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LLE hosted the 11th International Laser Operations Workshop (ILOW) on 26–28 September, and the 5th National Implosion Stagnation Physics Workshop on 27–28 September. The objective of the ILOW workshop is to optimize the productivity and efficiency of the large laser facilities worldwide, which improves the quality, quantity, and breadth of scientific research performed at these facilities. Scientists and engineers from the following facilities attended: the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the Orion Facility and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the United Kingdom, the Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) and LULI facilities of France, the three Extreme Light Infrastructure sites (ELI) of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania, the Z backlighter facility at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center at Stanford University in California, and the Texas Petawatt System at the University of Texas at Austin.

The 5th National Implosion Stagnation Physics Workshop was co-chaired by LLE Senior Scientist, Sean Regan and MIT Research Scientist, Johan Frenje, who stated that, “The overarching goal of the NISP effort is to substantially advance our understanding of the physics of the stagnation process and state of the fuel and ablator near and at stagnation.” Scientists from LLE, Imperial College London, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, General Atomics, SNL, University of Nevada-Reno, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LLNL, and the Naval Research Laboratory participated in the workshop.