2019 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Fellows present their research at the annual poster session.

Wednesday, June 26 — 4:30-6:30 p.m.

South American AB

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research supported by the DOE NNSA SSGF and DOE NNSA LRGF programs. The session is divided into two groups, and each presenting fellow is provided space to highlight his or her latest findings. This format allows all attendees – including fellow presenters – to ask questions of and engage in discussion with one another.

First-, second- and third-year fellows: Please review and familiarize yourself with the Guidelines for Poster Presentation document which outlines session logistics, poster size limitations and helpful tips for presenting your work.

Poster Presentation Schedule

Group I — Presenting 4:00-5:00 p.m.
DOE NNSA LRGF
1Stephanie MillerLaser Gate Experiment for Reducing Preheat Energy Losses in Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF)
2William RiedelKinetic Effects and Neutron Generation in Converging Fully Ionized Plasma Jets
3Raspberry SimpsonDevelopment of a Thomson Parabola Charged-particle Spectrometer for NIF and NIF-ARC Experiments
4Travis VoorheesInvestigating the Dynamic Densification Behavior of Brittle Granular Materials
DOE NNSA SSGF
5Emily AbelMeasurement of Tungsten-188 Production With a Lithium-7 Irradiation of a Natural Tungsten Target
7Erin GoodNew Developments With the Enge Split-Pole Spectrograph at Florida State University
9Benjamin MusciThe Progression of Experiments on the Blast-driven Instability
11Olivia PardoExperimentally Probing the High-pressure Behavior of Szomolnokite (FeSO4.H2O)
13Viktor RozsaIon Solvation at Thermodynamic Extremes from First-principles Simulations
15Gabriel ShipleyDesign and Simulation of Dynamic Screw Pinch Experiments on the Z Facility
17Chad UmmelUsing GODDESS to Constrain Neutron Capture Rates
19Daniel WoodburyMeasuring Extremely Low Densities of Weakly Ionized Plasma with Picosecond Avalanche Breakdown
Group II — Presenting 5:00-6:00 p.m.
DOE NNSA SSGF
6Paul FantoToward Statistical Properties of Nuclei in the Static-path Plus Random-phase Approximation
8Drew MorrillUltrafast Dynamics of Laser-heated Aluminum Films
10Erin NissenImaging the Reactive Flow Structure Evolution in Shock-compressed Nitromethane and Nitromethane With Additives
12Sergio Pineda FloresRobust Optical Band Gap Predictions Using State-specific Orbital Optimization Within Quantum Monte Carlo
14Heather SandefurPost-mortem Analysis of Morphology and Hydrogen Retention in NSTX-U Graphite Wall Tiles
16Gil ShohetInvestigation of Dusty Plasma Effects Due to Ejecta Charging in Hypervelocity Impact Plasmas
18Michael WadasA Semianalytical Solution for Pressure-wave-accelerated Fluid Interfaces and its Application to Hydrodynamic Instability Modeling