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CMAP Seminar Series

CMAP offers a monthly, interactive seminar series featuring prominent scientists presenting on cutting-edge CMAP topics. The speaker sends two publications for attendees to review in advance to facilitate a robust discussion.

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Meetings

The CMAP team meets on a weekly basis to discuss research, progress, challenges, experiments, seed funding projects and in-reach. CMAP plans an annual in-person meeting for the entire team as well, with special sessions designed around the major research areas, education and outreach, and evaluation.

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Past Seminars

Past Weekly Meetings

10/30/26 Matthew Signor Measuring the Temperature of Solid Iron Multi-Shocked to 170 GPa With EXAFS
10/23/26 Felipe Gonzalez Extrema and Critical Points of the Grüneisen Parameter Along the Hugoniot Curve
10/9/26 Hao Yin Retrieving Transport Properties From Multiscale Flows Using X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS)
10/2/26 Alice Chau Effects of Impacts on Planetary Dynamos
9/18/26 Michelle Marshall High-Pressure Phase Transitions in SiO2
9/4/26 Atma Anand Plasma Magnetization of Airless Planetary Bodies: Lunar Antipode Anomalies and Asteroids
7/31/26 Cara Vennari Improvements in Backlighter Efficiency and Target Shielding for Time-Resolved X-Ray Diffraction Measurements at NIF
6/26/26 Daniel P. Spears Equation of State for Shocked Cyclohexane
5/22/26 Tanja Kovacevic Using Observations and Scaling Laws to Constrain Dynamo Layers in Jupiter and Saturn
5/15/26 Michael Ruggiero Anharmonic Terahertz Dynamics as a Driver of Material Response in Extreme Environments
5/1/26 Zhoujian Zhang Challenges and Promises of Atmospheric Characterization for Exoplanets, Brown Dwarfs, and M Stars
4/10/26 Yihang Peng Electrical Conductivity in Super-Earth Mantles: From Mineral Physics to Exoplanet Electromagnetism
4/3/26 Alex Chin & Ethan Smith An Uncertainty Aware Shock Database for Impedance Matching
3/27/26 Salma Ahmed Electride Behavior at High Pressure in Silicon and Other Elements in Solid and Liquid Phases
3/13/26 Valentin Karasiev Inhibiting Conduction by He Mixing in Interiors of Jupiter and Saturn: A Study Via Direct Simulations of Mixtures
3/6/26 Ravit Helled When Planetary Science Meets High-Pressure Physics
2/27/26 Ethan Smith Beyond Atomic Pressure: HEDP in Convergent Geometry
1/30/26 Andy Krygier The Crystal Structure and Temperature of Tantalum Dynamically Compressed to Hundreds of GPa
1/23/26 Malcolm McMahon Seminar- On the Isostructural bcc-bcc Phase Transition in b-Zr at 300 K: When the Data Fits Too Well
1/16/26 Alexa LaPierre Investigating the Melting Curve of Sapphire Using Double Shock Compression
1/9/26 Gianluca Gregori Seminar- Accelerator’s Experiments to Probe Beam Instabilities in Blazars’ Pair Jets
12/5/25 Michelle Marshall High-Pressure Phase Transformations in Ramp-Compressed SiO2
11/14/25 Sam Vinko Seminar- Mapping Ultrafast Electron Collisions with an X-Ray Free Electron Laser
11/7/25 Zaire Sprowal Density-Dependent Metallization and Plasma Transition in Warm Dense Matter
10/31/25 Alex Jasko Studying Magma Oceans Through Shock Experiments on (Mg, Fe)O and Pyrolite
10/24/25 Rob Tejada Arevalo The Inhomogeneous Evolution of Uranus and Neptune
10/17/25 Investigator Meeting Major Activity 2 & Education Program
10/10/25 Investigator Meeting Major Activity 3 & 4
10/3/25 Investigator Meeting Major Activity 1
9/26/25 Ryan Rygg Strange Sounds in Warm Dense Matter
9/12/25 Burkhard Militzer Simulations Predict Uranus and Neptune to Be 15-30% Colder Than Earlier Estimates
9/5/25 Mary Kate Ginnane Structure and Melting of Dynamically Compressed Platinum
8/29/25 Ammar Ellaboudy First-Principles Simulation of H-He Hugoniot and Its Comparison to Experiment
8/15/25 Thomas White High Resolution X-Ray Scattering: A Direct Temperature Probe for High-Energy-Density Matter
8/8/25 Keith Nelson Tabletop Mbar Shock Pressures Generated by mJ Pulses Observed Through a Microscope Objective
8/1/25 Jon Zuegel, Danae Polsin, Eva Zurek, & Edward Marley NSF OPAL-Reaching for the Brightest Light
7/25/25 Hao Yin Rankine-Hugoniot Relations for Shock-foam Interactions
7/11/25 Ryan Rygg Balancing Skepticism Between AB Initio Models and Experiments
6/27/25 Nesli Erez Laying the Foundation for Magnetized Warm Dense Matter Experiments
6/20/25 Eva Zurek Summary Update of the MA2 Goals
6/13/25 Raymond Jeanloz Summary Update of the MA1 Goals
6/6/25 Suxing Hu Summary Update of the MA3 Goals
5/23/25 Eric Blackman Summary Update of the MA4 Goals
5/9/25 Flavio Siro Brigiano Water is a Superacid at Extreme Thermodynamic Conditions
5/2/25 CMAP Leaders CMAP NSF Proposal Review Zoom Meeting
4/25/25 Mercedes Vasquez Pressure Dependence of Thermal Conductivity for Shock Window Lithium Fluoride to 36 GPa
4/18/25 Beverley McKeon Coherent Structures as a Dynamic Skeleton of Wall Turbulence:
Equation- and Data-Driven Progress Towards Efficient Low-Order Modeling
4/11/25 Sarah Stewart Review Milestones
4/4/25 Eric Blackman & Sara Seager Update and Outlook on MA4
3/28/25 Akash Gupta From Lab Experiments & Quantum Simulations to Planetary Observations
3/21/25 Suxing Hu Update and Outlook on MA3
3/14/25 Tom Duffy & Eva Zurek Update and Outlook on MA2
3/7/25 Raymond Jeanloz & Burkhard Militzer Update and Outlook on MA1
2/28/25 Ankan Sur Evolutionary Models of Jupiter and Saturn During the Era of Juno and Cassini
2/21/25 Sheng Jiang Thermal Transport in Warm Dense Matter Revealed by Refraction-Enhanced X-Ray Radiography With a Deep Neural Network Analysis
1/31/25 Haiyang Luo Metal-Silicate Partitioning at Multi-Megabar Pressures: Implications for Water, Volcanism, and Magnetic Dynamos in Super-Earths
1/24/25 Jisheng Zhang CMAPPER: A Community Toolbox for Thermal Evolution of Exoplanets and Its Application to the Magnetic History of Low-Mass Planets
1/17/25 Saransh Soderlind New Insights Into Dynamic Properties of Materials Via Shock Compression of Single Crystals
12/13/24 Raymond Jeanloz Discussion of Optical Properties for Metal-Insulator Mixtures Relevant to Planetary Interiors
11/22/24 John Copley Non-Avrami Kinetics During Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions Using Piezo-Driven Compression
11/1/24 Burkhard Militzer A Different Type of Model for the Interior Structures of Uranus and Neptune
10/25/24 Felipe Gonzalez-Cataldo Crystallizing Cores of Super Earths and Other Planetary Phenomena Unraveled by First Principles Simulations
10/18/24 Ryan Rygg Hydrogen Equation of State and the pR Problem in ICF
10/4/24 Jessica Shang Measuring Viscosity at HED Conditions: Progress and Challenges
9/27/24 Terry-Ann Suer The Behavior of H-Rich Systems Under High Energy Density Conditions
9/20/24 Adriana Postema Thermal Effects of Collisions During Rocky Planet Accretion
9/13/24 Adrien Descamps Seminar Series: Probing Extreme States of Matter Using High-Resolution Inelastic X-Ray Scattering at Hard X-ray Free Electron Lasers
9/6/24 Kevin Righter Geochemical Studies of Terrestrial Planetary Interior Processes
8/30/24 David Bishel Atomic Physics at Atomic Pressures: Measurements of Screening-Mediated Line Shifts
8/23/24 Peter Celliers Update on Compression of Hydrogen Isotopes on NIF
8/16/24 Ian Ocampo Sound, Speed, and Grüneisen Parameter in Shock-Melted Silica
8/9/24 Stefano Racioppi PXRD-Assisted Crystal Structure Predictions
8/2/24 Eric Blackman Some Evolving Thoughts on Transport and Magnetic Fields in Stars and Planets
7/26/24 Danae Polsin Atomic Structure and Melting of Ni and Fe-36Ni Up to 400 GPa
7/12/24 Arnold Schwemmlein Characterization of the Insulator-to-Conductor Transition in Hydrogen Using OMEGA
6/28/24 Jon Eggert HED Experiments Using High-Power Lasers
6/21/24 Alex Chin Characterizing Iron Oxides at Planetary Core Conditions With X-Ray Spectroscopy
6/14/24 Greg Tabak The Insulator-to-Conductor Transition in Methane and Neon
5/3/24 Tever Hutchinson Advanced VISAR Diagnostics
4/5/24 Kyla de Villa Superconductivity and Superionicity in Ammonium Hydrides
3/29/24 Victor Lherm Magnetic Evolution of an Earth-Like Planet with a Basal Magma Ocean
3/22/24 Sarah Stewart Planetary Collisions in the Solar Nebula: New Views on an Old Problem (Chondrules) and Future Directions
3/15/24 Ryan Rygg Ion Acoustic Waves
3/8/24 Andy Krygier EXAFS of Dynamically Compressed Materials at the NIF
2/23/24 Rip Collins and Gerrit Bruhaug New light on Extreme Matter
2/9/24 Kelin Kurzer-Ogul Radiation Transport and Heat Conduction in HED Shock-Bubble Interactions
1/12/24 Gerrit Bruhaug THz Probes in HEDS
1/5/24 Xuchen Gong Plasma Oscillations in Warm Dense Hydrogen
12/15/23 Adam Burrows Structural and Evolutionary Modeling of Exoplanets
10/27/23 Maosheng Miao Hidden Chemistry Revealed by a Simple Concept
10/20/23 Jonathan Lunine Seminar- The Problem with Jupiter
10/13/23 David Bishel Atomic Physics at Atomic Pressures
10/6/23 Michelle Marshall High-Pressure Phase Transformations in SiO2
9/29/23 Christopher McGuire Structure and transport property measurements of shocked planetary core materials at ultrabright light sources
9/22/23 Zifan Lin Resolving the Compositional Degeneracy of Intermediate-sized Planets
9/8/23 Part 2 Arnold Schwemmlein Ramp compression of solid para-hydrogen into the conducting regime
9/8/23 Part 1 Second Avenue Learning Update on sci-interactive game development
8/4/23 Ryan Rygg Electrostatic wave braking of acoustic waves in warm dense matter
7/14/23 Suxing Hu X-ray Spectroscopy of Super-dense Matter
7/7/23 Sarah Stewart Teasing out the secrets of SiO2: Deep dive into the phase diagram and shock data
6/30/23 Greg Tabak The Insulator to Conductor Transition in Methane and Neon
6/23/23 Victor Lherm Thermal and magnetic evolution of Earth and Super-Earths
6/9/23 Eva Zurek High Pressure Chemistry of Helium and Sodium
6/2/23 Nesli Erez Generation of Strong Fields to Study the Phase Transitions of Magnetized Warm Dense Matter
5/5/23 Ian Ocampo In situ x-ray diffraction of iron oxides dynamically loaded to multi-megabar pressures
4/28/23 Hussein Aluie Role of Dynamical Invariants and Degrees of Freedom in Transport
4/14/23 Burkhard Militzer How Saturn Became the Lord of the Rings
4/7/23 JJ Dong, Harvard University Nonlinearity of the Post-spinel Transition and Its Expression in Slabs and Plumes Worldwide
3/24/23 Neel Kabadi, Nesli Erez, Matt Signor, Hadley Pantell, Nitish Acharya, Tom Duffy, Miki Nakajima CMAP FY24 Experiment Proposal Presentations
3/17/23 Jon Eggert The potential for HED material experiments using XFELs and rep-rate lasers
3/10/23 Xuchen Gong X-ray diffraction of ramp-compressed silicon to 400 Gpa
3/3/23 Raymond Jeanloz Fundamental Research in High Energy Density Science: Summary of a New Report from the National Academies
2/17/23 Jisheng Zhang Thermal evolution and magnetic history of low-mass exoplanets
2/10/23 Alex Chin X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of Fe2O3
2/3/23 Jie Deng MgO exsolution: the messenger from the core
1/27/23 Maggie Huff Measurements of sound speed and Gruneisen parameter in shocked iron and temperature measurements in shocked bridgmanite (MgSiO3)
1/20/23 Sarah Stewart Open Science Opportunities and Challenges for the High-Pressure Community
1/13/23 Ian Ocampo Extreme lowering of phase transition pressures in dynamically compressed TiO2
1/6/23 Ranga Dias Towards ambient superconductivity
12/16/22 Terry-Ann Suer X-ray diffraction of aluminum oxide during ramp compression
12/9/22 Christian Storm Creating Quasi-Hydrostatic Conditions at Multi-Megabar Pressures, and the Search for Core-Level Crossings in Extremely Stiff Metals
12/2/22 Dave Stevenson CMAP Seminar Series: “What Jupiter may be telling us about High Pressure Hydrogen”
11/11/22 Andrea Kritcher CMAP Seminar Series: “Achieving extreme conditions in convergent geometry at the NIF”
11/4/22 Ryan Rygg Plasma oscillations in warm dense hydrogen
10/28/22 Adam Frank and Second Avenue Learning, a Rochester-based, certified women-owned interactive media company CMAP Sci Interactive Video Game Development Presentation and Feedback
10/14/22 Peter Celliers Evidence for isotope differences on the liquid-liquid insulator-metal transition in dense fluid hydrogen
10/7/22 Stefano Racciopi Core-electrons and chemical bonding in high-pressure chemistry
9/30/22 Victor Lherm Planetary impacts, metal-silicate equilibration and dynamo in magma oceans
9/23/22 Cara Vennari Imaging defects in dynamically compressed diamonds
9/2/22 Shuai Zhang Isentropes and Equations of State of Solid Hydrogen—Perspectives from Theory and Calculations
8/26/22 Chelsea BaileyShea Mentorship and Evaluation
8/19/22 Eric Blackman Discussion on multi-phase multi-scale mixing
8/12/22 Jessica Shang Viscosity measurements in plastic and fused silica
7/29/22 Yuan Ping EXAFS for probing material thermal states on NIF
7/8/22 J. J. Ruby Atomic Energy Levels and Partition Functions for an Empirical Equation of State
7/1/22 Suxing Hu DFT-based Understanding of X-ray Spectroscopy at Gbar Pressure
6/17/22 Hannah Hasson and Imani West-Abdallah CMAP Summer Education Outreach
6/3/22 Hussein Aluie Effective transport due to unresolved scales
5/20/22 Gianluca Gregori CMAP Seminar Series: MHD turbulence and thermal conduction in astrophysical plasma
5/6/22 All 2022 CMAP Annual Meeting
4/22/22 Maggie Huff and Terry-Ann Suer Measurements of Sound Speed in Iron Shock-Compressed to ~3000 Gpa
4/8/22 Eva Zurek Chemistry of He and Na Under Pressure
4/1/22 All Investigators CMAP Annual Meeting Agenda Discussion
3/25/22 Andy Krygier Investigating alkali halides at multi-Mbar pressure with the NIF and Omega EP
3/11/22 Danae Polsin Structure of iron-nickel alloys at Earth core conditions: First look at CMAP shot results
3/4/22 Michelle Marshall Exploration of super-Earth mantles: High-pressure phase transformations in SiO2
2/25/22 Wendy Panero CMAP Seminar Series: Earth as a Model for Rocky Exoplanets
2/18/22 Suxing Hu Probing Extreme Atomic Physics at Gbar Pressure
2/11/22 Adam Frank Outreach: Why, How and What
1/28/22 Jon Eggert Historical Development of Ramp Compression EOS Measurements Using High-Energy Lasers
1/21/22 Tom Duffy Materials of Rocky Exoplanet Interiors
1/14/22 Adam Burrows Exoplanet Remote Sensing in the JWST and WFIRST/Roman Era
1/7/22 Burkhard Militzer Hydrogen experiments to constrain Jupiter’s interior structure
12/17/21 Pierre Gourdain New avenues of research for planetary science using pulsed-power drivers
12/3/21 Sara Seager In-Reach
11/19/21 Felipe González Ramp compression from ab initio simulations
11/12/21 Sarah Stewart The Infinite Game: What’s next for synestias and the origin of the Moon?
11/5/21 Sakura Pascarelli CMAP Seminar Series: New scientific opportunities for studies of matter at extreme conditions at the European XFEL
10/29/21 Peter Celliers Towards Investigating High Pressure Quantum Transitions in Hydrogen
10/22/21 Stephanie Hansen CMAP Seminar Series: Consistent Atomic-Scale Models in Exotic Material Regimes
10/15/21 Alex Chin X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Iron and Iron Compounds at HED Conditions
9/24/21 Dayne Fratanduono Establishing Gold and Platinum Standards at Terapascal Pressures
9/17/21 Shuai Zhang Multi-megabar phase transitions from first principles
9/10/21 Eric Blackman Aspects of Bridging Micro and Macrophysics: A Magnetically Themed Discussion
9/3/21 Jon Eggert Historical development of dynamic x-ray diffraction using high-energy lasers
8/27/21 Sara Seager CMAP Board Meeting Discussion/Reflection
8/20/21 Danae Polsin Ramp-Compressed Sodium at 480 GPa: A Dense Electride
8/13/21 Eva Zurek Extreme Chemistry at High Pressures
8/6/21 All Investigators Planning for EAB meeting
7/30/21 Chris Pickard CMAP Seminar Series: Mapping the complex chemistry of dense matter
7/23/21 Andy Krygier Material science at the extremes: current X-ray diffraction campaigns at the National Ignition Facility
7/16/21 Hussein Aluie Disentangling nonlinear processes in multiscale flows
7/9/21 Ranga Dias High Tc Superconductivity
6/25/21 Rick Kraus Measuring the Melt Curve of Iron at Super Earth Core Conditions
6/18/21 Linda Hansen Exploring the phase diagram of oxides CO2 and MgO in the warm-dense-matter regime
6/11/21 Terry-Ann Suer Spilling the beans on Earth’s formation with diamond anvils
5/28/21 Adam Frank The Photo-evaporation of Exoplanets Atmospheres.
What we learn from 3-D Radiation MHD models.
5/21/21 Sara Seager Outreach and In-reach
5/14/21 Experiment Proposal Pis CMAP Experiment Proposals
5/7/21 Steve Rose CMAP Seminar Series: Line-coincidence radiative photopumping in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas
4/23/21 Jessica Shang Experiments in particle-based viscometry
4/16/21 JJ Ruby Combining Astrophysical and HED data sets through Bayesian Inference
4/9/21 Pierre Gourdain Summer program update and discussion
4/2/21 Sarah Stewart CMAP Wiki: Notion
3/25/21 Eric Mamajek CMAP Seminar Series: The NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program
3/19/21 Ryan Rygg Effect of plasma oscillations on the compressibility of hydrogen
3/12/21 Raymond Jeanloz H/He mixing
3/5/21 Miki Nakajima
Adam Frank		 Continuation
Outreach update
2/19/21 Miki Nakajima Consequences of giant impacts; mantle melting, the Moon-formation, and magnetic field generation
2/12/21 Eva Zurek

Peter Celliers

 Chemistry Under Pressure Continuation (derivation to show how the bonding orbitals are affected under pressure)
Initial experimental results on laser-driven shock wave viscosity measurement
2/5/21 Eva Zurek Chemistry Under Pressure
1/29/21 Rip Collins, Facilitator Values and Ethics Discussion
1/15/21 Eric Blackman Discussion of Stellar Activity, Planetary Magnetic Fields, and Atmosphere Protection
1/8/21 Tom Duffy Rocky Planet Materials: Oxides and Silicates
12/18/20 Sara Seager Current planetary discoveries, questions, needs
12/11/20 Pierre Gourdain
Adam Frank		 High School experience/education update
Outreach activities
12/4/20 Natalie Antal
Eva Zurek
Jon Eggert and Rick Kraus		 CMAP Website Discussion
2021 Multi-Petawatt Physics Prioritization Workshop
CMAP relevant experiments underway at NIF
11/20/20 Suxing Hu
Eva Zurek		 CMAP relevant theoretical efforts/discoveries underway
11/13/20 Burkhard Militzer
Suxing Hu		 CMAP relevant theoretical efforts/discoveries underway
11/6/20 Ryan Rygg CMAP relevant experiments underway at OMEGA