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2014 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

The 2013 poster contest winners were recognized at the program review.The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research being 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.

2014 Contest Winners

  • Mareena Robinson – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Overall)

  • Sarah Palaich – University of California, Los Angeles (Novice)

  • Scott Moreland – Duke University (Honorable Mention)

  • Jennifer Shusterman – University of California, Berkeley (Honorable Mention)

Group I — Presenting 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Poster Presenters & Abstracts
Poster Number Name Title
1 Adam Cahill An Elliptical Crystal Spectrometer for the Study of Localized X-ray Absorption in Hot Plasmas
3 Benjamin Galloway VUV-Pumped High Harmonic Generation and Observation of Isolated Attosecond Pulse
5 Io Kleiser Explosions of Massive Stars From Binary Systems
7 Samantha Lawrence Hydrogen-affected Mechanical Behavior and Slip Transmission in Ni-201
9 Geoffrey Main Simulations of Fracture of Underwater Air-Filled Implodables Using the FIVER Framework
11 John Moreland Charm Quark Medium Modification Within a Linearized Boltzmann Approach
13 Walter Pettus Advances in NaI(Tl) Detectors for DM-Ice
15 Mareena Robinson Evaluation of Pulse Shape Discrimination Characteristics in 10Boron-Loaded Plastic Scintillators

Group II — Presenting 4:45-5:45 p.m.

Poster Presenters & Abstracts
Poster Number Name Title
2 Fabio Iunes Sanches Axions After BICEP 2
4 Juan Manfredi The High Resolution Array (HiRA): A Large Solid Angle Silicon Array for Rare Isotope Beam Experiments
6 Elizabeth Miller Nanostructured Anodes for Low Temperature Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
8 Sarah Palaich Exploring Carbon Storage in the Deep Earth
10 Jennifer Shusterman Development of Solid Phase Extraction Materials for Actinide and Lanthanide Separations
12 Hong Sio Measurements of Multiple Nuclear Bang Times to Probe Implosion Dynamics and Kinetic Effects at OMEGA and the NIF
14 Sabrina Strauss Search for E0 Transitions in 156Gd
16 Christopher Young Developing Xenon Ion Velocity Measurements Using Laser Induced Fluorescence