HTPD 2026

Welcome Reception

A welcome reception will be held in the lobby to the Kresge Auditorium (W16) on Sunday, June 7 from 4-8pm.

During this time conference attendees may pick up their conference registration materials.

Conference Banquet

The conference banquet will be held in Sala de Puerto Rico (bldg W20) on Tuesday, June 9 from 6pm to 8pm.

Talk Format

Invited talks will follow a 25+5 minute schedule, i.e. authors should budget 25 minutes for presentation of technical content followed by 5 minutes for question and answer.

The projection system uses 16×9 “widescreen” format.

Poster Format

Poster sessions will be 2 hours in duration. Authors should put-up their posters prior to the beginning of the session.

Individual poster-board area will be 8×4 feet (width x height).

Complete agenda for the invited talk and poster sessions

Monday, June 8, 2026

Session 1.1 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair John Rice (MIT)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
8:00–8:30am	1.1.1	Inference of Tungsten and High-Z Impurity Transport in Turbulence-dominated and Turbulence-reduced Discharges on W7-X using X-ray Crystal Spectroscopy	Tomas Gonda	Auburn University
8:30-9:00am	1.1.2	A high-efficiency x-ray spectrometer for warm-dense matter studies on the National Ignition Facility	David Bishel	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:00 - 9:30am	1.1.3	Machine Learning Based Spectral Fitting and Atomic Physics Corrections for the Main Ion Charge Exchange Recombination Spectroscopy System on DIII-D	Shaun Haskey	Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
9:30 - 10:00am	1.1.4	Novel measurements of plasma conditions with a high bandwidth ultraviolet laser using cross-beam energy transfer	Avi Milder	University of Rochester

Session 1.2 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair David Smith (UW-Madison)

Session 1.3 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair Luis Delgado-Aparicio (PPPL)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
6:00–6:30pm	1.3.1	Gamma-ray emission on SPARC for burning plasma diagnosis	Enrico Panontin	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6:30-7:00pm	1.3.2	Observation of submicron-scale dynamics in laser-driven shocked foams through high sensitivity differential phase contrast imaging	Victorien Bouffetier	Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
7:00 - 7:30pm	1.3.3	High-precision, time-resolved measurements of core plasma potential dynamics by heavy ion beam probe diagnostics	Masaki Nishiura	National Institute for Fusion Science
7:30 - 8:00pm	1.3.4	Development and characterization of a high-resolution, monochromatic, laser-gated radiography system for HED hydrodynamics experiments on the NIF	Tina Ebert	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Session 1.4 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair Calvin Domier (UC-Davis)

Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Session 2.1 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair Mike Rosenberg (UR-LLE)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
8:00–8:30am	2.1.1	Magnetic Recoil Neutron Spectrometry Across the Fusion Landscape: To Ignition and Beyond!	Chris Wink	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
8:30-9:00am	2.1.2	Probing Burning Plasma Physics on SPARC via Neutron Emission Spectrometry	Shon Mackie	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:00 - 9:30am	2.1.3	Measuring the Dynamics of Thermonuclear Burn in Inertial Confinement Fusion	Robert Dwyer	University of Rochester
9:30 - 10:00am	2.1.4	Measurements for Fusion Power to Demonstrate Q > 1 on SPARC	Prasoon Raj	Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Session 2.2 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair Gareth Hall (LLNL)

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Session 3.1 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair Zhehui (Jeph) Wang (LANL)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
8:00–8:30am	3.1.1	Design and performance characterization of a high-throughput, high-resolution streak tube designed for ultrafast x-ray spectroscopy	Anthony Raymond	University of Rochester
8:30-9:00am	3.1.2	Overview of the preliminary SPARC profile ECE diagnostic design and a novel method for thermal noise reduction in burning plasma measurements	Christian Yoo	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:00 - 9:30am	3.1.3	Time Dilation: results and calibrations of time-stretched signals from burning plasmas	Clement Trosseille	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
9:30 - 10:00am	3.1.4	Multidimensional Velocity Resolution using Emission-Resolved Laser Induced Fluorescence	Jacob Mclaughlin	West Virginia University

Session 3.2 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair Christine Mariscal (GA)

Session 3.3 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair Yongho Kim (LANL)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
6:00–6:30pm	3.3.1	Sandia development plans and efforts to advance fast x-ray measurements and measure shape, pressure and burn history in Magnetic Direct Drive Fusion targets	Eric Harding	Sandia National Laboratory
6:30-7:00pm	3.3.2	Design and development of plasma diagnostics to tackle the DTT Tokamak research objectives	Filippo Bagnato	Divertor Tokamak Test facility Consortium
7:00 - 7:30pm	3.3.3	From Flat to Full: Automated 3D Plasma Diagnostics from 2D Data	Brian Bell	Los Alamos National Laboratory
7:30 - 8:00pm	3.3.4	Neutral Pressure Gauges in Fusion: Model Validation and Real-Time Control from AUG/W7‑X to ITER/SPARC and beyond	Michael Griener	Max Planck Institutes

Session 3.4 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair Eric Harding (SNL)

Thursday, June 11, 2026

Session 4.1 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair Theodore Biewer (ORNL)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
8:00–8:30am	4.1.1	First Results from the OpSpecTR	Kathy Opachich	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
8:30-9:00am	4.1.2	Improved performance of IRVB foils to image low- to moderate-temperature plasma radiation	Fabio Federici	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:00 - 9:30am	4.1.3	Advances in Neutron- and Light Ion‑Induced Nuclear Reaction Studies Using the Short-Lived Isotope Counting System (SLICS) at the Omega Laser Facility	Chad Forrest	University of Rochester
9:30 - 10:00am	4.1.4	Observations of Fast H-Mode Pedestal Dynamics with New MSE/CER Dual-Spectrum Diagnostic at DIII-D	Ryan Albosta	University of Wisconsin-Madison

Session 4.2 Posters (Sala de Puerto Rico, bldg W20), Chair Suk-Ho Hong (GA)

Session 4.3 Talks (Kresge Auditorium, bldg W16), Chair David Smith (UW-Madison)

Time	Entry	Title	Presenter	Affiliation
2:00–2:30pm	4.3.1	A Compact Recoil Spectrometer for Time Integrated Neutron Energy Spectrum Measurements on the Z Machine	Owen Mannion	Sandia National Laboratory
2:30-3:00pm	4.3.2	Neutral Density Measurement in High-Temperature Core Plasmas by High-Dynamic-Range Spectroscopy	Keisuke Fujii	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
3:00 - 3:30pm	4.3.3	A physics-based approach to inferring density profiles by coupling x-ray radiography and neutron imaging shape analysis data	Zaarah Mohamed	Los Alamos National Laboratory
3:30 - 4:00pm	4.3.4	Advanced Interferometry-Polarimetry for Burning Plasma Control and Physics Validation	Jie Chen	University of California, Los Angeles