Agenda

Saturday, November 7

Opening (R. Harrison, P. Krstic)

Morning Session (Chair: J. Tennyson, U. of Delaware)

Roger Ghanem
Polynomial Chaos as a Comprehensive Modeling Tool for Complex Systems 

Petr Plechac
Information-Theoretic Tools for Uncertainty Quantification of High Dimensional Stochastic Models

Robert Moser
Reliability and Uncertainty in the Simulation of Tokamak Plasmas

Udo von touissaint
The Vlasov-Poisson Plasma Model with Uncertain Inputs: A Bayesian Modeling Approach

Afternoon Session (Chair: P. Plechac, U.C. London)

Panagiotis Angelikopoulos
Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Daniel Savin
Astrochemistry from the First Stars to the Origins of Organic Chemistry

Francesco Rizzi
UQ in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Forward and Inverse Problem

Sophie Blondel
Uncertainty Quantification Effort within PSI-SciDAC

Dimitrios Giannakis
Data-Driven Spectral Decomposition and Forecasting of Ergodic Dynamical Systems

 Sunday, November 8

Morning Session (Chair: D. Stotler, PPPL)

Choong-Seock Chang
Telescoping UQ Method for Extreme Scale Kinetic Simulation of Magnetic Fusion Plasma

Jean-Paul Allain
Challenges and Strategies to Experimental Validation of Multi-Scale Nuclear Fusion PMI Computational Modeling

Kody J.H. Law
Multilevel Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Afternoon Session (Chair: U. von Toussaint, IPP Garching, Germany)

Jonathan Tennyson
Uncertainty Quantification for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Data

Alexander Kramida
Critical Evaluation and Estimation of Uncertainties of Atomic Spectral Data at NIST

Matthew Dunlop
Bayesian Level Set Inversion

Alan Calder
Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification in Astrophysics

Richard Archibald
Sparse Sampling Methods for Experimental Data from the DOE Facilities

POSTER SESSION Sunday, 11:45-12:30 (Chair: Sophie Blondel, ORNL)

Varis Carey
Telescoping Methods for Uncertainty Quantification

Ozgur Cekmer
Uncertainty Quantification Analysis for Xolotl

Scott Ferson
Computing with Confidence

Scott Ferson
Sensitivity Analysis of Probabilistic Models

Michael Probst
Data Accuracy in Modeling and Computation: Some Examples

Monday, November 9

Morning Session I (Chair: R. Archibald, ORNL)

Hyun-Kyung Chung
Internationally Coordinated Activities of Uncertainty Quantification and Assessment of Atomic, Molecular and Plasma-Surface Interaction Data for Fusion Applications