High Performance Computing Day

September 9, 2022 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the UMass Lowell Inn and Conference Center.

TimeEvent Details & Abstract Links
8 - 8:50 a.m.Registration and coffee / breakfast
8:50 - 9 a.m.Opening remarks
Joseph Hartman, Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs, UMass Lowell
9 - 9:30 a.m.Sarah Caudill, UMass Dartmouth
Hidden Masses: The next frontier in observational gravitational-wave astronomy
9:30 - 10 a.m.Fanglin Che, UMass Lowell
Investigations of Electric Field Effects on Catalysis: A Combination of Deep Learning Models and Multi-Scale Simulations
10 - 11 a.m.Plenary Talk
Ayse Coskun, Boston University
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics
11 - 11:20 a.m.Coffee break and poster session
11:20 - 11:50 a.m.Isaac Ginis, URI
Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction for Emergency Management and Response
11:50 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.Aswin Gnanaskandan, WPI
High-fidelity multiphase flow simulations using HPC
12:20 - 1:30 p.m.Lunch
1:30 - 1:50 p.m.Eliot Eshelman, NVIDIA
Remarks from sponsors, Dell and NVIDIA
1:50 - 2:20 p.m.Daniel Haehn, UMass Boston
Processing of Massive Biological Datasets at UMass Boston
2:20 - 2:50 p.m.Francisco Hung, Northeastern University
Molecular Simulation of Deep Eutectic Solvents and Lipid Nanoparticles for Gas Separations and Drug Delivery
2:50 - 3:30 p.m.Coffee break and poster session
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.Plenary Talk
Carole-Jean Wu, Meta
Sustainable AI: Environmental Implications, Challenges and Opportunities
4:30 - 5 p.m.Markos Katsoulakis, UMass Amherst
Information divergences and optimal transport for enhanced generative modeling
5 - 5:30 p.m.Jill Moore, UMass Chan Medical School
From nucleotides to neural networks: studying gene regulation in the era of “big data”
5:30 - 6 p.m.Closing remarks and poster award announcement

Poster Presentations

  • Leticia Adao Gomes
    Northeastern University
    Discovery of novel organic photoredox catalyst with high-throughput virtual screening
  • Daniel Adrion
    Northeastern University
    Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal the Mechanism of Decarbonylation in Complex Environments
  • Zhen Chen
    Dartmouth College
    Data Driven Modeling of Structured Systems
  • Bosu Choi
    Dartmouth College
    Data Split for Cross Validation in the Parameter Selection of Regularized Inverse Problems
  • Cecile Cres
    University of Rhode Island
    DL-TODA: A Deep Learning Tool for Omics Data Analysis
  • Sam DeLap
    UMass Lowell
    Applying Machine Learning Principles to X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM)
  • Jihun Han
    Dartmouth College
    A Neural Network Approach for Homogenization of Multiscale Problems
  • Mohammad Amin Kiani
    UMass Lowell
    Development of catalyst screening workflow based on electronic structure calculations
  • Tongtong Li
    Dartmouth College
    Improving numerical accuracy for the viscous-plastic formulation of sea ice
  • Prabath Meemaduma
    UMass Lowell
    Comparative transcriptomic studies of the slow and fast twitch muscles.
  • Uzezi Okinedo
    UMass Boston
    Evidence of Local adaptation in Silver Leaf sunflower using gene network connectivity.
  • Christian Salguero
    Northeastern University
    Multiconfigurational non-adiabatic molecular dynamics towards photochemical-N2-extrusion reactions in borodiazenes
  • Ephraim Simasiku
    UMass Lowell
    Variational Multiscale Finite Element Modeling of Plasma-on-Liquid Interaction
  • Dilruba Sofia
    UMass Amherst
    Patient-Specific Mathematical Model of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Microenvironment
  • Mark Ivan Ugalino
    UMass Dartmouth
    Turbulently driven detonations in near-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs
  • Mingyu Wan
    UMass Lowell
    Hybrid Organic-Inorganic SAM/Cu Interfaces Drive CO2 Capture and Conversion
  • Yuting Xu
    UMass Lowell
    Renewably-Powered CO2 Recycling for Net-Zero-Carbon On Demand Fuel Generation
  • Zhengyang Yang
    UMass Lowell
    Self-Assembled Monolayers for Electrocatalysis: A Theoretical Study of CO2 Reduction Reaction to CO over Ag
  • Wentong Zhou
    UMass Lowell
    Computational study on reactivity of graphene surface catalyzed by transition metals
  • Ryan Zurrin
    UMass Boston
    Creating The World's Largest Mammography Database