Tentative Program

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Center Overview, Tuesday, July 8th, AM – Bob Voigt

Presentation (50-min talk + 10-min Q&A) should discuss:

• Organization of Center
• Overarching application
• Science/engineering disciplines required by application including new research
• Simulation software requirements and approach
• V&V and UQ challenges and approach
• Ultimate predictability goal with intermediate goals
• Estimate of computational requirements of ultimate goal

Center Discussion of Plans for Lab Interaction & Predictive Science Education, Tuesday, July 8th, PM – Paul Yarrington

Discussion should address:

• Lab interaction plans (beyond required on-site visits), e.g.
• Sabbaticals
• Workshops
• Thesis committee membership
• Ideas (outside PSAAP) for improving Predictive Science education, e.g.
• New coursework and/or curricula
• Interdepartmental programs
• Degree options

Lessons Learned Issue Areas, Wednesday, July 9th, AM – Dick Watson

Discussion points:

• Introductory Comments on Management and leadership
• What this program is requesting in terms of multidisciplinary V&V’ed integrated simulation is alien to much current academic culture.
• Center interdisciplinary organization
• Tough issues around budget and focus
• Importance of roadmaps and other planning techniques
• Issues in managing multi university participation in a Center
• Staffing
• Role and need for permanent staff (e.g. research associates and post docs)
• Roles of students
• Balancing science and code building
• Integration
• Starting early and keeping a focus on integration of multidiscipline sciences in the simulation
• Integrating CS, computational math R&D with the science and code building
• Software engineering
• Need for a PSE framework to support code integration
• Need for good software engineering practices (code repositories, project coding standards, regression testing etc)
• Computer access
• Foreign national access
• V&V
• Interactions with labs
• Things that are different with ASAP versus NSF or other federal grant type projects
•  Contract not a grant
• Length of program
• Active DOE involvement
• Setting up degree programs in Computational Science

Predictive Science/V&V/UQ Challenges and Hopes for PSAAP, Wednesday,
July 9th, AM - Karen Pao

Discussion (Labs: 15-min talk + 10-min Q&A) should focus on:

• Introduction of ASC Predictive Science and V&V goals at the HQ & Lab levels
• HQ & Labs’ expectation for interactions with PSAAP Centers
• Technical challenges that may be addressed by PSAAP
• Technical challenges that will not be explored by PSAAP

Panel Discussion on V&V/UQ, Wednesday, July 9th, PM, - Nels Hoffman

Discussion should focus on:

• V&V and UQ challenges facing our Center
  • How the challenges resemble those of other Centers and Labs
  • How the challenges differ from those of other Centers and Labs
• V&V and UQ techniques and solutions our Center will employ
  • How our techniques and solutions resemble those of other Centers and Labs
  • How our techniques and solutions differ from those of other Centers and Labs
• How we will use V&V and UQ to guide and set priorities for research activities at our Center
• Other far-reaching V&V/UQ issues