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This page contains talks and posters I have presented at conferences as well as for school projects. This material is (sometimes) not published elsewhere, so I thought I would post them here in case they are of interest or use for other researchers/students.
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2023

Ronald M. Caplan, Erika Palmerio, Jon A. Linker, Matthew A. Young, and Nathan A. Schwadron
Poster presented at the
54th Meeting of the SPD.
August 13th-18th, 2023. Minneaplois, Minnesota, USA.

in a Thermodynamic MHD Model
Ronald M. Caplan, Craig D. Johnston, Lars K. S. Daldorff, and Jon A. Linker
Talk presented at the 15th ASTRONUM Conference.
June 25th-29th, 2023. Pasadena, California, USA.

From OpenACC to `do concurrent`
Ronald M. Caplan, Miko M. Stuljater, and Jon A. Linker
Talk presented at the 13th AsHES workshop held at the 37th IEEE IPDPS Symposium.
May 15th, 2023. St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan.
Talk presented for the ISC Student Cluster Competition.
March 9th, 2023. Online.
The talk can be viewed on YouTube here.
2022

Ronald M. Caplan, Tibor Torok, Andres Reyes, and Cooper Downs
Talk presented at the NASA exhibitor booth at
Super Computing (SC) 22. November 13th-18th, 2022. Dallas, Texas, USA.
Click here to view details on the NASA SC22 page.

Ronald M. Caplan.
Talk presented at the CSRC Colloquium.
September 23rd, 2022. San Diego State University.

Ronald M. Caplan, James A. Turtle, Jon A. Linker, Lisa Upton, Nick Arge,
Raphael Attie, Cooper Downs, Carl J. Henney, and Nikolai Pogorelov
Poster presented at the 2022
TESS Meeting.
August 8th - August 11th, 2022. Bellevue, Washington, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Tibor Torok, Cooper Downs, Andres Reyes,
Viacheslav Titov, Roberto Lionello, and Jon A. Linker
Poster presented at the 2022
SHINE Meeting.
June 26th - July 1st, 2022. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Miko Stulajter, and Jon A. Linker.
Talk presented at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
March 21st-24th, 2022. Virtual.
The talk can be viewed here.
2021

Ronald M. Caplan, Lisa Upton, Jon A. Linker, Charles Nick Arge, Raphael Attie,
Cooper Downs and Carl J. Henney
Poster presented at the 2021
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 13th-17th, 2021. New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Miko Stulajter, and Jon A. Linker.
Talk presented at
OpenACC Birds of a Feather at Supercomputing 2021.
November 16th, 2021. St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, Cooper Downs, Roberto Lionello, Andres Reyes,
Pete Riley, Viacheslav Titov, and Tibor Torok.
Talk presented for
On-Demand NVIDIA Webinar.
January 14th, 2021. Virtual.
2020

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2020
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 1st-17th, 2020. Virtual.

Ronald M. Caplan and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2020
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
March 23rd-26th, 2020. Virtual.
2019

for use in coronal and heliospheric models
Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2019
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 9th-13th, 2019. San Francisco, California, USA.


Teaching Your Legacy Code New (GPU) Tricks
Ronald M. Caplan and Jon A. Linker
Poster and talk presented at the NASA exhibitor booth at
Super Computing (SC) 19. November 17th-21st, 2019. Denver, Colorado, USA.
Click here to view details on the NASA SC19 page.


Variations in Finite Difference Potential Fields
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Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2019 SHINE Meeting.
August 5th-9th, 2019. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, Zoran Mikic, Roberto Lionello, Pete Riley, and Cooper Downs.
Poster presented at the 2019
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
March 18th-21st, 2019. San Jose, California, USA.
2018

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, Jon A. Linker, and Zoran Mikic.
Poster presented at the 2018
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 10th-14th, 2018. Washington DC, USA.


Shields Up! Towards Forecasting Solar Particle Threats Through Simulation
Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, Cooper Downs, Zoran Mikić, Roberto Lionello, Tibor Török, Janvier Wijaya
Poster and talk presented at the NASA exhibitor booth at
Super Computing (SC) 18. November 11th-16th, 2018. Dallas, Texas, USA.
Click here to view details on the NASA SC18 page.

Experiences, Results, and Development Tips
Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, and Zoran Mikic.
Talk presented at the
OpenACC User Group Meeting @ SC18.
November 13th, 2018. Dallas, Texas, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan.
Talk presented at the
OpenACC User Group Meeting @ SC18.
November 13th, 2018. Dallas, Texas, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, Jon A. Linker, and Zoran Mikic.
Poster presented at the 2018
SHINE Meeting.
July 30th-August 3rd, 2018. Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, Zoran Mikic, Cooper Downs, and Tibor Torok.
Talk given at
ASTRONUM 2018.
June 25th-29th, 2018. Panama City Beach, Florida, USA.

From HPC cluster to “in-house”
Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, Cooper Downs, Tibor Török, Zoran Mikić,
Roberto Lionello, Viacheslav Titov, Pete Riley, and Janvier Wijaya.
Talk given at the 2018
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
March 26th-29th, 2018. San Jose, California, USA.
The talk was recorded and can be viewed here.
2017



Totality! Predicting the Corona of the 2017 Great American Solar Eclipse
Ronald M. Caplan, Zoran Mikić, Cooper Downs, Jon A. Linker, Pete Riley, Roberto Lionello, Tibor Török, Viacheslav Titov, Janvier Wijaya
Poster and talk presented at the NASA exhibitor booth at
Super Computing (SC) 17. November 12th-16th, 2017. Denver, Colorado, USA.
Click here to view details on the NASA SC17 page.
This work was awarded HPCwire's 2017 Readers Choice Award for "Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievement".

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, Zoran Mikic, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the
48th meeting of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society.
August 21st-25th, 2017. Portland, Oregon, USA.

Converting a PCG Solver from MPI to MPI+OpenACC
Ronald M. Caplan, Jon A. Linker, and Zoran Mikic.
Talk given at the 2017
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
May 8th-11th, 2017. San Jose, California, USA.
The talk was recorded and can be viewed here.
Further details were presented at the user-feedback session of the July 24th, 2017 OpenACC Technical Committeee Meeting.
Those slides can be viewed here.
2016

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2016
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 12th-16th, 2016. San Francisco, California, USA.

Explicit super time-stepping vs. implicit methods with Krylov solvers
Ronald M. Caplan, Zoran Mikic, Jon A. Linker, and Roberto Lionello.
Poster presented at
Super Computing (SC) 16.
November 13th-18th, 2016. Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The extended two-page abstract can be viewed here

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2016
SHINE Meeting.
July 11th-15th, 2016. Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

Explicit super time-stepping versus implicit schemes with Krylov solvers
Ronald M. Caplan, Zoran Mikic, Jon A. Linker, and Roberto Lionello.
Talk given at
ASTRONUM 2016.
June 6th-10th, 2016. Monterey, California, USA.
Click here to read the conference proceedings paper.

Code acceleration using OpenACC for both GPUs and x86
Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Zoran Mikic.
Poster presented at the 2016
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
April 4th-7th, 2016. San Jose, California, USA.
2015

Data and software made available
Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Talk given at the 2015
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 14th-18th, 2015. San Francisco, California, USA.


Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, Jon A. Linker, Roberto Lionello, Zoran Mikić, Pete Riley, Viacheslav Titov, Tibor Török
Poster and talk presented at the NASA exhibitor booth at
Super Computing (SC) 15
November 15th-20th, 2015. Austin, Texas, USA.
Click here to view details on the NASA SC15 page.
2014

Ronald M. Caplan, Cooper Downs, and Jon A. Linker.
Poster presented at the 2014
Fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
December 15th-19th, 2014. San Francisco, California, USA.
2013

Ronald M. Caplan and Ricardo Carretero.
Poster presented at the 2013
NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference.
March 24th-27th, 2013. San Jose, California, USA.
2011

Ronald M. Caplan, and Ricardo Carretero.
Talk given at the 2011
SIAM Conference on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
November 14th-17th, 2011. San Diego, California, USA.

Ronald M. Caplan, and Ricardo Carretero.
Talk given at the 2011
The 7th IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena: Computation and Theory
April 4th-7th, 2011. Athens, Georgia, USA.
2008

Ronald M. Caplan, Ricardo Carretero, Enam Hoq, and Panayotis G. Kevrekidis.
Talk given at the 2008
Joint Mathematics Meeting
January 6th-9th, 2008. San Diego, California, USA.