Quick Shot

This year’s Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop included posters by two participants from LLE’s 2018 Summer High School Research Program. Advised by program director Stephen Craxton, Anirudh Sharma (left) of Webster Schroeder High School presented a poster entitled “Optimization of Cone-in-Shell Targets for an X-Ray Backlighter at the National Ignition Facility.” Anirudh is also a 2019 Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar who in the inset is joined by Robert Heeter, a researcher from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) who proposed the cone-in-shell targets that Anirudh modeled. Anirudh will attend Cornell University. Katherine Glance (right) of Pittsford Sutherland High School, advised by Walter Shmayda and Matthew Sharpe (not pictured), presented a poster entitled “Using Palladium Hydride to Fill Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets.” She will attend Dartmouth College. Summaries of their projects are available here.