AHPCRC Summer Institute 2010
The AHPCRC Summer Institute marked the completion of its second successful season at Stanford University, with 14 undergraduate students working on nine projects. The students presented their research on August 13, 2010. After a welcome by AHPCRC Center Director Charbel Farhat and introductory remarks by Army Research Laboratory Director John Miller, each student gave a 15-minute presentation on his or her research to an audience of ARL representatives, Summer Institute mentors, and their fellow students. AHPCRC ARL Cooperative Agreement Manager Raju Namburu; ARL Minority Outreach Program Manager Vallen Emery, Jr.; and John Miller offered closing remarks and presented awards. Students, mentors, and research topics are as follows:
• Matthew Zahr, UC Berkeley (mentors: David Amsallem, Kevin Carlberg, Charbel Farhat). “Comparison of Model Reduction Techniques on High-Fidelity Linear and Nonlinear Electrical, Mechanical, and Biological Systems”
• Xiao Ying Zhao, Stanford University (mentors: David Powell and Charbel Farhat). “The Effect of Environmental Degradation on the Ballistic Resistance of High Strength Fabric”
• Jennifer Kuchle, University of Texas, El Paso, and Eduardo Vega, New Mexico State University (mentors: Charbel Bou-Mosleh and Charbel Farhat). “Aerodynamic Analysis of the NASA Common Research Model (CRM) Wing-Body-Tail”
• Oscar Octavio Torres-Olague, New Mexico State University (mentors: Ramsharan Rangarajan, Raymond Ryckman, Pablo Mata Almonacid, and Adrian Lew). “Simulation of Ballistics Gel Penetration under Axisymmetric Conditions”
• Vivian Nguyen and Juan Pablo Samper Mejia, Stanford University (mentors: Cris Cecka and Eric Darve). “Real Time Finite Element Analysis of Dynamic Problems Using GPUs”
• Joshua McCartney, University of Texas, El Paso, and Sabin Pokharel, Morgan State University (mentors: Sylvie Aubry and Wei Cai). “Extension of Dislocation Dynamics for Semi-conductor Materials.”
• Prakash Sharma, Morgan State University (mentors: Omprakash Gnawali, Kyle Heath and Leonidas Guibas). “Evaluation of RASL Image Alignment Algorithm”
• Esthela Gallardo and Edgar Caballero, University of Texas, El Paso (mentors: Nick Henderson and Walter Murray). “Visualizing Iterates of Optimization Algorithms”
• Greg Romero and Rovshan Rustamov, New Mexico State University (mentors: Jared Casper and Kunle Olukotun). “Commodity CPUs and a Tightly-Coupled FPGA”