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On NOVEMBER 6-7, 2025 the Los Alamos- Arizona Days Conference will be held in person at the SALA Los Alamos Event Center in Los Alamos, NM. Attendees from the University of Arizona: please click HERE for important information.
NOTE: Due to the government shutdown, the workshop may be postponed.
There will be 4 topic sessions: Data Science & AI, Multi-Physics, Fusion Energy Systems, and Materials Science. The tentative schedule is as follows:
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 Location: SALA Los Alamos Event Center
| WELCOME 8:15-8:30 | Earl Lawrence (LANL) |
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| SESSION I: AI and DATA SCIENCE 8:30-12:00 | James Ahrens (LANL) Brian Bell (LANL) David Ebert (UA) Barney Maccabe (UA) |
| 8:30-8:50 Keynote | James Ahrens (LANL) Data Science at LANL - overview of the area and research directions |
| 8:50-9:20 | CK Chan (UA) The Scientific Method in the AI Era? |
| 9:20-9:50 | Rosalyn Rael (LANL) Test and Evaluation for the LANL Artimis AI Project George Tompkins (LANL) Knowledge Graphs - Creating a Trusted Source of Technical Process Data |
| 9:50-10:10 | Coffee Break |
| 10:10-10:40 | Barney Maccabe (UA) UA Plans in AI and Data Science |
| 10:40-11:10 | Robyn Miller and Juston Moore (LANL) Provably accurate surrogate models |
| 11:10-11:40 | Ann Zabludoff (UA) Will Humans Make the Greatest Astronomy Discoveries of the Future? |
| 11:40-12:00 | Discussion on next steps in collaboration |
| 12:00-1:45 | Lunch Break |
| SESSION II: MULTI PHYSICS 1:45-4:30 | CK Chan (UA) Chris Malone (LANL) |
| 1:45-2:00 | Erik Wessel (UA Student) Development of a 5+1 gray radiation transport code for dynamical spacetimes |
| 2:00-2:15 | Shambhavi Srivastava (UA Student) Testing Helicity Conservation in GRMHD |
| 2:15-2:30 | Hyun Lim (LANL) HARD: A Performance Portable Radiation Hydrodynamics Code based on FleCSI Framework |
| 2:30-2:45 | Jason Allen (LANL) AI/ML in Multiphysics Modeling |
| 2:45-3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:00-3:15 | Ilya Kuk (UA Student) Inverse Scattering Transform via Affine Map Operator and Machine Learning |
| 3:15-3:30 | Brian Bell (LANL) Large Spatial Models for Physics-Constrained 3D Shape Reconstruction |
| 3:30-3:45 | Logan White (UA Student) PHifty One Ergs Blows Up a Star: Towards Performance-Portable Supernovae in 3D GRRMHD |
| 3:45-4:00 | Duan Zhang (LANL) Multiphase Multivelocity Modeling |
| 4:00-4:15 | Joana Kramer (LANL) Simulating Active Galactic Nuclei: From Relativistic Jets to Polarized Emission |
| 4:30-6:00 | Poster Session (all sections) |
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025 Location: SALA Los Alamos Event Center
SESSION III: 8:30-12:00PM | Horst Hahn (UA) Wes Even (LANL) |
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| 8:30-9:00 | John Kline (LANL) Overview of our FES programs |
| 9:00-9:30 | Horst Hahn (UA) Fusion Engineering at UA |
| 9:30-10:00 | Sam Jones (LANL) Modeling resistive walls for MFE |
| 10:00-10:20 | Coffee Break |
| 10:20-10:50 | Justin Galbraith (LLNL) System Engineering of Fusion Power Plant |
| 10:50-11:20 | Damyn Chipman and Brian Haines (LANL) Laser modeling methods for indirect drive ICF |
| 11:20-11:50 | Johann Rafelski (UA) Nuclear Fusion Today |
| 11:50-12:00 | Discussion of the next step in FES collaborations |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break |
SESSION IV: 1:30-4:00PM | Olesya Zhupanska (UA) Brenden Hamilton (LANL) |
| 1:30-2:00 Keynote | Olesya Zhupanska (UA) Composite materials for extremes: integrating micromechanics- and continuum-level modeling |
| 2:00-2:20 | Avanish Mishra (LANL) Accelerating Materials Discovery via Generative AI |
| 2:20-2:40 | Sheila Whitman (UA Student) Learning microstructure–property relationships with foundational vision transformer representations |
| 2:40-3:00 | Coffee Break |
| 3:00-3:30 Keynote | Ben Nebgen (LANL) Optimizing plasticizer composition for targeted polymer properties utilizing machine learned interatomic potentials |
| 3:30-3:50 | Ed McDugald (UA Student) A generative model for solid-liquid interfaces |
| 3:50-4:10 | Brayan Murgas (LANL) Phase field dislocation dynamics formulation coupled with Fourier based micromechanics solver: Application. To grain boundary-dislocation interactions |
| 4:10-4:30 | Break |
| 4:30-6:00 | Memories and Path Forward led by Mac Hyman (LANL), Alan Newell (UA/tentative) and Ildar Gabitov (UA) |