The following are the presentations from the NIF & JLF User Groups Meeting that are available for download.
Tuesday, February 10, 2026
| Time | Presentation |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am | Opening Remarks (No Presentation) Dayne Fratanduono, Acting NIF User Office Director, LLNL |
| 8:05 am | Opening Comments from the Deputy Director for Science and Technology (No Presentation) Pat Falcone, Deputy Director for Science and Technology, LLNL |
| 8:15 am | NIF User Group Welcome (No Presentation) Maria Gatu-Johnson, NIF User Group Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:25 am | JLF User Group Welcome Benjamin Ofori-Okai, JLF User Group Chair, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
| 8:35 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks by the Principal Associate Director of NIF & PS (No Presentation) Vincent Tang, NIF & PS Principal Associate Director, LLNL |
| 8:45 am | Jupiter Laser Facility Welcome (No Presentation) Félicie Albert, Jupiter Laser Facility Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 8:55 am | NNSA Perspective (Virtual) (No Presentation) Anagha Iyengar, National Nuclear Security Administration |
| 9:15 am | NSF Perspective (Virtual) Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin, U.S. National Science Foundation |
| 9:30 am | Status of the NIF Gordon Brunton, NIF Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 9:45 am | NIF User Office: What's New for Users at the NIF Dayne Fratanduono, Acting NIF User Office Director, LLNL |
| 10:30 am | White Dwarfs from the Inside Out (No Presentation) Bart Dunlap, University of Texas |
| 11:00 am | Laboratory Measurements of Partially Ionized Carbon under White Dwarf Envelope Conditions Willow Martin, Stanford University |
| 11:30 am | Evidence of Enhanced K-Shell Ionization in Warm-Dense Carbon David Bishel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 3:00 pm | The Science of Materials Using NIF (No Presentation) Jon Eggert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 3:30 pm | Probing the Interiors of Super-Earth Exoplanets with NIF (No Presentation) Tom Duffy, Princeton University |
| 4:00 pm | Chemistry Under Extremes – Metallization of Ionic Solids (No Presentation) C-S Yoo, Washington State University |
| 4:30 pm | The Electride Nature of Ramp-Compressed Sodium in the Terapascal (No Presentation) Danae Polsin, NIF User Group Co-Chair, Laboratory for Laser Energetics |
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
| Time | Presentations |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am | JLF Welcome (No Presentation) Glenn Fox, Principal Associate Director for Physical and Life Sciences, LLNL |
| 8:05 am | JLF Opening Remarks (No Presentation) Félicie Albert, Jupiter Laser Facility Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 8:10 am | Measurements of Rippled Reflecting Shocks in Epoxy (No Presentation) Gaia Righi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 8:30 am | Extreme Tensile Strength of High-Entropy Alloys by Laser Shock Sheron Tavares, University of California San Diego |
| 8:50 am | Tamped Ablator Pressure Dependence on Intensity and Tamper Mike Armstrong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 9:10 am | Progress Toward a Short-Pulse Laser-Driven X-Pinch on the Titan Laser Heath LeFevre, University of Michigan |
| 9:30 am | Plasma Probing and Single-Shot Crossed-Beam Energy Transfer Measurements Using a Broadband Probe (No Presentation) Andrew Longman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 9:50 am | Michigan Target Research and Fabrication Sallee Klein, University of Michigan |
| 10:30 am | JLF Updates and Overview Félicie Albert, Jupiter Laser Facility Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory JLF Updates and Overview Brent Stuart, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory JLF Updates and Overview David Alessi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:30 am | Community Feedback and Discussion Ben Ofori-Okai, JLF User Group Co-Chair, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory |
| 3:00 pm | Neutron Capture in a Plasma Environment - Towards an Excited State Measurement Brian Appelbe, Imperial College London |
| 3:15 pm | Studying the 3He-3He Reaction for Stellar Nucleosynthesis in HED Plasmas at the NIF Andrew Lanzrath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 3:30 pm | Toward the First Measurements of Plasma Electron Screening Relevant to Stellar Nucleosynthesis (No Presentation) Daniel Casey, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 3:45 pm | Exploring Al2O3 Crystal Structures at TPa Pressures Using Ramp Compression Terry Suer, Laboratory for Laser Energetics |
| 4:00 pm | Lithium Multi-Shock Equation of State (No Presentation) Shanti Deemyad, University of Utah |
| 4:15 pm | Advancing Atomic Physics at Gbar Pressure (No Presentation) Tilo Doeppner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 4:30 pm | Continuation of Iron Photoionized Plasmas at Conditions of X-ray Reflection from Accretion Disks Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada Reno |
| 4:45 pm | Measuring the Ionization State of Mid-Z Traces for White Dwarf Astrophysics Willow Martin, Stanford University |
Thursday, February 12, 2026
| Time | Presentations |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am | NIF User Group Meeting and Discussion Maria Gatu-Johnson, NIF User Group Chair, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 8:30 am | ABACUS: A Bayesian-Delphi Framework for Plasma Transport Coefficients Michael Murillo, Michigan State |
| 9:00 am | Laser-Induced Shocks in Flowing Plasmas Wojciech Rozmus, University of Alberta |
| 9:30 am | Scaling of Shock-Driven Flows Over Two Orders of Magnitude in Length Scales Between Shock Tube and NIF Environments Laser-Induced Shocks in Flowing Plasmas Alex Do, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (on behalf of Riccardo Bonazza, University of Wisconsin) |
| 10:00 am | Extending NIF Experiments on the Driving Parameter of Shock-Forced Turbulence to Supersonic Conditions (No Presentation) Seth Davidovitz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 10:45 am | VISAR Imaging Velocimetry at the NIF Marius Millot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 10:55 am | Overview of NIF Framing Cameras Clement Trosseille, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:05 am | Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction (No Presentation) Cara Vennari, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:15 am | Optical Thomson Scattering on the NIF George Swadling, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:25 am | LLNL Radiochemistry Diagnostics (No Presentation) John Despotopulos, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 11:35 am | Overview of NIF X-Ray Spectroscopy Capabilities Christine Mariscal, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, General Atomics |
