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November 2025 Los Alamos Arizona Days

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		TBA
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
8:50-9:20Marek Rychlik (UA) Data mining from scanned .pdf documents
9:20-9:50Nicholas Taylor (LANL), MIke Ham (WRS Division), Geoffrey Fairchild (LANL)  Data Management R&D 
9:50-10:10Coffee Break
10:10-10:40Barney Maccabe ? (UA) UA Plans in AI and Data Science
10:40-11:10Robyn Miller and Juston Moore (LANL) Provably accurate surrogate models 
11:10-11:40Ann Zabludoff (UA) AstroDB and Causal AI
11:40-12:10Travis Wheeler (UA) MDRepo (a community data resources for molecular dynamic simulations) 
12:10-12:30Discussion on next steps in collaboration
12:30-1:30Lunch Break
SESSION II:
MULTI PHYSICS
1:30-4:30		CK Chan (UA)
Chris Malone (LANL)
1:30-1:45Wendy Caldwell (LANL) Quantifying Uncertainties in Modeling Choices for Time-Sensitive Applications
1:45-2:00Erik Wessel (UA Student) Development of a 5+1 gray radiation transport code for dynamical spacetimes
2:00-2:15Shambhavi Srivastava  (UA Student) Testing Helicity Conservation in GRMHD
2:15-2:30Hyun Lim (LANL) HARD: A Performance Portable Radiation Hydrodynamics Code based on FleCSI Framework 
2:30-2:45Jason Allen (LANL) AI/ML in Multiphysics Modeling
2:45-3:00Coffee Break
3:00-3:15Ilya Kuk (UA Student) Inverse Scattering Transform via Affine Map Operator and Machine Learning
3:15-3:30Brian Bell (LANL) Large Spatial Models for Physics-Constrained 3D Shape Reconstruction
3:30-3:45Logan White (UA Student) PHifty One Ergs Blows Up a Star: Towards Performance-Portable Supernovae in 3D GRRMHD
3:45-4:00Duan Zhang (LANL) Multiphase Multivelocity Modeling
4:00-4:15Joana Kramer (LANL) Simulating Active Galactic Nuclei: From Relativistic Jets to Polarized Emission 
4:15-4:30Discussions of next steps in collaboration
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025        Location: SALA Los Alamos Event Center

SESSION III:
FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS

8:30-12:00PM

Horst Hahn (UA)
Wes Even (LANL)

 
8:30-9:00John Kline (LANL)  Overview of our FES programs
9:00-9:30Horst Hahn (UA) Fusion Engineering at UA
9:30-10:00Sam Jones (LANL) Modeling resistive walls for MFE
10:00-10:20Coffee Break
10:20-10:50Justin Galbraith (LLNL)  System Engineering of Fusion Power Plant
10:50-11:20Damyn Chipman and Brian Haines (LANL) Laser modeling methods for indirect drive ICF
11:20-11:50Johann Rafelski (UA) Nuclear Fusion Today
11:50-12:00Discussion of the next step in FES collaborations
12:00-1:30Lunch Break

SESSION IV:
MATERIALS SCIENCE

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
2:00-2:20Avanish Mishra (LANL) Accelerating Materials Discovery via Generative AI
2:20-2:40Sheila Whitman (UA Student) Learning microstructure–property relationships with foundational vision transformer representations
2:40-3:00Coffee Break
3:00-3:30
Keynote		Ben Nebgen (LANL) Optimizing plasticizer composition for targeted polymer properties utilizing machine learned interatomic potentials
3:30-3:50Ed McDugald (UA Student) A generative model for solid-liquid interfaces
3:50-4:10Brayan Murgas (LANL)  TBD
4:10-4:30Discussions of next steps in collaboration