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2020 Awarded Campaigns
The 2020 selection of Discovery Science projects that were awarded time for execution in FY22 – FY23
Turbulent and Magnetized Plasmas
Gianluca Gregori
Oxford University
Landau Darrieus Instability
Laurant Masse
CEA
Turbulent Star Formation
Sabrina Nagel
LLNL
Photo-Ionization Equilibrium
Roberto Mancini
University of Nevada Reno
EOS of White Dwarf Stars
Didier Saumon
LANL
Particle Acceleration
Frederico Fiuza
Stanford University
Magnetic Reconnection
Will Fox
PPPL
Laser Wake-Field Acceleration
Felicie Albert
LLNL
Plasma Amplifier
Patrick Poole
LLNL