Events​:

• ​Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Industry Day: Capabilities and Projects Overview, October 27, 2022

Workshops that motivate MEC-U​:

Opportunities in Intense Ultrafast Lasers: Reaching for the Brightest Light | The National Academies Press	Workshop Report: Brightest Light Initiative (March 27-29 2019, OSA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.) (Technical Report) |OSTI.GOV	A Community Plan for Fusion Energy and Discovery Plasma Sciences APS-DPP-CPP
7th High-Power Laser Workshop | SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	IFE Science & Technology Community Strategic Planning Workshop | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	Basic Research Needs Workshop on Inertial Fusion Energy and news release

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Conferences with MEC-U presented:​

• G. Dyer, et al. CLEO 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  May 7-12, 2023, Contributed Poster: The MEC-U Project
• G. Dyer, et al. Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop, April 26-28, 2023, Rochester, NY, Invited Oral: The MEC-U Project – A transformative capability for HEDLP and IFE Science
• G. Dyer, et al. 64th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics,
  October 17-21, 2022 Spokane, WA, Contributed Poster: The MEC-U Project
• G. Dyer, et al. 2022 SSRL/LCLS User’s Meeting,
  September 26-30, 2022, Menlo Park, CA, Contributed Talk: MEC-U – The Future of MEC Science
• N. Sokol, et. al. World Tunnel Conference, September 2-8, 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark: The SLAC Matter in Extreme Conditions Experimental Hall Cavern
• C. B. Curry et al., 49th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS), May 25, 2022, Seattle, WA, Invited Oral: The Matter in Extreme Conditions Upgrade (MEC-U) Project
• C. B. Curry et al., 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, November 9, 2021, Pittsburgh, PA, Contributed Oral: Towards high-repetition rate HED science at the MEC instrument at LCLS