September 23-25, 2024

Texas Advanced Computing Center

Pickle Research Campus | Austin, TX

Speakers

Dr. Tan Bui-Thanh

Associate Professor Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

Learn2Solve: A Deep Learning Framework for Real-Time Solutions of Forward, Inverse, and Uncertainty Quantification Problems

Dr. Tan Bui-Thanh is an associate professor, and the endowed William J Murray Jr. Fellow in Engineering No. 4, of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, and the Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin.

He has decades of experience and expertise on multidisciplinary research across the boundaries of different branches of computational science, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Bui-Thanh is currently a co-director of the Center for Scientific Machine Learning at the Oden Institute. He is a former elected vice president of the SIAM Texas-Louisiana Section, and a former elected secretary of the SIAM SIAG/CSE. Dr. Bui-Thanh was an NSF (OAC/DMS) early CAREER recipient, the Oden Institute distinguished research award, and a two-time winner of the Moncrief Faculty Challenging award.

Dr. Clint Dawson

J.J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering and Department Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

How HPC Revolutionized Storm Surge Modeling

Dr. Clint Dawson holds the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #2 and is department chair of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics. He is also the head of the Computational Hydraulics Group in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.

Dr. Dawson has authored or co-authored over 200 technical articles in the areas of numerical analysis, numerical methods and parallel computing, with applications to flow and transport in porous media, and shallow water systems.

Earlier this year, Dawson received The University of Texas President's Research Impact Award, which recognizes university researchers whose scholarly or creative endeavors have changed lives and the way we look at and understand the world.

Dr. Stella Offner

Associate Professor of Astronomy Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Expanding the Frontera of Astrophysics: From Galaxies to Individual Stars

Dr. Stella Offner is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at UT Austin and Co-Director of the Center for Scientific Machine Learning.

Prof. Offner's research focuses on understanding how stars like the Sun form by combining numerical simulations, observations and observational modeling. She uses statistical techniques and machine learning to parse data and identify the physical characteristics of forming stars.

From 2009-2012 she was an NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics prize postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a NASA Hubble prize postdoctoral fellow at Yale from 2012-2014.

Dr. Hedeih Torabifard

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Texas at Dallas

Computational Investigation of Fluoride Export Proteins

Dr. Torabifard is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas Dallas.

Dr. Torabifard’s research has two main focuses: investigation of biological function and structure of membrane transport proteins to uncover more details about their selectivity and transport mechanisms, and design of new bio-based ionic liquids to improve the green character of ionic liquids and to overcome the drawbacks of currently employed ionic liquids such as toxicity and low biodegradability.

She was recently awarded an NIH-NIGMS (MIRA) grant to support her work on transmembrane transporters, and an American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund DNI grant to support her research on modeling environmentally friendly bio-based ionic liquids.

Dr. Dan Stanzione

Associate Vice President For Research, UT Austin
Executive Director, TACC

State of the Center Address

Dr. Dan Stanzione is a nationally recognized leader in the field of high performance computing who has made an impact in the open science community for more than 30 years.

He is Executive Director of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), one of the leading advanced academic computing centers in the world and holds the position of Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin.

Stanzione serves as the principal investigator (PI) for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Leadership Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which started construction in July 2024 and is expected to begin operations in 2026. The LCCF will deploy Horizon, which will be the largest academic supercomputer dedicated to open science research in the NSF portfolio.

Stanzione is also the PI for several current NSF-funded supercomputers including Frontera, the fastest supercomputer at a U.S. university, and Vista, an AI-centric system—all dedicated to open science research.

Stanzione received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and his master's degree and doctorate in computer engineering from Clemson University.

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Tutorials

Containers for HPC Reproducibility: Building, Deploying, and Optimizing

Presenters: Erik Ferlanti, John Fonner

Software containers have gained immense popularity as an effective means for enhancing the portability and reproducibility of high-performance computing (HPC) applications. This hands-on workshop is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to building, running, and distributing Docker and Singularity/Apptainer containers specifically tailored for HPC environments. Participants will receive in-depth guidance on creating HPC-compliant containers that are not only suitable for local testing and development but also optimized for deployment on advanced HPC systems.Special attention will be given to the intricacies of building containers that can run on multiple nodes using MPI and using accelerated hardware such as GPUs. Moreover, the workshop will delve into best practices for containerization in HPC contexts, troubleshooting common issues, and strategies for ensuring the seamless integration of containers into existing HPC workflows. By the end of the session, attendees will be equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to leverage the full potential of HPC containers, contributing to more efficient, reproducible, and scalable computing solutions.

Presentation Slides

Reproducible ML Workflows and Deployments with Tapis

Presenters: Joe Stubbs, Christian Garcia, Nathan Freeman, Anagha Jamthe, Steve Black, Gilbert Curbelo

This tutorial aims to provide researchers with a comprehensive introduction to the latest reproducible Machine Learning (ML) workflows and tooling provided by the NSF-funded Tapis v3 Application Programming Interface (API) and User Interface (UI). Through hands-on exercises, participants will gain experience in querying pre-trained ML models from public ML infrastructures such as Hugging Face or the ICICLE AI Institute, deploying various ML work-environments, and developing ML workflows on national-scale supercomputing resources. Throughout this tutorial, we will focus on utilizing the Tapis Workflows API, Tapis Pods API, Tapis ML Hub API, and TapisUI. These production-grade services are designed to simplify the facilitation and creation of trustworthy, reproducible, scientific workflows. By abstracting the complexities of underlying technologies behind user-friendly APIs, the Tapis services enable seamless integration with high performance computing (HPC) resources available at institutions with a Tapis deployment. Ultimately the tutorial aims to empower researchers to efficiently develop, deploy, and maintain their own ML workflows.

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CUDA Programming: Basic Concepts in C and Fortran

Presenter: Lars Koesterke

Effective CUDA code differs from conventional code as it has to reflect and accommodate architectural features of GPUs. In this tutorial I will discuss several key elements of the hardware and the software, i.e. how the execution of a loop matches the grid and block structure of the hardware, how user-managed cache memory is leveraged for speed, and how data is transferred asynchronously from host to device. The tutorial is intended for intermediate-level C/C++ and Fortran programmers who are interested in making the first steps towards CUDA programming for GPUs.

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Modern C++ for Computational Science

Presenter: Victor Eijkhout

C++ has seen increasing popularity in computational science in recent years, and accordingly the standard has started including features that accommodate such use. One of the main innovations in recent C++ standards is the use of ranges and range algorithm, which is a more elegant, and less error-prone way of expressing data parallel loops. We cover the basic concepts of ranges and range adapters, as well as lambda expression which are often used in range algorithms. There are various ways that ranges can be used in parallel processing, and we will cover several of these: including OpenMP integration, and the standard mechanism of parallel execution policies. The second relevant innovation is true multi-dimensional array handling. This comes from the `mdspan' library, which rather than providing a new container type, gives a non-owning view into traditional containers such as the standard vector. We will give an example-driven introduction to these concepts, and show how they can be combined to express for instance stencil operations.

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Lightning Talks

1	Topo-CNN: Breast Cancer Detection with Topological Deep Learning Brighton Nuwagira Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas
2	Simulation of the Mosquito Population after Hurricane Harvey Liting Huang Computational Hydraulics Group, Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
3	Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedural Parameters Impact Valve Function and Mechanics Collin Haese Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
4	GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Deformable Capsules Flowing Through A Pipe Joar Bagge Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
5	Studying Vibrio cholerae ToxR(ToxT)-DNA Interactions using GROMACS Hugo Villar Castellanos Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
6	Gravity Missions at The Center for Space Research: 22+ Years of Scientific Discoveries and Expanding Societal Applications John C Ries The Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin
7	Deep Learning Approaches for Time Series Forecasting of NICU Heart Rate Data Kangsheng Qi Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, and Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
8	Simulation of Dissipative Electron Quantum Transport in Si Nanowire Transistors: Effects of Phonon Confinement Bimin Cai Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
9	The Process of Using Polycraft World AI Lab on TACC’s Lonestar6 to Train and Evaluate Agent Performance in Novel Scenarios Stephen A. Goss High Performance Computing Center, The University of Texas at Dallas
10	Granular Analysis of Social Media Users’ Truthfulness Stances Toward Climate Change Factual Claims Haiqi Zhang Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
11	WITHDRAWN
12	Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water and Groundwater Availability in the Brazos River Basin, Texas Hao-Po Chang Environmental Engineering Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
13	TopOC: Topological Deep Learning for Ovarian and Breast Cancer Diagnosis Saba Fatema Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas
14	Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Propensity Score Matching in Clinical Real-World Data Justin Nguyen Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch
15	Enhancing LLM Fine-tuning for Text-to-SQLs by SQL Quality Measurement Lijun Qian CREDIT Center and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
16	Effects of Offshore Wind Energy on Ocean Circulation and Mixing Miguel A. Guzmán Hernández Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
17	The UT-City Climate Colab and TACC Partnership in Advanced Weather Prediction and Urban Resilience Dev Niyogi TExUS Lab and UT-City Climate CoLab, The University of Texas at Austin

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Poster Presentations

1	Topo-CNN: Breast Cancer Detection with Topological Deep Learning Brighton Nuwagira, Qiwei Li, and Baris Coskunuzer The University of Texas at Dallas
2	Simulation of the Mosquito Population after Hurricane Harvey Liting Huang¹, Eirik Valseth^1,2, Albert Cerrone^1,5, Jennifer Proft¹, Chayanon Wichitrnithed¹, Michael Shensky³, Katherine Brown^1,4, and Clint Dawson^1,6 1. Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Data Science, Norwegian University of Life Science, Norway 3. University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas Austin 4. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 5. Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame 6. Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering
3	Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedural Parameters Impact Valve Function and Mechanics Collin Haese¹, Vijay Dubey¹, and Manuel Rausch² 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
4	GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Deformable Capsules Flowing Through A Pipe Joar Bagge, George Biros, and Dhwanit Agarwal Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin
5	Studying Vibrio cholerae ToxR(ToxT)-DNA Interactions using GROMACS Hugo Villar Castellanos, Ahmed Touhami, and Andreas Hanke Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
6	Gravity Missions at The Center for Space Research: 22+ Years of Scientific Discoveries and Expanding Societal Applications John C Ries, and The Entire GRACE/GRACE-FO Team The Center for Space Research, The University of Texas at Austin
7	Deep Learning Approaches for Time Series Forecasting of NICU Heart Rate Data Kangsheng Qi, and Joshua Chang Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences; and the Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin
8	Simulation of Dissipative Electron Quantum Transport in Si Nanowire Transistors: Effects of Phonon Confinement Bimin Cai¹, Maarten L. Van de Put², and Massimo V. Fischetti¹ 1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Imec, Leuven, Belgium
9	The Process of Using Polycraft World AI Lab on TACC’s Lonestar6 to Train and Evaluate Agent Performance in Novel Scenarios Stephen A. Goss High Performance Computing Center, The University of Texas at Dallas
10	Granular Analysis of Social Media Users’ Truthfulness Stances Toward Climate Change Factual Claims Haiqi Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Jacob Devasier, and Chengkai Li Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
11	WITHDRAWN
12	Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water and Groundwater Availability in the Brazos River Basin, Texas Hao-Po Chang Environmental Engineering Department, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
13	TopOC: Topological Deep Learning for Ovarian and Breast Cancer Diagnosis Saba Fatema¹, Brighton Nuwagira¹, Sayoni Chakraborty¹, Reyhan Gedik², and Baris Coskunuzer¹ 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. MGH-Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
14	Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Propensity Score Matching in Clinical Real-World Data Justin Nguyen¹, Kostiantyn Botnar², Madison G. Farnsworth³, Sarah Almentrat², Vivan Tat², Kamil Khanipov², and George Golovko² 1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch 2. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch 3. Human Pathophysiology and Translational Medicine, The University of Texas Medical Branch
15	Enhancing LLM Fine-tuning for Text-to-SQLs by SQL Quality Measurement Lijun Qian^1,2, Shouvon Sarker¹, Xishuang Dong¹, and Xiangfang Li¹ 1. CREDIT Center, Prairie View A&M University 2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prairie View A&M University
16	Effects of Offshore Wind Energy on Ocean Circulation and Mixing Miguel A. Guzmán Hernández¹, J. M. Perez Medina², K. Yousefi¹, and S. Leonardi¹ 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
17	The UT-City Climate Colab and TACC Partnership in Advanced Weather Prediction and Urban Resilience Dev Niyogi, and The UT-City Climate CoLab Team TExUS Lab and UT-City Climate CoLab, The University of Texas at Austin
18	Aerodynamic Optimization for FSAE Style Vehicles using Computational Fluid Dynamics and Pareto Hypernetworks Hayden Bell¹, Ryan Hopke², and Sasmita Mohapatra³ 1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas 3. Cyberinfrastructure & Research Services, The University of Texas at Dallas
19	Wise-GNN: Enhancing GNNs with Wise Embeddings Md Joshem Uddin¹, Astrit Tola¹, Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora², and Baris Conkunuzer¹ 1. Department of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida
20	Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice Zander Mintz, and Ji Ma LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
21	Flood Impact Mitigation: Assessing the Role of Natural Barriers in Protecting Crops in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas Stone Nwamadi, Ira Narang, Jennifer Proft, Clint Dawson, and Katherine Brown The University of Texas at Austin
22	Topological Machine Learning for Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis Philmore Koung¹, Brighton Nuwagira¹, Caner Korkmaz², and Baris Coskunuzer¹ 1. Department of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Imperial College London
23	Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Non-Uniformly Calcified Aortic Valve Mishal Raza-Taimuri, and Hamid Sadat Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of North Texas
24	Theoretical Study of Carrier Transport in Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Shoaib Mansoori¹, Gautam Gaddemane², Sanjay Gopalan³, Massimo Fischetti¹, and Edward Chen⁴ 1. Department of Material Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Imec, Belgium 3. Bosch Research, USA 4. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Taiwan
25	Detecting Stance of Social Media Posts Toward Truthfulness of Factual Claims for Social Goods Zhengyuan Zhu, Haiqi Zhang, Zeyu Zhang, and Chengkai Li The University of Texas at Arlington
26	Classical Simulability of Gaussian Boson Sampling Sarvesh Raghuraman, and Brian La Cour Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin
27	Flood Impact Mitigation: Assessing the Role of Sand Dunes in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas Ira Narang¹, Clint Dawson^1,2, Katherine A. Brown^1,3, and Jennifer Proft¹ 1. The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin 3. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge UK
28	TopER: Topological Embeddings in Graph Representation Learning Astrit Tola¹, Funmilola Mary Taiwo², Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora³, and Baris Coskunuzer¹ 1. Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba 3. AI Institute, University of Central Florida
29	Remote Visualization in Fluid Dynamics Brandon Antron, Sakshi More, and Guillermo Araya Computational Turbulence and Visualization Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio
30	Molecular Dynamics Approach for Process Modeling and Material Characterization of Carbon Fibers Md Fazlay Alam, and Armanj D. Hasanyan Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at El Paso
31	Network Performance Monitoring with NetSage Doug Southworth Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin
32	Robust Frame-Semantic Models with Lexical Unit Trees and Negative Samples Jacob Devasier, and Chengkai Li Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
33	Numerical Investigation of Angular Particle Dynamics John Michael B. Tubije¹, Umberto Ciri², Sylvia Rodríguez-Abudo³, and Stefano Leonardi¹ 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez 3. Department of Engineering Sciences and Materials, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
34	Parallel K-Core Decomposition Algorithm for Large Dynamic Graphs Farahnaz Hosseini University of North Texas
35	The UT-OSPO Angela Newell¹, Jennifer Schopf², and Michael Shensky³ 1. Chief Information Office, The University of Texas at Austin 2. TACC, The University of Texas at Austin 3. University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin
36	Simulating Stiff Systems with A Linear Parameterized Latent Space Cole Nockolds¹, C. G. Krishnanunni², and Tan Bui¹ 1. Oden Institute, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Aerospace Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
37	Using Kwant to Unveil a Non-sinusoidal Current-phase Relation in a Semiconductor-superconductor Josephson Junction Konner Feldman¹, Zhuoqun Hao², and Shyam Shankar² 1. Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
38	Photoswitchable Liposomes for Drug Delivery Kevin Alberto¹, M.N. Hasna Begam¹, Hejian Xiong^2,3, Wataru Shinoda⁴, Paul A. Slesinger⁵, Zhenpeng Qin⁶, and Steven O. Nielsen¹ 1. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Dallas 2. Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence 3. Department of Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University 4. Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Science, Okayama University 5. Nash Family Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 6. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas
39	Graph Neural Networks for Contact between Deformable Bodies Vijay Dubey¹, Collin E. Haese¹, Jan Fuhg², Manuel K. Rausch^2,3,4, and Osman Gültekin² 1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin 3. Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 4. Oden Institute of Computation Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
40	Exploring Behavioral Tendencies on Social Media: A Perspective Through Claim Check-Worthiness Zeyu Zhang, Zhengyuan Zhu, Haiqi Zhang, and Chengkai Li Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
41	Rice Field Irrigation Mapping from High-resolution Aerial Imagery using a Contextual-aware Deep Network Aniv Chakravarty¹, Xiaohui Yuan¹, Abolfazl Meyarian¹, and Lu Liang² 1. Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas 2. Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning, Berkeley College of Environmental Design
42	Computationally Predicting a Synaptic NF-kB Protein Interaction Network Haley Goodwin, and Nigel S. Atkinson Department of Neuroscience and Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin
43	Power in Numbers: Emergent Phenomena from Increasing Droplet Size in Biomolecular Condensates Caleb Huang, and B. Montgomery Pettitt Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The University of Texas Medical Branch
44	Air Quality and Health Co-Benefits of Vehicle Electrification and Emission Controls in Major US Urban Hubs Ali Mousavinezhad¹, Yunsoo Choi², Nima Khorshidian², Masoud Ghahremanloo², and Mahmoudreza Momeni² 1. Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, University of Houston
45	Content Moderation in the Era of Generative AI Emet Bethany¹, Mazal Bethany², and Peyman Najafirad¹ 1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio 2. Department of Information Systems, The University of Texas at San Antonio;
46	Parallel Processing Framework for Analyzing Spatiotemporal Variation in Dust Storm Events Hassan Dashtian^1,, Alexander Lee², Asim Waheed², Ali Mousavinezhad¹, and Manmeet Singh¹ 1. Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin
47	Towards Adaptive Selection of Directions in Unconstrained, Deterministic Derivative-Free Optimization Marissa Llamas¹, Raghu Bollapragada², and Cem Karamanli² 1. Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin,
48	Assessing Biases in AI-Driven Hurricane Forecasting: A Comparative Study of Leading Models in the Gulf of Mexico Naveen Sudharsan¹, Manmeet Singh², Harsh Kamath², Sasanka Talukdar², Shyama Mohanty², Krishna Kishore Osuri³, Hassan Dashtian², Clint Dawson^4,5, Zong-Liang Yang², and Dev Niyogi^2,4,5 1. Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin 3. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science, National Institute of Technology Rourkela 4. Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin 5. Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
49	Numerical Implementation of the Barrier Lowering Effect at Metal Surfaces Pranay Baikadi, and William G. Vandenberghe Department of Materials Science, The University of Texas at Dallas
50	Real-time Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Content on Energy Transition Hassan Dashtian¹, David J. Lee², Maria-Laura Peña², Manmeet Singh¹, and Michael H. Young¹ 1. Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin 2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
51	UT-MeteoGAN: A Next-Generation AI Model for High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Manmeet Singh¹, Naveen Sudharsan¹, Harsh Kamath¹, Vaisakh SB², Hassan Dashtian³, Arya Chavoshi¹, John Fonner⁴, Clint Dawson⁵, Michael Young¹, Zong-Liang Yang¹, and Dev Niyogi¹ 1. Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin 2. Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Pune, India 3. Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin 4. Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin 5. Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin,
52	Enabling Automated Fact Checking of Voting Related Claims Using Frame Semantic Parsing and Semantic Search Rishabh Mediratta, Jacob Devasier, and Chengkai Li Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington
53	Engagement and Performance Operations Center (EPOC) Corey Eichelberger¹, Jen Schopf¹, Nathaniel Mendoza¹, Doug Southworth¹, George Robb², and Jason Zurawski² 1. Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin 2. DOE Energy Sciences Network, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

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September 23-25, 2024

Texas Advanced Computing Center

Pickle Research Campus | Austin, TX

Speakers

Dr. Tan Bui-Thanh

Associate Professor Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Clint Dawson

J.J. McKetta Centennial Energy Chair in Engineering and Department Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Stella Offner

Associate Professor of Astronomy Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Hedeih Torabifard

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Texas at Dallas

Dr. Dan Stanzione

Associate Vice President For Research, UT Austin Executive Director, TACC

Tutorials

Containers for HPC Reproducibility: Building, Deploying, and Optimizing

Presenters: Erik Ferlanti, John Fonner

Reproducible ML Workflows and Deployments with Tapis

Presenters: Joe Stubbs, Christian Garcia, Nathan Freeman, Anagha Jamthe, Steve Black, Gilbert Curbelo

CUDA Programming: Basic Concepts in C and Fortran

Presenter: Lars Koesterke

Modern C++ for Computational Science

Presenter: Victor Eijkhout

Lightning Talks

Topo-CNN: Breast Cancer Detection with Topological Deep Learning

Simulation of the Mosquito Population after Hurricane Harvey

Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedural Parameters Impact Valve Function and Mechanics

GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Deformable Capsules Flowing Through A Pipe

Studying Vibrio cholerae ToxR(ToxT)-DNA Interactions using GROMACS

Gravity Missions at The Center for Space Research: 22+ Years of Scientific Discoveries and Expanding Societal Applications

Deep Learning Approaches for Time Series Forecasting of NICU Heart Rate Data

Simulation of Dissipative Electron Quantum Transport in Si Nanowire Transistors: Effects of Phonon Confinement

The Process of Using Polycraft World AI Lab on TACC’s Lonestar6 to Train and Evaluate Agent Performance in Novel Scenarios

Granular Analysis of Social Media Users’ Truthfulness Stances Toward Climate Change Factual Claims

WITHDRAWN

Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water and Groundwater Availability in the Brazos River Basin, Texas

TopOC: Topological Deep Learning for Ovarian and Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Propensity Score Matching in Clinical Real-World Data

Enhancing LLM Fine-tuning for Text-to-SQLs by SQL Quality Measurement

Effects of Offshore Wind Energy on Ocean Circulation and Mixing

The UT-City Climate Colab and TACC Partnership in Advanced Weather Prediction and Urban Resilience

Poster Presentations

Topo-CNN: Breast Cancer Detection with Topological Deep Learning

Simulation of the Mosquito Population after Hurricane Harvey

Transcatheter Edge-to-Edge Repair Procedural Parameters Impact Valve Function and Mechanics

GPU-Accelerated Simulation of Deformable Capsules Flowing Through A Pipe

Studying Vibrio cholerae ToxR(ToxT)-DNA Interactions using GROMACS

Gravity Missions at The Center for Space Research: 22+ Years of Scientific Discoveries and Expanding Societal Applications

Deep Learning Approaches for Time Series Forecasting of NICU Heart Rate Data

Simulation of Dissipative Electron Quantum Transport in Si Nanowire Transistors: Effects of Phonon Confinement

The Process of Using Polycraft World AI Lab on TACC’s Lonestar6 to Train and Evaluate Agent Performance in Novel Scenarios

Granular Analysis of Social Media Users’ Truthfulness Stances Toward Climate Change Factual Claims

WITHDRAWN

Evaluating the Impacts of Climate Change on Surface Water and Groundwater Availability in the Brazos River Basin, Texas

TopOC: Topological Deep Learning for Ovarian and Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for Propensity Score Matching in Clinical Real-World Data

Enhancing LLM Fine-tuning for Text-to-SQLs by SQL Quality Measurement

Effects of Offshore Wind Energy on Ocean Circulation and Mixing

The UT-City Climate Colab and TACC Partnership in Advanced Weather Prediction and Urban Resilience

Aerodynamic Optimization for FSAE Style Vehicles using Computational Fluid Dynamics and Pareto Hypernetworks

Wise-GNN: Enhancing GNNs with Wise Embeddings

Artificial Intelligence for the Public Sector: Bridging the Gap between Academia and Practice

Flood Impact Mitigation: Assessing the Role of Natural Barriers in Protecting Crops in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas

Topological Machine Learning for Computer-Aided Medical Diagnosis

Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulation of Non-Uniformly Calcified Aortic Valve

Theoretical Study of Carrier Transport in Bilayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Detecting Stance of Social Media Posts Toward Truthfulness of Factual Claims for Social Goods

Classical Simulability of Gaussian Boson Sampling

Flood Impact Mitigation: Assessing the Role of Sand Dunes in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas

TopER: Topological Embeddings in Graph Representation Learning

Remote Visualization in Fluid Dynamics

Molecular Dynamics Approach for Process Modeling and Material Characterization of Carbon Fibers

Network Performance Monitoring with NetSage

Robust Frame-Semantic Models with Lexical Unit Trees and Negative Samples

Numerical Investigation of Angular Particle Dynamics

Parallel K-Core Decomposition Algorithm for Large Dynamic Graphs

The UT-OSPO

Simulating Stiff Systems with A Linear Parameterized Latent Space

Using Kwant to Unveil a Non-sinusoidal Current-phase Relation in a Semiconductor-superconductor Josephson Junction

Photoswitchable Liposomes for Drug Delivery

Associate Vice President For Research, UT Austin
Executive Director, TACC