2019 Student Symposium Project Abstracts
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19th annual 2019 student symposium Project abstracts 1 Table of Contents Biosciences Amber Abbott 10 Environmental conditions causing mating of green alga Scenedesmus Dara Armstrong 11 Studying Ras Deactivation Through Molecular Dynamics Simulations Keisha Avery 12 Factors affecting species migration into preexisting microbial communities: a meta-analysis Ryan Bermel 13 Renewable plastic production using engineered microbes Emmanuel Burns 14 Analysis of rock varnish as a source of biological signatures for Mars extant life. Elisa Cirigliano 15 Cryopreservation as a method of long term storage for microalgae Rachel Frankle 16 Metabolite Analysis of Bacterial Biothreats using NMR Spectroscopy Estrella Gonzalez 17 Linking evolutionary speciation and behavioral traits in Cyprinodon spp. fish utilizing next gen sequencing of the gut microbiome Summer Hatmaker 18 Culturing of Microorganisms that Impact Dissolved Organic Carbon Concentrations in Soil Liam Herndon 19 Machine Learning to Identify Antibiotics Makaela Jones 20 High throughput enzyme design and screening of a monooxygenase for “green” chemicals Jared Jurss 21 Computationally Locating Off-Target Effects of CRISPR/Cas9 in Human Embryonic Stem Cells Beauty Kolade 22 Validating experimental results of Digitoxin using molecular dynamics Isabelle Lakis 23 Multifactorial Optimization of Cyanobacterial Polymer Production Platforms Riya Mahesh 24 Genomic Analysis of Cancer Cell Lines Through Deep Learning Savannah Martinez 25 Generating Genetically Characterized Panels of Antibiotic-Resistant Biothreat Agent Surrogates via Experimental Evolution Samuel Merriman 26 Modern Plague Defense Mechanisms Makenzie Quintana 27 Large Game Distribution Camera Study at Los Alamos National Laboratory Arasely Rodriguez 28 Motor Neuron Differentiation from Human Embryonic Stem Cells Kalifa Stringfield 29 Comparative Genomics of Sulfur Cycling Pathways in Bacteria and Archaea Elizabeth Wait 30 Functional Dynamics in a Cancer Protein Jacquelyn Mettler, Cassandra Miller 31 Promoter Library Generation to Improve Genetic Engineering Efforts on an Industrially-Relevant Algae Strain Chemistry Phuong Chau 33 Machine Learning in Molecular Dynamics Simulation Kevin Glennon 34 A Forensic Investigation of Legacy Separated Pu at Los Alamos National Laboratory Elizabeth Hjelvik 35 Fabrication of polymeric ionic liquid membranes for ultrafiltration applications 2 Bonnie Klamm 36 Controlling Lewis Acid Catalysis with Lanthanides to form Bimetallic Complexes Gabriel Levine 37 Modifying Carboxylate-Alumoxane Surfaces with Click Chemistry Kimberly Lopez 38 Evaluation of Isotope Program Shipping Septa James Louis Jean 39 Analysis of Uranium and Samarium Isotopic Ratios by Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS) for Nuclear Forensic Analysis Katherine Luebke 40 Calibration of a HPGe Detector for Use in Gallium Cross Section Measurement Michael Powell 41 Ultrafast Shock Induced Mid-Infrared Vibrational Changes in Thin Film Explosives Harrison Root 42 Expanded Porphyrins and their f-Element Complexes Nicholas Starvaggi 43 Giant Quantum Dots as Scintillating Gamma-Radiation Detectors Selena Staun 44 Assessing Covalency in Transuranic Nitrides Skyler Logan Szot 45 Actinide Isotopic Analyzer Computing Ethan Andersen 47 Extending the timescales of Molecular Dynamics simulations by predicting topological changes Robert Chiodi 48 Unsplit Multi-Material Advection for the Truchas Multi-Physics Code Mai Dahshan 49 Examining the Use of Feature Extraction and Semantic Interaction for uncertainty quantification of Image based Simulation Ensembles Zachary DeStefano 50 NNzkSNARK: An Efficient Implementation Of Secure Neural Network zkSNARKs Callum Farrell 51 Verification Methods for Tabular Equations of State in xRAGE Jamil Gafur 52 Optimizing Beryllium Modeling Parameter using a Gravitational Search Algorithm Michael Gonzales 53 Calculating Betweeenness Centrality in Real-Time to Understand Possible Paths of an Adversary in a Network Theodore Gonzales 54 An Evaluation of Discrete Gaussian Samplers for Lattice-based Cryptography Joseph Gorka 55 Deep Neural Networks for the Estimation of HE Fireball Parameters Andrew Hitchcock 56 Get Packing! Haydn Jones 57 Robust Detection of Computer Generated Text Anthony Leary 58 CMF Job Control Benjamin Mastripolito Wachter 59 Assessing Data Structures and Loop Ordering on Multi-material Physics Simulations Justin Natzic 60 Model T or Model 3: Visualization of Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Xiaochen Ni 61 A ModelViewer for the Common Modelling Framework Paula Olaya Garcia 62 Benchmarking sparse matrix solvers on CPUs and GPUs for nuclear reaction networks Elijah Pelofske 63 Decomposition Algorithms for Scalable Quantum Annealing Joanna Piotrowska 64 Spectral shock detection in dynamically developing discontinuities 3 Brian Romero 65 Enabling Performance Portable Exascale Atmospheric Simulations Boqian Shen 66 Accurate and Efficient Numerical Method for the Computation of Synchrotron Radiation in the Near-Field Nigel Tan 67 Performance Portable Relativistic Plasma Simulations for the Exascale Era Elizabeth Carlson, Vasu Jaganath, Jennifer Ranta, Rathish Ratnasingam, Nicholas Stegmeier, Suyash Tandon 68 Core-collapse Supernovae Simulations with FleCSPH Sofia Helpert, Yeawon Yoo 70 Statistical estimation via Variational Inference using MPI and GPUs Qun Liu, Subhashis Hazarika 71 Deep Learning-Based Feature-Aware Data Modeling for Multiphase Simulations Earth & Space Sciences Siddhartha Bishnu 73 Optimization of Split-Explicit Time-Stepping Algorithm in MPAS-O Daniel Castano 74 Comparing Emission Profiles of Wildfires vs. Controlled fires in the Chaparral and Eglin Landscapes Brandon Crawford 75 Small scale surface change detection from UAS photogrammetry Isaac Foli 76 Subsurface Actinide Transport: Geologic Framework Model Development - Negev Desert, Israel Sarah Greer 77 Solving a hydrologic inverse problem using a quantum annealer John Heneghan 79 Kristin Hoch 80 Variable Resolution Mesh Characterization for North American Coastal Simulations with MPAS-Ocean Alexandra Iezzi 81 Underground Explosion Source Modelling Using the Rayleigh Integral Megan Kaye 82 Visualizing ChemCam Spectral Data Trends Using Machine Learning: Discovering Rock Coatings on Mars Stephen Kuluris 83 A Field Scale Modeling Approach for Characterizing Subsurface Radionuclide Movement Gabrielle Ledesma 84 Trace metal associations of Mn-oxides in ChemCam LIBS data to constrain formation pathways of manganese enrichments found in Gale crater, Mars Greta Miller 85 Climate Impacts on Infiltration in Northern New Mexico Matthew Nellessen 86 Boron Adsorption In Clay Minerals: Implications for Martian Groundwater Chemistry John Ortiz 87 Noble gas diffusion through variably-saturated rock: implications for verification of subsurface nuclear events Samantha Peterson 88 Cement fracture sealing methods: self-sealing and smart polymer gels Engineering Megan Armstrong 90 Fuel Inventory Model and Fuel Clad Impact Testing Manish Bhattarai 91 Diagram Image Retrieval Using Sketch-Based Deep Learning and Transfer Learning John Daly 92 CFD Simulations and Validation for Uncertainty Modeling in Ultrasound-based Measurements Peter Fickenwirth 93 In-Situ Ultrasonic Quality Inspection for Metallic Additive Manufacturing Kayla Gill 94 Recirculating Water System for Metallography Caleb Hatler 95 Continuous Robotic Detection of Alpha Radiation Using Four-Bar Linkage Suspension Sincheng Huang 96 Broadband Operation of Acoustic Collimated Beam Source 4 Laura Inkret 97 Traction-Separation Relationship Between Sylgard-184 and Aluminum Using Double Cantilever Beam Analysis Melissa Jacquez 98 Permeable Pavement Feasibility and Cost-Benefit Analysis at Los Alamos National Laboratory for Parking Lots and Side Walks Bailey Kuehl 99 Shock Re-compaction of Spall-Damaged Copper Andrew Larsen 100 The Impact of Conjugate Heat Transfer on the VTR Lead Cartridge CFD Model Jerry Li 101 Current to Pulse Converter For Ion Chamber Gross Gamma Measurements Evan Lucero 102 Stress Cushion Material Evaluation Sheera Lum 103 Characterizing PBX 9502 Ratchet Growth Due to Thermal Effects Tom Maggiore 104 Transport Container: Phase II Joseph Mayer 105 Molecular Tagging Velocimetry for Shocked Particle Studies Vedant Mehta 106 Powering the Red Planet in Pursuit of Becoming Interplanetary Species Ilyes Mezghani 107 Robust AC Optimal Power Flow: a Data-Driven Approach Teagan Nakamoto 108 Simulation of Curved Flyers for Exploding Foil Initiators ThienAn Nguyen 109 TRACE Modeling of Closed-Loop, Lead-Cooled Cartridges for Use in the Versatile Test Reactor Thomas Roberts 110 Dynamic Effects of Preload in Hyperelastic Foam Models Athena Sagadevan 111 Investigating Gamma Simulation Results for the SCRaP Experiment Andy Shen 112 Analyzing Hiring Needs for LANL’s Plutonium Mission Kristin Smith 113 Benchmark Analysis of Component Critical Configuration of KRUSTY Joshua Tempelman 114 Acoustic Monitoring for Defect Detection in Metal Powder-Bed Laser Sintering Cole Thompson 115 An In-line Neutron Coincidence Counter for Plutonium Mass Quantification Amy Ticklenberg 116 Characterization of Helium and Argon Supersonic Jets Entering Variable Pressure Experimental Chamber Annie Ung 117 Quantification of Margin and Uncertainty for a Neutron RadiographyApplication Marshall Vaccaro 118 Radar Imaging of High Explosive Detonations Using an Ultrawide Bandwidth Antenna Julien Valdez 119 Mechanical Engineering Mario Valles Montenegro 120 Gas-Gun Target for High-Temperature Plate Impact of Insensitive