Date: July 13, 2026
Time: 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.
Where: In person at the Molecular Foundry (Bldg 67)
RSVP in advance is required for this event. Only 25 spaces available on this tour.
Featured Speakers: Damian Rouson, Ishan Srivastava.
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Time: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Where: In Person: 59-4102. Virtual: Zoom Available.
Research Spotlight Talk: Why Programming Languages Still Matter. (Damian Rouson).
Research Spotlight Talk: TBA (Ishan Srivastava ).
Featured Speakers: Damian Rouson (Senior Scientist and Group Lead, AMCR Division) and Ishan Srivastava (Research Scientist, Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, AMCR Division).
Hosted by the local Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) Chapter
Featured Speakers: Jean Sexton, Melissa Romanus.
Date: Thursday, July 16, 2026
Time: 10 a.m. – 11 a.m.
Where: In Person: 59-4102. Virtual: Zoom Available.
Details available soon.
Featured Speakers: Jean Sexton (Computer Systems Engineer 3, AMCR Division) and Melissa Romanus (Computing Systems Engineer 3, HPC Technology Department, NERSC).
Damian Rouson founded Archaeologic Inc. and Sourcery Institute. He holds a B.S. from Howard University and a M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, all in mechanical engineering. He also holds an Adjunct Faculty position at San Diego State University. He is also a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.) in the State of California and an alternate member of the Fortran programming language standard committee.
Ishan Srivastava is a Research Scientist in the Applied Mathematics Department within the Computing Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and affiliated with the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE). As a postdoctoral scholar, he developed continuum fluctuating hydrodynamics models to investigate fluid dynamics at the mesoscale, such as in electrolytes and fluid mixtures at the nanoscale, with various applications in catalysis, separation technologies and carbon capture.
Jean Sexton's work spans two interconnected areas: performance-portable HPC simulation development and AI-driven automation for scientific computing workflows. On the simulation side, she develops and maintains AMReX-based applications including Nyx, REMORA, and ERF, with a focus on scalable parallelism, exascale performance, and multiphysics coupling. On the AI side, she builds agentic systems that automate the end-to-end lifecycle of HPC simulations from natural-language prompts through configuration, job execution, and result analysis, and applies LLM-assisted tooling to code modernization and documentation tasks.
Melissa Romanus is a member of the Operations Technology Group, where her research focuses on the ingestion, collection, analysis, and visualization of real-time streaming operational and systems data in data centers that support high performance computing systems. Romanus’ current research interests are in operational data analytics in high performance computing (HPC) data centers and system architecture of large-scale data lakes. She is also particularly interested in automating scientific workloads and data-driven science on HPC systems.
