Arizona-Los Alamos Days 2020

On May 18-19, 2020, the Program in Applied Mathematics will host the Los Alamos - Arizona Days Conference.
The event will be held on Zoom.

There will be 7 topic sessions: Biology, Astronomy, Materials, Energy Systems, Geosciences/ Climate, Fluid Mechanics, and AI/ML/Data Science.

Important! All times listed on the schedule are AZ time (MST); Los Alamos participants please note the 1 hour time difference (MDT) The tentative schedule is as follows:

Topic / Time Speaker (affiliation)	Title of talk / abstract
Monday, May 18, 2020
7:45-8:00am	Welcome address from Irene Qualters (LANL, Associate Laboratory Director of Simulation & Computation) and Liesl Folks (UA, Provost)
SESSION 1: BIOMATH 8:00-10:00am	NICK HENGARTNER (LANL) & TIM SECOMB (UA)
Alan Perelson (LANL)	Within host modeling of SARS-CoV-2 infection and treatment
Faryad Sahneh (UA)	Network-based Epidemic Modeling of COVID-19
Emma Goldberg (LANL)	Using population phylogeny for epidemiological inferences with application to COVID
Steve Sanche (LANL)	Tomographic rate of growth estimation of COVID in China
Bill Fries (UA)	Data-driven model discovery
No posters for this session.
10:00-10:15am	*Virtual Coffee & Refreshments Break*

SESSION 2: FLUID MECHANICS 10:15-11:45am	Daniel Livescu (LANL) & Misha Chertkov (UA)
Kevin Ferguson (UA)	Experiments on the Richtmyer-Meshkov Instability in Shock and Reshock
Yifeng Tian (LANL)	Physics Informed Learning of the Lagrangian Dynamics of Velocity Gradient Tensor
Christoph Hader (UA)	Towards simulating natural transition in hypersonic boundary layers via random inflow disturbances
Nek Sharan (LANL)	High-order energy-stable boundary treatment for finite-difference cut-cell method
Highlights of posters for FLUID MECHANICS (poster session at 4:00pm): Ismael Boersma (LANL): Learning closure models for turbulence Kevin Cherng (LANL): Variable Transport Property Effects on the Compressible Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Hannah Kravitz (UA): Eigenvalue problem for the wave equation on a metric graph with applications to random network lasers Jerry Luo (UA): Random Field Model for Passive Scalar in Turbulence Dima Tretiak (LANL): Applying Volumetric GANs to the Problem of Turbulence Michael Woodward (UA): Molecular Dynamics: Applying Neural ODE for learning the potential Armando Albornoz-Basto (UA): Solving Maxwell's equations with FDTD
11:45am-1:00pm	**Virtual lunch break - with a light "recalling history" presentation during the last 15 minutes with Alan Bishop (LANL)**

SESSION 3: ASTRONOMY 1:00-2:30pm	Chris Fryer (LANL) & Chi-Kwan Chan (UA)
Greg Salvesen (LANL)	Spin-Orbit Misalignments in Microquasars
Marina Kisley (UA)	Classifying Astronomical Transients Upon First Discovery by Rubin Observatory (LSST)
Ryan Wollaeger (LANL)	Kilonova Model Grid from Multigroup Radiative Transfer in 2D Axisymmetry
Kaushik Satapathy (UA)	Variability in GRMHD Simulations of Black Hole Environments
Jonah Miller (LANL)	Neutrino Transport and Nucleosynthesis in Collapsars
Tyler Trent (UA)	Charged Particle Trajectories in a Magnetic Dipole for Flat and Kerr Spacetimes
Highlights of posters for ASTRONOMY (poster session at 4:00pm): John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider (UA): Multimessenger Asteroseismology of Core-Collapse Supernovae Chi-kwan Chan (UA): Data Analysis on the Cloud - the Laniakea and AstroContainers Projects
2:30-2:45pm	*Virtual Coffee & Refreshments Break*

SESSION 4: GEOSCIENCES/ CLIMATE 2:45-4:00pm	Jeffrey Hyman (LANL) & Laura Condon (UA)
Madeleine Jean Holland (UA)	Snowpack and forest cover across continental US
Yu Chen (LANL)	Recent progresses in image-based pore-scale multiphase flow simulations using advanced models and GPU acceleration
Mohammad Reza Ehsani (UA) & Ali Behrangi (UA)	Machine Learning: A viable option to improve precipitation retrievals in cold regions
Bailian Chen (LANL)	Reducing uncertainty in geologic CO₂ sequestration risk assessment by assimilating monitoring data
Highlights of posters for GEOSCIENCES/CLIMATE (poster session at 4:00pm): Charles Abolt (LANL): Machine-learning based measurement of ice wedge polygon geomorphology, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Garret Aldrich (LANL/UC Davis): Feature-Based Analysis and Evaluation of Emulated Flow and Transport on Discrete Fracture Networks Sidian Chen (UA): Fully-implicit dynamic pore-network modeling of two-phase flow in porous media Luis De la Fuenta (UA)& Hoshin Gupta (UA): Robust data splitting for hydrological modeling: Implementation of machine learning techniques Jack Reeves Eyre (UA): Sensitivity of E3SM energy and water cycles to ocean surface flux algorithm design
4:00-5:00pm	Poster Session for Day 1

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

SESSION 5: AI/ML/DATA SCIENCE 8:00-10:00am	Andrey Lokhov (LANL) & Stephen Kobourov (UA)
Stephen Kobourov (UA)	Visualization: Putting Data on the Map
Abhijith Jayakumar (LANL)	Neural network basis functions for learning graphical models
Kwang-Sung Jun (UA)	Adaptive data collection for accelerating discovery rates
Forrest Sheldon (LANL)	Optimization and Learning in Novel Hardware
Jason Pacheco (UA)	Probabilistic Reasoning in Complex Systems
Tillmann Weisser (LANL)	Recover functional relations from moment information
Chicheng Zhang (UA)	Efficient and noise-tolerant active learning of sparse halfspaces
Highlights of posters for AI/ ML/DATA SCIENCE (poster session at 2:30pm):
Ryan Coatney (UA): A `Responsible' Softmax Layer for Deep Learning Classification as a Mixture Model
10:00-10:15am	*Virtual Coffee & Refreshments Break*

SESSION 6: ENERGY SYSTEMS 10:15-11:45am	Deepjoti Deka (LANL) & Roberto Furfaro (UA)
Alexander Josephson (LANL)	Capturing fire behavior and source emissions through high-fidelity CFD
Andrea Scorsoglio (UA)	Image-based Deep Reinforcement Meta-Learning for Precision Lunar Landing
Smitha Gopinath (LANL)	Global optimization of power transmission systems: tight convex relaxations and parallel algorithms
Enrico Schiassi (UA)	Physics-Informed Extreme Theory of Functional Connections for parametric ODEs and PDEs
David Metivier (LANL)	Sparse polynomial chaos expansion for the stochastic AC optimal power flow
Laurent Pagnier (UA)	Learning Power Systems Dynamics: Comparative Analysis of Different Schemes
Highlights of posters for ENGINEERING SYSTEMS (poster session at 2:30pm): Kris Drozd (UA): An Actor-Critic method based on Extreme Learning Machines for Hypersonics Guidance Mario De Florio (UA): Physics-Informed Solutions of Radiative Transfer Problems Luca Ghilardi (UA): Deep Semantic Segmentation for Visual-based Planetary Landing Site Selection Andrea D'Ambrosio (UA): Physics-Informed Solutions of Optimal Control Problems via Extreme Theory of Functional Connections Haoxiang Yang (LANL): Data-driven Optimization for Distribution Networks under Stochastic Disruptions
*11:45-1:00pm*	**Virtual lunch break - with a light "recalling history" presentation during the last 15 minutes Mac Hyman (Tulane University)**

SESSION 7: MATERIALS 1:00-2:30pm	Sergey Tretiak (LANL) & Krishna Muralidharan (UA)
Veaceslav Coropceanu (UA)	Charge Transfer States at Organic-Organic Interfaces: Impact on Electronic Processes
Ryan Jadrich (LANL)	Accelerating ab initio simulation for equilibrium material property prediction
Venkateswara Rao Manga (UA)	A generalized first-principles approach to modeling phonon-mediated processes in solid-state materials
Justin Smith (LANL)	Automated discovery of a robust interatomic potential for aluminum
Rachel Gorelik (UA)	Ionic transport in C60 molecular solids: Implications for solid state electrolytes
Steven Baro (UA)	Atomic units to Astronomical Units: Computational materials science methods to interpret interstellar and nebular processes
No posters for this session.
2:30-3:30pm	Poster Session for Day 2
3:30-5:00pm	Discussions of future plans, collaborations

Main organizers are (Angel Garcia/LANL - Misha Chertkov/UA).
Organizers of the topical sessions are:
- Astro (Chris Fryer – Chi-Kwan Chan)
- Bio (Angel Garcia/Nick Hengartner – Tim Secomb)
- Materials (Sergey Tretiak - Krishna Muralidharan)
- Engineering Systems (Deepjoti Deka – Roberto Furfaro)
- Geo-sciences/Climate (Jeff Hyman – Laura Condon)
- Fluid Mechanics (Daniel Livescu – Misha Chertkov)
- AI/ML/Data Science (Andrey Lokhov – Stephen Kobourov)

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