The National Ignition Facility (NIF) and JLF User Group facilitates collaboration between researchers at LLNL and the international high-energy-density science community.
Each year (typically in February), NIF and JLF host a User Group Meeting, bringing together this community to learn about the capabilities, recent experiments, and new experimental platforms at both LLNL facilities. The JLF user group serves as a liaison between users and the facility, allowing JLF to improve its capabilities and processes to better serve the user community. JLF welcomes past, planned, and prospective users to attend the annual event.
JLF User Group committee members
- Ben Ofori Okai (chair), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Nicholas Beier (vice-chair), University of Alberta, Canada
- Thomas White (past chair), University of Nevada, Reno
- Jackson Williams (LLNL representative), LLNL
- Isabella Pagano (student representative), University of Texas Austin
- Christopher McGuffey (Titan representative), General Atomics
- Gaia Righi (Janus/target area 1 representative), LLNL
- Andrew Longman (COMET representative), LLNL
Participants of the 2025 NIF and JLF User Groups Meeting gathered at the Bella Rosa Conference Center at the Garré Vineyard & Winery in Livermore.
