The titles for the posters submitted in the Physical Sciences and Engineering category for the 2016 MSI Research Exhibition are listed are shown below.
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A Multiphysics Model of the Pacinian Corpuscle
Authors: Julia C. Quindlen, Martha Flanders, Victor H. Barocas
MSI Principal Investigator: Victor H. Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
Coherent Clusters of Heavy Particles in Turbulence
Authors: Lucia Baker, Filippo Coletti
MSI Principal Investigator: Filippo Coletti (Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics)
Completion of Partially Known Turbulent Flow Statistics
Authors: Armin Zare, Mihailo R. Jovanovic, Tryphon T. Georgiou
MSI Principal Investigator: Mihailo R. Jovanovic (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Computational Method to Evaluate Compressive Bending Performance in Static Loading for Pediatric Non-Fusion Devices
Authors: Mary Foltz, Vahhab Zarei, David W. Polly, Robert A. Morgan, Joan E. Bechtold, Victor H. Barocas
MSI Principal Investigator: Victor H. Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
Computational Modeling of Ground- and Excited-States of Organic Electronics
Authors: Soumen Ghosh, Christopher J. Cramer, Laura Gagliardi
MSI Principal Investigators: Christopher J. Cramer (Chemistry), Laura Gagliardi (Chemistry)
Concentrated High Intensity Electric Field (CHIEF) System for Non-Thermal Pasteurization of Liquid Foods: Modeling and Simulation of Electric Analysis, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat Transfer
Authors: Peng Peng, Yanling Cheng, Yun Li, Paul Chen, Roger Ruan
MSI Principal Investigator: Roger Ruan (Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering)
Domain Decomposition-Based Contour Integration Approaches for the Solution of Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems
Authors: Vasileios Kalantzis, Yousef Saad
MSI Principal Investigator: Yousef Saad (Computer Science and Engineering)
Driving Forces, Trajectories, and Consequences of Flow of the Earth’s Deep Crust
Authors: M. Korchinski, P. Rey, C. Teyssier, D. Whitney, L. Mondy
MSI Principal Investigator: Donna Whitney (Earth Sciences)
Dynamics Dissociation Mechanism for a Dimeric Photoreceptor Protein From Multiscale Simulations
Authors: Haisheng Ren, Adam Grofe, Quan Luo, Yingjie Wang, Jiali Gao
MSI Principal Investigator: Jiali Gao (Chemistry)
Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) and Modesolver Simulations to Optimize Magneto-Optical Isolators Using Alternating Chirality
Authors: Prabesh Dulal, Andrew D. Block, Harold A. Haldren, Thomas E. Gage, Sang Y. Sung, David C. Hutchings, Bethanie J.H. Stadler
MSI Principal Investigator: Bethanie J.H. Stadler (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Finite Element Analysis of Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Heating and Wave Propagation for Neuromodulation
Authors: Jerel Mueller, Leo Ai, Priya Bansal, Wynn Legon
MSI Principal Investigator: Wynn Legon (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Gap Leakage Flow Migration and Mixing in a Turbine Nozzle Guide Vane Cascade
Authors: Mahmood H Alqefl, Terrence W. Simon
MSI Principal Investigator: Terrence W. Simon (Mechanical Engineering)
Global Monitoring of Surface Water Dynamics: A Data-Driven Approach
Authors: Anuj Karpatne, Ankush Khandelwal, Xi Chen, Varun Mithal, Reid Anderson, Robert Leuenberger, Stryker Thompson, Vipin Kumar
MSI Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
High Performance Computing in the Karypis Lab
Authors: Shaden Smith, Jeremy Iverson, Dominique LaSalle, George Karypis
George Karypis (Computer Science and Engineering)
High Resolution Numerical Simulation of Density Current on Sloping Beds
Authors: Saurabh Chawdhary, Ali Khosronejad, George Christodoulou, Fotis Sotiropoulos
MSI Principal Investigator: Fotis Sotiropoulos (Civil, Environmental, and Geo- Engineering)
Identifying Rare Classes in Absence of Truth: Application to Mapping Tropical Forest Fires From Satellite Data
Authors: Varun Mithal, Guruprasad Nayak, Ankush Khandelwal, Vipin Kumar
MSI Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
Introducing Tripoles: A New Class of Climate Teleconnection Patterns
Authors: Saurabh Agrawal, Stefan Liess, Snigdhansu Chatterjee, Vipin Kumar
MSI Principal Investigator: Vipin Kumar (Computer Science and Engineering)
Inverse Design Process: New Methodology to Design Medical Devices With BIG DATA
Authors: Bethany Tourek, Dan Orban, Bogden Tanasoiu, Hakizumwami Birali Runesha, Dan Keefe, Arthur Erdman
MSI Principal Investigators: Arthur Erdman (Mechanical Engineering), Daniel Keefe (Computer Science and Engineering)
Molecular Simulation of Olefin Oligomer Blend Phase Behavior
Authors: Qile P. Chen, Justine D. Chu, Timothy P. Lodge, J. Ilja Siepmann
MSI Principal Investigator: J. Ilja Siepmann (Chemistry)
NO Binding to Catechol-Ligated Transition Metals: A Quantum Chemical Study on a Promising System for Separation Processes
Authors: Samuel Stoneburner, Vanessa Livermore, Meghan McGreal, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis, Randall Snurr, Laura Gagliardi
MSI Principal Investigator: Laura Gagliardi (Chemistry)
Optical Modeling of Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording Media
Authors: Ali Ghoreyshi and Randall H. Victora
MSI Principal Investigator: Randall H. Victora (Electrical Engineering)
Percolation Theory for Electrolytic Gating in Complex Oxide Heterostructures
Authors: Peter P. Orth, Jeff Walter, Chris Leighton, Boris I. Shklovskii, Rafael M. Fernandes
MSI Principal Investigator: Rafael M. Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy)
Probing Quantum Critical Pairing in High Temperature Superconductors: A Quantum Monte Carlo Study
Authors: Xiaoyu Wang, Yoni Schattner, Erez Berg, Rafael M. Fernandes
MSI Principal Investigator: Rafael M. Fernandes (Physics and Astronomy)
Probing the Excited State Structural Evolution of Pentacene: Experimental and Theoretical Approach to Determine the Mechanism of Singlet Fission
Authors: W. Ruchira Silva, Stephanie M. Hart, Renee R. Frontiera
MSI Principal Investigator: Renee R. Frontiera (Chemistry)
Radio Galaxy Dynamics: A Mpc Long Tail in Abell 2256
Authors: Chris Nolting, Tom Jones
MSI Principal Investigator: Tom Jones (Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics)
Recommender Systems and Learning Analytics
Authors: Agoritsa Polyzou, Asmaa Elbadrawy, Evangelia Christakopoulou, Mohit Sharma, George Karypis
MSI Principal Investigator: George Karypis (Computer Science and Engineering)
Similarity Search and Computer Usage Evolution
Authors: David Anastasiu, Sara Morsy, George Karypis
MSI Principal Investigator: George Karypis (Computer Science and Engineering)
Strain Engineering of Phosphorene via Bending
Authors: Deepti Verma, Traian Dumitrica
MSI Principal Investigator: Traian Dumitrica (Mechanical Engineering)
Stretching DNA in Slit Confinement: A Monte Carlo Chain Growth Approach
Authors: Xiaolan Li, Kevin Dorfman
MSI Principal Investigator: Kevin Dorfman (Chemical Engineering and Material Science)
Study of Damping for High Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy Materials
Authors: Tao Qu, Randall H. Victora
MSI Principal Investigator: Randall H. Victora (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
Subject-Specific vs. Averaged Structural Models of the Collagen Networks in the Lumbar Facet Capsular Ligament
Authors: Vahhab Zarei, Amy Claeson, Chao Liu, Taner Akkin, Victor Barocas
MSI Principal Investigator: Victor Barocas (Biomedical Engineering)
Synthesis of Silicon Nanoparticle in Nonthermal Capacitively-Coupled Plasmas: Processes and Transport
Authors: Romain Le Picard, Aram H. Markosyan, David H. Porter, Mark J. Kushner, Steven L. Girshick
MSI Principal Investigator: Steven L. Girshick (Mechanical Engineering)
Textural Analysis and Substrate Classification Using High-Resolution Multibeam Bathymetry
Authors: Andrew Dennison, Nigel Wattrus
MSI Principal Investigator: Nigel Wattrus (UMD, Earth and Environmental Sciences)
The Electronic Structure and Catalase-Type Reactivity of a Cofacial, Oxo-Bridged Dicobalt Complex
Authors: Varinia Bernales, Konstantinos D. Vogiatzis, Laura Gagliardi
MSI Principal Investigator: Laura Gagliardi (Chemistry)
Thermally-Active Screw Dislocations in Si, SiC, PbSe, and SiGe Nanowires
Authors: Jihong Al-Ghalith, Yuxiang Ni, Shiyun Xiong, Sebastian Volz, Traian Dumitrica
MSI Principal Investigator: Traian Dumitrica (Mechanical Engineering)
Understanding Phase Behavior of Block Polymers Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Self-Consistent Field Theory
Authors: Akash Arora, Frank S. Bates, Kevin D. Dorfman
MSI Principal Investigator: Kevin D. Dorfman (Chemical Engineering and Materials Science)