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2026 Presentations

DOE NNSA SSGF & LRGF Annual Program Review Presentations

Sunday, June 14 – Thursday, June 18

La Fonda on the Plaza, Santa Fe, N.M.

Presenter Presenter's Title and Organization Link to Presentation Page

Tuesday, June 16

Brian Spears Technical Director, Genesis Mission, U.S. Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration; Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Keynote - The Genesis Mission: Nation-Scale AI and the Future of Scientific Work
Scott Campbell Michigan State University Precise Mass Measurement of Aluminum-22 Suggests Unlikely Proton-Halo Structure
Kathryn Sturge University of Maryland, College Park Dynamics of Fast Electrical Breakdown in Electron-Charged Polymethyl Methacrylate
Andres Castillo Stanford University Kinetic Modeling and Theory of Shear-Flow Instabilities in Crossed-Field Diodes
Athena Padgiotis Texas A&M University Simultaneous Evaluation of Dynamic Strength and Equation of State
Lansing Horan IV Massachusetts Institute of Technology Density Structure of Radiatively-Collapsing Reconnection Layer from Shadowgraphy
Derek Kuldinow Stanford University Development of 10-Moment Fluid Models for Magnetized Plasmas
Dawson Wright Texas Tech University Impact of Magnetic Cores, Impedance Variations, and Reset Techniques on Linear Transformer Driver Performance

Pre-Recorded

Talk submissions from outgoing fellows unable to attend the 2026 meeting in person.

Jackson White University of Texas at Austin Spectral Line Shapes in Dense Stellar Plasmas
Veera Panova Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tomographic Investigation of Bonding and Microstructure in Supersonic Microparticle Impacts