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Appendix C: Topics Discussed at Laboratory Meetings
Pages 57-59

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... C Topics Discussed at Laboratory Meetings TOPICS DISCUSSED AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY • Materials at extreme conditions -- Condensed matter -- Materials activities • Radiation transport • High energy density science -- Warm dense matter -- Dense plasmas • Materials physics and chemistry and engineering issues • Computation, computer science, modeling and simulation -- Current codes  Current physics and algorithms -- Verification and validation approaches and results -- Career issues  Early career and post-docs  Students -- New physics under development for production -- New algorithms under development for production -- Computing requirements and out year plans TOPICS DISCUSSED AT SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES • Radiation effects and high energy density science • Materials science, and nanodevices and microsystems • Engineering sciences, and computer and information science • Major facilities for nuclear weapons research • MESA, Z-Pinch and environmental test facilities • Weapons engineering and product realization • Systems engineering and stockpile modernization overview • Plutonium aging • Weapons aging – annual assessment • Advanced systems and the 120 day study • LDRD program overview: LDRD impact on NW mission • Weapons engineering and product realization • Computation, computer science, modeling and simulation -- Impact of advanced computing at Sandia on national security -- Sandia's vision and strategy for computing science 57
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... -- Production software and computer science research -- Verification, validation and uncertainty quantification -- Early career staff and post-docs -- Computer and information sciences/materials sciences, engineering science -- Physical models for research to impact • Poster session topics -- Exploring formal verification methodology for FPGA-based digital systems -- New coatings for MEMS-based sensors for enhanced surveillance -- Nonresonant broadband funneling of light via ultrasubwavelength channels -- Use of limited data to construct Bayesian networks for probabilistic risk assessment -- Richtymer-Meshkov instabilities in cylindrical and planar geometries on Z -- Using magnetic fields to create and control high energy density matter -- Development of ab initio techniques critical for science-based explosives research and development TOPICS DISCUSSED AT LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY • Materials physics and chemistry, and engineering issues • Materials at extreme conditions -- Condensed matter -- Materials activities • High energy density science -- Warm dense matter -- Dense plasmas • Radiation hydrodynamics • Weapon design topics -- Life extension programs -- Improvised nuclear devices assessment -- Nuclear weapons leadership -- Internal metrics and quality -- Connections to basic science -- PMP, PVS, Safety Suite, and Advanced Simulation and Computing -- National Boost Initiative -- Workforce issues  Special topics for junior designers • Computation, computer science, modeling and simulation -- Mod/sim overview -- Design codes -- Science codes -- Verification and validation -- Requirements/plans -- Design codes  Verification and validation -- Science codes -- Advanced algorithms, advanced architectures -- Post-docs and early career S&Es • Poster session topics -- Optical temperature diagnostics for flames and detonation events -- A new approach in dynamic compression equation of state 58
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... /235U(n,f) cross section ratio with the NIFFTE time projection chamber -- Measuring the alpha to spontaneous fission decay -- Branching ration of 252Cf with a time projection chamber -- Direct numerical simulations of structure and transport in dense plasmas 59
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