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2018 Visitors

Jacopo Grilli, Santa Fe Insititute

Visit Dates: Dec. 17th, 2018 to Feb. 28th, 2019.
Visitor will collaborate with Francesco Caravelli.
Talks:

Coexistence in large ecological communities

Michael Chini, University of Central Florida

Host: Alexis Chacon (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Dec. 10th, 2018.
Visitor will deliver the colloquium talk on December 10, 2018.

Alberto Gobbi, Genentech

Visit Dates: Dec. 3rd, 2018 to Dec. 7th, 2018.
Visitor will collaborate on publicly available neutral network potentials in the OpenMM MD package.

Gary Kochenberger, University of Colorado, Denver

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 26th, 2018 to Nov. 27th, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar and have discussions with Carleton Coffrin.

Andy Badgett, XtremeGeo

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 26th, 2018 to Nov. 27th, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar and have discussions with Carleton Coffrin.

Fred Glover, University of Colorado

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 26th, 2018 to Nov. 27th, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar and have discussions with Carleton Coffrin.

Frank Steglich, Max Planck Institute

Host: Qimiao Si (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 26th, 2018 to Nov. 30th, 2018.
Visitor will give the colloquium talk on November 26, 2018.

Claudio Castelnovo, Cambridge University

Host: Francesco Caravelli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 19th, 2018 to Nov. 21st, 2018.
Visitor will deliver the colloquium talk on November 19, 2018.
Talks:

Dynamics of quasiparticle excitations in spin ice materials

Adan Cabello, Universidad de Sevilla

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 13th, 2018 to Nov. 16th, 2018.
Mr. Cabello will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Ryan LaRose, Michigan State University

Visit Dates: Nov. 12th, 2018 to Nov. 16th, 2018.
Visitor will have discussions with Lukasz Cincio and Patrick Coles.

Yifeng Tian, Michigan State University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 9th, 2018.
Visitor will interview at the Research Park for postdoc position on Machine Learning for Turbulence.

Chen-Ching Liu, Virginia Tech

Host: Deepjyoti Deka (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 8th, 2018 to Nov. 9th, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar about dynamics and power grids.

Elena Khlebnikova, Tomsk Polytechnic University

Host: Mary Ewers (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Nov. 6th, 2018 to Feb. 8th, 2019.
Visitor will work on formulating mathematical models of the complex nonlinear physics associated with pipeline systems.

Forrest Sheldon, USCD

Host: Francesco Caravelli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 31st, 2018 to Nov. 2nd, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar and have discussions with Francesco Caravelli.

Andreas Waechter, Northwestern University

Host: Hassan Hijazi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2018 to Nov. 2nd, 2018.
Andreas will give a seminar and collaborate on Power Systems Optimization.
Talks:

Nonlinear programming formulations of chance constraints with application to optimal power flow

Luis Pedro Garcia Pintos Barcia

Host: Aurelia del Champo Chenu (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 30th, 2018 to Nov. 2nd, 2018.
Visitor will deliver the quantum lunch seminar on November 2, 2018.

Steve Meisburger, Cornell University

Host: Michael Wall (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Oct. 15th, 2018 to Oct. 17th, 2018.
Visitor will give a seminar.

Mauro Escobar, Columbia University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 27th, 2018 to Sep. 14th, 2018.
Will have discussions on machine learning for transmission systems.

Nigmatullin Ramil, Universtiy of Sydney

Host: Francesco Caravelli (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Aug. 6th, 2018 to Aug. 23rd, 2018.
Will have discussions with Francesco Caravelli on Kibble-Zurek mechanism in computation.

Frederik Geth, CSIRO

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 30th, 2018 to Aug. 3rd, 2018.
Visitor will have discussions with the Grid Science/ANSI Teams.

Hakan Ergun, KU Leuven

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 30th, 2018 to Aug. 3rd, 2018.
Visitor will have discussions with the Grid Science/ANSI teams.
Talks:

Hybrid AC/DC Grid Optimal Power Flow

Shu Huang, University of California-Los Angeles

Host: Enrique Martinez-Saez (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2018 to Aug. 10th, 2018.
Ms. Huang will conduct research with Enrique Martinez-Saez.

Qianran Yu, University of California-Los Angeles

Host: Enrique Martinez-Saez (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 16th, 2018 to Aug. 10th, 2018.
Ms. Yu will conduct research will Enrique Martinez-Saez.

Bjoern Baumeier, TU Eidhoven

Host: Christoph Junghans (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jul. 2nd, 2018 to Jul. 5th, 2018.
Prof. Baumeier will deliver the colloquium talk.

Nicolas Macris, EPFL

Host: Marc Vuffray (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 25th, 2018 to Jun. 29th, 2018.
Dr. Macris will present a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Aleksandra Olejak, University of Warsaw

Host: Chris Fryer (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 14th, 2018 to Jun. 15th, 2018.
Will have discussions with Sam Jones and Chris Fryer.

Ying Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jun. 4th, 2018 to Jun. 8th, 2018.
Dr. Li will discuss Machine Learning for correlated electron physics, spin dynamics, and neutron scattering experiments.

Beth Lindquist, UT Austin

Host: Chris Ticknor (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 21st, 2018 to Jun. 1st, 2018.
Prospective post-doc visiting.

Ryan Jadrich, UT Austin

Host: Chris Ticknor (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 21st, 2018 to Jun. 1st, 2018.
Prospective post-doc visiting.

Richard Hennig, Univeristy of Florida

Host: Enrique Batista/Ping Yang (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 14th, 2018 to May. 18th, 2018.
Mr. Hennig will deliver the colloquium talk.

Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado-Boulder

Host: Avadh Saxena/Ayhan Duzgun (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 14th, 2018 to May. 16th, 2018.
Visitor will deliver a special colloquium.

Blake Mertz, West Virginia University

Host: Chris Neale (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 14th, 2018 to May. 18th, 2018.
Dr. Mertz will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

De-en Jiang, University of California-Riverside

Host: Ping Yang (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 7th, 2018.
Mr. Jiang will give a seminar.

Mikhal Kiselev, International Center for Theorectical Physics in Trieste, Italy

Host: Nikolai Sinitsyn (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 7th, 2018 to May. 9th, 2018.
Mr. Kiselev will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Andrew King, D-Wave Systems

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 2nd, 2018 to May. 4th, 2018.
Mr. King will deliver the quantum lunch seminar.

Marco Merkli, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Host: Gennady Berman (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: May. 1st, 2018 to May. 31st, 2018.
Prof. Merkli will visit and continue on-going collaborations with T-4 and CNLS.
Talks:

Evolution of open quantum systems: resonance theory

Alexander Estes, University of Maryland

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 24th, 2018.
Mr. Estes will give a seminar.

Pablo Laguna, Georgia Technical University

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2018.
Prof. Laguna will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

Black-Holes, Neutron-Stars, Numerical Relativity and the Birth of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Petr Vorobev, MIT

Host: Scott Backhaus (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2018 to Apr. 29th, 2018.
Dr. Vorobev will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Byungkwon Park, University of Wisconsin

Host: Russell Bent (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 16th, 2018 to Apr. 18th, 2018.
Mr. Park will give a seminar.

Guillaume Verdon-Akzam, Institute for Quantum Computing

Host: Patrick Coles (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 10th, 2018 to Apr. 13th, 2018.
Guillaume will give the quantum lunch seminar.

William East, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Host: Jonah Miller (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 3rd, 2018 to Apr. 6th, 2018.
Dr. East will give a seminar at the Los Alamos Astrophysics Distinguished Seminar Series.

Yajing Liu, Colorado State University

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 2nd, 2018 to Apr. 4th, 2018.
Mr. Liu will give a seminar and collaborate with ANSI.

Diedre Shoemaker, Georgia Tech

Host: Chris Fryer (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Apr. 2nd, 2018 to Apr. 13th, 2018.
Diedre will discuss a braod range of relativity topics with scientists in the center for theoretical astrophysics and T-Division.

Ross Baldick, University of Texas at Austin

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 29th, 2018 to Apr. 2nd, 2018.
Prof. Baldick will have discussions with various researchers supported by the DOE Office of Energy.
Talks:

Stitching seams with different threads: US versus EU electricity markets

Daniel Molzahn, Argonne National Laboratory

Host: Hassan Hijazi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 26th, 2018 to Mar. 28th, 2018.
Visitor will collaborate on Power Systems Optimization.
Talks:

Characterizing Non-Convexities in the Feasible Spaces of OPF Problems and an Algorithm for Finding Multiple Local Optima

Anirudh Subramanyam, Carnegie Mellon University

Host: Hassan Hijazi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 19th, 2018 to Mar. 20th, 2018.
Dr. Subramanyam will meet with the ANSI team.

Hidemaro Suwa, University of Tennessee

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2018 to Mar. 16th, 2018.
Dr. Suwa will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Edwin Chong, Colorado State University

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2018.
Mr. Chong will give a seminar at the CNLS and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Dennis Bowen, Rochester Institute of Technology

Host: Wes Even, CCS-2 (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 12th, 2018 to Mar. 16th, 2018.
Mr. Bowen will give an LA-Astro Seminar.

Vladimir Lebedev, Landau Institute

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 5th, 2018 to Mar. 16th, 2018.
Prof. Lebedev will meet with LANL researchers to discuss Machine Learning for Turbulence.

Igor Kolokolov, Landau Institute

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 5th, 2018 to Mar. 16th, 2018.
Prof. Kolokolov will meet with LANL researchers to discuss Machine Learning for Turbulence.

Oliver Hennigh, AIGrant

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Mar. 5th, 2018 to Mar. 9th, 2018.
Mr. Hennigh will present a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.
Talks:

Lat-Net: Compressing Lattice Boltzmann Flow Simulations using Deep Neural Networks

Guido Cavraro, Virginia Tech

Host: Deepjyoti Deka (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 22nd, 2018 to Feb. 23rd, 2018.
Guido Cavraro will give a seminar and have discussions will LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.
Talks:

Topology Identification and Voltage Control on Distribution Networks

Ryan Babbush, Google

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 21st, 2018.
Dr. Babbush will deliver the quantum lunch talk.

Jarrod McClean , Google

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 21st, 2018.
Dr. McClean will deliver the quantum lunch talk.

Thinh Doan, University of Illnois at Urbana-Champaign

Host: Carleton Coffrin (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 20th, 2018 to Feb. 21st, 2018.
Will give a seminar.

Vladimir Frolov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2018 to Mar. 9th, 2018.
Mr. Frolov will visit LANL to continue on-going collaborations with the ANSI Grid Science Team.

Chiyu Jiang, University of California, Berkeley

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 19th, 2018 to Feb. 23rd, 2018.
Chiyu Jiang will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Cristina Marchetti, Syracuse University

Host: Angel Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 12th, 2018 to Feb. 13th, 2018.
Prof. Marchetti will give the CNLS Colloquium.
Talks:

The Physics of Active Matter

Georges Belford, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 12th, 2018 to Feb. 15th, 2018.
Prof. Belford will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff and CNLS postdocs.

Elena Jakubikova, North Carolina State University

Host: Enrique Batista (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 12th, 2018.
Ms. Jakubikova will give a seminar and have discussions with LANL staff.

Luther McDonald, University of Utah

Host: Enrique Batista (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Feb. 8th, 2018 to Feb. 9th, 2018.
Luther McDonald will visit CNLS and have discussions with Enrique Batista and Marianne Wilkerson.

Xiangyu Meng, Boston University

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 29th, 2018 to Jan. 30th, 2018.
Mr. Meng will give a seminar and meet with the ANSI team.
Talks:

Optimal Sampling and Control of Stochastic Systems

Stephan Gerster, RWTH Aachen University

Host: Marc Vuffray (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 29th, 2018 to Feb. 23rd, 2018.
Mr. Gerster will meet with the LANL ANSI team on fluid dynamics.

Jirka Fink, Karlov University, Prague

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2018 to Feb. 2nd, 2018.
Dr. Fink will attend Physics Informed Machine Learning and give a seminar at the CNLS.
Talks:

Balancing electricity using buffering devices

Ilya Luchnikov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2018 to Feb. 16th, 2018.
Mr. Luchnikov will work on mathematical models for demand response technology in energy systems.

Mikhail Krechetov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2018 to Feb. 23rd, 2018.
Prof. Krechetov will meet with the LANL Grid Science Team on a number of DOE sponsored projects.

Aleksei Sholokhov, Moscow Institute of Science and Technology

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 26th, 2018 to Feb. 23rd, 2018.
Prof. Sholokhov will meet with the LANL Grid Science Team on a number of DOE sponsored projects.
Talks:

Sparsified Huge-Scale Optimization for Regularized Regression Problems

Jamir Marino, University of Colorado

Host: Yigit Subasi (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 25th, 2018.
Dr. Marino will deliver the Quantum Lunch Lecture.

Robert Rubinstein, Retired

Host: Nairita Pal (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 22nd, 2018 to Jan. 25th, 2018.
Dr. Rubinstein will meet with CNLS postdoc Sr. Nairita Pal and Dr. Susan Kurien in T-5.

Doug Ryddner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Host: Balu Nadiga (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 18th, 2018.
Prof. Ryddner will have discussions with Balu Nadiga.

Satoru Tokukda, Tohoku University

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 17th, 2018 to Jan. 19th, 2018.
Prof. Tokuda will attend Physics Informed Machine Learning and will give a seminar at the CNLS.

Brendan Tracey, Santa Fe Institute

Host: Aric Hagberg (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 16th, 2018.
Brendan will present a seminar at the CNLS on multi-fidelity optimization.
Talks:

Harnessing Machine Learning for Uncertainty Quantification and System Design

Jing Luo, University of Virginia

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 16th, 2018 to Jan. 19th, 2018.
Mr. Luo will meet with LANL staff and postdocs to discuss machine learning for quantum molecular dynamics.

Pawel Dabrowski, University of Warsaw

Host: Angel E. Garcia (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 15th, 2018 to Jan. 18th, 2018.
Prof. Dabrowski will give a seminar and have discussions.
Talks:

The topological links in proteins and their macroassemblies

William Klein, Boston University

Host: Kipton Barros (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 10th, 2018 to Jan. 12th, 2018.
Prof. Klein will visit and continue ongoing collaborations with LANL staff.

Eric Hall, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Host: Anatoly Zlotnik (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 9th, 2018.
Mr. Hall will give a seminar and have discussions with ANSI.

Vakhtang Poutkaradze, University of Alberta

Host: Michael Chertkov (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 8th, 2018.
Prof. Poutkaradze will present the CNLS Colloquium.

Anna Francuz, Jagiellonian University

Host: Lukasz Cincio (T-CNLS)
Visit Dates: Jan. 8th, 2018 to Feb. 17th, 2018.
Ms. Francuz will finish projects and work with Dr. Zurek on dynamical aspects of quantum systems.