2023 DOE NNSA SSGF & LRGF Annual Program Review
Monday, June 26 - Thursday, June 29
InterContinental Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Updated June 28, 2023
| Monday, June 26 | |
| 3:30 – 7:00pm | Registration — Lobby Terrace Registration Desk |
| 4:00 – 5:00pm |
New Fellow Orientation —
Taylor Room |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm |
Fellows' Welcome Reception —
California/Powell A pre-meeting gathering of incoming and first- through fourth-year fellows. |
| Tuesday, June 27 | |
| 6:00 – 7:00am | Breakfast — California/Powell |
| 7:00am | Bus Departs for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tour (fellows only) |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Off-Site Reception (fellows only) |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Registration — Lobby Terrace Registration Desk |
| 8:00pm | Bus Returns from Tour |
| Wednesday, June 28 | |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration — Lobby Terrace Registration Desk |
| 7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast — Room of the Dons |
| 7:30 – 8:15am | 2023 Fellows' Portrait Session & Group Photos — Florentine Room |
| 8:30 – 8:45am |
Krell Welcome & Essay Slam Award Announcement —
Peacock Court Ballroom Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute |
| 8:45 – 9:00am |
DOE NNSA Welcome Stephanie Miller — NNSA Graduate Fellow, Office of Strategic Partnership Programs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; DOE NNSA LRGF Alumna |
| 9:00 – 9:30am |
Keynote Ellen Cerreta — Associate Director for Physical Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory "An Exciting Time for a Career at an NNSA Lab" |
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Session I —
Peacock Court Ballroom Moderator: J. Bradley Beck — Workforce Program Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 9:30 – 9:55am |
Sylvia Hanna
— Northwestern University "Identifying Energy-Structure-Property Relationships in Uranium Metal–Organic Frameworks Through Their Dynamic Crystalline Structural Transformations" |
| 9:55 – 10:20am |
Patrick Adrian
— Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Studying Particle Transport using Nuclear and X-ray Diagnostics for Discovery Science and Inertial Confinement Fusion at OMEGA and the NIF" |
| 10:20 – 10:30am | Break — Peacock Court Ballroom |
| 10:30 – 10:55am |
David Chin
— University of Rochester "Electron Structure of Fe2O3 above 700 GPa" |
10:55 – 11:20am |
Sandra Stangebye
— Georgia Institute of Technology "Characterizing Plastic Deformation Mechanisms in Metal Thin Films Using In Situ TEM Nanomechanics" |
| 11:20 – 11:45am |
Justin Cheng
— University of Minnesota "Extreme Mechanical Stability at the Nanoscale Through 3D Interfaces" |
| 11:45am– 1:00pm | Lunch — Room of the Dons |
| 1:00 – 4:00pm |
Managing Moments That Matter —
Peacock Court Ballroom A Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-led professional development session focused on honing cultural behaviors that improve a team or organization's communication and overall effectiveness.
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| 4:00 – 4:30pm | Set Up: DOE Laboratories' Showcase and Fellows' Poster Session — Room of the Dons |
| 4:30 – 5:00pm | DOE Laboratories' Showcase — Room of the Dons |
| 5:00 – 6:30pm | DOE NNSA SSGF and LRGF Fellows' Poster Session — Room of the Dons | Thursday, June 29 |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration — Lobby Terrace Registration Desk |
| 7:30am – 8:30am | Breakfast — Room of the Dons |
| 8:00 – 8:30am | Outgoing Fellows' Portraits & Fellow/Alumni Retakes — Florentine Room |
| 8:45 – 9:00am |
Announcements —
Peacock Court Ballroom Ralph Schneider — Consultant, Krell Institute |
| 9:00 – 9:30am |
Keynote Gabriel Shipley — 2022 Truman Fellow in National Security Science and Engineering, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus "Innovation and Advancement of the MagLIF Concept on Z" |
| 9:30 – 10:00am |
Keynote Travis Voorhees — Mechanical Engineer, Mechanics of Materials Group, Sandia National Laboratories, California; DOE NNSA LRGF Alumnus "Molybdenum Dynamic Yield Strength Measured via the Tamped RMI Method" |
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Session II —
Peacock Court Ballroom Moderator: Ralph Schneider — Consultant, Krell Institute |
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| 10:00 – 10:25am |
Raspberry Simpson
— Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE NNSA LRGF Alumna (Outgoing Fellow Talk) "Towards Tunable Laser-Driven Particle Sources: New Scaling Relationships, Analysis Tools, and Technology in Laser-Driven Particle Acceleration" |
| 10:25 – 10:50am |
Ashley Roach
— University of California, Santa Barbara "Strengthening Trends of Nanovoid Irradiation Defects with Meso-Scale PFDD Modelling" |
| 10:50 – 11:00am | Break — Peacock Court Ballroom |
| 11:00 – 11:25am |
Ryan Childers
— University of Nevada, Reno "Nonthermal Effects on X-ray Radiative Signatures of High-Energy-Density Plasmas Produced in Laboratory Z-pinches" |
| 11:25 – 11:50am |
John Peterson
— Stanford University "Magnetic Field and Radiation Production in Laser-Driven Electron Beams" |
| 11:50am – 12:15pm |
Lauren Fey
— University of California, Santa Barbara "Phase-Field Dislocation Dynamics Modeling of Multi-Component Alloys" |
| 12:15 – 1:30pm | Luncheon — Room of the Dons |