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November 10, 2023 | 12:00 pm

From fusion to exoplanets: How to squeeze matter with light

November 10, 2023

Adam Frank writes in Big Think, “Scientists are studying ultra-high-pressure regimes in the Universe, not through traditional means like physical compression, but by using lasers. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester uses a powerful 60-beam Omega laser system to deliver concentrated energy to targets, mimicking the conditions of exoplanet interiors and star centers.”

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May 24, 2023 | 12:00 pm

Second CMAP Annual Meeting

May 24, 2023

The second CMAP Annual Meeting, hosted at the University of Rochester on River Campus, was a gathering of the CMAP team partner organizations. We welcomed guests from California State University Northridge; University of Chicago; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Sandia National Laboratories; University of California, Santa Cruz; Imperial College London; and University of Oxford.

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May 19, 2023 | 12:00 pm

Jupiter at its core remains a mystery to science

May 19, 2023

Adam Frank writes in Big Think, “For decades, planetary science was firm on the fact that Jupiter has a rocky core. New data extracted directly from the king of planets by the Juno spacecraft challenged that long-held standard.”

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August 26, 2022

How do you study the innards of alien worlds? You just need the world’s largest laser. Produced with Vox Media and science reporter Adam Cole, this piece examines how CMAP researchers design laser experiments at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and National Ignition Facility to recreate the interiors of planets and stars and create revolutionary states of matter.

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July 28, 2022

The phase changes that materials undergo during experiments at extreme conditions can shed light on the formation and composition of exoplanets and other celestial bodies, including the inner core of Earth. University of Rochester researchers are helping develop automated deep-learning computer vision techniques to expedite the analysis of the trillions of bytes of data generated by these experiments.

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May 6, 2022 | 12:00 pm

First CMAP Annual Meeting

May 6, 2022

The first CMAP Annual Meeting, hosted at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, was a gathering of the CMAP team from MIT, Princeton, the Universities of California at Berkeley and Davis, the University at Buffalo, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. We welcomed guest presenters from Howard University and Washington State University as well.

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May 3, 2022 | 12:00 pm

What does it take to become a scientist, part 1?

May 3, 2022

This is the first of a series of conversations on WXXI’s Connections with Evan Dawson about what it means to be a scientist. Our guests, UR Professor Adam Frank and three CMAP graduate students, describe their own paths into the field.

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March 1, 2022 | 12:00 pm

What’s Happening In The Depths Of Distant Worlds?

March 1, 2022

New work led by Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, including the research team of Thomas Duffy of Princeton University, uses lab-based mimicry to reveal a new crystal structure that has major implications for our understanding of the interiors of large, rocky exoplanets.

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February 16, 2022 | 10:34 pm

Can a planet have a mind of its own?

February 16, 2022

Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank discusses why cognitive activity operating on a planetary scale is necessary to tackle global issues such as climate change.

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October 4, 2021 | 12:00 pm

J. J. Ruby awarded Lawrence Fellowship

October 2021

A graduate student in the High Energy Density Physics Experiments Group at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics and IMAXED/CMAP, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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October 10, 2019

Understanding how atoms react under high-pressure conditions—a field known as high-energy-density physics (HEDP)—can lead to the creation of new materials and give scientists valuable insights into the fields of astrophysics, energy, and national security.
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