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2017 Visitors

Carmen Molina-Paris, University of Leeds

Host: Bill Hlavacek (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 8th, 2017 to Dec. 22nd, 2017.
Dr. Molina-Paris will visit to collaborate with Bill Hlavacek.
Talks:

A mathematical study of CD8+ T cell responses calibrated with human data

Nakao Hiroya, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 4th, 2017 to Dec. 5th, 2017.
CNLS Colloquium
Talks:

Phase reduction and synchronization of a network of coupled dynamical elements exhibiting collective oscillations

Ruiwei Jang, University of Michigan

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 27th, 2017 to Nov. 29th, 2017.
Ruiwei will give a seminar and have discussions with the smart grid group.

Pavel Lushnikov, University of New Mexico

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 27th, 2017.
Prof. Lushnikov will present the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Dynamics of singularities and wavebreaking in 2D hydrodynamics with free surface

Colin Grudzien, NERC/Norway

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 27th, 2017 to Dec. 1st, 2017.
Dr. Grudzien will continue collaborations with the ANSI team.

John Golden, University of Michigan

Host: Andrey Lokhov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 27th, 2017 to Nov. 28th, 2017.
Mr. Golden will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.
Talks:

The Fractal Ising Model via Conformal Bootstrap

Davit Potoyan, Iowa State University

Host: Yen Ting Lin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 20th, 2017 to Nov. 24th, 2017.
Prof. Potoyan will work on projects with Yen Ting Lin.

Zhaochuan Shen, Epic Corporation

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 20th, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Dr. Shen will give a seminar and meet with LANL staff.

Ana Maria Rey, University of Colorado

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 16th, 2017.
Prof. Rey will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture.

Valentina Baccetti, Macquarie University

Host: Francesco Caravelli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 15th, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Dr. Baccetti will have discussions with Francesco Caravelli and Cristiano Nisoli on spin ice computation.
Talks:

Effects of black hole radiation: horizon avoidance

Liney Arnadottir, Oregon State University

Host: Enrique Batista (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 15th, 2017 to Nov. 17th, 2017.
Ms. Arnadottir will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs.

Vilhjalmur Asgeirsson, University of Iceland

Host: Hannes Jonsson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Vilhjalmur is a visiting Ph.D. working with Ulam Scholar Hannes Jonsson.

Nikola Jurisic, UCLA

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 7th, 2017 to Nov. 9th, 2017.
Prof. Jurisic will give a seminar and have discussions with staff and postdocs.

Tudor Oprea, University of New Mexico

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 7th, 2017.
Dr. Oprea will give a seminar at the CNLS.
Talks:

The Foundation for Successful AI-driven Drug Discovery Approach

Vladmir Lebedev, Landau Institute

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2017 to Nov. 17th, 2017.
Prof. Lebedev will meet with the ANSI team.

Raam Uzdin, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2017 to Nov. 9th, 2017.
Dr. Uzdin will present the CNLS Quantum Lunch Lecture.
Talks:

From strong passivity to extended second law of thermodynamics and new thermodynamic predictions on quantum microscopic systems

Christopher Rackauckas, University of California, Irvine

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2017 to Nov. 7th, 2017.
Mr. Rackauckas will give a seminar and have discussions with ANSI staff, postdocs, and students.

Donato Fantauzzi, Karlsuher Institute of Technology

Host: Hannes Jonsson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 1st, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Donato is a visiting research associate working with Ulam Scholar Hannes Jonsson.
Talks:

Pt(111) surface oxidation–from surface science to electrochemical surface science–a theoretical multiscale approach

David Saad, Aston University

Host: Andrey Lokhov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2017 to Nov. 3rd, 2017.
Prof. Saad will give a seminar and have discussions with the ANSI team.

Asmus Dohn, University of Iceland

Host: Hannes Jonsson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Asmus is a visiting research associate working with Ulam Scholar Hannes Jonsson.

Elvar Jonsson, University of Iceland

Host: Hannes Jonsson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Elvar is a visiting research associate working with Ulam Scholar Hannes Jonsson.

Peter Kasson, University of Virginia

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2017.
Prof. Kasson will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Gil Zussman, Columbia University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Dr. Zussman will participate in a meeting of the Machine Learning Transmission team.

Apruv Shukla, Columbia University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Mr. Shukla will participate in a meeting of the Machine Learning Transmission team.

Pavel Etingov, PNNL

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Dr. Etingov will participate in a meeting with the Machine Learning Transmission team.

Ciaran Roberts, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Ciaran will attend the ML Transmission team meeting.

Rafael Alexander, University of New Mexico

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 26th, 2017.
Dr. Alexander will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch Lecture.

Bert Zwart, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 25th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Prof. Zwart will present a seminar and have discussions with CNLS and ANSI researchers.
Talks:

Heavy-tailed Stochastic Systems: Sample-path Large Deviations and Rare Event Simulation

Roger Melko, University of Waterloo

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 18th, 2017 to Oct. 20th, 2017.
Prof. Melko will present the CNLS Quantum Lunch Seminar.
Talks:

Machine Learning the Many-Body Problem

Gary Kochenberger, University of Colorado

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 16th, 2017 to Oct. 19th, 2017.
Visitor will accompany Fred Glover and collaborate with Carleton Coffrin, Scott Pakinm, and Hristo Djidjev.

Fred Glover, University of Colorado

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 16th, 2017 to Oct. 19th, 2017.
Visitor will collaborate with Carleton Coffrin, Scott Pakin, and Hristo Djidjev.

Nicolas Buchler, Duke University

Host: Yen Ting Lin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 16th, 2017 to Oct. 27th, 2017.
Prof. Buchler will work on projects with Yen Ting Lin.

Doo Young Lee, Barcelona Super Computer Center

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 11th, 2017.
Mr. Lee will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and postdocs.

Natalie Stingelin, Georgia Institute of Technology

Host: Andrei Piryatinkski (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2017 to Oct. 4th, 2017.
Prof. Stingelin will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 3rd, 2017 to Nov. 1st, 0217.
Ms. Bertozzi will give a seminar and interact with CNLS and ANSI researchers.

Ole Kroger, TU Clausthal

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 2nd, 2017 to Dec. 22nd, 2017.
Mr. Kroger will discuss optimization and data visualization with Carleton Coffrin, James Arnold, and Andrey Lokhov.

Nicholas Julian, University of California, Los Angeles

Host: Enrique Martinez Saez (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 2nd, 2017 to Nov. 22nd, 2017.
Nicholas will work with Enrique Martinez Saez on modifying existng kinetic Monte Carlo code.

Fabio Cacciolo, University College London

Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 25th, 2017 to Sep. 29th, 2017.
Will have discussions with Francesco Caravelli on econophysics modeling of financial time series.

Juan Carrasquilla, D-Wave Systems, Inc.

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 6th, 2017 to Sep. 8th, 2017.
Dr. Carrasquilla will give the quantum lunch seminar and discuss research topics with L. Cincio, Y. Subasi, P. Coles, and W. Zurek.

Art Owen , Stanford University

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 5th, 2017 to Sep. 8th, 2017.
Discussions with ANSI/CNLS team on adaptive importance sampling, network problems and related.

Johannes Hachmann, University of Buffalo

Host: Bryan Moore (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Sep. 5th, 2017 to Sep. 6th, 2017.
Visitor will give a seminar at CNLS.

Morgan Kelley, University of Texas

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 30th, 2017.
Visitor will meet with Russell Bent.

Olexandr Isayev, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Host: Sergei Tretiak (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 28th, 2017 to Sep. 9th, 2017.
Prof. Isayev will give a seminar at the CNLS and have discussions with postdocs and staff.

Astrid Atkinson, Google

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 24th, 2017.
Will give a seminar and have discussions with ANSI Grid Science Team.

Ehud Meron, Ben Gurion University

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 22nd, 2017 to Sep. 11th, 2017.
Dr. Meron is a world expert on partial differential equation modeling and pattern formation with applications in ecological and environmental modeling. He will visit Aric Hagberg and collaborate with T-5 applied mathematicians on problems in nonequalibirium dynamical systems.

Alex Gonzalez , UCLA

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 22nd, 2017 to Aug. 23rd, 2017.
Mr. Gonzalez will give a seminar at CNLS.

David Aristoff, Colorado State University

Host: Enrique Martinez Saez (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 21st, 2017 to Aug. 23rd, 2017.
Visitor will have discussions with Arthur Voter, Danny Perez, and Enrique Martinez.

Rachele Dominguez , Randolph-Macon College

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 21st, 2017 to Aug. 25th, 2017.
Prof. Dominguez will have discussions on statistical physics models of earthquakes.

Murti Salapaka, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Host: Deepjyoti Deka (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 15th, 2017 to Aug. 18th, 2017.
Prof. Salapaka will give a talk on his current work and discuss collaboration efforts with CNLS and ANSI staff.

Andrew Harter, IUPUI

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2017 to Aug. 25th, 2017.
Mr. Harter will meet with Avadh Saxena.

Shmuel Gurvitz, Weiznamm Institute

Host: Richard Sayre (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2017 to Sep. 13th, 2017.
Professor Schmuel Gurvitz is a world-known expert in the theory and modeling of nano-devices. He will have discussions with Gennady Berman, Richard Sayre, and Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran.

Vineet Goyal , Columbia University

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 14th, 2017 to Aug. 16th, 2017.
Mr. Goyal will give a seminar at CNLS and have discussions with ANSI and CNLS researchers.

Elizabeth Behrman, Witchita State University

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 9th, 2017 to Aug. 11th, 2017.
Prof. Behrman will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.
Talks:

Programming quantum computers using machine learning

Daniel Bienstock , Columbia University

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 8th, 2017 to Aug. 11th, 2017.
Discussions on DOE/OE project with ANSI/CNLS team.

W. Riley Casper , University of Washington

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 2nd, 2017 to Aug. 11th, 2017.
Visitor will have discussions about performance modeling of hydrodynamic solvers.

Cristian Batista , University of Tennessee

Host: Shizeng Lin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 1st, 2017 to Aug. 4th, 2017.
Will have discussions with S. Lin and F. Ronning on skyrmion physics and heavy fermion materials.

Mustafa Bilgic , Illinois Institute of Technology

Host: Diane Oyen (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 31st, 2017 to Aug. 18th, 2017.
Mr. Bilgic will give a seminar on interactive and transparent machine learning.

Yehuda Altabet, Princeton University

Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 25th, 2017 to Jul. 26th, 2017.
Mr. Altabet will give a seminar at CNLS.

Chih-Chun Chien , University of California, Merced

Host: Shizeng Lin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 24th, 2017 to Jul. 29th, 2017.
Professor Chien will collaborate with summer student, Tom Kim, and will give a seminar.

David Pozo , Skoltech, Moscow

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 24th, 2017 to Jul. 28th, 2017.
Mr. Pozo will give a seminar at CNLS.

Kanan Christopher , Rochester Institute of Technology

Host: Amy Larson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 19th, 2017.
Will give a seminar on Machine learning and talk with mentors and students.

Sean Meyn , University of Florida

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 12th, 2017 to Jul. 14th, 2017.
Visitor will collaborate on the subjects of demand response, ensemble control, reinforcement learning, and power distribution markets.

Jeffrey Linderoth , University of Wisconsin, Madison

Host: Harsha Nagarajan (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 11th, 2017 to Jul. 14th, 2017.
Professor Linderoth will give a seminar and have discussions with postdocs and staff members.

Marek Rams , Jagiellonian University

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 10th, 2017 to Jul. 21st, 2017.
Dr. Rams will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Jim Thomas , Courant Institute od Mathematical Sciences, NYU

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 10th, 2017 to Jul. 14th, 2017.
Applied mathematics and fluid dynamics discussions.

Nicholas Ruozzi, UT Dallas

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 10th, 2017 to Jul. 14th, 2017.
Collaborations with M. Chertkov and CNLS and ANSI researchers on the subject of developing new Graphical Model approaches for inference and optimization problems in energy systems.

Andreas Albrecht, University of California, Davis

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 5th, 2017.
Professor Albrecht will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Xiaofeng Qian, University of Rochester

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 29th, 2017.
Dr. Xiaofeng will deliver the quantum lunch.

Juan Pablo Paz , Universidad de Buenos Aires

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 27th, 2017 to Jul. 6th, 2017.
Will deliver the quantum lunch talk.

Madhur Behl, University of Virginia

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 21st, 2017 to Jun. 23rd, 2017.
Dr. Behl will give a talk about his award winning work in combining ideas from machine learning and power systems and using it in demand response.

Alex Gorodetsky, Sandia National Laboratory

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 20th, 2017.
Will deliver a seminar

Apurv Shukla, Colombia University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 19th, 2017 to Jul. 21st, 2017.
Apurv Shukla will be collaborating with Seyoung Yun and Michael Chertkov on machine learning and transmission network projects.

Banerjee Siddhartha , Cornell University

Host: Harsha Nagarajan (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 13th, 2017 to Jun. 16th, 2017.
Mr. Sigghartha will present a seminar and have discussions with postdocs and staff members.

Martin Muller, UniversitA de Lorraine

Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 12th, 2017 to Jun. 15th, 2017.
Professor Muller will give the colloquium talk about work on mathematics of membrane interaction.
Talks:

Membranes and bio-polymers in confinement

Gal Dalal, Technion Institute of Technology

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 5th, 2017 to Jun. 9th, 2017.
Mr. Dalal will give a talk on the reinforcement learning for power systems.

Marcello Colombino, ETH, Zurich

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 5th, 2017 to Jun. 9th, 2017.
Dr. Colombino will give a seminar and have discussion with CNLS and ANSI staff on his research on power systems.
Talks:

Global phase and voltage synchronization for power inverters: A decentralized consensus-inspired approach

Alioscia Hamma , UMass Boston

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 5th, 2017 to Jun. 8th, 2017.
Dr. Hamma will deliver the quantum lunch talk.

Rasul Tutunov, University of Pennsylvania

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 1st, 2017 to Jun. 2nd, 2017.
Give a talk and have discussions with ANSI team on large scale optimization for network problems.
Talks:

Fast Distributed Second Order Method for Large Scale Optimization

Calvin Chen , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 30th, 2017 to Jun. 2nd, 2017.
Mr. Chen will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS staff members.

Kanupriva Sinha, University of Inssbruck

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 29th, 2017 to Jun. 2nd, 2017.
Dr. Sinha will deliver the Quantum Lunch Seminar.

Van Ngo, University of Ucalgary

Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 25th, 2017 to May. 26th, 2017.
Mr. Ngo will give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS staff members.

Harris Richard , D-Wave Systems, Inc.

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 25th, 2017.
Dr. Harris will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Alexander Korotkevich, University of New Mexico

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 22nd, 2017 to May. 18th, 2018.
Mr. Korotkevich will visit twice a month to collaborate with M. Chertkov and members of the ANSI team.

Eric Mjolsness, UC Irvine

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 15th, 2017 to May. 17th, 2017.
Prof. Mjolsness will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Towards AI and ML Methods for Automating Computational Science

Joe Webster , University of Oregon

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 15th, 2017 to May. 18th, 2017.
Collaboration on performance analysis and modeling, applied mathematics, and computational physics.

Don Page, University of Alberta

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 4th, 2017 to May. 5th, 2017.
Professor Page is invited to deliver the Quantum Lunch. Prof. Page is a renowned expert in cosmology and theoretical gravitational physics.

Marco Merkli, Memorial Univeristy of Newfoundland

Host: Gennady Bernman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 3rd, 2017 to Jun. 13th, 2017.
Prof. M. Merkli is a world-known expert in mathematics of classical and quantum open systems which interact with the thermal environment. He has a unique mathematical expertise in application of quantum resonant perturbation theory for solving complex problems on relaxation, coherence, and entanglement, including in bio-systems.

Bryce Meredig, Citrine Informatics

Host: Turab Lookman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2017 to May. 2nd, 2017.
Mr. Meredig will deliver the colloquium on May 1, 2017.

Ivan Deutsch, University of New Mexico

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 27th, 2017.
Professor Deutsch has been invited to deliver the Quantum Lunch. Prof. Deutsch is an expert in theoretical quantum optics/atomic molecular optical physics, quantum information theory, quantum control and measurement, quantum computation and simulation, quantum chaos. These areas of research pursued at LANL as well.
Talks:

Optimal control and measurement of atomic spins

Michael Frank , Sandia National Laboratory

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 17th, 2017.
Dr. Frank will give a seminar and have discussions with Francesco Caravelli.

Vaisyanathan Krishnamurthy, Univeristy of Texas

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 3rd, 2017 to Apr. 5th, 2017.
Vaidyanathan will be visiting as a post doctoral candidate for CNLS, optimization, and gird modeling.

Seth Blumsack, Penn State

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 3rd, 2017 to Apr. 5th, 2017.
Seth is visiting as part of his ongoing collaborations in energy systems with researchers i ANSI and postdocs and students in CNLS.

Pascal Van Hentenryck, University of Michigan

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 3rd, 2017 to Apr. 5th, 2017.
Pascal is a long time collaborator of researchers at CNLS and ANSI. He is visiting to continue his collaborations on optimization theory.

Steven Schwartz, University of Arizona

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 27th, 2017 to Mar. 30th, 2017.
Prof. Schwartz will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Cedric Josz, Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems, CNRS

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 27th, 2017 to Mar. 28th, 2017.
Dr. Joze will give a seminar and meet with the Grid Science Group.
Talks:

Application of Polynomial Optimization to Power Systems

Shane Kelly, UC Riverside

Host: Eddy Timmermans (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 27th, 2017 to Mar. 31st, 2017.
Mr. Kelly will have discussions with Eddy Timmmermans.

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liege

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 20th, 2017 to Mar. 24th, 2017.
Prof. Wehenkel will meet with the LANL Grid Science Team.
Talks:

Big data, machine learning, and optimization, for power systems reliability

Keiji Nakatsugawa, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 20th, 2017 to Mar. 21st, 2017.
Prof. Nakatsugawa will give a seminar at the CNLS.

Satoshi Tanda, Hokkaido University, Sapporo

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 20th, 2017 to Mar. 21st, 2017.
Prof. Tanda will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Greg Ver Steeg, University of Southern California

Host: Andrey Lokhov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 15th, 2017 to Mar. 16th, 2017.
Mr. Ver Steeg will give a talk on his recent research in machine learning and information theory.
Talks:

Hierarchical coarse-graining of information in complex systems

Andrey Sobolevski, Institute of Problems in Information Transmission

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 13th, 2017 to Mar. 17th, 2017.
Prof. Sobolevski will meet with the LANL Smart Grid team.

Ravi Samtaney, Kaust University

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 9th, 2017 to Mar. 13th, 2017.
Mr. Samtaney will visit the CNLS and give a seminar.

Jordan Pino, Ohio State University

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 6th, 2017 to Mar. 7th, 2017.
Give a seminar during Smart Grid Series.

Steven Quiring, Ohio State University

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 6th, 2017 to Mar. 7th, 2017.
Give a seminar during the Smart Grid Seminar Series.

Seth Guikema, University of Michigan

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 6th, 2017 to Mar. 7th, 2017.
Dr. Guikema will give a seminar during Smart Grid Seminar Series at CNLS.

Olexandr Isayev, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 27th, 2017 to Mar. 3rd, 2017.
Professor Isayev will give a seminar on Predicting the electronic structure and properties of inorganic materials with machine learning.
Talks:

Predicting the electronic structure and properties of inorganic materials with machine learning

A. Subramanian, University of Florida

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 16th, 2017 to Feb. 17th, 2017.
Mr. Subramanian will give a seminar and have discussions with postdocs and staff.

Jacek Dziarmaga, Jagiellonian University

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2017 to Feb. 28th, 2017.
Prof. Dziarmaga will meet with Drs. Cincio and Zurek.
Talks:

Quantum tensor networks at finite temperature

Mert Gurbuzbalan, Rutgers University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 13th, 2017.
Mr. Gurbuzbalan will give a presentation on the subject of optimization and computational science driven by applications in large-scale information, decision and infrastructure systems.

Peter McMahon, Stanford

Host: Marcus Dnaiels (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2017 to Feb. 10th, 2017.
Dr. McMahon will give the Quantum Lunch talk.

Davide Donadio, University of California, Davis

Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 6th, 2017 to Feb. 7th, 2017.
Prof. Donadio will give the CNLS Colloquium on thermoelectric materials and thermal transport in hybrid nanostructures.

Paul Lammert, Penn State University

Host: Cristiano Nisoli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 6th, 2017 to Feb. 10th, 2017.
Dr. Lammert will give a talk at CNLS.

Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington

Host: Micheal Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 6th, 2017.
Professor Kirschen will give a seminar on power systems and collaborate with the LANL Energy Systems Team.

Dejan Sobajic, Grid Engineering-DOE Contractor

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 31st, 2017 to Feb. 1st, 2017.
Dr. Sobajic will give a talk and interact with the grid science team.

Ivan Deutsch, CQuIC at Unversity of New Mexico

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2017.
Prof. Deutsch will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Elohim Becerra, CQuIC at Unversity of New Mexico

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2017.
Dr. Becerra will visit CNLS to discuss CQuIC at the University of New Mexico.

Akimasa Miyake, CQuIC at Unversity of New Mexico

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2017.
Dr. Miyake will discuss CQuIC at Unversity of New Mexico.

Carlton Caves, CQuIC at Unversity of New Mexico

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 30th, 2017.
Prof. Caves will give the CNLS Colloquium.

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2017 to Jan. 27th, 2017.
He will give a seminar on Bifurcations and singularities for coupled oscillators.

James Whitfield, Dartmouth College

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 25th, 2017 to Jan. 27th, 2017.
Dr. Whitfield will give the Quantum Lunch on January 26, 2017.

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host: Amy Larson (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2017 to Jan. 24th, 2017.
Dr. Broderick will give a seminar on Machine Learning.

David Metivier, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonne, Nice, France

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2017 to Jan. 24th, 2017.
Mr. Metivier will visit CNLS to give a seminar and have discussions with CNLS postdocs and LANL Staff.

Gyorgy Korniss, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2017 to Jan. 25th, 2017.
Prof. Korniss will give a seminar at the CNLS.
Talks:

Cascading Overload Failures in Spatially-Embedded and Random Networks with Distributed Flows

Hannes Jonsson, University of Iceland

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 23rd, 2017 to Jan. 24th, 2017.
Prof. Jonsson will give the CNLS Colloquium and have discussions with staff and postdocs.
Talks:

Towards optimal mean field theory of electronic structure, beyond Kohn-Sham DFT and Hartree-Fock

Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan

Host: Diego Dalvit (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 18th, 2017 to Jan. 20th, 2017.
Professor Merlin will give the CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture.

Andrii Riazanov, Skoltech, Moscow

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 18th, 2017 to Mar. 3rd, 2017.
Mr. Riazanov will work with the LANL Smart Grid team.

Oleg Grodnitskii

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 17th, 2017 to Mar. 3rd, 2017.
Collaboration with the Grid Science Team.

Anna Francuz, Jagiellonian University

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 16th, 2017 to Mar. 18th, 2017.
Ms. Francuz will be working on developing efficient methods for quantum many-body problems.

Benoit Martin, CEREM Center for Research in Energy and Mechatronics

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 16th, 2017 to Jan. 27th, 2017.
Mr. Martin will visit LANL to have discussions with CNLS Postdocs and LANL Staff.
Talks:

Convex formulations of autonomous microgrid planning and computational challenges

William Klein, Boston University

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2017 to Jan. 17th, 2017.
Prof. Klein will visit CNLS and continue on-going collaborations with Kipton Barros and others.

Priyanko Guha Thakurta, Skoltech Institute of Technology

Host: Misha (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 7th, 2017 to Mar. 10th, 2017.
Dr. Guha Thakurta will collaborate with the Grid Science Team and have discussions with CNLS postdocs and staff.

Sebastian Deffner, University of Maryland

Host: Avadh Saxena (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 4th, 2017 to Jan. 6th, 2017.
Prof. Deffner will give a CNLS Quantum Lunch lecture and colloquium in honor of winning the Leon Heller Prize.