2012 Presentations

Thursday, July 26
Welcome
Ralph Schneider	Director, Office of Defense Science, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy	Welcome
Session I
Victor Reis	Senior Advisor, Office of Under Secretary for Science, U.S. Department of Energy	“Sputnik, Climate, Fukushima and Small Modular Reactors: Innovation and Planning to ‘Change the Game’”
Session II
Jordan McDonnell	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	“Microscopic Theory of Fission at Finite Temperature”
Paul Davis	University of California, Berkeley	“Investigating Warm Dense Matter with X-ray Scattering”
Session III
J. Bradley Beck	National Security Office Program Manager, Los Alamos National Laboratory	“Stockpile Stewardship Challenges: Los Alamos National Laboratory Highlights” (Not Released)
Friday, July 27
Session IV
Kimberly Budil	N Program Manager, Global Security Principal Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	“National Security ST&E at LLNL”
Patrick O'Malley	Rutgers University	“Nuclear Physics Reactions of Astrophysical Importance”
Session V
Ray Leeper	Manager, Diagnostics and Target Physics Department, Sandia National Laboratories – New Mexico	“High Energy Density Physics Research at Sandia National Laboratories”
Richard Kraus	Harvard University	“From Janus to Z to the Moon and Mercury: Laboratory Shock and Release Experiments to Study Giant Planetary Collisions” (Not Released)