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2012 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Thursday, July 26 — 4:00-6:00 p.m.

Sky View, Crystal Gateway Marriott

The annual Fellows' Poster Session affords program review attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research supported by the DOE NNSA SSGF program. Each fellow is provided space to present his or her latest findings, and prizes are awarded to those who engage in the best visual and oral presentations.

2012 Contest Winners

  • Matthew Buckner – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Overall)

  • Walter Pettus – University of Wisconsin, Madison (Novice)

  • J. Scott Moreland – Duke University (Honorable Mention)

  • Thomas Saller – University of Michigan (Honorable Mention)

Group I — Presenting 4:15-5:00 p.m.

Poster Presenters & Abstracts
Poster Number Name Title
1 Adam Cahill Elliptical Spectrometer for the Study of X-Pinch Physics through Absorption Spectroscopy
3 Evan Davis BOUT++ Simulations of Edge Turbulence in Alcator C-Mod’s EDA H-Mode
5 Michael Hay Geometrical Optics of Dense Aerosols
7 Stephanie Lyons Resonance Strengths in 20Ne(p, γ)22Na and 22Ne(p, γ)23Na and the NeNa Cycle
9 Geoffrey Main High-Order Schemes for Multifluid Problems
11 J. Scott Moreland Imprinting Quantum Fluctuations on Hydrodynamic Initial Conditions
13 Walter Pettus Cosmogenic Activation and the DM-Ice Detector
15 Jennifer Shusterman Trivalent Actinide and Lanthanide Separations Using Extraction Chromatography
17 Alex Zylstra First Stellar Nucleosynthesis Experiments Using ICF Plasmas

Group II — Presenting 5:15-6:00 p.m.

Poster Presenters & Abstracts
Poster Number Name Title
2 Matthew Buckner Thermonuclear Reaction Rates from Rare Oxygen Isotope Radiative Proton Capture
4 Nicole Fields CosI: Coherent Neutrino Scattering with Cesium Iodide
6 John Gibbs The Dynamics of Coarsening in Liquid-Solid Mixtures: Facets and Curvature Flow
8 Kristen John Iron Rayleigh-Taylor Laser Experiments Using Radiation-Hydrodynamics Codes
10 Elizabeth Miller Novel Anodes for Low-Temperature Solid Oxide Cells
12 Joshua Renner A Prototype High-Pressure Xenon Detector for NEXT
14 Thomas Saller Analysis of the Antineutrino Signature of LEU/MOX Fueled LWRs
16 Christopher Young Numerical Investigation of Symmetry Capsule Fusion Implosions