Speakers

More speakers will be added as we complete the invitation process and receive confirmations. Short bios will be linked from the speakers' names, and abstracts will be linked from talk titles (as each becomes available). After the conference, slides and video will be linked in the last column. Videos will also be linked in chronological order on the netcast archive page.

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speaker's name	affiliation	topic: title of talk -- title of paper may vary	slides
Introduction
David Keyes	Columbia University	Welcome to SciDAC 2007	Slides
Featured Speakers
Tony Chan KEYNOTE	NSF	Cyberinfrastructure for Scientific Discovery	Slides
Toichi Sakata	Riken	High Performance Computing beyond PetaScale in Japan
Bill Collins	LBNL/NCAR	The Future Radiative Forcing of the Earth's Climate System	Slides
George Bertsch	U. Washington	Building a Universal Nuclear Energy Density Functional	Slides
Ian Foster	ANL	Enabling Distributed Petascale Science	Slides
Phil Colella	LBNL	Performance and Scaling of Locally Structured Grid Methods for Partial Differential Equations	Slides
Cray Henry	DOD	Supercomputing in DoD
Invited Talks		Accelerator Science
David Bruhwiler	Tech-X	Parallel Simulation of Electron Cooling Physics for Relativistic Ion Beams
John Cary (for the COMPASS team)	Tech-X	Community Petascale Project for Accelerator Science and Simulation	Slides
Frank Tsung	UCLA	Three-Dimensional Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Laser Wakefield Experiments	Slides
Invited Talks		Astrophysics
Stan Woosley	UCSC	Modeling Nature's Biggest Bombs: Type Ia Supernovae	Slides
Joan Centrella	NASA Goddard	Binary Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity	Slides
Invited Talks		Chemistry/Materials
Eric Schwegler	LLNL	Ab initio Simulations of Materials and Molecular Systems	Slides
Mark Jarrell	U. Cincinnati	The Multi-Scale Challenge to Many Body Theory
Invited Talks		Climate
David Bader	LLNL	Recent Transformational Changes in Climate Research: The Intersection of Science, Computational Science, and Information Technology
Invited Talks		Combustion
Michael Heath	U. Illinois	Whole-System Simulation of Solid Propellant Rockets
Don Lamb	U. Chicago	New Insights into Type Ia Supernova Explosions from Large-Scale Simulations	Slides
Invited Talks		Fusion
Paul Bonoli	MIT	Evolution of Nonthermal Particle Distributions in Radio Frequency Heating of Fusion Plasmas	Slides
Jeff Candy	GAt	Plasma Microturbulence Simulation of Instabilities at Highly Disparate Scales	Slides
Invited Talks		Groundwater
Glenn Hammond	PNNL	Subsurface Multiphase Flow and Multicomponent Reactive Transport Modeling using High-Performance Computing
Paul Meakin	INL	Particle Methods for Simulation of Subsurface Multiphase Fluid Flow and Biogeological Processes	Slides
Invited Talks		Life Sciences
Bernhard Palsson	UCSD	Reconstruction and Modeling of the Transcriptional Regulatory Network in E. Coli
Harley McAdams	Stanford U. School of Medicine	Reverse Engineering the Bacterial Cell’s Control System
Invited Talks		QCD
Pavlos Vranas	LLNL	QCD and the Blue Gene
Peter LePage	Cornell	High-Precision Numerical QCD: Simulation Strategies for Highly Nonlinear Field Theories	Slides
Bob Mawhinney	Columbia	Lattice QCD with Chiral Quarks - Using Symmetry to Explore Symmetry Breaking
Invited Talks		Applied Math
Karen Devine	Sandia	Partitioning and Dynamic Load Balancing for Petascale Applications	Slides
Alex Pothen	Old Dominion	Enabling Petascale Computational Science through Combinatorial Algorithms	Slides
Mark Shephard	RPI	Toward Massively Parallel Adaptive Simulations on Unstructured Meshes	Slides
Jorge Moré	ANL	Optimization Problems and Algorithms in SciDAC Applications	Slides
Invited Talks		Computer Science
Miron Livny	U. Wisconsin	Pleasantly Parallel Computing - Accomplishments and Opportunities	Slides
John Mellor-Crummey	Rice	Harnessing the Power of the Emerging Petascale Platforms	Slides
Mary Hall	USC-ISI	A Compiler-Based Strategy for Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications	Slides
Garth Gibson	CMU	Understanding Failures in Petascale Computers	Slides
John Shalf	LBNL	The New Landscape of Parallel Computing Architecture	Slides
Invited Talks		Visualization
Ken Joy	UC-Davis	Visualization and Analytics Advances for SciDAC Science
Sean Ahern	ORNL	Petascale Visual Data Analysis in a Production Computing Environment	Slides
Hank Childs	LLNL	Architectural Challenges and Solutions for Petascale Visualization and Analysis	Slides
Kwan-Liu Ma	UCSC	In-Situ Visualization for Ultrascale Simulations	Slides