Engineering Sciences Seminar Series 2012 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics Credential for Independent Studies: ECG791/ME791/EE493/ME491 NSTec employees may learn latest progresses in the HEDP Diagnostics at Z The big picture will help NSTec to spot new science and engineering opportunities 4:15 – 5:30 pm, Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Refreshments Served Starting 4:00 pm Science Engineering Building (SEB) Rm. 1240 High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research at Sandia National Laboratories Dr. R. J. Leeper Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185 This presentation will focus on High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research opportunities at Sandia National Laboratories. The HEDP areas of research at Sandia include basic science, dynamic materials, radiation physics, and inertial confinement fusion. The major HEDP facilities located at Sandia include the Z pulsed power facility and the Z Beamlet Laser facility. The Z pulsed power facility is capable of producing peak currents of 24 MA in a Z-pinch load at electrical power levels exceeding 60 TW. The Beamlet Laser is one module of the National Ignition Facility and is currently being modified to operate at PW power levels. The talk will introduce these facilities along with recent representative research results that include fundamental astrophysical stellar opacity measurements, equation of state measurements of liquid deuterium, and recent kinetic particle-in-cell simulations of a deuterium gas puff Z-pinch. Finally, the presentation will introduce a new 1000 TW pulsed power facility concept that has recently been proposed and published by Sandia researchers. For further information please contact Professor Ke-Xun Sun at [email protected] or 702-774-1486 For UNLV parking arrangements please contact Mr. Larry Zajac at [email protected] or 702-295-0505 Engineering Sciences Seminar Series 2012 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics Credential for Independent Studies: ECG791/ME791/EE493/ME491 Speaker Biography Ramon J. Leeper, Ph.D Ramon (Ray) J. Leeper received a S.B. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Physics in 1970 and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1975 in High Energy Nuclear Physics on the topic of meson spectroscopy. Ray was a Research Associate at the Iowa State’s Ames Laboratory from 1975- 1976 conducting particle physics research at Argonne National Laboratory. Ray joined the inertial fusion program at Sandia National Laboratories in March 1976 as an experimental staff physicist. In 1986, Ray was made department manager of Sandia’s Diagnostics and Target Physics Department managing the department’s efforts in the area of plasma diagnostics and inertial fusion target physics. Ray is the author of approximately 192 publications and some 225 presentations in the areas of areas of inertial confinement fusion, plasma physics, plasma and nuclear diagnostics, intense ion beam physics, and elementary particle physics. The publications include two book chapters on nuclear and particle diagnostic techniques. Ray has presented over 20 invited and plenary presentations at national and international physics conferences including lecturing at the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Castelvecchio Pascoli, Italy (1983), at the International School of Plasma Physics, Varenna, Italy (1991 and 2001), at the Ecole De Physique Des Houches, Des Houches, France (2003), and at the Japanese Summer School on Plasma Physics held in Kobe, Japan (2010). He holds two U. S. patents in the field of pulsed power. Ray was conference chairman and editor of the proceedings of the 9th and 17th Topical Conferences on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics. Ray has served on numerous national committees including the National Laser User Facility Steering Committee (NLUF) at the University of Rochester and on the NNSA Ignition Review Committee chaired by Under Secretary of Energy Steven Koonin. Currently Ray is a member of the DOE Office of Science Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC). Ray’s professional awards include Lockheed Martin Corporation’s NOVA Award for the production of thermonuclear neutrons on Sandia’s Z facility. For further information please contact Professor Ke-Xun Sun at [email protected] or 702-774-1486 For UNLV parking arrangements please contact Mr. Larry Zajac at [email protected] or 702-295-0505 .