FPN16-31
Michael Rosenberg Receives 2016 Rosenbluth Award
September 3, 2016
Dr. Michael Rosenberg, a Research Associate at the University of
Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), stationed at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), has been chosen to
receive the American Physical Society Rosenbluth Award for Outstanding
Doctoral Thesis. Dr. Rosenberg received his Ph.D. from MIT under the
direction of Richard Petrasso and performed his research as part of a
NIF-MIT joint program. The Award cites his work for the "first
experimental demonstration of the importance of kinetic and multi-ion
effects on fusion rates in a wide class of inertial confinement fusion
implosions, and for use of proton diagnostics to unveil new features of
magnetic reconnection in laser-generated plasmas."
Mike's research was done at LLE's Omega facility and LLNL's NIF
facility and exploited techniques and instruments developed at the
MIT HED Accelerator Facility.
Mike is presently at LLNL working with both LLE and LLNL
colleagues on the Megajoule Direct-Drive Campaign (part of the national
direct-drive program) where the goal is understanding laser-plasma
interaction physics in the large hot plasma corona of ignition
direct-drive targets.
The Rosenbluth awards were created in 1985 (and endowed in 1997 by
General Atomics) to recognize scientists who have performed original
thesis work of outstanding scientific quality and achievement in the
area of plasma physics.
Mike can be reached at:
mros@lle.rochester.edu