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Session U1: Detonation and Shock-induced Chemistry VII: Low Density Explosive Reactivity

Chair: Joel Carney, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head, Millicent Firestone, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Grand E

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:45PM		U1.00001: Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometry of Laser Exploding Foil Initiated PETN Samples Invited Speaker: Mario Fajardo Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:45PM - 3:00PM		U1.00002: Relationship between Exploding Bridgewire {\&} Spark Initiation of Low Density PETN Elizabeth Lee, Rod Drake Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		U1.00003: Near-Failure Detonation Behavior of Vapor-Deposited Hexanitrostilbene (HNS) Films Robert Knepper, Ryan Wixom, Alexander Tappan Preview Abstract

Session U2: Experimental Developments VIII: Optical Diagnostics

Chair: Jennifer Gottfried, Army Research Laboratory, Michael Armstrong, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Room: Grand F

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:30PM		U2.00001: Anisotropic Transverse Stress in Calcite and Sapphire Measured Using Birefringence Gareth R. Tear, David J. Chapman, Daniel E. Eakins, William G. Proud Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:30PM - 2:45PM		U2.00002: Multi-Frame Imaging of Shock Propagation Leora Cooper, David Veysset, Brandt Pein, Alexei Maznev, Steven Kooi, Keith Nelson Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:45PM - 3:00PM		U2.00003: Implementation of Single-Shot Ellipsometry on Gas Gun Experiments Sean Grant, Tommy Ao, Aaron Bernstein, Jean-Paul Davis, Todd Ditmire, Daniel Dolan, Jung-Fu Lin, Christopher Seagle Preview Abstract

Session U3: Geophysics and Planetary Science III: Planetary and Prebiotic Materials

Chair: Rick Kraus, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stephane Mazevet, Observatoire de Paris
Room: Grand G

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:30PM		U3.00001: Development of Impact Model for Water Ice Philip Church, Peter Gould, Ian Lewtas, Andy Jardine, Chris Braithwaite, Katie Jarman Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:30PM - 2:45PM		U3.00002: Prebiotic hydrocarbon synthesis in impacting reduced astrophysical icy mixtures Nir Goldman, Lucas Koziol Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:45PM - 3:15PM		U3.00003: High-energy density experiments on planetary materials using high-power lasers and X-ray free electron laser Invited Speaker: Norimasa Ozaki Preview Abstract

Session U4: Phase Transitions IV: Modeling

Chair: James Hammerberg and Abigail Hunter, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Grand H

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:30PM		U4.00001: Introduction to the Phase Transition Kinetics Program at LLNL Jonathan Belof, Lorin Benedict, Alexander Chernov, Jonathan DuBois, Burl Hall, Sebastien Hamel, Tomorr Haxhimali, George Levesque, Roger Minich, Britton Olson, Tomas Oppelstrup, Babak Sadigh, Christian Scullard, Luis Zepeda-Ruiz Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:30PM - 2:45PM		U4.00002: Time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau type Multiphase Field for description of shock-induced Phase Transition Tomorr Haxhimali, Jonathan Belof, Lorin Benedict Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:45PM - 3:00PM		U4.00003: Nanosecond Timescale Homogeneous Nucleation and Crystal Growth in Shock-Compressed SiO$_{2}$ Yuan Shen, Shai Barak, Tingting Qi, Evan Reed Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		U4.00004: Towards a kinetics model for dynamically driven liquid-solid transitions built from atomistic simulations Lorin X. Benedict, Luis Zepeda-Ruiz, Tomorr Haxhimali, Sebastien Hamel, Jon L. Belof Preview Abstract

Session U5: First-Principles and MD VI: Chemical Reactivity

Chair: Marc Cawkwell and Joel Kress, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Room: Grand I/J

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:30PM		U5.00001: Elucidation of high sensitivity of $\delta $-HMX: New insight from the first principle simulations Maija Kuklja, Onise Sharia, Roman Tsyshevsky Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:30PM - 2:45PM		U5.00002: \textit{Ab initio} calculations of nitramine dimers Sharon Koh-Fallet, Igor Schweigert Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:45PM - 3:00PM		U5.00003: Detonation initiation in solid explosive: MD simulation using AB interatomic potential Semen Murzov, Vasily Zhakhovsky Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:00PM - 3:15PM		U5.00004: Mirrored continuum and molecular scale simulations of the ignition of gamma phase RDX D. Scott Stewart, Santanu Chaudhuri, Kaushik Joshi, Kiabek Lee Preview Abstract

Session U6: Particulate, Porous and Composite Materials V

Chair: Anthony Fredenburg, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Christopher Lammi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Room: 8/9/10

Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:15PM - 2:30PM		U6.00001: Fracture of explosively compacted aluminum particles in a cylinder David Frost, Jason Loiseau, Sam Goroshin, Fan Zhang, Alec Milne, Aaron Longbottom Preview Abstract
Thursday, June 18, 2015 2:30PM - 2:45PM		U6.00002: Investigating Velocity Spectra at the Hugoniot State of Shock Loaded Heterogeneous Materials Jeff LaJeunesse, John Borg, Sarah Stewart, Naresh Thadhani Preview Abstract