Recent Progress at the Wootton Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties*

We explore recent physical and astrophysical progress in the current suite of experiments conducted by the Wootton Center for Astrophysical Plasma Properties (WCAPP) on the Z-machine at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), as well as preliminary results from a new series of experiments, begun this year, at NIF.  This work is foundational.  Upon it we build our understanding of the Sun and Sun-like stars, radiation dominated plasma in accretion disks around compact objects–including supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies, and white dwarf stars, the compact endpoint of almost all stars.  The talks that follow in this section will detail the progress we have made in each of these areas.