2020 Physics/Theoretical Colloquium Thursday, March 5th , 2020 3:45 – 4:45 p.m. Rosen Auditorium (TA-53, Bldg. 001) Refreshments at 3:15pm Speaker: Dr. Ryan McBride Associate Professor, University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences Department “Pulsed-power-driven research in high-energy-density physics (HEDP) and high-power microwaves (HPM) at the University of Michigan” Abstract: This talk will present the various research activities presently underway in the Plasma, Pulsed Power, and Microwave Laboratory at the University of Michigan. The HEDP research is largely in support of the DOE-NNSA's Stockpile Stewardship Program and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), involving both experimental and computational projects in z-pinch stabilization, magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF) support, extended magnetohydrodynamics (X-MHD) code development and validation, experimental platform development for studying warm dense matter (WDM), gas-puff z-pinch experiments for fusion neutron source development, and X-pinch x-ray source development for the study of "micro-pinch" phenomena in z-pinches. The HPM research is largely in support of DoD's directed energy programs (both AFOSR and ONR), involving projects in high-power magnetrons, crossed-field amplifiers, and magnetically insulated line oscillators (MILOs). Both the HEDP work and the HPM work involve several projects in pulsed-power technology development [e.g., linear transformer driver (LTD) development]. If you would like to meet with the speaker during his visit, please contact: Ramey, Nicholas Bryan , or Coleman, Joshua Eugene