2009 DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Agenda

Monday, July 13 – Thursday, July 16
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Monday, July 13
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Registration & Photo Session for New FellowsAshlawn
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. RegistrationBase of Stairs, Lower Lobby
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. DOE NNSA SSGF DinnerSagamore Hill
DOE NNSA SSGF Program Overview
John Ziebarth — Krell Institute
Tuesday, July 14
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Breakfast BuffetAtrium Ballroom
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. RegistrationGrand Ballroom Foyer
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. WelcomeGrand Ballroom
James Corones — President, Krell Institute
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. WelcomeGrand Ballroom
Patricia Dehmer — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. WelcomeGrand Ballroom
Tom D'Agostino — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
9:45 - 10:30 a.m. KeynoteGrand Ballroom
J. Michael Davis — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
“Transparency and Knowledge: A Legacy Opportunity for the Nation’s Electric Infrastructure”
10:30 - 10:40 a.m. Break
Session I — Montpelier Room
Introduction: Christopher Deeney — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy

Moderator: Alan Wan — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:40 - 11:00 a.m. Miguel Morales — University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“First-Principles Simulations of Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressure”
11:00 - 11:20 a.m. Paul Ellison — University of California, Berkeley
“Data Analysis of Neutron Capture Measurements on Arsenic-75 Using DANCE”
11:20 - 11:40 a.m. Dylan Spaulding — University of California, Berkeley
“Nanosecond Broadband Spectroscopy for Laser-Driven Compression Experiments”
11:40 - 12:00 p.m. Krystle Catalli — Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Volume Collapse Of Fe3+-Al Perovskite At Mid-lower Mantle Pressures”
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. LuncheonAtrium Ballroom
Session II — Montpelier Room
Moderator: Robert Hanrahan— National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
1:30 - 2:15 p.m. Michael Ortiz — California Institute of Technology
“Can Complex Material Behavior be Predicted?”
2:15 - 3:00 p.m. Ramon Leeper — Sandia National Laboratories
"High Energy Density Physics Research at Sandia National Laboratories"
3:00 - 3:20 p.m. BreakMontpelier Foyer
Session III — Montpelier Room
Moderator: J. Bradley Beck — Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:20 - 3:40 p.m. Laura Berzak — Princeton University
“Liquid Lithium Divertor Development for the National Spherical Torus Experiment”
10:45 - 11:15 a.m. Forrest Doss — University of Michigan
“HYDRA Simulations of Radiating Shock Experiments”
4:00 - 4:20 p.m. Angelo Signoracci — Michigan State University
“Calculations in the 68Ni Region”
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. DOE Laboratory Poster Session and ReceptionAtrium Ballroom
Welcome
Brig. Gen. Garrett Harencak — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
7:00 p.m. Fellows and alumni meet in hotel lobby to walk to social
7:30 p.m. DOE CSGF and DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows and Alumni Social
Piedmont Room at Clyde's of Gallery Place, 707 7th Street, NW
Wednesday, July 15
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Free Time
10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Refer to the 2009 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review agenda for programming during this time.
4:00 p.m. Fellows' Poster Session Set UpGrand Ballroom
5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Fellows' Poster Session and ReceptionGrand Ballroom
Welcome
Anna Palmisano — Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy
Thursday, July 16
8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Refer to the 2009 DOE CSGF Annual Program Review agenda for the programming during this time.