DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Sunday, June 20 – Tuesday, June 22
Washington Court Hotel, Washington, D.C.
| Sunday, June 20 (Pre-conference Activities) | |
| 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. |
Registration — Executive Foyer |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. |
DOE NNSA SSGF Dinner — Executive Room Welcome James Corones — President, Krell Institute DOE NNSA SSGF Program Overview John Ziebarth — Senior Vice President and DOE NNSA SSGF Program Manager, Krell Institute |
| Monday, June 21 | |
| 7:30 - 8:30 a.m. | Registration — Executive Foyer |
| 7:30 - 8:45 a.m. |
Breakfast — Executive Room |
| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. |
Welcome — Springwood Room James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. |
Welcome — Springwood Room Donald L. Cook— Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs (Nominee), National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 9:15 - 10:00 a.m. |
Keynote — Springwood Room Steven E. Koonin — Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. |
Break — Springwood Foyer |
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Morning Session — Springwood Room Moderator: John Ziebarth — Krell Institute |
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| 10:15 - 11:00 a.m. |
Invited Speaker Edward Moses — Principal Associate Director, National Ignition Facility and Photon Science, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "National Ignition Facility: An Experimental Facility for High Energy Density Science" |
| 11:00 - 11:30 a.m. |
Miguel Morales, Rice University "First-Principles Simulations of Hydrogen and Helium at High Pressure" |
| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Luncheon — Executive Room Invited Speaker Kim Budil — Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy |
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Afternoon Session — Springwood Room Moderator: Kim Budil — U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 1:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Dylan Spaulding — University of California, Berkeley "Observation of a Potential Ultra-High Pressure Liquid-Liquid Transition in MgSiO3" |
| 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. |
Forrest Doss— University of Michigan "Structure in Radiative Shock Experiments" |
| 2:00 - 2:30 p.m. |
Laura Berzak — Princeton University "Magnetic Diagnostics for Equilibrium Reconstructions in the Presence of Non-Axisymmetric Eddy Current Distributions in Tokamaks" |
| 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. |
Break — Springwood Foyer |
| 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. |
Invited Speaker Edward P. Hartouni — Senior Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Nuclear Science and National Security" |
| 3:45 - 4:30 p.m. |
Invited Speaker Mike Lopez — Manager, Z Pulsed Power Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico "Z Facility at Sandia National Laboratories" |
| 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. |
Photo Session for New Fellows — Capitol Room |
| 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Laboratory/Fellows Poster Session Set Up — Executive Room |
| 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. |
DOE Laboratory Poster Session and Reception — Executive Room Welcome David Crandall— Chief Scientist, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. | Fellows' Poster Session and Reception — Executive Room |
| Tuesday, June 22 | |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast — Executive Room |
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Morning Session — Springwood Room Moderator: Loida Begley — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:00 - 9:45 a.m. |
Invited Speaker Alan Hurd — Director, Lujan Neutron Scattering Center at LANSCE, Los Alamos National Laboratory "Energy and National Security Research at LANSCE" |
| 9:45 - 10:30 a.m. |
Invited Speaker Allan Hauer — Director, Inertial Fusion Division (Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion and the National Ignition Facility), National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy "High Energy Density Physics in National Security and Energy Research and Basic Science" |
| 10:30 - 11:00 a.m. |
Break — Springwood Foyer |
| 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. |
Invited Speaker Kathleen Alexander— Technical Advisor, Los Alamos National Laboratory for the National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy "Materials in Extreme Conditions" |
| 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. |
Luncheon — Executive Room Announcement of Fellows' Poster Contest Winners Robert Voigt — Consultant, Scientific Applications International Corporation Invited Speaker Christopher Deeney — Director, Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion and the National Ignition Facility Project; and Acting Director, Division of Defense Science, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy "NNSA — Using and Advancing Science Every Day" |
| 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. |
Group Photo — Capitol Grounds |
| 3:00 - 7:15 p.m. | Free Time |
| 7:15 p.m. | Fellows and Alumni Meet in Hotel Lobby to Walk to Social |
| 8:00 p.m. | DOE NNSA SSGF and DOE CSGF Fellows and Alumni Social — Zengo, 781 7th Street NW (Chinatown/Gallery Place) |