DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Presentations

Monday, June 27 - Thursday, June 30
Red Rock Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Tuesday, June 28
John Edwards ICF Program Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory In Pursuit of Ignition at the NIF – Progress and Challenges
Mareena (Robinson) Snowden Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Initialization Problem: A Study of Passive Neutron-induced High-energy Gamma Warhead Signatures for Nuclear Dismantlement Verification (Not Released)
J. Scott Moreland Duke University Determining Quark-Gluon Plasma Initial Condition and Transport Properties With Quantitative Uncertainty
Sabrina Strauss University of Notre Dame Beta-Delayed Neutron Emission Using the Beta Paul Trap
Christopher Young Stanford University Tracking Plasma Dynamics With Time-resolved Laser Diagnostics
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Hong Sio Massachusetts Institute of Technology Time-resolved Nuclear Diagnostics for Probing Implosion Dynamics and Kinetic & Multi-ion Effects on OMEGA and the NIF
Wednesday, June 29
Charles W. Nakhleh Division Leader, Theoretical Design (XTD), Los Alamos National Laboratory The Challenges and Rewards of Stockpile Stewardship
Samantha Lawrence Post-doctoral Appointee, Hydrogen & Materials Science Department, Sandia National Laboratories; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna Postdoc Experiences from an Alumni Perspective
Richard Kraus Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus Postdoc Experiences from an Alumni Perspective
Jeffrey Hittinger Moderator — Group Leader, Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Laboratory Post-Doctoral Positions