Day 1
May 12, 2013
8:10 – 8:25 – Ramond J. Carroll – Welcome
Morning Session 1A – Room 5209 – Building 5
Sea and Near-Shore Ecosystems
Organizers: Jay Walton, Dan Roelke and Chris Voostra
8:30 – 9:10 – Burt H. Jones
Measuring, Modeling and Analyzing Variablity in the Red Sea Marine System
9:15 – 9:55 – Stein Kaartvedt
Deep Red Sea Brine Pools affect the Adjacent Pelagic Fauna
10:00 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 11:10 – Frances Withrow
Potential Changes in Spectral Quality of Light in the Red Sea with Shifts in Phytoplankton Biomass and Composition
11:15 – 11:55 – Marin Ziegler
Acclimation Event Horizon of the Coral Pocillopora Verrucosa from the Central Red Sea
12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch
Afternoon Session 2A – Room 5209 – Building 5
Sea and Near-Shore Ecosystems – Cont.
1:15 – 1:55 – Rana Parshad
Analysis, Modeling and Simulation of a Three Species Food Chain Model
2:00 – 2:40 – Jay Walton
The Trojan Y-Chromosome Technique for Eradication of an Invasive Species
2:45 – 3:15 – Break
Computationally Efficient Statistical Methods and their Genuine Applications
Organizers: Suojin Wang and Xiangliang Zhang
3:15 – 3:55 – Abdulhakim Qahtan
A New Study of Divergence Metrics for Detecting Changes in Time Series
4:00 – 4:40 – Suojin Wang
A Framework for Scalable Parameter Estimation of Gene Circuit Models Using Structural Information
Morning Session 1B – Room 5220 – Building 5
Subsurface Modeling and Simulations
Organizers: Yalchin Efendiev and Victor Calo
8:30 – 9:10 – Christine Ehlig-Economides
Fracture Calibration Test Analysis and Design
9:15 – 9:55 – Eduardo Gildin
Local-Global Model Reduction for Large-Scale Models Integrating Systems – Theoretical Properties
10:00 – 10:30 – Break
10:30 – 11:10 – Mehdi Ghommem
Complexity Reduction of Nonlinear Flows in Heterogeneous Porous Media
11:15 – 11:55 – Michael Fraim
TBA
12:00- 1:00 Lunch
Afternoon Session 2B – Room 5220 – Building 5
Subsurface Modeling and Simulations – Cont.
Organizers: Yalchin Efendiev and Victor Calo
1:15 – 1:55 – Jun Li
Multiscale LBM Simulations of Flows in Porous Media
2:00 – 2:40 – Mohamed El Amin
Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media Associated with Nanoparticle Injection
2:45 – 3:15 – Break
Membrane Research and Visulization of CUDA and Statisitcs
Organizers: Chuck Hansen and Markus Hadwiger
3:15 – 3:55 – Kristi Potter
Visualization of Statistical Uncertainty
4:00 – 4:40 – Paul Rosen
Visualization of Shared and Global Memory Behavior for Dynamic Performance Analysis of CUDA Kernals
5:00 – 6:00 – Poster Session KAUST Library
Day 2
May 13, 2013
8:15 – 9:00 – Mootaz Elnozahy – Room 5209
Morning Session 3A – Room 5209 – Building 5
Computationally Efficient Statistical Methods and their Genuine Applications
Continued from Day 1
Organizers: Suojin Wang and Xiangliang Zhang
9:05 – 9:45 – Ganggang Xu
A Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Geostatistical Model with an Auxiliary Lattice for Large Datasets
9:50 – 10:30 – Quan Long
A Projection Method for Under Determined Optimal Experimental Designs
10:30 -11:00 – Break
Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Flows
Organizers: Bojan Popov and David Ketcheson
11:05 – 11:45 – Aslan Kasimov and Svyatoslav Korneev
Detonation in Radial Outlfow
11:50 – 12:30 – Ravi Samtaney
The Role of Advanced Algorithms and Simlations in Plasma Science
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
Afternoon Session 4A – Room 5209 – Building 5
Numerical Methods for Nonlinear Flows – Cont.
Organizers: Bojan Popov and David Ketcheson
1:45 – 2:25 – Fabrizio Bisetti
The Solution of the Low Mach Number Reactive Navier Stokes Equations in Laboratory Scale Flames via an Operator-Split, Fractional-Step Method
2:30 – 3:10 – Jean-Luc Guermond
Entrophy-Based Artificial Viscosity and Lagrangian Hydrodynamics for Compressible Fluids
3:10 – 3:40 – Break
3:45 – 4:25 – Vladimir Tomov
Entrophy Viscosity Method for Lagrangian Hydrodynamics
4:30 – 5:10 – Murtazo Nazarov
Entrophy Viscosity for High-Order Finite Elements
5:15 – 5:55 – Georgiy Stenchikov
Quantifying Dust Deposition and Radiative Impact on the Red Sea and Arabian Peninsula
Morning Session 3B – Room 5220 – Building 5
Membrane Research and Visulization of CUDA and Statistics – Cont.
Organizers: Chuck Hansen and Markus Hadwiger
9:05 – 9:45 – Suzana Nunes
Morphological Control and Characterization of Porous Membranes
9:50 – 10:30 – Ali Awami
Exploring the Connectome:Query-Driven Visualization
10:30 – 11:00 – Break
Computing: From HPC, to Sensor Networks, to Big Data
Organizers: Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger, David Keyes and Mootaz Elnozahy
11:05 – 11:45 – Hatem Ltaief
Optimizing Dense/Sparse Linear Algebra Operations on Manycore Systems
11:50 – 12:30 – Lawrence Rauchwerger
Don’t Parallelize — Think Parallel and Write Clean Code!
12:30 – 1:30 – Lunch
Afternoon Session 4B – Room 5220 – Building 5
Computing: From HPC, to Sensor Networks, to Big Data – Cont.
Organizers: Nancy Amato, Lawrence Rauchwerger, David Keyes and Mootaz Elnozahy
1:45 – 2:25 – Basem Shihada
iFrag: Interference – Aware Frame Fragmentation Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
2:30 – 3:10 – Radu Stoleru
On Modeling the Coexistence of WiFi and Wireless Sensor Networks
3:10 – 3:40 – Break
3:45 – 4:25 – Panos Kalnis
PHD-Store: An Adaptive SPARQL Engine with Dynamic Partitioning for Distributed RDF Repositories
4:30 – 5:10 Nancy Amato
Parallel Motion Planning with Application to Crowd Simulation and Protein Folding