Research Exhibition 2021 Schedule

MSI Research Exhibition 2021 Schedule

Title Zoom Room Presenters Timeslot (CST)
Vendor Presentations Main Room

MSI
Intel

Schrodinger

Panasas
HPE
UMII

11:00-11:45am
11:50-12:10pm
12:15-12:35pm
12:40-1:00pm
1:05-1:25pm
1:30 - 1:45pm

Finalist Presentations Main Room LSE finalists and judges
PSE finalists and judges
2:00-2:45pm
2:45-3:30pm
Physical Science & Engineering
Presentations


PSE Astronomy &
Physics Room

 

PSE Computer Science
& Engineering Room

 

Astronomy & Physics



Computer Science
& Engineering

2:00-2:45pm
Life Science & Engineering Presentations LSE Medicine &
Biology Room


LSE Agriculture &
Environment Room


LSE Data, Modeling and
Visualization Room


LSE Brain and Neuroscience Room

Medicine and Human Biology
 

Agriculture, Ecosystems and the Environment
 

Big Data, Modeling,
and Visualization

Brain Science and Neuroscience

2:45-3:30pm
Awards Ceremony &
Closing Remarks
Main Room MSI 3:30-4:00pm

Main Stage: Host and Vendor Presentations, and Poster Finalists


 


MSI's new supercomputing cluster, roadmap for the future
11:00 - 11:45pm (CST)
Presented by Josh Baller, Jim Wilgenbusch


DAOS and Optane: Breaking Through the High Performance Storage Bottleneck
11:50 - 12:10pm (CST)
Presented by Andrey Kudryavtsevv, Intel

Using Schrodinger for Research and Education
12:15 - 12:35pm (CST)
Presented by Abigail Emtage, PhD; Schrodinger, Education Team

Storage that Supports Changing Research Needs
12:40 - 1:00pm (CST)
Presented by Adam Marko, Panasas; Director of Research Solutions for Life Sciences

Emerging Trends and Technologies in High Performance Computing
1:05 - 1:25pm (CST)
Presented by Graham Bill Mannel, PHE; VP & GM, High Performance Computing

UMII’s funding opportunities
1:30 - 1:45pm (CST)
Presented by UMII

Finalist Judging: Classifying Taxonomy Presence in Metagenomic Data

2:00 - 2:15pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: Benjamin Hillmann, Dan Knights


Finalist Judging: Dogpile: a scalable wrapper for processing and analyzing canine whole genome sequencing data 
2:15 - 2:30pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: Jonah Cullen, Steven Friedenberg


Finalist Judging: Supercomputing at MSI and use of PacBio Hifi long reads enables near complete haplotype phase genome assembly of the wheat stem rust fungus
2:30 - 2:45pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: Radhika Bartaula, Pablo Olivera Firpo, Les J. Szabo, Yue Jin


Finalist Judging: Impact of Phase Noise on Magnon-based Parametric Excitations

2:45 - 3:00pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: Aneesh Venugopal, R.H. Victora


Finalist Judging: Vestigial Nematicity in the Presence of Random Strain Disorder
3:00 - 3:15pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: W. Joe Meese, Thomas Vojta, Rafael Fernandes


Finalist Judging: Predicting the Observed Lyman Alpha Profiles in Green Pea Galaxies
3:15 - 3:30pm (CST)

View Poster

Authored by: Cody Carr, Claudia Scarlata, Jeremy Blaizot, Leo Michel-Dansac, Anne Verhamme, Alaina Henry


Awards Ceremony
3:30 - 3:45pm (CST)


PSE: Astronomy & Physics Room




 

Bayesian Parameter Inference of Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Observations of Binary White Dwarf Systems for Future LISA Data Analysis
2:00pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Peyton Johnson, Ashlie Hamilton, Michael Coughlin


Distinguishing Supernova Models with Future Neutrino Observations
2:05pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Jackson Olsen

Machine learning for electron and photon reconstruction at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
2:10pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Simon Rothman, Rajdeep Chaterjee, Lindsey Gray, Roger Rusack

Spin resonance mode in d-wave superconductors from quasi-2D to 3D
2:15pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Fei Chen, Morten H. Christensen, Rafael M. Fernandes

Understanding Charge Carrier Mobility in Organic Semiconductors Through the Lens of Lattice Vibrations
2:20pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Margaret Clapham, Christopher Douglas, Renee Frontiera

Urban Street-Scale Climate Simulations for Sustainability, Health, and Social Equity
2:25pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Stefan Liess, Tracy E. Twine, Michael Milnar, and Anu Ramaswami

PSE: Computer Science & Engineering Room




 

A Robust Model For Predicting Collective Behavior in Large Robot Swarms
2:00pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
John Harwell, Maria Gini


Brittle fracture modeling using ordinary state-based peridynamics with continuous bond-breakage damage
2:05pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Túlio Vinícius Berbert Patriota, Adair Roberto Aguiar

Continuous Object Representation Networks: Novel View Synthesis Without Target View Supervision
2:10pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Nicolai Haeni, Selim Engin, Jun-Jee Chao, Volkan Isler

Distance-dependent energy transfer in Si nanocrystals
2:15pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Zhaohan Li, Zachary Robinson, Uwe Kortshagen

Evaluating Distributed Monte Carlo Tree Search
2:20pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Erik Steinmetz, Daniel Boley, Maria Gini

Factors affecting the magnetic properties of the isolated magnetic nanowire (MNW)
2:25pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Yicong Chen, Beth Stadler

Simulation-based study of COVID-19 outbreak associated with air-conditioning in a restaurant
2:30pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: Han Liu, Sida He, Lian Shen, Jiarong Hong

LSE: Medicine & Biology Room




 

Dynamic changes in DNA replication timing and 3D genome organization during cardiac differentiation
2:45pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Santiago Martinez Cifuentes, Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia


Identification of efficacious treatment for glioblastoma (GBM) by applying computational drug sensitivity imputation to novel GBM avatars and GBM clinical datasets
2:50pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Danielle Maeser, Robert Gruener, Robert Galvin, Tomoyuki Koga, Frank B. Furnari, David Largaespada, Clark C. Chen, R. Stephanie Huang

Mechanical Analysis of Migratory Phenotypes of Glioblastoma Patient Cells
2:55pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Jay C. Hou, Mariah M. McMahon, Jann N. Sarkaria, Clark C. Chen, and David J. Odde

Retrospective profiling of non-circular RNAs in HIV-infected patient dataset: Hidden treasures in the dark matter of RNA universe
3:00pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Dora Zucko, Kathleen Boris-Lawrie

Segment-specific kinetics of mRNA, cRNA and vRNA accumulation during influenza infection
3:05pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Thu Phan, Elizabeth J. Fay, Zion Lee, Ryan A. Langlois, Wei-Shou Hu

STN/GP-nets: Fully automatic deep-learning based segmentation for DBS applications using ultra-high 7 Tesla MRI
3:10pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Oren Solomon, Tara Palnitkar, Rémi Patriat, Henry Braun, Joshua Aman, Michael C. Park, Guillermo Sapiro, Jerrold Vitek, Noam Harel

LSE: Agriculture & Environment Room




 

Fitness of nitrogen fixation genes in the plant endophyte Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PA 1 5
2:45pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Erin Schwister, Ben Dietz, Carolann Knutson, and Brett Barney


Gene Fitness of Azotobacter vinelandii Under Diazotrophic Growth
2:50pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Carolann M Knutson, Meghan N Pieper, Dr. Brett M Barney


Polymer Degradation Mechanisms in Bacteria
2:55pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Natalia Calixto Mancipe, Brett Barney


Whole Genome Assembly and Annotation of Northern Wild Rice (Zizania palustris L.) Supports a Whole Genome Duplication in the Zizania Genus
3:00pm (CST)

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Authored by: 
Matthew Haas, Thomas Kono, Marissa Macchietto, Reneth Millas, Lillian McGilp, Mingqin Shao, Jacques Duquette, Candice Hirsch, Jennifer Kimball


Lake Sediment Bacteria across an Ecological Gradient
3:05pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Hailey Sauer, Trinity Hamilton, Rika Anderson, Charles Umbanhowar Jr, Adam Heathcote


Patterns of fungal diversity across and within high-elevation alpine streams in Grand Teton National Park, WY
3:10pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Taylor L. Price, Trinity L. Hamilton, Scott Hotaling


Aerial eDNA: A Molecular Diet Study of Insectivorous Bats as Insect Monitors
3:15pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Miranda Galey, Ron Moen, Jessica R. Sieber




LSE: Data, Modeling, and Visualization Room




 

CosTaL: A network-based algorithm for clustering high-dimensional single-cell datasets
2:45pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Yijia Li, David Anastasiu, Edgar Arriaga


In Silico Strategies Towards Anthrax Antitoxin Lead Optimization
2:50pm (CST)

View Poster
Authored by: 
Connor McDermott, Elizabeth A. Ambrose


Molecular Modeling of Penicillin Binding Proteins (PBPs): Mechanism Elucidation and Probe Design
2:55pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Parker Flanders, Erin Carlson, Elizabeth Ambrose


Treating image processing like hyperparameter tuning: the influence of processing workflow on prediction accuracy
3:00pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Tyler Nigon, Ce Yang, David Mulla


Visualizing Unresolved Segments in Ryanodine Receptor Cryo-EM Structures
3:05pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Bengt Svensson, David D. Thomas, Razvan L. Cornea


LSE: Brain and Neuroscience Room




 

Analysis of the Neural Correlates of Conscientiousness using Individualized Parcellation of Resting-State Functional Connectivity
2:45pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Tyler A. Sassenberg, Colin G. DeYoung


Harnessing supercomputing power to calculate risk scores based on whole brain functional connectivity
2:50pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Nora Byington*, Gracie Grimsrud*, Michael Mooney, Michaela Cordova, Olivia Doyle, Robert Hermosillo, Eric Earl, Anders Perrone, Lucille Moore, Alice Graham, Joel Nigg, Wes Thompson, Eric Feczko, Oscar Miranda-Dominguez, Damien Fair

*Co-First Authors


Rostral and Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents with Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Behavioral
2:55pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Ryan Liengswangwong, Erika Schultz, Muchen Xi, Karina Quevedo


tACS induces neural entrainment in neocortical neuron models
3:00pm (CST)
View Poster
Authored by: 
Harry Tran, Sina Shirinpour, Alexander Opitz


 

Thanks to our event sponsors and participants!

Platinum Level:

Panasas

PIER Group in partnership with HPE

Silver Level:

          Intel

Participant:

         Schrodinger