Computational Engineering & Science / HPC 2009


Monday, October 5 2009 (Day 1):           [Skip to Tuesday, October 6, 2009 (Day 2)]


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  8:45   Welcome / Opening Remarks
      S. David Wu
Dean, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
       
  9:00
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PLENARY I: Biomolecular Simulations: From Peptide Dynamics to Mult-Protein Assemblies
      Hummer, Gerhard
Chief, Theoretical Biophysics Section
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
       
      PARALLEL IA: Data Mining, Data Visualization (Session Chair: Daniel Lopresti)
       
  10:15   The Moving Horizon of Data Mining
      Hirsh, Haym
Professor of Computer Science
Rutgers Universityr
       
  10:45   Analyzing and Interrogating Cellular Networks
      Singh, Mona
Associate Professor
Princeton University
       
  11:15 Automatic Natural Language Question-Answering from Large Text Databases
      Ramshaw, Lance
Lead Scientist
BBN
       
      PARALLEL IB: Energy and Environment (Session Chair: Andrew Coleman)
       
  10:15 Computational Engineering and Science in Industry: Case Study of Hydrogen Storage for Energy Applications
      Peterson, Brian
Team Lead for Computational Chemistry
Air Products and Chemicals
       
  10:45 State Estimation on a Transmission Management System
      Mlasgar, Joseph
Manager of Energy Management Systems (EMS)
PPL Corporation
       
  11:15   EnergyFit: An Automated Power-Aware Run-Time System for Computing
      Feng, Wu
Associate Professor of Comp Sci & Eelectrical & Computer Engineering
Virginia Tech
       
  11:45 Presentation will be posted shortly PLENARY II (Lunch): The Road to Stable, High-Performance Simulation of Large-Scale Mechanical Systems with Contact and Friction
      Anitescu, Mihai
Computational Mathematician and Fellow of the Computation Institute
Argonne National Laboratory
       
      PARALLEL IIA: Bio-Engineering & BioSciences (Session Chair: Dimitrios Vavylonis)
       
  1:30   3D Image Analysis Pipelines for Building High-Resolution Digital Cell Atlases of C. elegans and Fruit Fly
      Peng, Hanchuan
Senior Computer Scientist
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
       
  2:00   Automatic Summarization of Changes in Biological Image Sequences Using Algorithmic Information Theory
      Cohen, Andrew
Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
       
  2:30   High Performance Computing on Imaging Informatics and Medical Image Analysis
      Yang, Lin
Assistant Professor
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
       
      PARALLEL IIB: Computational Modeling (Session Chair: James Ricles)
       
  1:30 Large-Scale Computational Modeling of Fluid Flow in the Lung
      Mitran, Sorin
Associate Professor
University of North Carolina
       
  2:00 Presentation will be posted shortly A Scalable Domain Decomposition Method for Ultra-Parallel Arterial Flow Simulations
      Grinberg, Leopold
Senior Research Associate
Brown University
       
  2:30   Use of Mathematical Models in Energy Risk Measurement
      Gao, Yan
Director-Pricing/Risk Analytics - PPL
       
  3:15   PANEL I: Funding Opportunities in the Area of CES/HPC
      Moderator: Tamás Terlaky - Lehigh University
Panelists: Haym Hirsh - NSF/Rutgers University; José Muñoz - NSF; Walter Polansky - DOE
       
  5:00   Reception and Poster Session
       
  6:30 PLENARY III (Dinner): Optimization in Engineering Design
      Vanderbei, Robert
Chair and Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Princeton University



Tuesday, October 6 2009 (Day 2):

       
  8:15   Welcome / Opening Remarks
       
  8:30   PLENARY IV: New Insights into Nanometer-Scale Structure and Dynamics from Atomic and Multiscale Modeling
      Brenner, Donald
Professor of Computational Material Science
North Carolina State University
       
  9:15 PANEL II: HPC in Physical Sciences and Engineering
      Moderator: Slava V. Rotkin - Lehigh University
Panelists: Axel Kohlmeyer - Temple University; Donald Brenner - North Carolina State University
       
  9:15 PANEL III: Computation Enabling Information Sciences
      Moderator: Brian Davison - Lehigh University
Panelists: Manish Parashar - Rutgers Univ; C. Lee Giles - Penn State; Zoran Obradovic - Temple Univ
       
  10:45   PANEL IV: Computational Training/Grad Programs
    Moderator: Tamás Terlaky - Lehigh University
Panelists: James Glimm - Stony Brook U; Peter Glynn - Stanford U; Anastasios Lyrintis - Purdue U
       
      PARALLEL IIIA: Computational Optimization (Session Chair: Ted Ralphs)
       
  1:00   The PEBBL Parallel Branch-and-Bound Library, and Quadratic Semi-Assignment for Peptide Docking and Design
      Eckstein, Jonathan
Professor
Rutgers University
       
  1:30 Mathematical Programming Approaches for Multivehicle Path Coordination Under Communication Constraints
      Benson, Hande
Associate Professor of Decision Sciences
Drexel University
       
  2:00 Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Anecdotes on Complexity, Modeling, Solvers and HPC
      Lee, John
Research Staff Member
IBM Research
       
      PARALLEL IIIB: Signal Processing (Session Chair: Tiffany Li)
       
  1:00 Quantum Computing -- Power and Limitations
      Rötteler, Martin
Research Staff Member
NEC Labs
       
  1:30   Digital Signal Processing in Read Channels
      Haratsch, Erich Franz
LSI Corporation
       
  2:00 Coherent and Non-coherent MIMO Radar Techniques for Target Localization
      Haimovich, Alexander
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers University
       
  2:45   PLENARY V: Trends in High Performance Computing
      Muñoz, José L.
Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure
National Science Foundation
       
  3:45   Closing Remarks



 

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