DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Agenda
Wednesday, July 25 – Friday, July 27
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Wednesday, July 25 (Pre-conference Activities) | |
| 7:00am – 9:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00 – 8:00am | Breakfast Buffet (for HPC Workshop Attendees) — Salons H & J |
| 8:30am – 4:45pm | HPC Workshop (Optional) — Salons A, B & C |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | New Fellows' Photo Session & Incoming Class Photo — Jefferson |
| 6:00 – 7:30pm |
New Attendee Dinner — Salon H
Welcome
James Corones — President, Krell Institute Introduction to the DOE NNSA SSGF Program John Ziebarth — DOE NNSA SSGF Program Manager, Krell Institute |
| 7:30 – 9:00pm | Fellows & Alumni Event |
| Thursday, July 26 | |
| 7:00am – 7:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 7:00am – 1:30pm | Poster Set Up — Sky View at Gateway |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast Buffet — Salons H, J & K |
| 9:00 – 9:15am | Krell Institute Welcome — Salons E, F & G |
| 9:15 – 9:30am |
Welcome — Salons E, F & G Ralph Schneider — Director, Office of Defense Science, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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Session I — Salons E, F & G Moderator: J. Bradley Beck — Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 9:30 – 10:15am |
Keynote — Salons E, F & G Victor Reis — Senior Advisor, Office of Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy “Sputnik, Climate, Fukushima and Small Modular Reactors: Innovation and Planning to 'Change the Game'” |
| 10:15 – 10:45am | Break — Foyer, Salons E, F & G |
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Session II — Salons E, F & G Moderator: Alan Wan — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| 10:45 – 11:15am |
Jordan McDonnell — University of Tennessee, Knoxville “Microscopic Theory of Fission at Finite Temperature” |
| 11:15 – 11:45am |
Paul Davis — University of California, Berkeley “Investigating Warm Dense Matter with X-ray Scattering” |
| 12:00 – 1:30pm |
Luncheon — Salon K Angelo Signoracci — Postdoctoral Researcher, CEA/Saclay (France) “Improving Via the Postdoc” |
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Session III — Salons E, F & G Moderator: Paul Miller — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| 1:30 – 2:15pm |
Invited Speaker J. Bradley Beck — National Security Office Program Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory “Stockpile Stewardship Challenges: Los Alamos National Laboratory Highlights” |
| 2:15 – 3:15pm | Fellows & Alumni Discussion Session — Salons E, F & G |
| 4:00 – 6:00pm |
Fellows' Poster Session — Sky View at Gateway
Welcome & Opening Remarks (4:00 p.m.)
Ralph Schneider — Director, Office of Defense Science, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Friday, July 27 | |
| 7:00am – 6:00pm | Registration — Grand Registration Desk |
| 8:30 – 9:30am | Breakfast Buffet — Salon H & J |
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Session IV — Salons E, F & G Moderator: Ray Leeper — Sandia National Laboratories – New Mexico |
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| 9:30 – 10:15am |
Invited Speaker Kimberly Budil — N Program Manager, Global Security Principal Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “National Security ST&E at LLNL” |
| 10:15 – 10:45am |
Patrick O'Malley — Rutgers University “Nuclear Physics Reactions of Astrophysical Importance” |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | Poster & Essay Contest Winners Announcement — Salons E, F & G |
| 11:45am – 1:30pm | Lunch & DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Salon K |
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Session V — Salons E, F & G Moderator: Kimberly Budil — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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| 1:30 – 2:15pm |
Invited Speaker Ray Leeper — Manager, Diagnostics and Target Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories – New Mexico “High Energy Density Physics Research at Sandia National Laboratories” |
| 2:15 – 2:45pm |
Richard Kraus — Harvard University “From Janus to Z to the Moon and Mercury: Laboratory Shock and Release Experiments to Study Giant Planetary Collisions” |
| 2:45 – 3:45pm |
Practicum Coordinator Session — Salons E, F & G
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| Saturday, July 28 (Optional Leadership Workshop) | |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast Buffet (for Leadership Workshop Attendees) — Salons H & J |
| 9:00am – 4:30pm |
DOE CSGF Leadership Workshop (Optional) — Salons A, B & C Leadership in Science and Engineering: C3 - Communication, Collaboration, Creativity The goal of this workshop is to advance the careers of fellows and alumni by providing them with insights, information and tools to become leaders within the computational science community through increased creativity in their research and through enhanced communication and collaboration skills. Please note: A component of the DOE CSGF Annual Conference, this workshop is also open to DOE NNSA SSGF fellows. For event specifics, please view the DOE CSGF conference agenda for Saturday, July 28. Those planning to attend should indicate such on the DOE NNSA SSGF conference registration form. |