2013 Presentations

DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review Presentations

Tuesday, June 25 - Wednesday, June 26
Inn and Spa at Loretto, Santa Fe, N.M.

Tuesday, June 25
Welcome
Kimberly Budil N Program Manager, Global Security Principal Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Welcome
Session I
John Sarrao Associate Director for Theory, Simulation and Computation, Los Alamos National Laboratory “Opportunities for Mesoscale Science: A MaRIE Perspective”
Matthew Buckner University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Thermonuclear Reaction Rate of 17O(p,γ)18F”
Kristen John California Institute of Technology “Strength of Materials Through RT Experiments & Multiscale Model Validation”
Alan B. Carr Laboratory Historian, Los Alamos National Laboratory “A Brief History of Los Alamos National Laboratory”
Session II
Matthew Gomez Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus “High Energy Density Science on the Z Facility at Sandia National Laboratories”
Joshua Renner University of California, Berkeley “High Pressure Xenon Detectors for Rare Physics Searches”
Ryan McBride Physicist/Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico “Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion & Cylindrical Dynamic Materials Properties Experiments on the Z Pulsed-Power Accelerator”
Wednesday, June 26
Session III
Dylan Spaulding Origins Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus “Stewardship Science Outside the Box”
Nicole Fields University of Chicago “CosI: Coherent Neutrino Scattering with Cesium Iodide”
Scott Gibbs Associate Director for Threat Identification and Response, Los Alamos National Laboratory “Global Security at Los Alamos: Protect Against the Nuclear Threat”
Alex Zylstra Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Charged-Particle Spectroscopy of Inertial Fusion Implosions” (Not Released)