Computing in Engineering Forum 2020 Agenda

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Virtual Event
September 29 – October 1, 2020
Madison, WI

Agenda subject to change.
Central time – Chicago

Tuesday, September 29

TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) Organizer:  Professor Dan Negrut, UW Madison TRACK 2: Computational Assessment of Material Performance Organizer: Professor Curt Bronkhorst, UW-Madison TRACK 3: Mathematics of Rare and High-Impact Events Organizers:  Professors Victor Zavala and Jim Luedtke, UW Madison
8:00am-12:15pm See Agenda Here See Agenda Here See Agenda Here
12:15pm-1:00pm Detecting Changes in Complex Environments Professor Becca Willett, University of Chicago (Keynote)
1:00pm-1:45pm Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist, Amazon (Keynote)
1:45pm-1:55pm Break
1:55pm-2:40pm Computational Imaging of Cellular Signatures, Kevin Eliceiri, UW-Madison (Keynote)
2:40pm-3:00pm Supporting Current and Future Researchers Through Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure, Stefan Robila, Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
3:00pm-5:00pm Poster Session

 Wednesday, September 30

TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) Organizer:  Professor Dan Negrut, UW Madison TRACK 2: Computational Assessment of Material Performance Organizer: Professor Curt Bronkhorst, UW-Madison TRACK 3: Mathematics of Rare and High-Impact Events Organizers:  Professors Victor Zavala and Jim Luedtke, UW Madison
8:00am-12:15pm See Agenda Here N/A See Agenda Here
12:30pm-5:00pm Tutorials

Thursday, October 1

8:30am-5:00pm Tutorials

Tuesday, September 29

TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC)  Organizer: Dan Negrut, UW-Madison
8:00am-8:15am Welcome and Logistics, Professor Dan Negrut, UW-Madison
8:15am-8:40am Practical Coarse Graining of Granular Materials, Professor Ken Kamrin, MIT
8:40am-9:05am Robotic Simulation in Chrono: State of the Art and Perspective, Alessandro Tasora, University of Parma, Italy
9:05am-9:30am Locomotion on and with Granular Media, Professor Dan Goldman, Georgia Tech
9:30am-9:50am Break
9:50am-10:15am Fluid-Solid Interaction with Proteus and Chrono, Dr. Chris Kees, US Army, ERDC
10:15am-10:40am Fidelity, Realism, and Parameterization of Models for Soil-machine Interaction, Professor James Paul Hambleton, Northwestern
10:40am-11:05am Multibody Simulation Platform for Amazon Scout, Kishor Bhalero, Amazon
11:05am-11:30am Off-road autonomous Vehicle Simulation in Chrono, Professor Dan Negrut, UW Madison
11:30am-12:15pm Lunch Break
12:15pm-1:00pm Detecting Changes in Complex Environments Professor Becca Willet, University of Chicago  (Keynote)
1:00pm-1:45pm Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist, Amazon (Keynote)
1:45pm-1:55pm Break
1:55pm-2:40pm Computational Imaging of Cellular Signatures,  Kevin Eliceiri, UW-Madison (Keynote)
2:40pm-3:00pm Supporting Current and Future Researchers Through Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure, Stefan Robila, Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
3:00pm-5:00pm Poster Session

Wednesday, September 30

TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC)
8:00am-8:30am State of the Simulation-Based Engineering Lab, Dan Negrut, UW-Madison
8:30am-8:45am Machine Learning with GymChrono & PyChrono, Simone Benatti, PhD Italy
8:45am-9:00am Chrono::Sensor For Robotics & Autonomous Vehicle Simulation, Asher Elmquist, SBEL PhD Student 
9:00am-9:15am SynChrono for Multi-agent Autonomous Vehicle Simulation: Jay Taves, SBEL MS Student
9:15am-9:30am Chrono Granular, Luning Fang, SBEL PhD Student
9:30am-9:45am Using Continuum Representations for Granular Material Dynamics: Wei Hu, SBEL Post-Doc Student
9:45am-10:00am Multi-phase Flows with Chrono:: FSI, Lijing Yang, SBEL PhD Student
10:00am-11:00am Q&A Session: Chrono Development Team
11:00am-12:30pm Lunch
12:30pm-2:30pm Tutorial Chrono::Sensor, Asher Elmquist & Han Wang
3:00pm-5:00pm Tutorial Chrono::FSI, Wei Hu & Lijing Zhang

Thursday, October 1

TRACK 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC)
8:30am-10:30am Overview of Chrono, Radu Serban
10:30am-12:30pm Tutorial PyChrono & GymChrono: Support for AI & ML in Chrono, Simone Benatti & Alex Pletta
12:30pm-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00pm-3:00pm Tutorial SynChrono: Support for Multi-Agent Simulations for on/off-road Autonomy, Jay Taves, Aaron Young, Yan Xiao
3:00pm-5:00pm Tutorial Chrono::Granular, Luning Fang, Ruochun Zhang, and Jason Zhou

Tuesday, September 29

TRACK 2: Computational Assessment of Material Performance Organizer: Professor Curt Bronkhorst, UW-Madison
8:45am-9:00am Welcome and Logistics, Professor Curt Bronkhorst, UW Madison
9:00am-9:30am Uncertainty Quantified Parametrically Homogenized Constitutive Models (PHCMs) for Multi-Scale Predictions of Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Titanium Alloys, Professor Somnath Ghosh, Johns Hopkins University
9:30am-10:00am Observations on Spall Mechanisms from Simulations with Thousands of Void Nucleating Particles, Dr. Richard Becker, Army Research Laboratory
10:00am-10:30am Self-Organization of Void Super-Lattices in Metals and Alloys under Irradiation Conditions, Professor Yongfeng Zhang, UW-Madison
10:30am-11:00am Computing the Dynamic Behavior of Shock Compressed Crystalline Materials from a Continuum Perspective, Dr. Darby Luscher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:00am-11:30am A Numerical Study into Element Type and Mesh Resolution for Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Modeling of Explicit Grain Structures, Professor Marko Knezevic, University of New Hampshire
11:30am-12:00pm Modeling Failure in Ductile Metals under Dynamic Loading, Dr. Nathan Barton, Lawrence and Livermore National Laboratory
12:00pm-12:15pm Lunch Break
12:15pm-1:00pm Detecting Changes in Complex Environments Professor Becca Willet, University of Chicago  (Keynote)
1:00pm-1:45pm Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist, Amazon (Keynote)
1:45pm-1:55pm Break
1:55pm-2:40pm Computational Imaging of Cellular Signatures,  Kevin Eliceiri, UW-Madison (Keynote)
2:40pm-3:00pm Supporting Current and Future Researchers Through Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure, Stefan Robila, Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
3:00pm-5:00pm Poster Session

Tuesday, September 29

TRACK 3: Mathematics of Rare and High-Impact Events
Organizers: Professors Victor Zavala, Jim Luedtke, and Assistant Professor Line Roald, UW Madison  
8:45am-9:00am  Welcome and Logistics, Victor Zavala, UW-Madison 
9:00am-9:30am  Multifaceted Mathematics for Rare, High-Impact Events in Complex Energy and Environment Systems (MACSER), Mihai Antiescu, Argonne National Lab  
9:30am-10:00am  Balancing Wildfire Risk and Power System Reliability: Pre-emptive power shut offs and proactive restoration planning,  Line Roald, UW-Madison  
10:00am-10:15am  Break
10:15am-10:45am  Data Driven Sample Average Approximation with Covariate Information,  Guzin Bayraksan, Ohio State 
10:45am-11:15am  Robustifying Statistical Machine Learning,  Po-Ling Loh, UW-Madison  
11:15am-11:45am  A stochastic weather generator for hourly temperature in the Midwest for long-term investment in power grid systems,  Julie Bessac, Argonne National Lab 
11:45am-12:15pm  Lunch Break
12:15pm-1:00pm  Detecting Changes in Complex Environments Professor Becca Willet, University of Chicago (Keynote)  
1:00pm-1:45pm  Planning Transportation Capacity at Amazon Russell Allgor, Chief Scientist, Amazon (Keynote)
1:45pm-1:55pm  Break
1:55pm-2:40pm  Computational Imaging of Cellular Signatures,  Kevin Eliceiri, UW-Madison (Keynote)  
2:40pm-3:00pm Supporting Current and Future Researchers Through Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure, Stefan Robila, Program Director, Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, National Science Foundation
3:00pm-5:00pm Poster Session 

Wednesday, September 30

TRACK 3: Mathematics for Rare and Extreme Events
9:00am-9:30am  Using High-performance Computing to Understand Extreme Rainfall, Floods, and How They are Changing,  Daniel Wright, UW-Madison 
9:30am-10:00am  Addressing Climate Change with Dynamic Technologies, Greg Nemet, UW-Madison, Public Affairs   
10:00am-10:15am  Break  
10:15am-10:45am  Large Deviation Theory for the Analysis of Power Transmission Systems Subject to Stochastic Forcing, David Barajas-Solano, PNNL  
10:45am-11:15am  Delaying Adversarial Attacks to Protect Critical Infrastructure,  Laura Albert, UW-Madison 
11:15am-11:45am  Resilient Control of Converter-dominated Power Systems, Dominic Gross, UW-Madison  
11:45am-1:00pm  Break  
1:00pm-3:00pm  Tutorial Stochastic Programming Tutorial, James Luedtke & Victor Zavala, UW-Madison 
3:00pm-3:30pm  Break
3:30pm-5:00pm  MACSER Technical Discussion, MACSER TEAM  
5:00pm  Virtual OptiBeer

Wednesday, September 30

Track 1: Machine-Ground Interaction Consortium (MaGIC) (click for tutorial instructions) TRACK 3: Mathematics for Rare and Extreme Events
12:30pm-2:30pm Chrono::Sensor, Asher Elmquist & Han Wang 1:00pm-3:00pm
Stochastic Programming Tutorial,
James Luedtke & Victor Zavala, UW-Madison
3:00pm-5:00pm Chrono::FSI, Wei Hu & Lijing Yang NA

Thursday, October 1

8:30am-10:30am Overview of Chrono, Radu Serban
10:30am-12:30pm PyChrono & GymChrono: Support for AI & ML in Chrono, Simone Benatti & Alex Pletta
12:30pm-1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm-3:00pm SynChrono: Support for Multi-Agent Simulations for on/off-road Autonomy, Jay Taves, Aaron Young & Yan Xiao
3:00pm-5:00pm
Chrono::Granular,
Luning Fang &. Ruochun Zhang