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2026 Fellows' Poster Session & Abstracts

Fellows present their research at the annual poster session.

The annual Fellows’ Poster Session affords attendees a unique opportunity to learn more about the research supported by the DOE NNSA SSGF and DOE NNSA LRGF programs. The session is divided into two groups, and each presenting fellow is provided space to highlight his or her latest findings. This format allows all attendees – including fellow presenters – to discuss their own and one another's research.

First-, second- and third-year fellows: Please closely review Krell's Guidelines for Poster Presentation document which outlines session logistics, poster size limitations, printing options and helpful tips for presenting your work.

Kindly refer to the DOE NNSA SSGF and DOE NNSA LRGF fellows' listings by program year for more information about the research of each participating student.

Group I — Presenting 4:30-5:15 p.m.

DOE NNSA LRGF
Poster Number Name Title
1 Danielle Brown Completing the Fusion Fuel Cycle: From Kinetic Driver Modeling to Fuel Recovery
3 Kaylee Cunningham A Versatile Approach to Determining the Fission Gas Release Threshold in UO2
5 Audrey DeVault Experimental Quantification of Shock Front Velocity Non-Uniformities in Indirectly Driven Wetted Foams with the OMEGA High-Resolution Velocimeter (OHRV)
7 Rohith Karur The Finite Moment Problem, Parton Distribution Functions, and Gaussian Processes
9 James Nichols Assessing Laser Augmentation for Flight Relevant Hypersonic Material Response
11 Christopher Roper Active Space Radiation Modification using Plasma Waves from a Pulsed Electron Beam
DOE NNSA SSGF
Poster Number Name Title
13 Matthew Armbrust Using GEOS-MPM Code to Simulate Shock Compression of Metal Foams
15 Matthew Cufari Multispectral X-ray Tomography of ICF Implosions
17 Bryan Foo Measurement of Non-Maxwellian Ion Velocity Distributions in a Planar-Geometry Shock-Driven Implosion Mockup
19 Julian Kinney Bremsstrahlung Emission and Absorption in Strongly Coupled Plasmas
21 Brandon Lem Renormalization Group Scale Dependence of Nucleon-Nucleus Optical Potentials
23 Monica Martinez Henriquez Flow Stresses and Recrystallization Behaviors in Mo-La and TZM up to 1700 °C
25 Steven Renfroe Quasi-Static to Dynamic Transition During Horizontal Intrusion in Granular Media
27 Arman Ter-Petrosyan Improving Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials for Defect Kinetics

Group II — Presenting 5:15-6:00 p.m.

DOE NNSA LRGF
Poster Number Name Title
2 Veena Chauhan Best Practices for Fine-Tuning Machine Learning Interatomic Potentials for Catalysis
4 Skylar Dannhoff Hohlraum Wall Suppression by Pre-Imposed Magnetic Fields
6 Isaac Huegel Laboratory Tests of Transient X-ray Emission from Accretion-Powered Objects
8 Joshua Luoma Efficient Laser-Driven Radiation Sources in Relativistically Transparent Plasmas
10 Adria Peterkin Modeling Radiolysis Effects in FLiBe Molten Fluoride Salt
12 Landon Tafoya Diagnosing Spatial Ion Temperature of ICF Implosions Using Multiplexed PMTs
DOE NNSA SSGF
Poster Number Name Title
14 Henry Chance Multi-Resonant Laser Isotope Separation for Sr Enrichment
16 Carter Fietek Can Virtual Experiments Replace Conventional Experiments?
18 Isabel Hernandez Precision Beta-Decay Measurements of Long-Lived Fission Products
20 Eliana Krakovsky Optimizing the Full Potential Linear Muffin Tin Orbital Basis Set
22 Jarett LeVan Foundations of Magnetohydrodynamics with Applications to Dense Plasmas
24 Sean Peyres Accommodating Solute Diffusion Timescales via Pulsed Plasma Electrolysis
26 Robert Spiers Magnetic Field Compression in ICF and its Effects on Thermal Conduction and Alpha Heating