This week our guest lecturer is Dr. Ray Smith, Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2001, he joined the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as a postdoctoral researcher, were he worked on the development of X-ray lasers for applications on the COMET laser facility. In 2002, he joined Equation of State (EOS) group were he is currently developing isentropic compression experiments (ICE) on the Omega and Janus laser facilities.

The title of his talk is “Velocity Interferometry techniques to determine the equation of state of Fe at TPa pressures”.

Here’s the abstract:RS.Abstract

As usual, the talk will be in Olin 247, coffee and cookies at 4:00, followed by the lecture at 4:30.