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

 Agenda- Symp-2013