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Armin Bergermann from the University of Rostock, Germany, is awarded the Feodor Lynen Fellowship to work for 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in HEDS.

As the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science continues to accelerate a clean-energy future that includes fusion technology, a total of US$49 million in funding for 19 projects was announced in Foundational Fusion Materials, Nuclear Science, and Technology programs. The purpose of the funding is to focus the national laboratory-based foundational and basic science research programs to better align and support the new Fusion Energy Sciences (FES) program vision.

This research advances our understanding of Earth's deep interior and exoplanets, opening new research avenues in Earth and planetary sciences.

X-rays unlock secrets of Earth's core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans

Jhonnatan Gama Vazquez won 1st place for his poster "Field-particle correlation analysis in PIC simulations of laser-matter interactions"

Shock experiments are widely used to understand the mechanical and electronic properties of matter under extreme conditions. Our results suggest that a significant portion of the total shock energy delivered by lasers becomes heat due to defect-facilitated plastic work.

The University of Rostock and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, both strong collaborators of SLAC's HEDS division, have signed an MOU to establish a new High Energy Density Institute, taking advantage of the current interest in fusion-relevant research.

Representatives of HZDR and the University of Rostock signed the MOU establishing a new HED Institute

An X-ray imaging technique revealed that copper nanofoams similar to those used in inertial fusion experiments aren't as uniform as expected.

Four members of the HEDS divsion won awards for their posters at the recent LaserNetUS Meeting in Austin, Texas The winners were: Megan Ikeya - Determining the Electrical Conductivity of Warm Dense Nickel Using Single-Shot Terahertz Spectroscopy Rebeca Toro Garza - Warm Dense Copper conductivity measurements using single-shot THz Willow Martin - X-Ray Radiography for Equation of State Measurements at the National Ignition Facility Eric Sung - Probing the conductivity of...

The Lev D. Landau and Lyman Spitzer Jr. Award for Outstanding Contributions to Plasma Physics is given to researchers for outstanding contributions in plasma physics and for advancing the collaboration between Europe and the US. This group was recognised for the critical advancement in the understanding of the particle acceleration physics in astrophysically-relevant shocks through theoretical analysis and experiments at the National Ignition Facility.

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Armin Bergermann joining SLAC as Feodor Lynen Fellow

HEDS research receives Foundational Laboratory Fusion funding from DOE

X-rays unlock secrets of Earth's core-mantle boundary and super-Earth magma oceans

Jhonnatan wins 1st place in Livermore Graduate Student Poster Symposium

Dynamic compression experiments leave targets hotter than expected

MOU signed for new High Energy Density Institute in Germany

LCLS resolves fusion-related nanofoams in 3D

HEDS scientists win poster awards at LaserNetUS meeting

HEDS Alumni Anna Grassi and Frederico Fiúza share Landau Spitzer Award for work on physics of collisionless shocks