2018 Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC-4) Principal Investigator Meeting

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Hilton Washington DC/Rockville
Rockville, MD
July 23 - 24, 2018

Agenda

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Monday, July 23, 2018

7:00am - 8:00am
Continental Breakfast
 
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 5:30pm
Poster Session
Mark Pederson
Atrium
8:15am - 8:35am
ASCR Welcome
Ceren Susut, Randall Laviolette
US Department of Energy
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
8:35am - 10:00am
Program Overviews:
Program Managers
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
 
Ceren Susut, Randall Laviolette
 
 
8:48 - 9:00 Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) (3.03 MB)
John Mandrekas
 
 
9:00 - 9:12 High Energy Physics (HEP) (2.16 MB)
Lali Chatterjee
 
 
Dorothy Koch
 
 
9:24 - 9:36 Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) (435 KB)
Dan Funk
 
 
9:36 - 9:48 Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (1.33 MB)
James Davenport
 
 
9:48 - 10:00 Nuclear Physics (NP) (391 KB)
Ted Barnes
 
10:00am - 10:15am
Break
 
Plaza Ballroom
10:15am - 12:00pm
Institutes – Rob Ross (RAPIDS) (4.14 MB), Lori Diachin (FASTMath) (4.34 MB)
Ceren Susut
US Department of Energy
Plaza Ballroom
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
 
Plaza Ballroom
1:30pm - 4:00pm
Breakout Sessions:
 
 
 
1:30 – 4:00 – Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
1:30 – Thomas Devereaux, SLAC: "Superconductivity and CDWs in the doped Hubbard & t-J models: pairing Without quasiparticles"
2:00 – Martin Head-Gordon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: "Advancing Catalysis Modeling: From Atomistic Chemistry to Whole System Simulation" (9.49 MB)
2:30 – Thomas Maier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "S-wave pairing from repulsive interactions: Quantum Monte Carlo study of systems with incipient bands" (9.49 MB)
3:00 – Todd Martinez, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: "Scaling Quantum Mechanics and First Principles Dynamics for Accuracy and Efficiency" (5.47 MB)
3:30 – Poster Session
5:30 – Adjourn
James Davenport
Eisenhower
 
1:30 – 3:30 – Nuclear Physics (NP)
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
TEAMS Nuclear Astrophysics Project (8.75 MB)
Raph Hix (ORNL) 30 mins (25+5)
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM
LQCD Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics Project (4.53 MB)
Robert Edwards (TJNAF) 30 mins (25+5)
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM - Break
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM
NUCLEI Nuclear Computational Low Energy Initiative Project (4.46 MB)
Joe Carlson (LANL) 30 mins (25+5)
Ted Barnes
Regency
 
3:30 – 4:00 – Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
Simulation of Fission Gas in Uranium Oxide Nuclear Fuel (4.27 MB) (20 minute talk + 10 min Q&A) David Andersson
Dan Funk
Regency
5:30pm
Adjourn
 
 

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

7:00am - 8:00am
Continental Breakfast
 
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
8:00am - 5:30pm
Poster Session
Mark Pederson
Atrium
8:15am - 9:15am
Ceren Susut, Randall Laviolette
US Department of Energy
Plaza Ballroom
9:15am - 9:30am
Break
 
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
9:15am - 12:00pm
Breakout Sessions:
 
 
 
9:30 – 12:00 – High Energy Physics (HEP)
9:30 – 9:50: Jim Amundson, ComPASS4 (533 KB) (15+5min)
9:50 – 10:10: Salman Habib, Inference and Machine Learning (3.5 MB) (15+5 min)
10:10 – 10:30: Jim Kowalkowski, HEP Data Analytics (1.89 MB) (15+5 min)
10:30 – 10:45: Giuseppe Cerati, Pilot - Event Reconstruction (7.8 MB) (10+5 min)
10:45 – 11:00: Stephan Hoeche, Pilot - Monte Carlo Event Generators (1.66 MB) (10+5 min)
11:00 – 11:15: Break
11:15 – 12:00: Discussion: Future Plans - HEP Cross-Cut Computing Challenges, CCE Engagement, SciDAC Coordinating Committee activities; Lessons Learned (45 min)
Lali Chatterjee
Regency
 
9:30 – 12:00 – Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) α
9:30 – 9:45: opening remarks, John Mandrekas, Randall Laviolette
9:45 – 10:15: David Green, ORNL, "Center for Integrated Simulation of Fusion Relevant RF Actuators" (6.75 MB)
10:15 – 10:45: Jeff Candy, General Atomics, "Advanced Tokamak Modeling Environment (AToM)" (7.15 MB)
10:45 – 11:00: Break
11:00 – 11:30: CS Chang, PPPL, "Partnership Center for High-fidelity Boundary Plasma Simulation (HBPS)" (1.91 MB)
11:30 – noon: Xianzhu Tang, LANL, "Tokamak Disruption Simulation" (5.83 MB)
John Mandrekas
Eisenhower
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
 
Plaza Ballroom Foyer
1:30pm - 5:00pm
Breakout Sessions cont.
 
 
 
1:30 – 5:00 – Biological & Environmental Research (BER)
1:30 Opening 10 minutes: Dorothy, Randall, Kate
1:40 ProSPect (4.09 MB) 20 minutes – Steve Price
2:00 CANGA (2.88 MB) 20 minutes – Phil Jones
2:15 NH-dycore (1.48 MB) 15 min – Peter Bosler
2:30 Break
2:45 UQ-sensor (3.74 MB) 15 min – Daniel Ricciuto
3:00 Sea-ice (444 KB) 15 min – Adrian Turner
3:15 Atmos physics convergence (1.33 MB) 15 min – Hui Wan
3:30 Vertical grids (1.29 MB) 10 min – Tak Yamguchi
4:40 3D-Flow (1.87 MB) 10 min – Gautam Bisht
4:50 Discussion
5:00 Adjourn
Dorothy Koch
Regency
 
1:30 – 5:00 – Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) β
1:30 – 2:00: David Hatch, University of Texas, "Partnership for Multiscale Gyrokinetic (MGK) Turbulence" (3.29 MB)
2:00 – 2:30: Steve Jardin, PPPL, "Center for Tokamak Transients Simulations (CTTS)" ( MB)
2:30 – 3:00: Zhihong Lin, University of California, Irvine, Integrated Simulation of Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas (ISEP)" (3.16 MB)
3:00 – 3:15: Break
3:15 – 3:45: Brian Wirth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville / ORNL, "Plasma Surface Interactions: Predicting the Performance and Impact of Dynamic PFC Surfaces" (4.66 MB)
3:45 – 4:15: Mark Shephard, RPI, "Unstructured Mesh Technologies for Fusion Simulation Codes" (3.04 MB)
4:15 – 5:00: All, Discussion / Whole-Device Modeling (WDM) integration"
John Mandrekas
Eisenhower
5:00pm - 5:30pm
Wrap up and Farewell
Ceren Susut, Randall Laviolette
US Department of Energy
Plaza Ballroom
5:30pm
Adjourn