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Title: 2022 LaserNetUS Users' Meeting

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DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1992683· OSTI ID:1992683
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  1. Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  3. US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington, DC (United States). Office of Science
  4. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  5. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  6. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
  8. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  9. University of Michigan-Dearborn, MI (United States)
  10. The Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH (United States)
  11. Extreme Light Infrastructure(ELI)-European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), Dolní Břežany (Czech Republic)
  12. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
  13. Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI (United States)
  14. Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB (Canada)
  15. Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL (United States)
  16. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  17. Tel Aviv Univ., Ramat Aviv (Israel)
  18. US Department of Energy (USDOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Washington, DC (United States)
  19. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  20. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  21. Univ. of Waterloo, ON (Canada)
  22. ASML, Veldhoven (Netherlands)
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Organized and funded in 2018 through the US Department of Energy, Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), LaserNetUS was created to provide vastly improved access to unique lasers for researchers. LaserNetUS is a network of ten high-power laser facilities, both academic and national laboratories, across the United States and Canada. These labs operate many of the premier mid- to large-scale high-intensity laser facilities in the US and Canada that are designed to be used in pioneering experimental studies in high energy density plasma and high field optical science. The network’s principal goal is to provide access to these state-of-the-art laser facilities to a broad range of researchers in the US and abroad. In its over four years of operation, LaserNetUS has awarded beamtime for over 60 user experiments to researchers from 25 different institutions. Over 400 user scientists, many of whom are students and post-docs, have participated in experiments at LaserNetUS facilities so far. The network now has over 1250 members. The LaserNetUS institutions are Colorado State University, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, SLAC National Lab, The Ohio State University, University of Michigan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, University of Rochester, and University of Texas at Austin. LaserNetUS hosted its first in-person Annual Users’ Meeting at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO, Aug 16-18, 2022. The meeting had 158 attendees, including 39 sponsored students and post-docs whose attendance and travel to the meeting were covered by DOE funds. Attendees included the 2018 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Donna Strickland. The program consisted of 5 plenary talks and several invited and contributed talks, a user community forum, a poster session, and built-in time for networking. The event focused on students and early career professionals. The poster session was held in combination with a reception to facilitate discussions and maximize interactions between the participants. The 39 sponsored students each presented a poster at the poster session, giving them valuable practice in sharing their research with others in the field. Many students and postdocs also gave talks during the main programming. Lunch and coffee breaks were provided for attendees for the duration of the conference on CSU’s campus. This allowed for networking among all participants. The building used to host the conference also had plenty of seating outside the auditorium, which was conducive to smaller one-on-one meetings and discussions between participants. There was also a lab tour of CSU’s Advanced Beam Laboratory. The day before and after the conference also included satellite meetings for the lab PIs and the Scientific Advisory Board. DOE support was used for rental of the auditorium and supporting rooms, student participation, 50% of the food costs, and transportation to the Advanced Beam Lab.

Research Organization:
Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
Contributing Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC); Marvel Fusion; Focused Energy
DOE Contract Number:
SC0023038
OSTI ID:
1992683
Report Number(s):
2022-LaserNetUS-Users'-Meeting; 2022 LaserNETUS Users Meeting; TRN: US2404704
Resource Relation:
Conference: 2022 LaserNetUS Users' Meeting, Fort Collins, CO (United States), 16-18 Aug 2022; Related Information: https://events.bizzabo.com/LaserNetUS2022/agenda; https://events.bizzabo.com/LaserNetUS2022/page/2164304/poster-session; https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6fyu82ag4r7css2/AADFGp41begxRcsDifvOI7c5a?dl=0 (poster abstracts)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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