Annual LDRD Program Review Meeting

Sep 16, 2026, 8:00 AM → Sep 17, 2026, 3:01 PM US/Eastern

CEBAF Center

Wed, September 16

8:00 AM → 8:30 AM Check-in: CEBAF Center

8:30 AM → 8:50 AM Working Breakfast & Safety Briefing

Speaker: Latifa Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab)

8:50 AM → 9:00 AM Welcome to Jefferson Lab

Speaker: Eric Brown (Jefferson Lab)

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM DOE Update

Speaker: Ms Alice Wang (Department of Energy)

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM NNSA Perspective

Speaker: Garry Kuhn (NNSA)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM LDRD Velocity Project

Speakers: Latifa Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab), Vivian Sullivan (ANL)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Break & photo session

11:00 AM → 11:45 AM Jefferson Lab Overview & LDRD Program Overview

Speakers: Eric Brown (Jefferson Lab), Latifa Elouadrhiri (Jefferson Lab)

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Lab Overview + Overview of LDRD Program

Speaker: Brian Anderson (ORNL)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Working Lunch: Inter-Laboratory Collaboration Discussion

Speaker: Andrew Nelson (Sandia)

1:30 PM → 4:30 PM Parallel Sessions

1:30 PM Session 1A: Strategies for Review Selection & Process Management

Session Leader: Tony Huff (INL)

1:30 PM Session 1B: Effective LDRD Portfolios: Aligning Investments with Lab Strategy

Session Leader: Chris Polly (Fermilab)

2:45 PM Break

3:10 PM Session 2A: Tracking ROI & Program Success in LDRD

Session Leader: Marie Arrowsmith (Sandia)

3:10 PM Session 2B: LDRD Program Architectures & Operational Practices

Session Leader: Carolyn Urso (LANL)

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Success Stories

4:30 PM Stable Isotopes

Speaker: Brian Egle (ORNL)

4:40 PM Translating Advanced Manufacturing

Speaker: Yarom Polsky (ORNL)

4:50 PM Quantum Information Science

Speaker: Ben Lawrie (ORNL)

5:00 PM The Inaugural JLab LDRD Strategic Hire: A Success Story

Speaker: Joe Grames (Jefferson Lab)

5:10 PM Multiple Mode Excitation System for Processing Multicell SRF Cavities

Speaker: Peter Owen (Jefferson Lab)

5:20 PM Scalable Streaming Readout for Dynamic Medical Imaging

Speaker: Cameron Clarke (Jefferson Lab)

5:30 PM → 8:00 PM Poster Session & Reception (request 2 per lab)

Thu, September 17

8:30 AM → 9:00 AM Working Breakfast: Recap from Day 1 & Tour Briefing

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Jefferson Lab Tour

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Working Lunch: Oak Ridge National Laboratory Virtual Tour

Speaker: Brian Anderson (ORNL)

1:00 PM → 2:30 PM Report / Discussion from the Parallel Sessions

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Final Discussion, Planning, & Closing Remarks

3:00 PM → 3:01 PM Meeting Adjourns