2021 Agenda | DOE NNSA SSGF

DOE NNSA SSGF & LRGF Annual Program Review

Tuesday, August 10 - Wednesday, August 11
(Note: all times Central)

Tuesday, August 10
10:00am	Krell Welcome Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute DOE NNSA Welcome Njema Frazier — Director, Office of Experimental Sciences, National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30am	Viktor Rozsa — University of Chicago “First Principles Studies of Aqueous Solutions at Ambient and Extreme Conditions”
11:00am	Benjamin Musci — Georgia Institute of Technology “A Big Slice o' Pizza: Supernova Mixing in a Lab”
11:30am	Erin Good — Louisiana State University “How it Happens: The Creation and Commissioning of New Experimental Systems”
12:00pm	Aaron (Miguel) Holgado — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Double-Neutron-Star Origins: The Interplay of Strong Gravity, Nuclear Microphysics, and Macroscopic Astrophysics”
12:30pm	Daniel Woodbury — University of Maryland, College Park “Applications of Intense Mid-Infrared Laser-Plasma Interactions”
1:00pm	Paul Fanto — Yale University “Statistical Properties of Nuclei: Beyond the Mean-Field Approximation”
1:30pm	E. Paige Abel — Michigan State University “Production of ⁴⁷Sc Through Isotope Harvesting at the NSCL”
2:00pm	Gabriel Shipley — University of New Mexico “On the Dynamic Generation of Megagauss-Level Magnetic Fields to Magnetize and Stabilize Pulsed-Power-Driven Implosions”
2:30pm	Erin Nissen — University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Investigating the Reactive Nature of Nitromethane, an Explosive Liquid, Under Tabletop Shock Compression”
3:00pm	Gil Shohet — Stanford University “Dusty Plasma Effects in Hypervelocity Impacts” Day One Closing Remarks Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute
Wednesday, August 11
10:00am	Krell Welcome Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute DOE NNSA LRGF Introduction Sarah L. Nelson — Director of Strategic Integration for Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation; National Nuclear Security Administration, U.S. Department of Energy
10:30am	Travis Voorhees — Georgia Institute of Technology “Abundant Opportunities and Support: LRGF Reflection”
11:00am	Dane Sterbentz — University of California, Davis “Numerical Modeling of the Submicrosecond Solidification of Materials Undergoing Dynamic Compression”
11:30am	DOE NNSA LRGF Fellows' Poster Session (complete listing/abstracts) 11:30am — Raspberry Simpson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:45am — Stephanie Miller, University of Michigan 12:00pm — William Riedel, Stanford University 12:15pm — Eldred Lee, Dartmouth College
12:30pm	DOE NNSA SSGF Fellows' Poster Session (complete listing/abstracts) 12:30pm — Drew Morrill, University of Colorado Boulder 12:45pm — Olivia Pardo, California Institute of Technology 1:00pm — Chad Ummel, Rutgers University 1:15pm — Michael Wadas, University of Michigan Program Review Closing Remarks Shelly Olsan — President, Krell Institute