NIF and JLF User Group Meeting 2024

2024 NIF and JLF User Group Meeting
Agenda
*Updated 01/29/24

AGENDA
January 30 – February 1, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
7:00 AM	Registration Opens and Continental Breakfast
	Opening Session Chair: Kevin Fournier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:05	NIF User Office Director, Opening Remarks Kevin Fournier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:15	Chair, NIF User Group Louise Willingale, University of Michigan
8:20	Chair, JLF User Group Tom White, University of Nevada, Reno
8:25	Deputy Director for Science and Technology, LLNL Patricia Falcone, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:35	National Ignition Facility and Photon Science, Principal Associate Director Jeff Wisoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:45	The Program Office Perspective Samantha Calkins, National Nuclear Security Administration
9:05	Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Perspective Kramer Akli, US Department of Energy Office of Fusion Energy Sciences
9:25	National Science Foundation Perspective Slava Lukin, National Science Foundation
9:45	Status of the NIF Gordon Brunton, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:05	NIF User Office: What's New for Users at the NIF Kevin Fournier, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:25 AM	Break
	Session 1: Materials at Extreme Pressures Chair: Mario Manuel, General Atomics
10:45	Extreme Chemistry and New States of Matter at Extreme Pressures Eva Zurek, University at Buffalo
11:15	Transforming Simple Metals to Topological Insulators: Sodium at the NIF Danae Polsin, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
11:45	Equations of state for white dwarf stars Amy Jenei, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
12:15 PM	First Free-Free Absorption Measurement of Hydrogen at Stellar Interior Conditions Samuel Schumacher, University of Rostock
12:45 PM	Lunch (transitioning into the poster session)
1:15 PM	Poster Session 1 Chair: Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:45 PM	Break
3:00 PM	Session: New NIF Experiments Chair: Mathieu Bailly-Grandvaux, University of California, San Diego
3:00	Exploring terrestrial exoplanets: Pressure-induced phase transformations in SiO2 Michelle Marshall, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
3:20	Advancing Atomic Physics at Gbar Pressure Tobias Dornheim, HZDR
3:40	Exploration of 3D-Printed Microstructured Targets for an Enhanced Proton Isochoric Heating Platform on the NIF-ARC Facility Raspberry Simpson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
4:00	Ultra-bright MeV photon sources driven by direct laser accelerated (DLA) electrons on ARC Hui Chen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
4:20	Neutron Capture in a Plasma Environment Brian Appelbe, Imperial College London
4:40	Staged Beam Amplification on the NIF using Plasma Optics Patrick Poole, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
5:00 PM	Social Function at Meeting Venue (Garré Vineyard & Winery)
6:00 PM	Adjourn for the day

Wednesday, January 31, 2024
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM	NIF PI meeting with NIF management (by invitation)
7:00 AM	Continental Breakfast & Registration Continues
8:00 AM	Jupiter Laser Facility Chair: Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:00	Opening Remarks Glenn Fox, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:05	Spatiospectrally Resolved Chirped Probe Interferometry for Multi-Timestep Imaging at Comet Elizabeth Grace, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:22	Ultrafast Two-Frame Holography for Shock Physics Applications Trevor Hutchinson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:39	Mode conversion of the COMET laser and probing intense magnetic fields in underdense plasmas Andrew Longman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:56	Characterizing MeV bremsstrahlung X-ray source from picosecond laser-solid interactions, using front surface target structures Adeola Aghedo, Florida A&M University
9:13	Benchmarking performance and developing a Standard Comparison platform for the Titan Laser Matthew Selwood, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:30	Overview of JLF user program and changes Félicie Albert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:40	Capabilities/laser/refurb updates Brent Stuart, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:05	STILETTO update Ryan Muir, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:25 AM	Break
10:45	Overview of community feedback Tom White, University of Nevada Reno
11:00	Community discussion (45 minutes) Tom White, University of Nevada Reno
11:45 AM	Session 4: Iron Properties Chair: Tilo Doeppner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:45	Iron Photoionized Plasmas at Conditions Relevant to X-ray Reflection from Accretion Disks Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada Reno
12:15	Probing the plastic deformation of iron and iron-nickel allows at ultra-high pressures and strain rates Marc Meyers, University of California, San Diego
12:45	Group Photo & Lunch (transitioning into the poster session)
1:15 PM	Poster Session 2 Chair: Maria Gatu-Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:45 PM	Break
3:00 PM	Session 5: Turbulence Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan
3:00	Modern Perspectives and Challenges in Plasma Turbulence and Magnetic Reconnection Nuno Loureiro, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:30	Experiments on Magnetic Reconnection at the NIF Will Fox, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
4:00	Transport processes in turbulent and magnetized plasmas Petros Tzeferacos, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
4:30	Star Formation at NIF David Collins, Florida State University
5:00 PM	Close of Presentations

Thursday, February 1, 2024
7:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:00 AM	Session 6: NIF User Group Meeting Chair: Louise Willingale, University of Michigan
8:00	NIF User Group meeting and discussion Louise Willingale, University of Michigan (Chair, NIF User Group)
8:30 AM	Session 7 Chair: Heath Lefevre, University of Michigan
8:30	TNSA Proton Radiography efforts at NIF Jackson Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:45	Accelerating inertial fusion science: from ignition to rapid experimentation using HPC and AI Brian Spears, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:15	Multi-MJ fusion yields at the NIF Annie Kritcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:30	NIF High Yield Diagnostic Plans and Radiation Hardening Dave Schlossberg, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:45	The NIF Enhanced Yield Capability Dayne Fratanduono, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:15 AM	Break
10:30 AM	Panel discussion: Fostering innovation through IFE Chair: Petros Tzeferacos, University of Rochester
	John Edwards Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Justin Galbraith Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Alan Fry SLAC
	Dan Casey Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:30 AM	Poster Awards Sponsored by General Atomics, Luxel Corporation, and Sydor Technologies
11:45 AM	Adjourn meeting
12:15 PM	NIF and JLF Tours - busses depart from meeting venue (Garré Vineyard & Winery)
2:45 PM	NIF and JLF Tour Concludes - busses return to meeting venue (Garré Vineyard & Winery)