DOE NNSA SSGF & LRGF Annual Program Review Presentations
Sunday, June 9 - Wednesday, June 12
Palms Tower, JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada
| Tuesday, June 11 | ||
| Stephanie Miller | Academic Programs Coordinator, and SSAA/HEDLP Program Manager, National Nuclear Security Administration; DOE NNSA LRGF Alumna | DOE NNSA Welcome |
| David Funk | Vice President for ECSE (Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments), Nevada National Security Site | Keynote - Nevada National Security Site (formerly the Nevada Test Site and Nevada Proving Grounds before that!): Past and Present |
| Griffin Glenn | Sanford University | Advances in High Repetition Rate Laser-Driven Particle Sources Based on Ambient-Temperature Liquid Jet Targets (Release Pending) |
| Patricia Cho | University of Texas at Austin | Laboratory Tests of Astrophysical Black Hole Accretion Disk Plasma Models Using the Z-machine at SNL (Release Pending) |
| 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 |
| Kevin Kwock | Columbia University | Nonlinear Optics and Photon Avalanche in Tm3+-Doped Nanocrystals: Towards Environmental Sensing in the Near-Field |
| Thomas Mason | Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory | Research Security and International Engagement from the Perspective of a National Security Laboratory |
| Wednesday, June 12 | ||
| Logan Meredith | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Advancing Hybrid Fluid-Kinetic Methods for Plasma Simulation |
| 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 |
| Christopher Yang | California Institute of Technology | Electronic Physics in Laser-Driven Quantum Matter (Release Pending) |
| Brendan Sporer | University of Michigan | High-Energy-Density Field-Reversed Configurations (HED FRCs) for Magneto-Inertial Fusion on the Z machine |
| William Brooks | Texas Tech University | Experimental Apparatus for Direct Observation of Anode Initiated Vacuum Surface Flashover |
| John Shimanek | Pennsylvania State University | Strain Hardening and Character Analysis of Discrete Dislocation Networks with Friction Stress Anisotropy (Release Pending) |
| Dr. Emma Frances Bloomfield | Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas | Science v. Story - Narrative Strategies for Science Communicators |
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Pre-Recorded Talk submissions from outgoing fellows unable to attend the 2024 meeting in person. |
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| Sophia Farrell | Rice University | An Enhanced Approach to Signal Analysis in the XENONnT Dark Matter Experiment |
| 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 |
| Elyse Schriber | University of Connecticut | Method Development for Serial Femtosecond Crystallography at X-ray Free Electron Lasers |