Town Meeting on NIF

In this Town Hall meeting we will focus on the current state of the NIF as a national tool for enabling experimental access to unique regimes of high energy density science and provide information on various opportunities for the scientific community to participate on the NIF. Presenters will provide brief updates on NIF's status and capabilities, the application of NIF to scientific discovery, and progress and challenges in indirect and direct drive inertial confinement fusion research. The evening will kick off with a talk discussing NNSA's view on the field of high energy density science. Speakers: Keith LeChien, Acting Director of the Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion; Mark Herrmann, Director of the National Ignition Facility; Bruce Remington, Acting Discovery Science Program Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; John Edwards, Program Director for the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Craig Sangster, Experimental Division Director at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics.