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Jon Belof, LLNL – “Metastable Phases Far from Equilibrium: A New Frontier in Dynamic Material Science”
David Yoo, PhD and Nathan Hertlein – “Bistable Architected Elastomer Beam Unit: Design & Liquid Crystal Elastomer Re-Programming”
Prof. Jimmie Oxley, Univ. of Rhode Island – “Toward Small-scale Characterization of Energetic Materials”
Prof. David Frost, McGill University, “Enhanced Blast Pressure, Temperature, and Impulse from Metalized Explosive Fireballs”
Mark J. Schmitt, LLNL – “The Quest for Inertial Confinement Fusion using Large Directly Driven Targets with 1, 2 or 3 Concentric Shells”
Prof. Subith S. Vasu, Univ. of Central Florida – “Revealing the High-Temperature Destruction of Chemical Weapon Simulants Using Shock Tube and Time-Resolved Laser Diagnostics”
Prof. K-C. Kenneth Park, Northwestern Univ. – “Learning from Natural Surfaces: from Transport to Phase Change of Water”
Prof. Mark Foster, JHU – “In-Situ Spectroscopic Monitoring for Metal Additive Manufacturing”
Akeisha N. Owens, DTRA – ”Modeling and Simulation (M&S) of Biological Weapons Agents and Infectious Diseases”
Students from the JHU Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering – “Building Platforms for Active Hierarchical Colloidal Assembly and Data-directed Design Toward Material Resiliency”
Prof. Ryan Harne, Penn State University – “Mechanical Materials that Sense, Think, React, and Learn”
Jennifer L. Gottfried, CCDC ARL – “Microscale Experiments to Measure Energetic Material Performance and Sensitivity”
Junjie Yang, Johns Hopkins University – “Plastic Deformation Reconstruction Based on Acoustic Emission”
Prof. Ling Li, Virginia Tech – “Natural Structural Materials: Lessons on toughening mechanisms, weight reduction, and multifunctionality”
Tim Long, JHU – “Rapid Determination of Grain Size Distributions by EBSD with Quasirandom Sampling”
Prof. Seong Su Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology – “A study on the optimal curing process of tow-preg laminated composites through multi-scale computational modeling”
Dana Dlott, UIUC – “Watching solids and liquids through the ultrafast shock compression microscope”
Steve Son, Purdue – “Engineering Energetic Materials”
Carolyn C. Kuranz, University of Michigan – “Hydrodynamic Instability and Radiation Hydrodynamics Experiments in High-energy-density Plasmas”
Tim Mueller, JHU – “Machine-learned Potential Models for Atomic-scale Calculations”
Laura Berzak Hopkins, LLNL – “X-ray:matter interaction experiments at the National Ignition Facility”
Kim Knight, LLNL – “Understanding the Influence of Environment on Nuclear Explosion Physics and Chemistry”
Steven Storck, JHU APL – “Realizing Materials by Design: Harnessing the Full Potential of Additive Manufacturing Using In Situ Sensing and Machine Learning”
Rebecca Hersman, CSIS – “Talking Tech: The Importance of Science and Technology Leadership in Policy Decisionmaking”
Junjie Yang, JHU – “Acoustic signature and reconstruction of defect avalanches in metals“
Andrea Kritcher, LLNL – “Laboratory equation of state measurements of the carbon envelopes of white dwarf stars”
Nick Glumac, UIUC – “Optical Physics of Explosive Fireballs”
KT Ramesh, HEMI – “Shock and Awe” mini-course
KT Ramesh, HEMI – “Dynamic Deformations in Nature and in Technology”
Stéphane Avril, IMT – “Inverse Problems in Cardiovascular Continuum Mechanics and Medical Applications”
Tim David, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand – “Neurovascular Coupling: “A Balance of Power””
Ximin He, UCLA – “Bioinspired Adaptive Materials based on Smart Hydrogels: Sensing, Solar Harvesting, and Soft Robotics”
Lorenzo Valdevit, UC Irvine – “Fabrication, Mechanical Performance, Deformation and Damage Mechanisms of Ceramic Nano-architected Materials”
Baoxing Xu, Univ. of Virginia – “Mechanics-Driven Extreme Transfer Printing of Functional Films”
Bruce Remington, NIF Discovery Science Program – “Frontier HED Science on NIF Through the Discovery Science Program”
Lauren Zarzar, Pennsylvania State University – “Structural Coloration by Cascading Total Internal Reflection and Interference at Microscale Concave Interfaces”
Cayman Unterborn, Arizona State University – “Exoplanet Geoscience: Challenges and Opportunities for the Extreme Materials Community”
Dan Gianola, UC Santa Barbara – “Characterization of Defects and their Dynamics using Transmission Scanning Electron Microscopy”
Arup Neogi, University of North Texas – “Active Periodic and Non-Reciprocal Phononic Structures for Control of Ultrasonic Wave Propagation”
Wei Tong, Southern Methodist University – “On Modeling Strength Differential Effects of Anisotropic HCP Metals”
Christopher Ober, Cornell University – “Metal Organic Cluster Photoresists for EUV Lithography Using Cornell’s CNF, the Original NSF Nanofabrication Facility”
Dr. Tanusree Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi – “Geomechanics of Blast”
Chris Wohl (NASA) – “Mitigating Contaminant Adhesion on Aerospace Surfaces”
Kejie Zhao, Purdue University – “Bridging mechanics and electrochemistry: Experiments and modeling on battery materials”
Guoliang Huang, University of Missouri-Columbia – “Programmable and Modulated Metamaterials for Unprecedented Wave Propagation Control”
Prof. Dipankar Banerjee, Department of Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – “Novel High Temperature, High Strength Eutectic Intermetallics”
Prof. Julie Cairney (Univ. of Sydney), Prof. Sophie Primig (Univ. of South Wales), Prof. Simon Ringer (Univ. of Sydney)
Yixiang Gan, Senior Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering, The University of Sydney Australia – “Transport Phenomena in Compacted Granular Media: How mass, heat, and electrons flow in such materials”
George Em Karniadakis, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT “Physics-Informed Learning Machines”
Chris Marone, Prof. of Geophysics & Associate Director, Institute for Natural Gas Research, Pennsylvania State University “The Mechanics of Slow Earthquakes and the Spectrum of Fault Slip Behaviors”
Tyrel McQueen,Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, JHU – “The Dawn of the Chemistry of Quantum Materials: Discovery, Synthesis, andBehavioral Insights”
Marius Millot, Research Scientist, High Energy Density Physics, LawrenceLivermore National Laboratory “Experimental Discovery of Superionic Water with Dynamic Compression”
Michelle Oyen, The Nanoscience Centre, Cambridge University Engineering Department
“Physically Robust Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications”
Derek Richardson, Department of Astronomy, University of MD, College Park – “Granular Dynamics in Low Gravity”
Dr. Harold Robinson, NavalUndersea Warfare Division,Office of Naval Research – “Relaxor Piezoelectric Single Crystals: Materials, Devices and Application Impacts”
Raymond Smith, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory- “An Overview of Frontiers in Lazer-based Dynamic Compression Experiments”
Gregory A. Banyay, Gregory Meyer, Michael R. Ickes, Westinghouse Electric Company – “Reviews of the AP1000® Plant Comprehensive Vibration Assessment Program and Radioactive Materials Testing”
Zdeněk P. Bažant, Northwestern University – “Branching of Hydraulic Fractures in Shale and the Fiction of Preexisting Large-Scale Permeability”
John Borg, Marquette University – “Dynamic Behavior of Earth Materials Subjected to Pressure-Shear Loading”
Eric Clough, HRL Laboratories – “Microlattice Structural and Energy Absorbing Materials”
Cristian I. Contescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory – “The Amazing Properties of Nuclear Graphite and Its Use for Clean Energy Generation”
Michael Dickey, NC State University – “Soft, Stretchable, and Reconfigurable Materials for Electronics and Actuators”
Nasr M. Ghoniem, University of California, Los Angeles – “Development of Micro-Architected Materials for Space Propulsion and Pulsed Power Applications”
Jay Gould, HEMI Artist in Residence – “Extreme Arts”
Jamie Guest, Johns Hopkins University – “Topology Optimization for the Design of Manufacturable Architected Materials and Components”
Kisuk Kang, Seoul National University – “Rational Design of Advanced Materials for Post li-Ion Batteries”
Ivan Kirov, New York University – “Metabolic Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury Using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy”
Dennis Kochmann, California Institute of Technology – “Challenges in predicting microstructure evolution in metals from the atomic to the macroscopic scale”
Banahalli R. Ratna, Naval Research Laboratory – “Recent Breakthroughs in Molecular Biology, Physics, Nanoscience, and Chemistry and the emergence of Novel Biocentric Technologies”
Mark A. Tschopp, Army Research Laboratory – “Understanding Structure-Property Relationships of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces for Materials Design”
Derek Warner, Cornell University – “Examining the Chemo-mechanics of Hydrogen Enhanced Fatigue Crack Growth in Aluminum Alloys”
Timothy P. Weihs, JHU – “Nanostructured Metal Fuels and Iodine Oxides for Defeating Bio-Agents
Christopher Yakacki, University of Colorado Denver – “Main-Chain Liquid-Crystal Elastomers with Tailored Thermomechanical Properties”
Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania – “Foldable and Responsive Soft Metamaterials”
Jongseung Yoon, University of Southern California – “New Approaches for Using III-V Compound Semiconductors in Photovoltaic and Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy Conversion”
Nikki Zander, Dan Cole, Kevin Hart, and Frank Gardea, U.S. Army Research Laboratory – “Projects in Additive Manufacturing and Charged Polymers at ARL”
