Eva Zurek named 2022 APS Fellow
October 19, 2022
Eva Zurek, professor of chemistry at the University at Buffalo, has been named an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow for 2022. The APS Fellowship Program was created in 1921 for those in the physics community to recognize peers who have contributed to advances in physics through original research, innovative applications, teaching, and leadership.
Achieving extreme conditions in convergent geometry at the NIF
Andrea Kritcher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
November 11, 2022
4:00 – 5:00 PM ET
Richard Kraus selected as recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award
October 11, 2022
Richard Kraus, research scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is the recipient of the inaugural American Physical Society’s 2023 Neil Ashcroft Early Career Award for Studies of Matter at Extreme High Pressure Conditions. Kraus is recognized for his outstanding theoretical or experimental contributions by an early-career scientist to studies of matter at extreme high-pressure conditions.
Poster Award at AAPPS DPP 2022
October 10, 2022
Poster Award for “The Impact of Magnetic Fields on the Melting Curves of Warm Dense Matter” at the Division of Plasma Physics (DPP) of the Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics in October 2022. Authors: I. N. Erez, R. Betti, J. R. Davies, J. L. Peebles, and P.-A. Gourdain.
Effective Drift Velocity from Turbulent Transport by Vorticity
Aluie, H., S. Rai, H. Yin, A. Lees, D. Zhao, S. Griffies, A. Adcroft, and J. Shang. Effective Drift Velocity from Turbulent Transport by Vorticity. Physical Review Fluids 7, 104601…
Novel fabrication tools for dynamic compression targets with engineered voids using photolithography methods
Pandolfi, S., T. Carver, D. Hodge, A. F. T. Leong, K. Kurzer-Ogul, P. Hart, E. Galtier, D. Khaghani, E. Cunningham, B. Nagler, H. J. Lee, C. Bolme, K. Ramos, K.…
Multi-frame, ultrafast, x-ray microscope for imaging shockwave dynamics
Hodge, D. S., A. F. T. Leong, S. Pandolfi, K. Kurzer-Ogul, D. S. Montgomery, H. Aluie, C. Bolme, T. Carver, E. Cunningham, C. B. Curry, M. Dayton, F.-J. Decker, E.…
Theory of the magnetothermal instability in coronal plasma flows
F. García-Rubio, R. Betti, J. Sanz, and H. Aluie. Theory of the magnetothermal instability in coronal plasma flows. Physics of Plasmas 29, 092106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0109877
Experimental observation of open structures in elemental magnesium at terapascal pressures
September 19, 2022
Our results demonstrate that phase transformations of extremely condensed matter, previously only accessible through theoretical calculations, can now be experimentally explored.