ICF: AI/ML

Presentations

• Inertial Confinement Fusion on El Capitan

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 9:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 9:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bogdan Kustowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Luc Peterson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Eugene Kur

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Shailaja Humane

    • University of Michigan

  • Christopher V Young

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Joe M Koning

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Christopher R Schroeder

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Christopher R Schroeder

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Jose Luis Milovich

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ryan Tran

    • OpenAI

  • Brian Gunnarson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ryan Lee

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Robert N Rieben

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Alejandro Campos

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bryan M Garcia

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Judy Hill

    • Lawrence Livermore Natl Lab

  • Alister Maguire

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Chris R Weber

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brian K. Spears

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Robust optimization of the ICF design on El Capitan - the world's fastest supercomputer

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 9:42 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 9:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Bogdan Kustowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Bogdan Kustowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Luc Peterson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Eugene Kur

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Shailaja Humane

    • University of Michigan

  • Christopher V Young

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Joe M Koning

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Chris R Schroeder

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Christopher R Weber

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Jose Luis Milovich

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ryan Tran

    • OpenAI

  • Brian Gunnarson

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ryan Lee

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Robert N Rieben

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Alejandro Campos

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bryan M Garcia

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Alister Maguire

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brian K. Spears

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Automated search for inertial confinement fusion designs using Bayesian optimization

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 9:54 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:06 AM

  Publication: (submitted manuscript) S. Humane, E. Kur, K. Humbird, C. Kuranz; Inertial confinement fusion design search using Bayesian optimization; Data Science in Science

  Presenters

  • Shailaja Humane

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Shailaja Humane

    • University of Michigan

  • Eugene Kur

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Carolyn C Kuranz

    • University of Michigan
    • OCC

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• Machine Learned Surrogate for High-Z xRAGE Simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:06 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:18 AM

  Presenters

  • Bradley T Wolfe

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Bradley T Wolfe

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Mariana Alvarado Alvarez

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Steven Howard Batha

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Ryan S Lester

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Peter Maginot

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael McKerns

    • Loc Alamos National Laboratory

  • Irina Sagert

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Emily Shinkle

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Using Neural Networks to Quantify Laser Filamentation for Inertial Confinement Fusion Applications

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:18 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Rochan N Yakkundi

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation

  Authors

  • Rochan N Yakkundi

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation

  • Ernesto Barraza-Valdez

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation

  • Joshua D Ludwig

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation
    • Xcimer Energy

  • Marcos Cebrian

    • Xcimer Energy

  • Milan Holec

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation

  • Conner Galloway

    • Xcimer Energy Corporation

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• Uncertainty quantification of laser pulse shapes using Student-T processes with input noise

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Neil Dhir

    • Focused Energy

  Authors

  • Neil Dhir

    • Focused Energy

  • Jim Gaffney

    • Focused Energy

  • Debbie A Callahan

    • Focused Energy

  • Stefano Atzeni

    • Focused Energy

  • Matthias Brönner

    • Focused Energy

  • Arnaud Debayle

    • Focused Energy

  • Javier J. Honrubia

    • Focused Energy
    • University Politecnica de Madrid

  • Alfonso Mateo

    • Focused Energy

  • Linh Nguyen

    • Focused Energy

  • Valeria Ospina-Bohorquez

    • Focused Energy Inc.

  • Pravesh K Patel

    • Focused Energy

  • J. Manuel Perlado

    • Focused Energy

  • Markus Roth

    • Focused Energy

  • Wolfgang Theobald

    • University of Rochester
    • Focused Energy

  • Xavier Vaisseau

    • Focused Energy

  • Florian Wasser

    • Focused Energy

  • Doug Hammond

    • Focused Energy

  • Maximilian Hartmann

    • Focused Energy

  • Clement Paradis

    • Focused Energy and Pulsed Light Technology

  • Gabriel Schaumann

    • Focused Energy

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• Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Ablation Pressure in Laser-Driven Implosion Experiments

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:42 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 10:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Mason R Weiss

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Rice University

  Authors

  • Mason R Weiss

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics and Rice University

  • Ethan A Smith

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

  • David Alexander Chin

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

  • John J Ruby

    • University of Rochester
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester

  • Neel V Kabadi

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

  • J. Ryan Rygg

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

  • Gilbert W Collins

    • University of Rochester
    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, United States

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• Predicting Areal Density in ICF Experiments Using an Uncertainty-Aware Neural Network

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 10:54 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:06 AM

  Presenters

  • Chris J Chang

    • Laboratory For Laser Energetics (LLE)

  Authors

  • Chris J Chang

    • Laboratory For Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Varchas Gopalaswamy

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Riccardo Betti

    • University of Rochester

  • Aarne Lees

    • University of Rochester

  • Christopher Kanan

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester

  • James P Knauer

    • University of Rochester

  • Luke A Ceurvorst

    • University of Rochester

  • Rahman Ejaz

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Dhrumir P Patel

    • University of Rochester

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• Joint Diffusion as a Multi-Modal Surrogate for Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:06 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:18 AM

  Publication: 1) Jones, M., Kustowski, B., Kur E., Nora R., Humbird K. (2025). Towards a Multi-Modal Foundation Model for Inertial Confinement Fusion: Combining Structured Data and Diagnostic Images. ICML 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data https://openreview.net/pdf?id=G4Trc0Sl6k
  2) Planned Submission to PNAS forthcoming

  Presenters

  • Mike Jones

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Mike Jones

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Bogdan Kustowski

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Eugene Kur

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Ryan C Nora

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Inertial Confinement Fusion – a collaboration with NVIDIA

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:18 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:30 AM

  Presenters

  • Radha Bahukutumbi

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Radha Bahukutumbi

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • University of Rochester

  • David D Meyerhofer

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Nathan Debardeleben

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Michael Lang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Aastha Jhunjhunwala

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Avinash Vem

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Douglas Luu

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Prakash Gurumurthy

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Scott Halverson

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Geetika Gupta

    • NVIDIA Corporation

  • Kelli D Humbird

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  • Brian K. Spears

    • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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• Optimizing the Performance of Direct-Drive Implosion Experiments Using Transformer Neural Processes and Meta-Look-Ahead

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:30 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:42 AM

  Presenters

  • Rahman Ejaz

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  Authors

  • Rahman Ejaz

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Varchas Gopalaswamy

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Ricardo Luna

    • Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Milpitas, CA USA

  • Aarne Lees

    • University of Rochester

  • Riccardo Betti

    • University of Rochester

  • Soumyendu Sarkar

    • Hewlett Packard Labs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  • Christopher Kanan

    • Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester

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• Machine-learned surrogate driven exploration of the design space of a multi-shell liner target

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:42 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 11:54 AM

  Presenters

  • Damilola Adekanye

    • First Light Fusion

  Authors

  • Damilola Adekanye

    • First Light Fusion

  • Joshua Read

    • First Light Fusion

  • Oliver Nash

    • First Light Fusion

  • Victor Beltran Martinez

    • First Light Fusion

  • David Goude

    • First Light Fusion

  • Sam Rudgyard

    • First Light Fusion

  • Ronan L Doherty

    • First Light Fusion

  • James R Allison

    • First Light Fusion

  • Guy C Burdiak

    • First Light Fusion

  • Jonathan W Skidmore

    • First Light Fusion

  • Thomas Edwards

    • First Light Fusion

  • James D Pecover

    • First Light Fusion

  • Rafel Marc Bordas

    • First Light Fusion

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• Development of a Nonlocal Electron Transport Model in DT through TD-DFT Calculations and Machine Learning for Inertial Confinement Fusion

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 11:54 AM – Nov. 19, 2025, 12:06 PM

  Publication: Currently drafting a manuscript of results - will submit prior to APS.

  Presenters

  • Katarina Alice Nichols

    • University of Rochester

  Authors

  • Katarina Alice Nichols

    • University of Rochester

  • Suxing Hu

    • University of Rochester

  • Nathaniel R Shaffer

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

  • Brennan J Arnold

    • Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

  • Deyan I Mihaylov

    • University of Rochester

  • Valeri N Goncharov

    • University of Rochester

  • Alexander J White

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Lee A. Collins

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Valentin V Karasiev

    • University of Rochester

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• Modeling Plasma Plumes from Rapid Target Heating with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and data-assimilation

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2025, 12:06 PM – Nov. 19, 2025, 12:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Woodward

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Michael Woodward

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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