MSI Research Exhibition 2018 – Physical Sciences and Engineering Posters

The titles for the posters submitted in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for the 2018 MSI Research Exhibition are listed are shown below.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering

Amplification of localized body forces in channel flow of viscoelastic fluids

Authors: Gokul Hariharan, Mihailo R. Jovanovic, Satish Kumar

Principal Investigator: Satish Kumar (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)

An embarrassingly parallel machine learning model for accurate quantum electron correlation energies

Authors: Dhabih V. Chulhai, Jason D. Goodpaster

Principal Investigator: Jason D. Goodpaster (Chemistry)

Computational design of high-chi block oligomers for accessing 1-nm micro-domains

Authors: Qile P. Chen, Leonel Barreda, Luis E. Oquendo, Marc A. Hillmyer, Timothy P. Lodge, J. Ilja Siepmann

Principal Investigator: J. Ilja Siepmann (Chemistry)

Computational methodologies for interpretation of X-ray scattering data and underlying structures

Authors: Ashish Jayaraman, Mahesh K. Mahanthappa

Principal Investigator: Mahesh K. Mahanthappa (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)

Computer graphics meets estimation theory: Parameter estimation lower bounds for plenoptic imaging systems

Authors: Abhinav V. Sambasivan, Richard Paxman, Jarvis Haupt

Principal Investigator: Jarvis Haupt (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Calculation of QSAR properties and molecular electrostatic potential (MESP) of polydimethylacrylamide/antibody using Monte Carlo modeling

Authors: Norma-Aurea Rangel-Vazquez, Edgar Arriaga

Principal Investigator: Edgar Arriaga (Chemistry)

Exploring the nature of electronic excitations in organic photoredox catalysts with RASCI-PDFT

Authors: Davide Presti, Donald G. Truhlar, Laura Gagliardi

Principal Investigator: Laura Gagliardi (Chemistry)

Finding substitutable binary code for reverse engineering by synthesizing adapters

Authors: Vaibhav Sharma, Kesha Hietala, Stephen McCamant

Principal Investigator: Stephen McCamant (Computer Science and Engineering)

High-fidelity computational fluid dynamics

Authors: Yadong Zeng, Lian Shen

Principal Investigator: Lian Shen (Mechanical Engineering)

Intensity-based registration of multiparametric prostate MRI via mutual information and genetic algorithms

Authors: Ethan Leng, David Porter, Andrew Larson, Xiaoxuan He, Benjamin Spilseth, Gregory J. Metzger

Principal Investigator: Gregory J. Metzger (Center for Magnetic Resonance Research; Radiology)

Interplay of superconductivity and magnetism in a two-band interacting electronic model: A quantum Monte Carlo study

Authors: Morten H. Christensen, Xiaoyu Wang, Erez Berg, Rafael M. Fernandes

Principal Investigator: Rafael M. Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy)

Large-scale plantation mapping in Indonesia

Authors: Xiaowei Jia, Ankush Khandelwal, James Gerber, Kimberly Carlson, Leah Samberg, Paul West, Vipin Kumar

Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)

Localization noise in heat assisted magnetic recording

Authors: Ali Ghoreyshi, R.H. Victora

Principal Investigator: R.H. Victora (Electrical and Computer Engineering)

Magnetism in Fe1-xCoxS2 pyrites via first principles tight binding models

Authors: Ezra Day-Roberts, Rafael Fernandes, Turan Birol

Principal Investigator: Rafael M. Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy)

Molecular dynamics characterization of the effects of oxidation on sulfur-aromatic interactions in a small peptide

Authors: Bryan Reutzel, Alessandro Cembran

Principal Investigator: Alessandro Cembran (UMD Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Multi-predator interactions shape a dynamic landscape of fear

Authors: Meredith S. Palmer, Craig Packer

Principal Investigator: Craig Packer (Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior)

Multiscale finite element analysis of collagen IV remodeling in Alport syndrome

Authors: Lauren Bersie, Lazarina Gyoneva, Daniel Goodman, Kevin Dorfman, Yoav Segal, Victor Barocas

Principal Investigator: Victor Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)

Multiscale simulations of methylcellulose systems

Authors: Vaidyanathan Sethuraman, Kevin Dorfman

Principal Investigator: Kevin Dorfman (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)

Numerical experiments of volcanic dominated rifts and passive margins

Authors: Megan Korchinski, Christian Teyssier, Patrice Rey, Donna Whitney, Max Bezada, Luke Mondy

Principal Investigator: Donna Whitney (Earth Sciences)

Parallel construction of the Vietoris-Rips complex in 3D

Authors: William J. Beksi, Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

Principal Investigator: Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos (Computer Science and Engineering)

Scaling the dynamic author-persona topic model to billion word corpora

Authors: Robert Giaquinto, Arindam Banerjee

Principal Investigator: Arindam Banerjee (Computer Science and Engineering)

Smoke dynamics in microgravity: Preventing spacecraft fires through modeling and simulation

Authors: Everett A. Wenzel, Mckenzie Robida, Sean C. Garrick

Principal Investigator: Sean C. Garrick (Mechanical Engineering)

Solvent effects on acid-catalyzed dehydration of model polyols

Authors: Chotitath Sanpitakseree, Matthew Neurock, Max A. Mellmer, James A. Dumesic

Principal Investigator: Matthew Neurock (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)

Transient dynamics and gap oscillations of non-equilibrium superconductors

Authors: Tianbai Cui, Michael Schütt, Peter P. Orth, Rafael M. Fernandes

Principal Investigator: Rafael M. Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy)

Using A-site cation ordering to induce Rashba splitting in halide perovskites for solar cell applications

Authors: Molly Andersen, Debmalya Ray, Laura Gagliardi, Turan Birol

Principal Investigator: Turan Birol (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)