DOE NNSA SSGF Annual Program Review
Tuesday, June 19 - Thursday, June 21
Argonaut Hotel, San Francisco, California
Updated Sunday, June 17, 2018
| Monday, June 18 (Fellows Only) (Tour attendees arrive throughout the day.)
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| 3:30 – 7:00pm | Registration — Golden Gate Ballroom Prefunction Space |
| 4:00 – 5:00pm | New Attendee Orientation — Constellation Room |
| 5:00 – 7:00pm | Reception — Maritime Room |
| Tuesday, June 19 (Fellows Only) (Non-tour attendees arrive throughout the day.)
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| 6:00 – 7:00am | Breakfast — Golden Gate Ballroom C |
| 7:00am – | Bus Departs for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 8:30am – 5:00pm |
DOE Laboratory Tours (Lawrence Livermore and Sandia) (fellows only) Limited to preregistered fellows. Concludes with return transportation to San Francisco.
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| 5:30 – 7:30pm | Reception — Campo di Bocce (Livermore, CA) |
| 7:30pm – | Bus Departs for Argonaut Hotel |
| Wednesday, June 20 | |
| 7:30 – 9:00am | Registration — Golden Gate Ballroom Prefunction Space |
| 7:30 – 8:30am | Breakfast — Maritime Room |
| 8:30 – 8:35am | Krell Institute Welcome — Golden Gate Ballroom A & B Robert Voigt — Krell Institute |
| 8:35 – 8:45am | DOE NNSA Welcome — Golden Gate Ballroom A & B Sarah Wilk — Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration |
| Session I — Golden Gate Ballroom A & B Moderator: Jennifer Shusterman, CUNY-Hunter College; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna |
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| 8:45 – 9:10am |
Cole Holcomb — Princeton University “Gyroresonant Streaming Instability of Interstellar Cosmic Rays” |
| 9:10 – 9:35am |
Io Kleiser — California Institute of Technology “Modeling Rapidly Fading Supernovae as Nickel-free Core-collapse Explosions of Extended Helium Stars” |
| 9:35 – 10:00am |
Fabio Iunes Sanches — University of California, Berkeley “Quantum Information in Gravity” |
| 10:00 – 10:30am | Break — Golden Gate Ballroom Prefunction Space |
| 10:30 – 11:30am | Keynote Luke Shulenburger — Staff Scientist, High Energy Density Plasma Theory, Sandia National Laboratories “Exploring the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment in the Study of Materials Under Extreme Conditions” |
| 11:30am – 1:00pm | Luncheon — Maritime Room |
| Session II — Golden Gate Ballroom A & B Moderator: Jennifer Shusterman, CUNY-Hunter College; DOE NNSA SSGF Alumna |
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| 1:00 – 1:25pm |
Cameron Meyers — University of Minnesota “An Experimental View of Earth's Upper Mantle: Densificaton, Deformation, and Recovery of Olivine-rich Rocks” |
| 1:25 – 1:50pm |
Amy Lovell — Michigan State University “Uncertainty Quantification for Reaction Theory” |
| 1:50 – 2:15pm |
Richard Vega — Texas A&M University “Transport Sweeps Using an Extended Slice Balance Approach with LDFE and GPU Acceleration” |
| 2:15 – 3:00pm | Set Up: Fellows' & DOE Laboratory Poster Sessions — Maritime Room |
| 2:15 – 3:00pm | Photo Session: Outgoing Fellows & Fellow/Alumni Retakes — Constellation Room |
| 3:00 – 4:00pm | DOE Laboratory Poster Session — Maritime Room |
| 4:00 – 6:00pm |
Fellows' Poster Session — Maritime Room |
| Thursday, June 21 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | Registration — Golden Gate Ballroom Prefunction Space |
| 8:00 – 9:00am | Breakfast — Maritime Room |
| 8:00 – 8:45am | Photo Session: Incoming Fellows — Constellation Room |
| Session III — Golden Gate Ballroom A & B Moderator: Kim Budil, University of California, National Laboratories |
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| 9:00 – 9:40am | Keynote Alan S. Wan — Deputy Program Director, Weapon Physics and Design Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory “Supporting Stockpile Stewardship with High-energy-density Physics Experiments” |
| 9:40 – 10:05am |
Alison Saunders — University of California, Berkeley “Using X-ray Thomson Scattering to Measure Plasma Conditions in Warm Dense Matter Experiments on the OMEGA Laser” |
| 10:05 – 10:30am |
Leo Kirsch — University of California, Berkeley “Gamma Strength From Quasicontinuum Lifetimes” |
| 10:30 – 10:45am | Break — Golden Gate Ballroom Prefunction Space |
| 10:45 – 11:10am |
Charles Epstein — Massachusetts Institute of Technology “A Precise Look at Electron-electron Scattering” |
| 11:10 – 11:35am |
Collin Stillman — University of Rochester “Ultrafast X-ray Spectroscopy of Hot Dense Matter Systems” |
| 11:45am – 12:45pm | Keynote Q&A Janet Napolitano — President, University of California |
| 12:45 – 1:45pm | Closing Luncheon — Maritime Room |