2011 NISE Awards Summary Table

Investigator	NERSC Repo	Hours Awarded	DOE Office	Project Title
Dmitri Babikov, Marquette University	m409	1,450,000	BES Chemistry	New potential energy surface for ozone molecule
Connor Balance, Auburn University	m41	600,000	Fusion Energy	Hybrid OpenMP/MPI approach to R-matrix scattering
Amitava Bhattacharjee, University of New Hampshire	m148	1,000,000	Fusion Energy	Global Effects on the Dynamics of Plasmoids and Flux Ropes during Magnetic Reconnection
Ian Bourg, Berkeley Lab	mp47	300,000	BES Geosciences	MD simulations of liquid water films at the boundary between gas hydrate and mineral surfaces
Shane Canon, Berkeley Lab	kbase	100,000	BER Biosciences	Systems Biology Knowledge Base
Pierre Carrier, University of Minnesota	m684	80,000	ASCR Computer Science	Sparse Lanczos and GMRES solvers in co-array fortran (CAF)
Paul Cassak, West Virginia University	m866	200,000	Fusion Energy	Numerical Study of Mode Conversion and Ion Heating in Laboratory-Relevant Plasmas
Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab	m499	4,000,000	Fusion Energy	Large Scale Numerical Study of Bootstrap Current in Edge Pedestal Plasma
Wai-Yim Ching, University of Missouri	mp250	7,650,000	BES Materials Science	Ab initio simulation of mechanical properties of bulk metallic glass and Mo-bases alloys
Gil Compo, University of Colorado	m958	7,000,000	BER Climate Research	Improving algorithms and resolution for the Ocean-Atmosphere Reanalysis for Climate Applications OARCA (1850-2012)
Alan Condron, University of Massachusetts Amherst	m1068	1,000,000	BER Climate Research	High resolution modeling to identify the location of the meltwater flood responsible for the Younger Dryas cold episode
Thomas Devereaux, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	m772	1,000,000	BES Materials Science	Numerical Investigations of Symmetry Breaking, Magnetism and the Pseudogap in the Three-Orbital Hubbard Model
James Drake, University of Maryland	mp217	500,000	Fusion Energy	Breaking magnetic field lines with turbulence
Huazhi Fang, Pennsylvania State University	m1215	500,000	BES Materials Science	Development of CALPHAD type approach to thermal conductivity aided by first-principles phonon approach
Keith Gilmore, Berkeley Lab	m1141	800,000	BES Materials Science	An efficient real-space approach to calculating Auger spectra
James Glimm, Stony Brook University	m1289	500,000	ASCR Applied Math	Surface Instabilities and Subgrid Scale Models in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Gary Grest, Sandia National Lab	m627	3,500,000	BES Materials Science	Self-Healing of Polymer Films
H. Guo, University of New Mexico	m627	300,000	BES Chemistry	Computational Studies of Methanol Steam Reforming
Michael Helle, Naval Research Lab	m965	1,000,000	HEP Accelerator Physics	Laser Acceleration of Ions Using Few Times Critical Density Gas Targets
Ivaylo Ivanov, Georgia State University	m1254	960,000	BER Biosciences	An Integrative Strategy to Model Complex Biological Assemblies
Janet Jansson, Berkeley Lab	m1317	1,000,000	BER Biosciences	Unveiling Microbial Carbon Cycling Processes in Key U.S. Soils using "omics"
Puru Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University	m847	100,000	BES Materials Science	Ab initio studies on graphenes and superhalogens
Michael Kaplan, Desert Research Institute	m965	750,000	BER Climate Research	Tall Tower Wind Energy Monitoring and Numerical Model Validation in Southern Nevada
Noel Keen, Berkeley Lab	m1116	100,000	BER Environmental Science	Threading EnergyPlus using OpenMP
Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of California Santa Barbara	m934	1,000,000	BES Materials Science	Phonon-assisted optical absorption in indirect-band-gap semiconductors
Mal Soon Lee, Michigan State University	m968	400,000	BES Materials Science	Deep defect states and valence skipping in narrow band gap semiconductors
Mathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology	jcap	5,000,000	BES Materials Science	Material Simulations in Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP)
Xiaoyi Li, United Technologies Corp Research Center	m945	550,000	ASCR Computer Science	High fidelity study of multiscale multiphase lubricant flow in high-speed gear systems
Jian Liu, University of California Berkeley	mp14	1,350,000	BES Chemistry	Semiclassical approaches for clean energy resources
Deyu Lu, Brookhaven National Lab	m1288	350,000	BES Materials Science	First Principles Characterization of van der Waals Dispersion Interactions
David Mikkelsen, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab	m64	3,000,000	Fusion Energy	Simulating ETG Plasma Turbulence with Impurities
Thomas Miller, California Institute of Technology	m822	750,000	BES Chemistry	Coupled electronic and nuclear dynamics in enzymes and photocatalysts
Thomas Miller, California Institute of Technology	m822	10,000,000	BES Chemistry	Proton-coupled electron transfer in photocatalysis and protein translocation in biosynthesis: Bridging lengthscales and timescales in molecular simulation
Benson Muite, University of Michigan	m1237	200,000	BES Materials Science	Three dimensional models for martensitic phase transformations
Victor Ovchinnikov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	gc8	1,000,000	BER Biosciences	Molecular simulations of the release of phosphate and ADP from F1-ATPase
Edward Patton, National Center for Atmospheric Research	m917	5,500,000	BER Climate Research	Turbulence over complex terrain: a wind energy perspective
Dmitry Pekurovsky, University of California San Diego	m1243	350,000	ASCR Computer Science	Performance enhancements for three-dimensional fast fourier transforms library P3DFFT
Kristin Persson, Berkeley Lab	matgen	2,500,000	BES Materials Science	Accelerated Materials Design Towards the Materials Genome
Mitch Pindzola, Auburn University	m41	3,000,000	Fusion Energy	Triple Photoionization of the Li atom
Mauro Pivi, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center	mp93	300,000	HEP Accelerator Phsics	Implementation of C-MAD parallel code to include new physics and capabilities for future particle colliders
Tomaasz Plewa, Florida State University	m461	1,000,000	NP Astrophysics	Morphology of Young Core-Collapse Supernova Remnants from Multi-Physics Three-Dimensional Simulations
Joel Primack, University of California Santa Cruz	mp363	1,500,000	HEP Astrophysics	Mass Production of High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations
Joe Prusa, Iowa State University	m612	400,000	BER Climate Research	Towards high performance urban canopy flows
Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology	mp156	250,000	ASCR Allpied Math	Evaluating PGAS scientific graph analysis codes on the Gemini interconnect
David Romps, Berkeley Lab	m1196	1,000,000	BER Climate Research	Interactions of Clouds, Convection, and Climate
Sayeef Salahuddin, University of California Berkeley	m946	750,000	BES Materials Science	Simulation of Inelastic decoherence in electronic transport through nanoscale structures
Grady Schofield, University of Texas at Austin	m1291	1,000,000	BES Materials Science	Improving scalability of an eigensolver for the Kohn-Sham electronic structure problem
ShunLi Shang, Pennsylvania State University	m679	500,000	BES Materials Science	Phonon, thermodynamic and diffusion properties of lithium-ion batteries from first-principles calculations
Brian Van Straalen, Berkeley Lab	m1055	470,000	ASCR Computer Science	CACHE novel architecture research
Brian Van Straalen, Berkeley Lab	m1270	1,200,000	ASCR Computer Science	High performance simulation of reactive transport processes at the pore scale
Yi Wang, Pennsylvania State University	m891	1,250,000	BES Materials Science	First-principles calculations of multiferroic oxides
Michael Wehner, Berkeley Lab	mp193	5,600,000	BER Climate Research	High resolution integration of CAM5 for extreme weather research
Nicholas Zabaras, Cornell University	m1182	500,000	ASCR Applied Math	Theoretical investigation on the properties of energy materials
Qianfan Zhang, Stanford University	m1131	400,000	BES Materials Science	Modeling and Simulation of High Dimensional Stochastic Multiscale PDE Systems at the Exascale