Quadros June 23, 2008
The Institute for advanced Architectures and Algorithms (IAA) and The Alliance for Computing at the Extreme Scale (ACES) Sudip Dosanjh, Sandia National Laboratories
June 17, 2008
The ADaptable IO System (ADIOS) Jay Lofstead, PhD Student in Computer Science, Georgia Tech (advisor Karsten Schwan) June 12, 2008
Multilevel Preconditioning with Applications in Computer Graphics and Geosciences Burak Aksoylu, Department of Mathematics and the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU June 11, 2008
Tensors and their Applications Carmeliza Navasca June 9, 2008
Stochastic Programming, Progressive Hedging, and Projective Splitting Methods Jonathan Eckstein, MSIS Department and RUTCOR, Rutgers University (on sabbatical at ORFE Department, Princeton University) June 5, 2008
LAMMPS Throws Light on the Structure and Materials Properties of Clay-Polymer Nanocomposites and DNA-Intercalated Layered Double Hydroxide Nanomaterial Peter Coveney, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry Director, Centre for Computational Science University College, London, UK June 5, 2008
Divergence-free finite elements for incompressible flow problems Prof. Guido Kanschat, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
June 3, 2008
Computational force and computational energy: Two new approaches to performance analysis Robert Numrich, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN June 2, 2008
The Onset of Taylor Vortices - A New Look at an Old Problem Andrew Cliffe, University of Nottingham May 27, 2008
Bifurcation Phenomena in the Flow through Open Systems Ed Hall, University of Nottingham May 22, 2008
Combinatorial Scientific Computing Ali Pinar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory May 21, 2008
Advances in Adjoint Methods for Scientific Computation Varis Carey, Colorado State University May 19, 2008
Performance of Diffuse Interface Models Using a High-Level PDE Solver Daniel Wheeler, University of Maryland/NIST May 19, 2008
Finite Element Methods in Fluid Dynamics Edward D. Wikes, Prism Software May 15, 2008
Modeling Arctic Sea Ice Using the Material-Point Method Kara Peterson, University of New Mexico May 14, 2008
A Code Verification Checklist
(Software Engineering Seminar Series Talk)
Pat Knupp and Curt Ober, Sandia National Laboratories May 13, 2008
An optimal robust equidistribution method for two-dimensional grid generation based on Monge-Kantorovich optimization G. L. Delzanno, Los Alamos National Laboratory April 29, 2008
Fast Algebraic Multigrid Solvers for the Maxwell's Equations Chris Siefert, Sandia National Laboratories April 28, 2008
Conflict in Networks Jared Saia, University of New Mexico April 24, 2008
Verification of the Calore Thermal Analysis Code Kevin Dowding, Sandia National Laboratories April 24, 2008
Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties as Practiced in Sandia's Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (Software Engineering Seminar Series) Tony Giunta, Sandia National Laboratories April 22, 2008
Cluster Techniques to Study Spin Decoherence in a Spin Bath Wayne Witzel, Naval Research Labs April 21, 2008
Using Visualization for Relevancy Feedback Tuning of Text Analysis Algorithms Pat Crossno, Sandia National Laboratories April 17, 2008
Parallel Programming in BEC (A Tutorial) Mike Heroux and Zhaofang Wen, Sandia National Laboratories April 10, 2008
Quad-core Catamount and R&D in Multi-core Lightweight Kernels Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories April 10, 2008
Electron/Photon Transport and its Applications Tutorial John C. Garth, Air Force Research Laboratory April 9, 2008
High-Performance Computing for Massive Data Analysis Kamesh Madduri, Georgia Tech University April 9, 2008
Application and Operating System Software Challenges in the Multicore Era Doug Doerfler and Kevin Pedretti, and Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories April 8, 2008
Investigation of Quantum Control of Donor Electrons in Silicon using Rajib Rahman, Purdue University April 2, 2008
SAFIUS - A secure and accountable filesystem over untrusted storage K. Gopinath and V. Sriram, Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore India March 28, 2008
Density Functional Theory and Block Tridiagonal Matrix Inversion Dan Erik Petersen, Ph.D. Student, Copenhagen University, Denmark March 26, 2008
Valley Splitting in Silicon Quantum Dots Dr. Mark Friesen, University of Wisconsin-Madison March 19, 2008
Theory and Algorithms for the Quasicontinuum Method Mitchell Luskin, School of Mathematics University of Minnesota March 17, 2008
Everything You Wanted to Know about Constraint Programming But Were Afraid to Ask Christopher Beck, University of Toronto March 17, 2008
Conformational hierarchies of weakly bonded systems: Accuracy of dispersion corrected DFT Alexandre Tkatchenko, Humboldt Fellow at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany March 17, 2008
A Domain Specific Language for Mathematical Programming Joseph Young, Rice University March 11, 2008
Charge transport in columnar mesophases of discotics Dr. Dr. Denis Andrienko, leader of the Molecular Electronics group in the Theory Department (Prof. K. Kremer) of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany March 6, 2008
Bootstrap methods for sensitivity analysis of computer models Curtis Storlie, UNM Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics March 6, 2008
Computational study of structural and thermodynamic properties of binary nanoclusters and hydrogen gas in liquid water Dubravko Sabo, Sandia National Laboratories March 4, 2008
Metric and Kernel Learning Inderjit S. Dhillon, University of Texas at Austin February 28, 2008
Multilevel Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Ilya Safro, Argonne National Labs February 27, 2008
The CMMI for Development - Making It Work for You (The Software Engineering Seminar Series) Joe Schofield, Sandia National Laboratories February 27, 2008
High-accuracy simulations of hydrocarbon combustion Andrew Taube, University of Florida February 18, 2008
Machine Learning of Human Behavior for Opponents in Video Games Nathan Fabian, Sandia National Laboratories February 18, 2008
The Statistical Mechanical Theory of Transport Processes Richard Lehoucq, Sandia National Laboratories February 14, 2008
A Plant Location Guide for the Unsure Barbara Anthony, Carnegie-Mellon University February 13, 2008
Constructing Hard Satisfiable SAT formulas Dr. Haixia Jia, UNM February 12, 2008
Scientific Discovery via Advanced Discretization and Optimization Methods Denis Ridzal, Sandia National Laboratories February 12, 2008
Some Intelligence Analysis Problems and Their Graph Formulations Rich Colbaugh, Sandia National Laboratories February 12, 2008
Computational Tools for Modeling the Complex Dynamics of Biochemical Networks Cranos M. Williams, North Carolina State University February 11, 2008
High-Quality Preconditioning Techniques for the Multi-Length-Scale Hybrid Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation of the Hubbard Model Ichitaro Yamazaki - University of California, Davis February 5, 2008
Rigorously Justified Robust Preconditioners for High-contrast Diffusion Equation Burak Aksoylu, Department of Mathematics and the Center for Computation and Technology at LSU February 4, 2008
Application Performance on Multicore Architectures Doug Doerfler and Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories February 4, 2008
Adaptive numerical methods for large-scale simulations Emil Constantinescu, Virginia Tech, February 4, 2008
Microsolvation Effects on the Excited-State Dynamics of Protonated Tryptophan
(DFT Seminar Series)
Matteo Guglielmi, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland January 30, 2008
Variationally-Based Formulation for Partitioned Analysis K. C. Park, University of Colorado, Boulder January 28, 2008
Probability Bounds Analysis and Imprecise Probabilities Scott Ferson, Applied Biomathematics January 23, 2008
Nightly Software Testing in Acro with EXACT and FAST Bill Hart, Sandia National Laboratories January 22, 2008
High–Order/hp–Adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Compressible Fluid Flows Paul Houston, School of Mathematical Sciences, Univ of Nottingham, UK January 15, 2008
Database Operations on Chip Multiprocessors John Cieslewicz, Columbia University January 8, 2008
Riemannian Optimization and Riemannian Trust-Region Methods Christopher Baker, Sandia National Laboratories January 7, 2008
Combinatorial Scientific Computing: Enabling High-Performance Computing and Petascale Simulations Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories January 3, 2008