2024 DOE NNSA SSGF & LRGF Annual Program Review
Sunday, June 9 - Wednesday, June 12
Palms Tower, JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada
Updated June 12, 2024
| Sunday, June 9 | |
| 3:30 – 7:00pm | Registration — Cascade Foyer |
| 4:00 – 4:30pm |
New Fellow Orientation —
Cascade |
| 4:30 – 5:30pm |
Open Time for Group Dinners —
Various Hotel Restaurants Meet outside of Cascade at 4:30 p.m. to self-organize and dine with other fellows at one of the on-property restaurants. |
| 5:30 – 9:00pm |
Fellows' Welcome Reception, Game Night & Oppenheimer Showing —
Cascade A pre-meeting gathering of incoming and first- through fourth-year fellows. Board games provided or bring your own to add to the mix. Oppenheimer movie to begin at 6:00pm. Beverages and assorted snacks available. |
| Monday, June 10 | |
| 6:00 – 7:00am | Breakfast — Cascade |
| 7:00am | Bus Departs for Nevada National Security Site (fellows only) |
| 6:00pm | Bus Returns from Tour |
| Tuesday, June 11 | |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration — Marquis Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast — Marquis Ballroom 1-3 |
| 7:30 – 8:15am | 2024 Fellows' Portrait Session & Group Photos — Sevilla |
| 8:30 – 8:45am |
Welcome —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute Ralph Schneider — Consultant, Krell Institute |
| 8:45 – 9:00am |
DOE NNSA Welcome Stephanie Miller — Academic Programs Coordinator, and SSAA/HEDLP Program Manager, National Nuclear Security Administration; DOE NNSA LRGF Alumna |
| 9:00 – 9:45am |
Keynote David Funk— Vice President for ECSE (Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments), Nevada National Security Site "Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site and Nevada Proving Grounds before that!): Past and Present" |
| 9:45 – 10:00am | Break — Marquis Ballroom Foyer |
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Session I —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Moderator: Rick Kraus — Associate Professor of Physics, University of Nevada, Reno; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus |
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| 10:00 – 10:25am |
Griffin Glenn
— Stanford University "Advances in High Repetition Rate Laser-Driven Particle Sources Based on Ambient-Temperature Liquid Jet Targets" |
| 10:25 – 10:50am |
Patricia Cho
— University of Texas at Austin "Testing Astrophysical Models of Black Hole Accretion Disk Plasmas Using the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories" |
10:50 – 11:15am |
Maren Hatch
— University of New Mexico "Non-Uniform Joule Heating and Plasma Formation Driven by Machined 2D and 3D Surface Perturbations on Dielectric Coated and Bare Aluminum Rods" |
| 11:15 – 11:40am |
Kevin Kwock
— Columbia University "Nonlinear Optics and Photon Avalanche in Tm3+-Doped Nanocrystals: Towards Environmental Sensing in the Near-Field" |
| 11:45am – 1:00pm | Lunch — Marquis Ballroom 1-3 |
| 1:15 – 2:45pm |
Research, Ethics and Security —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Kimberly S. Budil— Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Thomas Mason— Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Set Up: DOE Laboratories' Showcase and Fellows' Poster Session — Cascade |
| 3:30 – 4:30pm | DOE Laboratories' Showcase — Cascade |
| 4:30 – 6:00pm | DOE NNSA SSGF and LRGF Fellows' Poster Session — Cascade | Wednesday, June 12 |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration — Marquis Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:00 – 9:30am | Breakfast — Marquis Ballroom 1-3 |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | Outgoing Fellows' Portraits & Fellow/Alumni Retakes — Sevilla |
| 9:30 – 9:45am |
Announcements & Essay Slam Award Presentation —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute Ralph Schneider — Consultant, Krell Institute |
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Session II —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Moderator: Samantha Lawrence — Materials Compatability Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna |
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| 9:45 – 10:10am |
Logan Meredith
— University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "Advancing Hybrid Fluid-Kinetic Methods for Plasma Simulation" |
| 10:10 – 10:35am |
Brianna MacNider
— University of California, San Diego "Toward High Strain Rate Inverse Design via Experimental Exploration of High Strain Rate Dynamic Behavior of Materials and Structures" |
| 10:35 – 11:00am |
Christopher Yang
— California Institute of Technology "Electronic Physics in Laser-Driven Quantum Matter" |
| 11:00 – 11:25am |
Brendan Sporer
— University of Michigan "High-Energy-Density Field-Reversed Configurations (FRCs) for Magneto-Inertial Fusion on the Z machine" |
| 11:30 – 12:00pm |
SSGF & LRGF Group Photos: All Fellows by Program & Fellows/Alumni by Program Krell Staff to direct individuals/groups from the Marquis Ballroom. |
| 12:00 – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Marquis Ballroom 1-3 |
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Session III —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 Moderator: Samantha Lawrence — Materials Compatability Team Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna | |
| 1:15 – 1:40pm |
William Brooks
— Texas Tech University "Experimental Apparatus for Direct Observation of Anode Initiated Vacuum Surface Flashover" |
| 1:40 – 2:05pm |
John Shimanek
— Pennsylvania State University "Strain Hardening and Character Analysis of Discrete Dislocation Networks with Friction Stress Anisotropy" |
| 2:05 – 2:15pm | Break — Marquis Ballroom Foyer |
| 2:15 – 3:30pm |
Professional Development Discussion & Workshop —
Marquis Ballroom 4-5 "Science v. Story: Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators" Emma Frances Bloomfield— Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Sarah Webb(moderator) — Science Media Editor, Krell Institute |
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Pre-Recorded Talk submissions from outgoing fellows unable to attend the 2024 meeting in person. |
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| Recorded |
Sophia Farrell
— Rice University "An Enhanced Approach to Signal Analysis in the XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment" |
| Recorded |
Christopher Jasien
— Colorado School of Mines "Coupling of Microscopy and Thermomechanical Models to Explain the Extent and Location of TRIP Product in Simulated PBF-LB of Ti-1023" |