CELS June In-Person Priority Week

Jun 3, 2024, 8:00 AM → Jun 7, 2024, 5:00 PM America/Chicago

We are thrilled to announce this summer's CELS In-Person Priority Week. Starting Monday, June 3rd – Friday, June 7th. All CELS staff, students (hybrid and onsite), postdocs, collaborators, and contractors are highly encouraged to work onsite and participate in a wide array of face-to-face collaboration and Directorate activities. This in-person week will be jam packed with Division meetings, all hands meetings, and seminars; opportunities to welcome summer students, sign-up for mentorships, learn about career development; and gatherings to foster crosscutting collaboration and innovation.

Click on the Timetable to the left of this screen for a listing of open events.

We want to emphasize the importance of in-person participation for an enriched and engaging experience. However, we understand that not everyone may be able to join us in person due to various constraints, we are offering some hybrid options that allow you to participate remotely.

Please register for the scientific meetings & social events you will participate in -- including the CELS Directorate-wide luncheon! 

Monday, June 3

Catalyst Team Presentations

Convener: Christopher Knight (CPS)

Zoom Connection

1 Catalyst Team Overview

Speaker: James Osborn (CPS Division)

CatalystTeam.pdf

2 ESP & ALCF-X

Speaker: Timothy Williams (CPS Division)

Catalyst-ESP_ALCF-X.pdf

3 Support Stories: Cosmology/HACC

Speakers: Adrian Pope (CPS Division), Michael Buehlmann (CPS Division)

Catalyst-Cosmology-2024-06-03.pdf

4 Support Stories: Quantum Computing

Speaker: Yuri Alexeev (CPS Division)

Catalyst-QuantumComputing.pdf

5 Support Stories: CFD

Speaker: Saumil Patel (CPS Division)

CatalystCFD.pdf

6 Support Stories: ChemMat+AI

Speaker: Murat Keceli (CPS Division)

Catalyst_MLIPs.pdf

7 Support Stories: Molecular Dynamics

Speaker: Wei Jiang (CPS Division)

Catalyst-MD.pdf

8 Support Stories: Fusion+AI

Speaker: Kyle Felker (CPS Division)

Catalyst-AI-FES.pdf

Tuesday, June 4

9 CELS All Hands

We are thrilled to invite you to the CELS All Hands meeting on Tuesday, June 4th at 10:00 a.m. Join us to hear exciting updates and valuable insights. ~Coffee and Donuts will be available~.

Agenda:

CELS directorate updates – Mike Papka, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director | Director, Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

EVS update – Cristina Negri, Director, Environmental Science Division

BIO update – Dion Antonopoulos, Director, Biosciences Division

Digital twins initiative – Todd Munson, Senior Computational Scientist, Mathematics and Computer Science Division

Safety update – ESH Team

Zoom Connection

10 CELS Women Lunch

Please join us on Tuesday, June 4, 12 - 1 pm CT (building 241, room A323, also Zoom). All technical women, collaborators, students, visitors, alumnae are invited to bring lunch and spend the hour chatting with others.

History and plans going forward: The CELS-women group was established in 2003. The goal is not to compete with WIST activities but rather to complement those broader events with CELS-specific opportunities. We generally meet informally a few times per year. At a minimum, we want to provide regular opportunities for informal interaction so that technical women in CELS get to know one another.

Speaker: Lois McInnes (MCS)

Zoom Connection

ALCF 1/2 Day Workshop: Informal Workshop on Mining, Analyzing and Visualizing Facility Data

Further details TBD Confirmed Room 1501

11 ATMOS Open House

An Open House will be held on Tuesday, June 4th between 1-4pm (Building 484) to showcase ATMOS, where instrumentation for Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) Urban Integrated Field Laboratory are being field tested. Attendees are required to wear pants and closed-toe footwear.

12 Core Values Refresher Session

Come join Jiwen Fan & Cristina Negri to discuss the Core Values and how everyone can bring them to life and enhance the culture in EVS and the CELS Directorate.

Speakers: Cristina Negri (EVS), Jiwen Fan (EVS)

Zoom Connection

2:00 PM Coffee Time, hosted by the MCS Division

Light snacks will be provided. Please bring your own mug to use if you have one.

4:00 PM Pete Beckman's Retirement Celebration

Join us on Tuesday, 6/4 from 4-7p at Miskatonic Brewing (1000 Frontage Rd, Ste. C, Darien, IL) to celebrate Pete's next adventure!
Please respond by Friday, 5/31

Wednesday, June 5

13 Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Training for CELS employees

AED Training Sessions are being offered by Argonne Fire Department. 10-Minute Hands-on AED Training Sessions.
Swing on by and learn how to operate these life saving devices!

14 EVS All-Hands Meeting

Speaker: Cristina Negri (EVS)

Zoom Connection

15 LCF All Hands Meeting

Zoom Connection

16 BIO All-Hands Meeting

Speaker: Dionysios A. Antonopoulos (Biosciences Div.)

17 MCS Postdoc Meeting

Speaker: Valerie Taylor (MCS)

18 MCS All-Hands Meeting

Speaker: Valerie Taylor (MCS )

Zoom Connection

4:15 PM Bike ride to Imperial Oak Brewery (weather permitting)

7.6 mile bike ride from the lab to Imperial Oak Brewery.

5:00 PM Imperial Oak Outing

Thursday, June 6

19 Challenges and Advancements for GPU-Accelerated Discontinuous Galerkin Solvers for Multi-Physics, Compressible Flow Simulations

CPS Hosted Seminar
The emergence of GPU-accelerated hardware in high-performance computing (HPC) systems has significantly enhanced our capability to perform high-fidelity simulations, enabling the inclusion of increasingly complex physics models. This talk presents the development and optimization of a compressible Navier-Stokes solver based on the high-order spectral element discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method that is portable across GPU-accelerated HPC systems.

We explore the integration of multi-physics modeling capabilities into the solver, including shock capturing techniques, multi-species transport, and chemically reacting flows. The presentation will cover the inherent challenges associated with these high-order numerical schemes and physics models, such as handling discontinuities and ensuring stability and accuracy in high-speed regimes. A key focus of the talk will be placed on identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks in the core computational kernels when implemented on GPUs. We will discuss various strategies and optimizations employed to enhance the performance and efficiency of the solver on GPU-accelerated platforms. The talk aims to provide insights into the practical aspects of developing performance portable DG solvers for advancing multi-physics flow simulations.

Speaker: Umesh Unnikrishnan (LCF)

Zoom Connection

20 Complex Flows and Multiphase Dynamics: Insights From both Numerical Methods and Experiments

LCF Hosted Talk
Abstract: Complex and multiphase flows, prevalent in both natural phenomena and industrial applications, span a wide array of disciplines, including microfluidics, biotechnology, energy storage, materials science, pharmaceuticals, additive manufacturing, and environmental sciences. This seminar provides a comprehensive exploration of numerical methods tailored to predict the behaviors and instabilities of multiphase and complex flows within canonical fluid mechanics geometries. Specifically, the seminar delves into the employing Volume-of-Fluid (VOF), Convective-Diffusive Interface (CDI), and Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) techniques. Moreover, it will highlight experimental analyses conducted on complex and multiphase flows across diverse structured surfaces. These analyses leverage cutting-edge experimental methods such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV), and Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV). Through the combined methodologies via both numerical simulations and experiments, attendees will gain valuable insights into the complexities of flow dynamics and instabilities, paving the way for the development of innovative strategies for precise flow control. These efforts hold promise to advance various sectors, ranging from healthcare to renewable energy, as outlined in the previously mentioned applications. By deepening our understanding of key physics behind these flows, engineers and researchers can devise more efficient systems, enhance product quality, and tackle critical challenges in their respective fields. The seminar will also provide glimpses into future modeling approaches and strategic plans, further enriching the discourse on complex flow phenomena and their diverse applications.

Speaker: Parisa Mirbod (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Zoom Connection

21 CELS Directorate-Wide Luncheon

FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE

In order to attend, you must complete the registration (found at the top of this page and on the home page!)

Lunch will be catered by Chuck's Southern Comfort Cafe

The menu includes:

Pulled Pork
Smoked Chicken
Penne Pasta w/Marinara
Coleslaw
Roasted Veggies
Mini Buns
Spring Salad

22 EVS Ice Cream Social with Guest Speaker Shana Harris

Join EVS' June Science Social. This month's Science Social will feature the discussion of one of our core values - safety - by Shana Harris and a couple of colleagues working in the field. Come for this discussion and ice cream!

This event is hybrid (although remote participants will have to provide their own ice cream).

Zoom Connection

23 Ergo Room Office Hours

Speaker: Dana Silvestri (ESH)

4:30 PM Social Event hosted by CPS Division

Considering an event at the guest house - cash bar with appetizers

Friday, June 7

24 BIO Project Overviews for Summer Students

The Biosciences Division conducts research across a wide range of topics from understanding biological systems in the context of the natural environment to issues affecting human health. An overview of these projects will be given to provide context for summer student research activities.

Speaker: Dion Antonopoulos (BIO)