DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Presentations
Thursday, July 21 – Friday, July 22
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, VA
| Thursday, July 21 | ||
| Welcome | ||
| Keith LeChien | Program Manager, National Nuclear Security Agency, U.S. Department of Energy | Welcome to the 2011 DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Conference |
| Todd Ditmire | Department of Physics and the Texas Center for High Intensity Laser Science, The University of Texas at Austin | Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers: The Science and Technology of the Brightest Light Sources in History |
| Session I | ||
| Paul Ellison | University of California, Berkeley | Production of interesting isotopes with plutonium-242 targets |
| Matthew Gomez | University of Michigan | Plasma formation and the correlation with current loss in post-hole convolutes |
| Session II | ||
| Krystle Catalli | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The Earth's lowest mantle: compositional effects on the post-perovskite transition |
| Miguel Morales | Research Scientist, Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus | Life after SSGF |
| Friday, July 22 | ||
| Session III | ||
| Luke Roberts | University of California, Santa Cruz | The late time core collapse supernova environment |
| Anna (Nikiforova) Erickson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Remote detection of fissile material: Cherenkov counters for gamma detection |
| Session IV | ||
| Angelo Signoracci | Michigan State University | Effective interactions for nuclear structure calculations |
| Ho-Kwang (David) Mao | Associate Director, Carnegie/DOE Alliance Center (CDAC), Carnegie Institution of Washington | Energy Research in Extreme Environments |