BES Agenda

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Monday, November 2

Evening meeting at 7 pm in the Lincoln Room for chairs and breakout leads to discuss the next day’s activities.

Tuesday, November 3

Time Topic Speaker
7:30 Registration, Refreshments
8:30 Welcome & Introductions Michael Banda, Tom Devereaux, Theresa Windus
8:40 View from Basic Energy Sciences Harriet Kung
Associate Director, BES
9:20 Genesis of this Meeting Barb Helland, ASCR
9:50 Transformative Opportunities to Enable the Transformative Opportunities John Sarrao,
Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:20 Break
10:40 BES Facilities: Data Production, Analysis, & Storage  Craig Tull, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
11:10 Requirements Gathering for ASCR Facilities Katherine Riley, Argonne National Laboratory
11:50 Charge to Working Groups Michael BandaTom DevereauxTheresa Windus
12:10 Working Lunch
1:00 Breakout Sessions: Science Drivers
Quantum Materials, Core Challenges in Heavy-Element Chemistry, Exotic States, Emergence Aurora Clark, Washington State University; Andy Millis, Columbia University
Catalysis, Photosynthesis, Light Harvesting, Combustion Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota;
Thanks Panagiotopoulos, Princeton University
Materials & Chemical Discovery  Ilya Siepmann, University of Minnesota; Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University
Computing & Data Challenges @ BES Facilities Thomas Proffen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
2:30 Break
2:50 Breakout Sessions: Science Drivers
4:00 Break
4:15 Preliminary Reports, Breakout Leads, 15 minutes each
5:30 Q&A: Harriet Kung
Associate Director, BES; Steve Binkley
Associate Director, ASCR

Wednesday, November 4

Time Topic Speaker
8:00 Refreshments
8:30 Computational materials science: a multi-disciplinary enterprise Thomas Schulthess,
Director, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, ETH Zurich
 9:10 Summary by Chairs, Outline of Report  Michael BandaTom DevereauxTheresa Windus
9:30 Break
10:00 Breakouts – Continuation of 1:00 PM Tuesday Sessions; Outline Sections, Start Writing
Quantum Materials, Core Challenges in Heavy-Element Chemistry, Exotic States, Emergence  Aurora Clark, Washington State University; Andy Millis, Columbia University
Catalysis, Photosynthesis, Light Harvesting, Combustion  Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota;
Thanks Panagiotopoulos, Princeton University
Materials & Chemical Discovery Ilya Siepmann, University of Minnesota; Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University
Computing & Data Challenges @ BES Facilities Thomas Proffen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
12:00 Working Lunch
1:00 Breakout Sessions: Computing Landscape
Next Generation Programming Jackie Chen, Sandia National Laboratories; Anouar Benali, Argonne National Laboratory
Advances in Quantum Algorithms  Mark Gordon, Iowa State University; Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Math & Computer Science Jamie Sfethian, University of California, Berkeley; Lori Diachin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Data Management, Analytics, Visualization & Preservation  Craig Tull, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Kerstin Kleese van Dam, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Soft Matter, Biochemistry, Bioinspired Materials: Included here are Multiscale Methods & Algorithms and Classical Molecular Dynamics Pray Vashishta, University of Southern California; Mark Stevens, Sandia National Laboratories
2:30-2:50 Break
 4:00 Break
4:20 Reports on Wednesday Breakouts, Breakout Leads, 15 minutes each
5:20 Summary and Thanks from Chairs
5:45 End for Most Participants

Thursday, November 5

Time Topic Participants
8:30 Cochairs, Leads, Writers meet to continue working on report
12:00 Adjourn