The seminar will begin at 3:00 PM ET on June 7, 2022.

Please contact Veronica Turner for connection information.

Bio: Dr. Terrence R. Meyer specializes in the development and application of laser and x-ray diagnostics for multiphase flows and combustion in novel propulsion, energetic, defense, and hypersonic systems. After earning a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he served as a contract research scientist at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Combustion Branch for six years, as a member of the Mechanical Engineering faculty at Iowa State University for nine years, and as a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University for seven years, where is he also a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics by courtesy. He also formerly served as a visiting professor at Ecole Centrale Paris in France and at Erlangen University in Germany, and as Technical Director of private research firm Spectral Energies, LLC. He is currently the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Laser Diagnostics in Energy and Combustion Science, Colloquium Co-Chair for the Diagnostics Section of the 39th International Symposium on Combustion, and Honors and Awards Chair for the Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is a Fellow of Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and he is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

MSEE: Short Course on Uncertainty Quantification in Physics-based Modeling using Python

Dimitris Tsapetis, Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Dimitris Giovanis, Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Michael D. Shields, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Please register here by May 23, 2022.

The course will be held on May 25-27, 2022. Each day will be broken into three sessions that will run from 9AM-12PM and 1-3PM EDT. During the morning session, instruction will be provided for setting up the day’s activities. In the afternoon, participants will work independently on UQ activities, and the instructors will be available to assist.

• Link a model to the UQpy software to execute UQ tasks.
• Propagate uncertainties through a computational model using simulation-based methods in UQpy
• Construct a surrogate model using polynomial chaos expansions and Gaussian process regression
• Infer the parameters of a model using Bayesian inference

• Participants will be provided with links to video lectures on UQ topics, which they should watch prior to attending the workshop.
• Participants are expected to be proficient in the Python programming language with knowledge that includes Python syntax, data types and structures (e.g. lists and dictionaries), importing and using widely available libraries (e.g. numpy and scipy), and object-oriented programming in Python. Participants who are not already proficient may attend the short course after completing one (or more) of the online courses listed below.
• Participants must bring their own laptop computer with all necessary software installed, including Python 3. Although we will review installation of UQpy and setting the user environment, we will not review Python installation.
• Participants are encouraged to bring an example code that they can use for UQ in their own field of study.

The seminar will begin at 3pm ET on April 5, 2022.

Please contact Veronica Turner for connection information.

Bio: Dr. Gottfried obtained a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Chicago in August 2005, receiving numerous fellowships and awards for excellence in academics and research, including a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the William Rainey Harper Dissertation Fellowship. She joined the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in September 2005 as a postdoctoral fellow and was hired in May 2008. Dr. Gottfried recently received a Department of the Army Civilian Service Commendation Medal for outstanding technical excellence. Dr. Gottfried has written four book chapters and has more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, including four invited reviews and four featured cover articles. She has also published more than 90 ARL technical reports. She has been an invited speaker at 18 international conferences and taught short courses on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and chemometric analysis. Dr. Gottfried’s current work is focused on laser spectroscopy of energetic materials for laboratory-scale characterization, model validation, and a fundamental understanding of reaction mechanisms during explosive initiation.

The seminar will begin at 3:00 PM ET on March 1, 2022.

Please contact Veronica Turner for connection information.

Bio: Dr. Akeisha Owens is a microbiologist with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). At DTRA, Dr. Owens leads a team of biological and medical subject matter experts that perform modeling and simulation to anticipate and mitigate the effects of biological threats. Dr. Owens received her doctorate in microbiology from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2014. Dr. Owens is an Innovative scientist with over 10 years of research and clinical experience across microbial genetics, molecular biology, and biodefense. She is currently a member of the American Society for Microbiology as well as a board certified member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. For her leadership and timely response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Owens was awarded the High level Civilian of the Second Quarter of 2020 as well as the Research and Development Directorate Technical Achievement for the First Quarter of 2020 from DTRA.