Research Day Program

Time	Program	Location
9:00 - 10:00	Registration, coffee - posters	Lobby, AL-208
10:00 - 11:00	Keynote I: Wagdi G. Habashi, McGill University	AL-116
	Title: A Frontier of Parallel CFD: Real Time in Flight Icing Simulation over Complete Aircraft
	Chair: Emmanuel Lorin
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee - posters	Lobby, AL-208
11:30 - 12:30	Parallel sessions I	see schedule below*
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch - posters	Lobby, AL-208
1:30 - 2:30	Keynote II: Nikolas Provatas, McMaster University	AL-116
	Title: The Role of HPC for Predictive Strategies in Alloy Design
	Chair: James Wadsley
2:30 - 3:00	SHARCNET townhall meeting	AL-116
3:00 - 3:10	Poster awards	AL-116
3:10 - 3:40	Coffee - posters	Lobby, AL-208
3:40 - 5:00	Parallel sessions II	see schedule below*

Parallel Oral Presentation Schedule

MORNING SESSIONS

Applied Mathematics		Room: AL-116,     Chair: Emmanuel Lorin
11:30-11:50	Lucian Ivan	High-Order Finite-Volume Central ENO Method with Parallel Adaptive Mesh Refinement
11:50-12:10	Ramesh Yapalparvi	Reduced Order Modeling Techniques for Unsteady Flows
12:10-12:30	Yuzhen Xie	Balanced Dense Polynomial Multiplication on Multi-cores
Finance and Statistics		Room: AL-113,     Chair: Alexei Kuznetsov
11:30-11:50	Joe Campolieti	Computational Problems in Financial Modelling
11:50-12:10	Alexey Kuznetsov	An Example of Parallel Pricing of Credit Default Swaps
12:10-12:30	Kimihiro Noguchi	Bootstrap Method for a Statistical Test to Detect Trends in Variances
Chemistry and Biology		Room: AL-124,     Chair: Michael Haslam
11:30-11:50	Abdullah Mahboob	Opportunities from HPC for the Simulation of Large Multiprotein Complexes : the synergism of electrostatic and conformational changes during charge separation in Photosystem II
11:50-12:10	Stuart Rothstein	Principal Component Analyses of Biomolecular Simulation Data
12:10-12:30	Igor Svishchev	Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Hydrothermal Processes
Digital Humanities		Room: AL-105,     Chair: Stephan Sinclair
11:30-12:00	Ray Siemens (keynote)	Computation and the History of the Future of the Book
12:00-12:30	Stefan Sinclair	Web-based HPC: Oil and Water?

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

CFD and Engineering		Room: AL-116,     Chair: James Wadsley
3:40-4:00	Christopher DeGroot	A Closure Model for Volume-Averaged Transport Equations
4:00-4:20	Jonathan Gustafsson	Minimizing the Drag-coefficient for the Steady State Oseen Problem
4:20-4:40	Allan Spence	Parallel GPU/Intel Computing for Computer Vision and 3D Solid Modeling
4:40-5:00	Babak Tavakoli	Large Eddy Simulation of Martian Dust Devil at the Phoenix Lander Environment
Computer Science		Room: AL-113,     Chair: Michael Haslam
3:40-4:00	John Carter	The Pilot Library: A Friendly Face for MPI
4:00-4:20	Mario Dantas	Resource Management in Multi-Cluster Grid Configurations Adopting an Ontology-Fuzzy Approach
4:20-4:40	Janine Imada	Evolutionary Synthesis of Stochastic Gene Network Models using Feature-based Search Spaces
4:40-5:00	Thomas Wolf	Numerical Computer Go
Physics		Room: AL-124,     Chair: Ralf Meyer
3:40-4:00	Pawel Stasiak	Equilibrium Spin Glass Transition in Diluted Dipolar Heisenberg Model
4:00-4:20	Ka-Ming Tam	Spin Glass Study at SHARCNET
4:20-4:40	Lixin Zhan	Determining the Structural Transitions of Atomic Clusters: A Parallel Tempering Simulation
Digital Humanities		Room: AL-105,     Chair: Stefan Sinclair
3:40-4:05	Miriam Pena-Pimentel	Topic Maps in Philological and Cultural Analysis
4:05-4:30	Robert Hamilton	Visualizing Words in the Brain: Using HPC to Analyze and Understand Brain Imaging Data
4:30-4:55	Juan Luis Suarez	Virtual Laboratory for the Study of Cultural Dynamics