August 30-31, 2021

Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Meeting
August 30-31, 2021
The meeting will be conducted remotely using ZOOM
AGENDA
August 30

Time

Topic

Speaker


Presentation

11:00 a.m. EDT  News from the Office of Science

Dr. Stephen Binkley
Acting Director
Office of Science

 
11:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Donald Rej
FESAC Chair
Los Alamos National Laboratory

PDF
11:30 a.m. FES Perspective Dr. James Van Dam
Associate Director for Fusion Energy
Sciences
PDF
12:45 p.m. Lunch
1:45 p.m Update on the FESAC Long Range Planning Report

Professor Troy Carter
FESAC Subcommittee Chair
University of California, Los Angeles

PDF
2:30 p.m. NASEM Report: Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid (2021)         

Dr. Richard Hawryluk and other NASEM
Committee Members
Senior Physicist
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

PDF 
3:30 p.m. Break               
3:45 p.m. Taming Plasmas and Controlling Laser Beams for Grand Challenge Applications       

Professor Dustin Froula
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award Winner
University of Rochester

PDF
4:30 p.m.
Public Reusable Research (PuRe) Data Resources  Dr. Michael Cooke, Senior Technical
Advisor
Office of the Deputy Director for Science
Programs 
PDF
5:00 p.m.  Recent Inertial Confinement Fusion Results from the National Ignition Facility  Dr. Mark Herrmann
Deputy Program Director for Fundamental
Weapons Physics
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
PDF
5:30 p.m. Adjourn         
 
Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee Meeting
August 30-31, 2021
The meeting will be conducted remotely using ZOOM
AGENDA
 (cont'd)
August 31

Time

Topic

Speaker


Presentation

11:00 a.m. EDT  Overview of the Office of Science High Energy Physics Program

Dr. James Siegrist
Associate Director for High Energy Physics

PDF              
12:00 noon Innovation Network for Fusion Energy: Past Performance, Future Plans, and Lessons Learned  Dr. Dennis Youchison, INFUSE Director
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Ahmed Diallo, INFUSE Deputy Director
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory 
PDF
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Status of US ITER Dr. Kathryn McCarthy
Associate Laboratory Director for the
Fusion and Fission Energy and Science
Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PDF
2:45 p.m.  X-ray Light Sources Driven by Laser-plasma Accelerators for High Energy Density Science  Dr. Félicie Albert
Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers Winner
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
 PDF
3:15 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m Office of Science User Facilities: Lessons Learned from the COVID Era and Visions for the Future Dr. Lijuan Ruan
Co-spokesperson
RHIC’s STAR Experiment
Brookhaven National Laboratory
PDF
4:15 p.m. Public Comment  Dr. Donald Rej   
4:45 p.m. Adjourn