DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review
Monday, June 23 - Wednesday, June 25
The Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, Calif.
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Updated Wednesday, June 11, 2014
| Monday, June 23 | |
| 7:00 – 8:00am | Breakfast — Alumni Room |
| 8:00am – 5:30pm | Fellows' Tour of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 6:00 – 6:30pm | Registration — Living Room |
| 6:30 – 8:00pm | New Attendee Dinner — Lanai 2 Welcome
James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| Tuesday, June 24 | |
| 7:30am – 6:00pm | Registration — Napa 2 & 3 |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Breakfast — Napa 2 & 3 |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | Photo Session: Incoming, First- and Second-Year Fellows — Riesling |
| 9:00 – 9:15am | Krell Institute Welcome — Sonoma James Corones — President, Krell Institute |
| 9:15 – 9:30am | DOE NNSA Welcome — Sonoma Ralph Schneider — Director, Office of Research and Development, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
| Session I — Sonoma Moderator: Ralph Schneider — National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy |
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| 9:30 – 10:15am | Keynote Speaker Melissa Marggraff — Deputy Principal Associate Director, Weapons and Complex Integration Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Science-based Additive Manufacturing for NNSA Missions” |
| 10:15 – 10:45am | Evan Davis — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Modeling Stability and Turbulence in Tokamak Fusion Reactors” |
| 10:45 – 11:15am | Break |
| Session II — Sonoma Moderator: Tracy Vogler — Sandia National Laboratories, California |
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| 11:15 – 11:45am | Stephanie Lyons — University of Notre Dame “A Study of 20,22Ne(p,γ) 21,23Na” |
| 11:45am – 12:15pm | Michael Hay — Princeton University “High-gain Aneutronic Fusion” |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Luncheon — Napa 2 & 3 Paul Davis — Congressional Fellow, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus |
| 1:30 – 3:00pm | Conference Poster Design Workshop — Sonoma Colin Purrington — Scientist, Photographer & Graphic Designer Join scientist and graphic designer Colin Purrington for an interactive workshop aimed at changing the way you approach conference poster design. Topics will include aesthetics, content and presentation style. |
| 3:00 – 3:30pm | Set Up: Fellows' Poster Session — Claremont Ballroom |
| 3:30 – 6:00pm | Fellows' Poster Session — Claremont Ballroom |
| 6:00pm – | Meeting of Poster Judges — Chardonnay |
| Wednesday, June 25 | |
| 7:30am – 4:00pm | Registration — Napa 2 & 3 |
| 7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast — Napa 2 & 3 |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | Photo Session: Third- and Fourth-Year Fellows + Alumni — Riesling |
| 8:30 – 9:00am | Set Up: DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Claremont Ballroom |
| 9:00 – 9:45am | Early Career Panel — Claremont Ballroom
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| 9:45 – 11:00am | DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Claremont Ballroom |
| 11:00 – 11:30am | Fellowship Q&A — Claremont Ballroom |
| 11:45am – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Napa 2 & 3 Contest Winner Announcements
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| Session III — Sonoma Moderator: Kimberly Budil — University of California |
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| 1:00 – 1:45pm | Invited Speaker Christopher Spadaccini — Staff Research Engineer and Principal Investigator, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Additive Manufacturing and Architected Materials” |
| 1:45 – 2:15pm | Invited Speaker Matthew Gomez — Senior Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus “Experimental Verification of the Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) Concept” |
| 2:15 – 2:45pm | John Gibbs — Northwestern University “Dendritic solidification” |
| 2:45 – 3:15pm | Break |
| Session IV — Sonoma Moderator: Ray Leeper — Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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| 3:15 – 3:45pm | Invited Speaker Laura Berzak Hopkins — Design Physicist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna “Politics and Plasma” |
| 3:45 – 4:15pm | Thomas Saller — University of Michigan “An Asymptotic, Homogenized, Simplified P2 Approximation to the Neutron Transport Equation” |
| 4:15 – 4:45pm | Invited Speaker Forrest Doss — Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumnus “High-Energy-Density Physics: Radiation and Turbulence” |