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  PhD student Griffin Glenn defended his PhD thesis "High repetition rate laser-driven particle sources from ambient-temperature liquid jet targets" on August 12th, before his thesis committee of Prof. Matthew Edwards (Stanford), Prof. David Reis (Stanford/SLAC), Prof. Ken Hara (Stanford) and Prof. Siegfried Glenzer (Stanford/SLAC). Griffin has since started work as a postdoc at Sandia National Lab.

  PhD student Edna Rebeca Toro Garza won a prize for her poster "Observing the influence of atomic and nanoscale structure on the DC conductivity of warm dense matter" at the 9th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, hosted in Fukuoka, Japan.

The team unexpectedly formed gold hydride in an experiment that could pave the way for studying materials under extreme conditions like those found inside certain planets and stars undergoing nuclear fusion.

  Carly Chandler, an intern with the HEDS group, was awarded the Best Undergraduate Poster award for her presentation "Theoretical first-principles simulations on the stability and phase transitions of MgO₂ near Earth's mantle conditions" at the Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems conference, held at Lake Tahoe, NV. Carly is completing a summer internship in the HEDS group through the DOE's SULI program, and is working on simulating material deep inside the Earth with her...

    At the HEDS Summer School, hosted by UC San Diego, two group members were recognized for their contributions. Maitrayee Ghosh won the best postdoc talk award for her presentation "Probing extreme condition nickel with on-the-fly machine learning molecular dynamics simulations" and Megan Ikeya won a prize for her poster "Investigating Shock Fronts and Interface Effects in IFE Foams".

  Stanford professors, including  Prof. Debbie Senesky, Prof. Matthias Kling, and Prof. Siegfried Glenzer, visited ASML in San Diego for a day of workshops, networking and open discussions to identify topics for collaborative research and innovation.

  Graduate student Katie Wootten won the graduate student poster prize at the LaserNetUS Meeting for her poster "Implementation of a Liquid Sheet Target at MEC", presenting results from a recent LCLS beamtime.

  Siegfried Glenzer, the director of SLAC's HEDS division, has been awarded the Edward Teller Medal Award for 2025 by the American Nuclear Society.   The award recognizes his leading role in advancing capabilities that enabled the National Ignition Facility to successfully demonstrate fusion gain, as well as his contributions to fundamental science and his mentorship of the next generation of scientific leaders. The Edward Teller Award is awarded biennially, and recognizes...