William M. Sharp

William M. Sharp received the Ph.D. degree in applied science from the University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA, in 1976. He has been carried out analytic and computer studies of magnetic-fusion devices, electron-beam systems, free-electron lasers, and heavy-ion accelerators, since 1992. He was with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Fusion Energy Sciences Program, Livermore, CA, USA, where he is currently a Visiting Scientist, and is an affiliate with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. His current research interests include the application of heavy-ion beams to inertial fusion energy and, in particular, the design of NDCX-II, a new ion induction accelerator facility at LBNL that enables experiments in high-energy-density physics, IFE-relevant beam-target physics, and high-perveance ion-beam physics.