Arizona-Los Alamos Days 2023

When

All Day, April 28, 2023
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On APRIL 28-29, 2023 , the Program in Applied Mathematics will host the Arizona-Los Alamos Days Conference. The event will be held in person on the UofA campus at the ENR2 building, Room S225 and on Zoom at https://arizona.zoom.us/j/83578103219 passcode: AZLANL

There will be 3 topic sessions: Fluid Mechanics, Materials Science, Biology. Click here to RSVP (especially if you'll be displaying a poster)

FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2023

WELCOME
2:00-2:15

BETSY CANTWELL, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION (UA)
CHRIS FRYER, CNLS DIRECTOR (LANL)
MISHA CHERTKOV, CHAIR, APPLIED MATH GRADUATE PROGRAM (UA)

SESSION 1:
FLUID MECHANICS
2:15-5:30PM
(UA) CHI-KWAN CHAN, LAURA MILLER; (LANL) DANIEL ISRAEL, DANIEL LIVESCU
2:15-2:35
Laura Miller (UA)
Multiscale flow between the branches and polyps of gorgonians

2:35-2:50
Leonardo Krapp (UA)

RAM: Rapid Advection Algorithm for Arbitrary Meshes
2:50-3:05
Eric Tovar (LANL)
Robust second-order approximation of the compressible Euler equations with an arbitrary equation of state
3:05-3:20
Eonho Chang (UA)
Constraining dust structures in protoplanetary disks with the Rossby wave instability
3:20-3:35
Xiaozhou Zhao (UA)
MHD simulation of solar flux rope eruption and heliospheric turbulent shocks
3:35-3:55 Refreshment Break 
3:55-4:15
Felipe Pereira (LANL)
Modeling and Simulation of RT and RMI Flows with Practical SRS
4:15-4:30
Addie Harrison (UA)
Fluid Dynamics of Nematocyst Firing
4:30-4:45
Shuo Kong (UA)
Filamentary molecular cloud formation via collision-induced magnetic reconnection
4:45-5:00
Brian Romero (LANL)
High-Resolution Simulations of H2/O2 detonations
5:00-5:15
Dunia Fernandez (UA)
Fluid Dynamics of Tubular Hearts

SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2023

SESSION 2:
MATERIALS SCIENCE
9:00-12:00PM
(UA) SLAVA COROPCEANU, KRISHNA MURALIDHARAN; (LANL) DJ LUSCHER, SERGEI TRETIAK
8:30-9:00 Coffee and pastries
9:00-9:45 Keynote
Florian Goeltl (UA)
 Computational design of heterogeneous catalysts in the 21st century
9:45-10:05
Xiaojuan Ni (UA)
Electronic and Magnetic Properties of Poly (benzodifurandione): A Highly Conducting n-Type Polymer
10:05-10:25
Josh Finkelstein (LANL)
Quantum chemistry using Tensor cores
10:25-10:40 Break
10:40-11:00
Moshe Chesler (UA)
Excited state calculations on highly correlated singlet fission molecules
11:00-11:20
Michael Saccone (LANL)
A whirlwind overview of artificial nanomagnets
11:20-11:40
Yousef Nikravesh (UA)
Machine learning identification of dominant descriptors in cold spraying of similar and dissimilar metals
11:40-12:00
Dawa Seo (LANL)
Mesoscale computational modeling of shock compaction on granular materials
12:00-1:30 Adjourn for Lunch 
SESSION 3:
BIOLOGY

1:30-5:00PM
(UA) JEAN-MARC FELLOUS, RYAN GUTENKUNST; (LANL) NICK HENGARTNER, BEN MCMAHON 

1:30-1:55
Bill Fries (UA)

 A Better Way to Analyze Epidemics?
1:55-2:20
Carmen Molina-Paris (LANL)

A story of co-infection, co-transmission and co-feeding: how to compute an invasion reproduction number

2:20-2:45
Avinash Karamchandani (UA)
 Data-driven Phase Reduction of Biological Oscillators
2:45-3:10
Cynthia Reichhardt (LANL)
 Using active matter to introduce heterogeneity to the susceptible-infected-recovered model of epidemic spreading
3:10-3:25 Refreshment Break
3:25-4:10  Keynote
Charles Wolgemuth (UA)
 Using filament dynamics to unravel the mysterious motility of Spiroplasma
4:10-4:35
Jim Brunner (LANL)
 Inferring microbial interactions with their environment from genomic and metagenomic data
4:35-5:00
Travis Wheeler (UA)

Algorithms for fast, accurate, and interpretable sequence annotation

 

If  you are interested to present a short talk  please get in contact with leaders of the respective session ASAP.