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(I) Invited Talks

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Plenary I & II
Monday 31 October: 9:15 and 10:30 am (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Malcolm Stocks

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

Plenary I

9:15a

Physics on the Femto-Second Time Scale: Analysis and Control of Electronic Motion

E.K.U. 

Gross

Max Planck Institute, Halle, Germany

Plenary II

10:30a

On the Future of High Performance Computing: How to Think for Peta and Exascale Computing

Jack

Dongarra

UT/ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA, Knoxville, USA

           

Plenary III, IV, V, and VI
Tuesday 1 October: 8:30, 9:15, and 10:30 (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4) 
Chairperson: Loukas Petridis, Martin Savage, Thomas Maier, Witold Nazarewicz

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

Plenary III

8:30a

Computational Physics of Biomolecules 

Jeremy

Smith

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

Plenary IV

9:15a

Hadronic Physics from Lattice QCD

Kostas

Orginos

College of William & Mary, USA

Plenary V

10:30a

Quantum Monte Carlo in Condensed Matter Physics: Past, Present, and Future

Richard

Scalettar

Univ. of California, Davis, USA

Plenary VI

2:15p

Recent Advances in Quantum Monte Carlo for Nuclei and Cold Atoms

Joseph 

Carlson

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

           

Plenary VII
Wednesday 2 November: 8:30 am (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Joan Adler

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

Plenary VII 8:30a African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA) Richard Martin Illinois and Stanford, USA
           

Plenary VIII , IX, AND X
Thursday 3 November: 8:30, 9:15, and 2:15  Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Tony Mezzacappa, Balazs Ujfalussy

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

Plenary VII 8:30a Extreme Data-Intensive Scientific Computing Alex Szalay Johns Hopkins Univ., Maryland, USA
Plenary IX 9:15a Coupling the Simulation of Electrons with Simulations of Ions David Ceperley Univ. of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, USA
Plenary X 2:15p Petascale High-Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Reactive Flows: Challenges and Opportunities  Jacqueline Chen Sandia National Laboratory, USA
           

Presentation of the Young Scientist Award
Monday 31 October: 2:15 pm - 3:00 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Alex Hansen

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

IUPAP YSA 2:15p IUPAP: Thermodynamic and kinetic effects in nano-catalysts Stefano Curtarolo Duke University, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.1.1   Materials /Condensed Matter Theory and Nano Science: General 
Monday 31 October: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: 
Markus Eisenbach

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.1.1a 3:15p Simulating metal oxides and their heterointerfaces with screened hybrid
density functional theory
Fadwa El-Mellouhi Texas A&M University at Qatar
1.1.1b 3:35p Ab initio molecular dynamics study of diffusion mechanism in liquid B_2O_3 under pressure Satoshi Ohmura  Department of Physics Kumamoto University, Japan
1.1.1c 3:55p Numerical closure for chemically reacting systems with lateral interactions Giacomo Mazzi Scientific Computing, Dept. Computer Science, K.U. Leuven, Belgium
1.1.1d 4:15p Molecular dynamics simulation of phonon transport in the Green-Kubo formalism of thermal conductivity Hideo Kaburaki Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan
1.1.1e 4:35p Estimation of Ground Behavior Using Kalman Filter Finite Element Method Masahide Nakatani Chuo University, China
1.1.1f 4:55p Enumeration of isopointal sets as subspaces for structural search Toby Hudson School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.1.2   Materials /Condensed Matter Theory and Nano Science: General
Thursday 3 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: 
Jianxin Zhong

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.1.2a

10:30a (I)

Path integral single sweep method for quantum free energy reconstruction

Sara

Bonella

University of Rome, Italy

1.1.2b

11:00a

Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of liquid and amorphous silica using Chebyshev-filtered subspace iterations

Minjung

Kim

The University of Texas at Austin, USA

1.1.2c

11:20a

Correction to the Wills-Harrison approach: Influence on the Fe-based liquid alloys thermodynamics

Nikolay

Dubinin

Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg, Russia

1.1.2d

11:40a

Routines for basic tests of atomistic potentials with universal interface

Bohumir

Jelinek

Mississippi State University, USA

1.1.2e

12:00p

Ab initio theory of paramagnons in the normal state of unconventional superconductors

Pawel

Buczek

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany

1.1.2f

12:20p

Spin waves in the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on the Kagome lattice

Stefan

Schnabel

University of Georgia, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.1.3   Materials /Condensed Matter Theory and Nano Science: General
Thursday 3 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: Claudia Troparevsky 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.1.3a

10:30a (I)

Into the origin of optical activity of carbon nanotubes

Cecilia

Noguez

Universidad Nacional Autonoma, Mexico

1.1.3b

11:00a (I)

Monte Carlo Simulation of Secondary Electron Emission from Dielectric Targets

Maurizio

Dapor

Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy

1.1.3c

11:30a (I)

Graphene and its unconventional plasmon properties: A combined theoretical and experimental study

Juan

Idrobo

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.1.3d

12:00p

First-principles simulations of exciton diffusion in organic semiconductors

Gang

Lu

California State University Northridge, USA

1.1.3e

12:20p

The Time Dependent Schrodinger Equation: a multiresolution approach

Nicholas

Vence

University of Tennessee, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.2.1   Catalysis and Renewable Energy
Wednesday 2 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: M. Claudia Troparevsky

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.2.1a

10:30a (I)

First principles simulations of materials and processes in photo- and electro-catalysis

Annabella

Selloni

Princeton University, USA

1.2.1b

11:00a (I)

Catalysis, Energy Storage, and Carbon Capture from a Computational Perspective

De-en

Jiang

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.2.1c

11:30a (I)

Advances and Challenges in Computational Catalysis

Lars

Grabow

University of Houston, USA

1.2.1d

12:00p

Nanoscale metal hydrides for hydrogen storage: effects of size and composition

Lucas

Wagner

University of Illinois, USA

1.2.1e

12:20p

Cluster Structure Selection Based on Highest Electron Affinity: The Case of TiO2 Clusters

Noa

Marom

UT-Austin, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.3.1   Nuclear Materials
Monday 31 October: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: Roger Stoller

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.3.1a

11:15a (I)

Interatomic Forces. Practical Methods Beyond EAM

Graeme

Ackland

University of Edinburgh, UK

1.3.1b

11:45a (I)

Stochastic methods for diffusion-reaction simulations of irradiated materials

Vasily

Bulatov

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

1.3.1c

12:15p (I)

The influence of interface sink strength on the reduction of radiation-induced defect concentrations and fluxes in materials with large interface area per unit volume

Michael 

Demkowicz

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.3.2   Nuclear Materials
Monday 31 October: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: Bill Weber 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.3.2a

3:15p (I)

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematical models for nuclear materials.

Sergei

Dudarev

University of Oxford, UK

1.3.2b

3:45p (I)

Theory of radiation damage in solids: From oversimplified to predictive general framework

Stanislav

Golubov

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.3.2c

4:15p (I)

Some properties of radiation induced defects and their effect to mechanical response of irradiated metals

Yury

Osetskiy

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.3.3   Nuclear Materials
Tuesday 1 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview A&B) 
Chairperson: Graeme Ackland 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.3.3a

11:15a (I)

Multiscale Modeling Framework in Simulating Radiation Damage

Roger

Stoller

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.3.3b

11:45a (I)

Charge Transfer and Redistribution during Low-Energy Recoil Events

William

Weber

University of Tennessee

1.3.3c

12:15p (I)

Applications of the dislocation dynamics method to irradiation hardening in metals.

Jaime

Marian

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.3.4  Nuclear Materials
Tuesday, 1 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15pm (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: 
Blas Uberuaga

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.3.4a

3:15p (I)

Fundamental Materials Science Challenges for Next Generation Nuclear Energy Systems

Steve

Zinkle

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.3.4b

3:45p (I)

Quantum mechanical simulations of electronic stopping in metals

Daniel

Mason

Imperial College London, UK

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.3.5   Nuclear Materials
Wednesday 2 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson:  Vasily Bulatov

Session ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.3.5a

10:30a (I)

Applications of Accelerated Molecular Dynamics in Materials Science

Blas

Uberuaga

Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

1.3.5b

11:00a (I)

Self-Evolving Atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo (SEAK-MC): Development and Application

Haixuan 

Xu

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

1.3.5c

11:30a

Influence of alloying of tungsten with transition-metal on dislocation core structure and value of Peierls stress and Peierls potential from first principles.

German

Samolyuk

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.4.1   Nano Materials
Tuesday, 1 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Cecilia Noguez

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.4.1a

11:15a (I)

Approaches for the simulation of open quantum systems and quantum computation with time-dependent density functional theory

Alan

Aspuru-Guzik

Harvard University, USA

1.4.1b

11:45a

Surface plasmonics in surfaces patterned/structured by nanoparticles

Paul Anton 

Letnes

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

1.4.1c

12:05p

Atomistic simulations of vibration of carbon nanotubes: is it possible to measure the mass of single atom?

Polina

Pine

Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.4.2  Nano Materials
Tuesday 1 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Juan C. Idrobo

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.4.2a

3:15p (I)

Tuning Transport Properties of Graphene Systems

Jianxin

Zhong

Xiangtan University, China

1.4.2b

3:45p

I-V Characteristics of Doped Carbon Nanotubes

Shoichi

Sakamoto

Seikei University, Japan

1.4.2c

4:05p

Electron Transfer on Impurity doped Graphene Nanoribbon

Hiroyoshi

Tsuyuki

Seikei University, Japan

1.4.2d

4:25p

Nanofluidics in Carbon Nanotubes

Titus

Beu

University Babes-Bolyai, Faculty of Physics, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.4.3  Nano Materials
Wednesday 2 November: 9:15 am - 10:15 am (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: De-en Jiang

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.4.3a

9:15a (I)

Modelling of Role of Kinetics and Thermodynamics in Determining the Nanomorphology of Gold

Amanda

Barnard

CSIRO Materials Science & Engineering

1.4.3b

9:45a

Energy Landscape of Fullerene Materials: A Comparison of Boron to Boron Nitride and Carbon

Sandip

De

Department of Physics, Universität Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 82, 4056 Basel, Switzerland

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 1.5.1  Multiscale
Tuesday 1 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Thomas Schulthess 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.5.1a

11:15a (I)

Interatomic potentials and quantum mechanical models

Gabor

Csanyi

Cambridge University, UK

1.5.1b

11:45a (I)

Adsorption of polyvinylpyrrolidone on Ag surfaces: Insight into the workings of a structure-directing agent

Kristen 

Fichthorn

Penn State University, USA

1.5.1c

12:00p (I)

Fully ab initio determination of free energies: Methodological challenges and applications

Jorg

Neugebauer

Max-Planck-Institut f_r Eisenforschung GmbH, Germany

           

Oral Session 1.6.1   Conventional and Order N DFT
Monday 31 October: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview C&D
Chairperson: Andrew Canning

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.6.1a

11:15a (I)

Linear scaling approaches for density functional calculations

Rudolf

Zeller

Institute of Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany

1.6.1b

11:45a

Resiliency in massively parallel quantum simulations

Thomas

Schulthess

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

1.6.1c

12:15p

Spectral element formulation of density functional theory

Kristopher

Andersen 

High Performance Technologies, Inc., USA

           

Oral Session 1.6.2   Conventional and Order N DFT
Thursday 3 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: Paul Kent

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.6.2a

3:15p (I)

Pushing some computational limits with all-electron electronic structure theory: Eigenvalue solvers, surface reconstruction, biomolecular structure

Volker

Blum

Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany

1.6.2b

3:45p (I)

Linear-scaling density-functional theory: from fundamental principles to practical applications

Peter

Haynes

Imperial College London, UK

1.6.2c

4:15p

A Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Implementation for Plane Wave First-principles Materials Science Codes on Multicore Supercomputer Architectures

Andrew

Canning

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UC Davis, USA

1.6.2d

4:35p

Exact enumeration of an Ising model for Ni2MnGa

Markus

Eisenbach

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

           

Oral Session 1.7.1   Quantum Monte Carlo
Monday 31 October: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Fernando Reboredo 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.7.1a

11:15a (I)

Experiments with the full configuration interaction quantum Monte Carlo method

William Matthew Colwyn

Foulkes

Imperial College London, UK

1.7.1b

11:45a (I)

Ab initio simulations in quantum many-body systems by auxiliary fields

Shiwei

Zhang

College of William & Mary, USA

1.7.1c

12:15p (I)

Quantum Monte Carlo methods: many-body nodal structures and treating the spins

Lubos

Mitas

North Carolina State University, USA

           

Oral Session 1.7.2  Quantum Monte Carlo
Monday 31 October: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Matthew Foulkes

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

1.7.2a

3:15p (I)

(Abstract not available)

Sandro 

Sorella

Sissa, Italy

1.7.2b

3:45p (I)

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of defects in aluminum

Randy

Hood

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

1.7.2c

4:15p

Hybrid algorithms in quantum Monte Carlo

Jeongnim

Kim

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 2.1   Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Phase Transitions
Tuesday 1 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson:  Zlatko Papic

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

2.1a

11:15a (I)

Real Space Entanglement Spectrum of Fractionally Quantized Hall States

Edward

Rezayi

California State University, Los Angeles

2.1b

11:45a (I)

Bi-partite composite fermion model for the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state

Arkadiusz

Wosj

Wroclaw University, Poland

2.1c

12:15p

Universality of Edge Physics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime: Contrasting Graphene with Gallium Arsenide

Zixiang

Hu

Princeton University

           

Oral Session 2.2    Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Phase Transitions
Tuesday 1 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson: Edward Rezayi

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

2.2a

3:15p (I)

Numerical studies of the fractional quantum Hall effect in two-dimensional chiral electron systems

Zlatko

Papic

Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA

2.2b

3:45p (I)

Non-Abelian anyons and the fractional quantum Hall effect at filling 5/2

Michael

Peterson

California State University Long Beach, USA

2.2c

4:15p (I)

From fractional quantum Hall to fractional Chern Insulators

Nicolas

Regnault

CNRS, Paris, France

           

Oral Session 2.3   Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Phase Transitions
Wednesday 2 November: 9:15 am - 10:15 am (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: Adriana Moreo

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

2.3a

9:15a (I)

Material specific Hamiltonian approach to iron-based and cuprate high Tc superconductors

Kazuhiko

Kuroki

The University of Electro-Communications, Japan

2.3b

9:45a (I)

Progress in the computational search for higher-Tc superconductors

Thomas

Maier

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

           

Oral Session 2.4  Strongly Correlated Systems and Quantum Phase Transitions
Wednesday 2 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview A&B)
Chairperson: Richard Scalettar

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

2.4a

10:30a (I)

Thermodynamics of Strongly Interacting Fermions in 2D Optical Lattices

Marcos

Rigol

Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

2.4b

11:00a

An Efficient Quantum Algorithm for Dynamics of a Spin System Coupled to a Spin Bath

Mark A.

Novotny

Mississippi State U, USA

2.4c

11:20a

Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions in the Pinwheel Distorted Kagome Lattice Heisenberg Model

Ehsan

Khatami

Georgetown University, Washington DC, , USA

2.4d

11:40a

A theoretical investigation of oxygen vacancy defect in SrTiO3, an insulating oxide

Chandrima

Mitra

University of Texas at Austin, USA

           

Oral Session 4.0   Quantum Chromodynamics
Tuesday 1 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: Charles Horowitz 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

4.0a

3:15p (I)

(Abstract not available)

Martin

Savage

University of Washington, USA

4.0b

3:45p (I)

The Spectrum of QCD using lattice gauge theory.

David

Richards

Jefferson Lab, USA

4.0c

4:15p (I)

Nuclear Physics from lattice QCD

Robert

Edwards

Jefferson Lab, USA

4.0d

4:45p (I)

Challenges and Opportunities for Lattice QCD software

Balint

Joo

Jefferson Lab, USA

4.0e

5:15p

The Search for New Physics with Lattice Gauge Theory

Paul

Mackenzie

Fermilab, USA

           

Oral Session 4.1   Quantum Chromodynamics
Wednesday 2 November: 9:15 am - 10:15 am (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: 
TBD

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

4.1a

9:15a (I)

Progres in lattice QCD at non-zero temperature and density

Peter

Petreczky

Brookhaven National Lab, USA

4.1b

9:45a (I)

Lattice QCD for Precision Nucleon Matrix Elements

Huey-Wen

Lin

University of Washington, USA

           

Oral Session 5.1  Astrophysics
Thursday 3 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Raphael Hix

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

5.1a

11:15a (I)

Simulating the Evolution of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies

Paul

Ricker

Univ. of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, USA

5.1b

11:45a (I)

On Simulating Type Ia Supernovae

Alan

Calder

Stony Brook University, New York, USA

5.1c

12:15p (I)

(Abstract not available)

Bronson

Messer

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

           

Oral Session 5.2   Astrophysics
Thursday 3 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Michael Guidry

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

5.2a

3:15p (I)

Turbulent magnetic field amplification from spiral SASI modes in core-collapse supernovae

Eirik

Endeve

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

5.2b

3:45p (I)

When Black Holes Collide: The Computational Challenge

Pablo

Laguna

Georgia Tech, USA

5.2c

4:15p

Simulations of the First Thermonuclear Supernovae

Ke-Jung

Chen

University of Minnesota, USA

5.2d

4:35p

Molecular dynamics simulations of astrophysical plasma crystals

Charles

Horowitz

Indiana University and ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

           

Oral Session 6.1   Plasma Physics
Wednesday 2 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: Don Batchelor 

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

6.1a

10:30a (I)

Computational advances in large-scale gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations of tokamak fusion devices

Stephane

Ethier

Princeton Plasma Physics Lab, USA

6.1b

11:00a (I)

Fully implicit algorithm for electrostatic PIC simulation of plasmas

Luis

Chacon

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

6.1c

11:30a (I)

High-Order Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes with Globally Divergence-Free Constrained Transport for ideal MHD

James

Rossmanith

University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

6.1d

12:00p (I)

Parallel in Time: Trading CPU Cycles for Wall-Clock Time

Lee

Berry

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

6.1e

12:30p

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Dense Plasmas

Andre

da Silva Schneider

Center for Exploration of Energy and Matter and Physics Department - Indiana University, USA

           

Oral Session 7.0   Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Wednesday 2 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Gardenview C&D)
Chairperson: Witold Nazarewicz

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

7.0a

10:30a (I)

Real-time calculations of many-body dynamics in quantum systems

Takashi

Nakatsukasa

RIKEN, Japan

7.0b

11:00a (I)

From nucleons to nuclei to fusion reactions

Sofia

Quaglioni

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

7.0c

11:30a

Large-Scale Mass table Calculations

Jochen

Erler

Joint Institute of Heavy Ion Research / Physics Division ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

7.0d

11:50a

Towards a unified description of nuclear structure and reactions with coupled cluster theory

Gaute

Hagen

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

7.0e

12:10p

Charge Radii and Neutron Correlations within the Gamow Shell Model

George

Papadimitriou

University of Tennessee, USA

7.0f

12:30p

UNEDF: Advanced Scientific Computing Collaboration Transforms the Low-Energy Nuclear Many-Body Problem

Hai Ah

Nam

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

           

Oral Session 7.1   Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Thursday 3 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson: 
Gaute Hagen

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

7.1a

3:15p

Microscopic Calculation of Heavy-Ion Potentials Based on TDHF

Sait

Umar

Vanderbilt University, USA

7.1b

3:35p

Parallel adaptive methods for Feynman loop integrals.

Elise

de Doncker

Western Michigan University, USA

7.1c

3:55p

Ab Initio Nuclear Structure Calculations of Light Nuclei

Pieter

Maris

Iowa State University, USA

           

Oral Session 8.1   Complex Systems--Chaos and Statistical Physics
Thursday 3 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson: Witold Nazarewicz

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

8.1a

10:30a (I)

Global Correlation Analysis Based on Optimal Path Identification

Alex

Hansen

Norweigian University of Science and Technology, Norway

8.1b

11:00a

Microscopic Dynamics of Ising Spin Glasses in Presence of an External Magnetic Field

Jorge

Monforte

BIFI: Instituto de Biocomputaci_n y F_sica de Sistemas Complejos

8.1c

11:20a

Preconditioner methods applied to simulations of two-phase flow in porous media

Morten

Grova

Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

8.1d

11:40a

Numerical simulations of scattering of light from two-dimensional surfaces using the Reduced Rayleigh Equation

Tor

Nordam

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

8.1e

12:00p

Wang Landau sampling method as a Markov chain

Lev

Shchur

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia

8.1f

12:20p

Parallelizing the Edward-Anderson spin glass model in Janus, an FPGA based computer

Jose Miguel

Gil Narvion

University of Zaragoza, Spain

         

Oral Session 9.1  Macroscopic Transport, Mesoscopic Methods and Related
Monday 31 October: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: 
TBD

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

9.1a

3:15p (I)

Coupling a Fluctuating Fluid with Suspended Structures

Aleksandar

Donev

New York University, USA

9.1b

3:45p

Dependence of the fluid convection in an evaporating sessile droplet on the thermal conductivity of the substrate

Lev

Barash

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, 142432, Chernogolovka, Russia

9.1c

4:05p

HPC Discrete Ordinates Method for the solution of 3D radiative transfer

William F.

Godoy

NASA Langley Research Center, USA

9.1d

4:25p

Semi-Lagrange Galerkin Method for Advection Diffusion Problem

Tomoya

Herai

Department of Civil Engineering, Chuo University, China

9.1e

4:45p

Statistical Law of Turbulence in Granular Gas

Masaharu

Isobe

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

9.1f

5:05p

An Identification of Geological Boundaries Using First-order Adjoint Equation Method

Shigenori

Mikame

Department of Civil Engineering, Chuo University, China

         

Oral Session 10.0   Biological Physics and Soft Materials
Monday 31 October: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson: Loukas Petridis

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

10.0a

11:15a (I)

Molecular mechanism of allosteric regulation of an intrinsically disordered protein, sortase, revealed by comprehensive all-atom conformational sampling simulations

Kei

Moritsugu

RIKEN, Japan

10.0b

11:45p

Block co-polymer self-assembly: A coarse grain computational approach

Goundla

Srinivas

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

10.0c

12:05p

Conformational transitions of a confined lattice protein: A Wang-Landau study

Busara

Pattanasiri

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Georgia, USA;  Department of Physics, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

           

Oral Session 10.1   Biological Physics and Soft Materials
Monday 31 October: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Mountainview B)
Chairperson:
Loukas Petridis

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

10.1a

3:15p (I)

Crystal nucleation kinetics revealed by the reweighted path ensemble

Peter

Bolhuis

University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

10.1b

3:45p

Surface adsorption of lattice HP proteins: studies on thermodynamics and structural transitions using Wang-Landau sampling

Ying Wai

Li

Center for Simulational Physics, University of Georgia, USA

10.1c

4:05p

The influence of the anchoring energy strength on the hysteresis of light induced Freedericksz transition in confined light beams

Oleksandr

Tarnavskyy

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

10.1d

4:25p

Dynamic heterogeneity of temperature dependent dynamics of Cytochrome P450cam

Zheng

Yi

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA/UT Center for Molecular Biophysics

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oral Session 10.2   Biological Physics and Soft Materials
Tuesday 1 November: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Mountainview C&D)
Chairperson: Jeremy Smith

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

10.2a

11:15a (I)

Insights from biophysical studies of intrinsically disordered proteins

Rohit V.

Pappu

Washington Univ., Missouri, USA

10.2b

11:45a (I)

Integrative Modeling of Protein/DNA Complexes at the Replication Fork

Ivaylo

Ivanov

Georgia State University, USA

10.2c

12:15p

Modulation of the Dynamics of Proteins and Related Functions via pH Changes

Sunita

Negi

Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

           

Oral Session 10.3  Biological Physics and Soft Materials
Wednesday 2 November: 9:15 am - 10:15 am (Mountainview B)
Chairperson: Loukas Petridis

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

10.3a

9:15a (I)

Bridging Scales in Biology: From Atoms to Populations

Eugene

Shakhnovich

Harvard University, USA

10.3b

9:45a (I)

Two molecular dynamics applications: (a) simulations of the Pdx1 homeodomain; (b) investigation of the $\alpha$-sheet secondary structure.

Volodymyr

Babin

North Carolina State University, USA

           

Oral Session 11.1  Supercomputing and Computational Physics Teaching
Wednesday 2 November: 9:15 am - 10:15 am (Mountainview C&D) 
Chairperson: Richard Martin

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

11.1a

9:15a (I)

Webpage preparation as a tool in (Computational) Physics Education

Joan

Adler

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

11.1b

9:45a

An eTextBook in Computational Physics with Multiple Executeable Elements

Rubin H

Landau

Oregon State University, USA

           

Oral Session 12.1   Computational Physics and Sustainable Energy
Monday 31 October: 11:15 am - 12:45 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Mina Yoon

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

12.1a

11:45a (I)

Ferroelectricity in Perovskites

David

Singh

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

12.1b

12:15p (I)

First-Principles Studies of Loss Mechanisms in Nitride Light Emitters

Chris

Van de Walle

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

12.1c

12:45a

Modelling of solar energy storage using chemical heat pumps

Yannick

De Decker

Université Libre de Bruxelles

           

Oral Session 12.2   Computational Physics and Sustainable Energy
Tuesday 1 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Nicola Marzari

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

12.2a

3:15p (I)

New Materials for Solar Thermal Capture and Storage

Jeffery

Grossman

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

12.2b

3:45p (I)

Harvesting solar energy: DFT studies of organic photovoltaics and photo-catalytic water splitting

Harald

Oberhofer

TU Munich

12.2c

4:15p (I)

Challenges for density-functional theory in modelling materials for energy applications

Nicola

Marzari

University of Oxford, UK

12.2d

4:45p (I)

Graphene systems under external perturbations

Young-Woo

Son

KIAS, Seoul, Korea

           

Oral Session 12.3   Computational Physics and Sustainable Energy
Thursday 3 November: 10:30 am - 12:45 pm (Tennessee Ballroooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Bobby Sumpter

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

12.3a

10:30a (I)

Theory and microscopy -- complementary tools for energy-related applications

Sok

Pantelides

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA/Vanderbilt Univ., USA

12.3b

11:00a (I)

Critical Roles of Nanostructures in Hydrogen Storage

Shengbai

Zhang

RPI, Troy, USA

12.3c

11:30a

Influence of the Heat Source Characteristics on Dimensionless Thermal Spreading Resistance

Cui ping

Yan

Beihang University, China

12.3d

11:50a

Predication of 4H-SiC betavoltaics micro battery performance based on a practical Ni-63 source

Gui

Gui

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

           

Oral Session 12.4   Computational Physics and Sustainable
Thursday 3 November: 3:15 pm - 5:15 pm (Tennessee Ballrooms 3&4)
Chairperson: Shengbai Zhang

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

12.4a

3:15p (I)

Guiding the Design of Nanostructured Materials for Efficient Energy Storage, Conversion, and Transmission

Bobby 

Sumpter

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

12.4b

3:45p (I)

Gas Adsorption and Renewable Energy Application: Lesson from Quantum Mechanics

Yong-Hyun

Kim

KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

           

Poster Session I
Monday 31 October: 8:00 - 11:00 pm (Tennessee Ballroom 1)

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

P1.1

 

Computer Aided Design of Optimized Magnetic Lens in FIB System by mixing Dynamic Programming and AI techniques

Fadhil

Ali

Basra University, Basra

P1.2

 

The dynamic three-dimensional models GaAs

Kulpash

Iskakova

Rif Akhmaltdinov, Russia

P1.3

 

Structural and electronic properties of MgxCd1-xO: A first-principles study

Dr. K.B.

Joshi

Department of Physics, M.L. Sukhadia University, Udaipur-313001, India

P1.4

 

Dynamical behavior of volatilities in futures exchange markets

Kyungsik

Kim

Pukyong National University, Korea

P1.5

 

Analysis of a seismic network against spatial shifts and scales in volume

Kyungsik

Kim

Pukyong National University, Korea

P1.6

 

Surface nitrogenation tuning the thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires: a molecular dynamics study

Haipeng

Li

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

P1.7

 

A Tersoff potential with modified cutoff for pure and hydrogenated amorphous carbon and the friction laws at the nanoscale

Zhendong

Sha

Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore

P1.8

 

Wave Packet Molecular Dynamics with Packet Splitting

Ilya

Valuev

Joint Institute for High Temperatures of RAS, Russia

P1.9

 

Towards ab initio simulation of large materials samples at 10 nm scale

Yang

Wang

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA

P1.10

 

Identification of full order parameter and conjugate field in the dynamic phase transition in the mean-field Ginzburg-Landau model

Daniel

Robb

Berry College, Georgia, USA

P1.11

 

Cluster Bundlet Model of Single-Wall C, BC_2N and BN Nanotubes, Nanocones and Nanohorns

Francisco

Torrens

Universitat de Valencia-ICMol, Spain

P1.12

 

Ab-initio determination of X-ray structure factors of fcc-copper

Parvej

Alvi

Banasthali University, India

P1.13

 

GRMHD simulations of binary neutron-star mergers

Luca

Baiotti

Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University,Japan

P1.14

 

Pseudorandom number generators for Monte Carlo simulations: equidistribution property, statistical independence of bits and effective implementations using SIMD parallelism of modern CPUs

Lev

Barash

Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Chernogolovka, Russia

P1.15

 

Finding Vacancies in a Defected Crystal

George

Bargoud

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA

P1.16

 

Simulation of surface damage from ion irradiation

Graham

Galloway

Edinburgh University, UK

P1.17

 

"Conveyor Belt" Model for Interfacial Cracks

Knut

Gjerden

NTNU, Norway

P1.18

 

Local strain effect on graphene by a first-principles study

Gui

Gui

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

P1.19

 

Electronic properties of rippled graphene

Gui

Gui

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

P1.20

 

Computer simulation of fluorescence spectra for molecular ring: Localization of exciton states

Pavel

Herman

Faculty of Science, University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

P1.21

 

How does water boost the protein internal motion

Liang

Hong

Center of Molecular Biology, ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P1.22

 

QMC calculations on ThO molecule and ThO2 crystal

Shuming

Hu

North Carolina State University, USA

P1.23

 

Symbolic programming package \textit{NCoperators} with applications in atomic physics

Rytis

Jursenas

Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

P1.24

 

Grain-Boundary Diffusion and Segregation of Hydrogen in Iron: A Path-Integral Molecular Dynamics Study

Hajime

Kimizuka

Department of Mechanical Science and Bioengineering, Osaka University,Japan

P1.25

 

Modeling Charged Systems in Periodic Boundary Conditions

Jaron

Krogel

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

P1.26

 

Extending the length scales of many-body simulations with density-functional calculations

Fengjie

Ma

College of William and Mary, USA

P1.27

 

The Reprocessing Plant Toolkit: A Unified Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing

Alexander

McCaskey

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P1.28

 

Validity of the Scattering Length Approximation in Strongly Interacting Fermi Systems

ShengQuan

Zhou

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Poster Session 2
Wednesday 2 November: 8:00 - 11:00 pm (Tennessee Ballroom 1)

ID

Time

Title

First Name

Last Name

Affiliation

P2.1

 

Theoretical Study of Co/WC Interfaces

Vladlen

Melnikov

Tomsk State University, Russia

P2.2

 

Decomposition of Neutron Scattering Spectra with Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Dynamics of Cytochrome P450cam

Yinglong

Miao

University of Tennessee/ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA Center for Molecular Biophysics

P2.3

 

The Solvation Structures of Cellulose Microfibrils in Ionic Liquids

Barmak

Mostofian

University of Tennessee / ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.4

 

Retrofit of the HSE density functional

Jonathan

Moussa

Sandia National Labs, USA

P2.5

 

Effect of the discontinuous wave functions on optimizations of VMC calculations of quantum systems

Amin

Najafi

Member of Department of Physics, Iran

P2.6

 

The use of atomic level stress to characterize the structure of irradiated iron

Madhu

Ojha

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.7

 

First principles magnetic and electronic structure in large non-periodic dislocation models

Khrgolkhuu

Odbadrakh

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.8

 

Octupole Deformations of Ground State Nuclei

Erik

Olsen

University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA

P2.9

 

Fractional quantum Hall effect in systems with band mass anisotropy

Zlatko

Papic

Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA

P2.10

 

Coordinate-space Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov for Superfluid Fermi Systems in Large Boxes

Junchen

Pei

University of Tennessee/ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.11   Frozen core method in auxiliary-field quantum Monte Carlo Wirawan Purwanto College of William and Mary, USA

P2.12

 

Calibrating the Phase-Field Crystal Model for Grain Boundary Motion in Iron

Bala

Radhakrishnan

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.13

 

Thermodynamics of Energy Conversion Devices

David

Rogers

Sandia National Laboratories, USA

P2.14

 

Simple Heisenberg model based method to accelerate first-principle thermodynamics simulations for magnetic systems

Aurelian

Rusanu

ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA

P2.15

 

Radical coupling reactions in lignin biosynthesis

Amandeep

Sangha

UT-ORNL, Oak Ridge, USA Center for Molecular Biophysics, USA

P2.16

 

Crossover phenomena in deterministic
and stochastic sandpile models

Sitangshu Bikas

Santra

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India

P2.17

 

Complex States in the Models of Colossal Magnetoresistive Manganites

Cengiz

Sen

University of Tennessee, USA

P2.18

 

Magnetic properties of the Hubbard model on an fcc lattice

Hao

Shi

College of William and Mary, USA

P2.19

 

Molecular-Dynamics Study of Crack-Fracture Mechanism by Stealth Dicing

Kohei

Shimamura

Kumamoto University, Japan

P2.20

 

Stability of Liposome: Free Energy Analysis of Vesicle-to-Bicelle Transformation

Wataru

Shinoda

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), USA

P2.21

 

Anomalous scaling of moments and multifractality in two-phase flow in porous media

Santanu

Sinha

Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

P2.22

 

Algorithms for quantum cluster simulations with 100+ site clusters

Peter

Staar

ITP ETH Zurich, Switzerland

P2.23

 

Energy Relaxation Behavior of Optically Generated Hot Carriers in GaN

Kyung Soo

Yi

The Univ. of Texas at Dallas; Pusan National University, Korea

P2.24

 

Towards Modeling Self-Consistent Core Collapse Supernovae

Merek

Chertkow

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

P2.25

 

Thermonuclear Supernova Simulation: Towards Increased Physical Fidelity to Calibrate the Standard Candle

Suzanne

Parete-Koon

University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

P2.26

 

Numerical Algorithms for Multidimensional Thermonuclear Supernovae Models

Ke-Jung

Chen

University of Minnesota, USA

P2.27

 

Molecular Dynamics Study on effects of Concentrations of GM1 ganglioside on physical properties of the phospholipid membranes

Daisuke

Takaiwa

Nanosystem Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), USA

P2.28

 

A Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithm For Modeling Dense Stellar Systems On Hybrid Architectures

Bharath

Pattabiraman

Northwestern University, USA

           
 

 


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