Twenty postdoctoral research fellows presented their work in exascale computing, computational science, machine learning, quantum computing, data management and analysis, and much more at Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences Area 2021 Postdoc Symposium on February 11 and 12.

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The symposium is designed to provide area postdocs with communications training, mentorship, and coaching sessions, plus an opportunity to present their research in a public forum. Following a workshop and dry run, participants gave 30-minute presentations, including 10 minutes for questions, about their research to the wider Lab community.

»Watch the Presentations on Youtube.

Thursday, Feb. 11
9:00 a.m.

Venkitesh Ayyar

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Mapping the Universe Using Generative Adversarial Neural Networks
9:30 a.m. Alice Gatti [youtube id=”q0ajVVWM3Fw”]
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Graph Partitioning
10:00 a.m. Aditi Krishnapriyan

Learning Continuous Models for Continuous Physics
(Video to be released on publication of research.)
10:30 a.m. Doru Thom Popovici [youtube id=”7KcR_YXzbtc”]
Improving Data Locality Across Fourier Transforms and Linear Algebra Operations
11:00 a.m. Qiao Kang [youtube id=”uGtRavvqn-o”]
Improving All-to-Many Personalized Communication in Two-Phase I/O
1:00 p.m. Prashant Pandey  [youtube id=”I1hCXFpLlYE”]
Metagenomic Reads Classification Using Graph Neural Networks
1:30 p.m. Daan Camps [youtube id=”Od3XITnUu9E”]
Approximate Quantum Circuit Synthesis Using Block Encodings
2:00 p.m. Alexis Morvan [youtube id=”I-eSjpEZ-Nk”]
Quantum Imaginary Time Evolution on the Advanced Quantum Testbed
2:30 p.m. Miro Urbanek [youtube id=”Jepx3EziIR8″]
Mitigating Noise on Quantum Computers
3:00 p.m. Oluwamayowa Amusat [youtube id=”npBnuRIHpHI”]
Data-Driven Models for Equation-Oriented Optimization

 

Friday, Feb. 12
9:00 a.m.

Zhi (Jackie) Yao

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Exascale-Enabled Physical Modeling for Next-Generation Microelectronics
9:30 a.m. Oisin Creaner [youtube id=”pASjaucxJDI”]
Light Simulations for Dark Matter
10:00 a.m. Neil Mehta [youtube id=”yz5RaszoiCM”]
Determining the Best Molecular Dynamics Potential for the Job
10:30 a.m. Jialun (Galen) Wang [youtube id=”wzBL4l2-v1w”]
Modeling Non-equilibrium Phase Transition in Complex Fluids
11:00 a.m. Oscar Antepara [youtube id=”AwZ1p1twGOQ”]
Accurate Numerical Algorithm for Scientific Applications with Complex Geometries
1:00 p.m. Ishan Srivastava [youtube id=”karskW46YjU”]
A New Computational Approach for Modeling Nanoscale Electrokinetic Flows
1:30 p.m. Don Willcox [youtube id=”tkPiFEy5YcU”]
Scalable Computational Modeling of Neutrino Quantum Kinetics in Astrophysics
2:00 p.m. Anne Felden [youtube id=”FUN0jL_ucEw”]
An AMR Subglacial Hydrology Model – SUHMO
2:30 p.m. Jordi Wolfson-Pou [youtube id=”eKk8LJeULzk”]
Comparing the PFASST, MGRIT and Parareal Methods
3:00 p.m. Lisa Claus [youtube id=”8XDQMRUre7s”]
 High-Performance Multifrontal Solver with Low-Rank Compression