Dr. David L. Bruhwiler
CEO at RadiaSoft LLC
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Area of Expertise:
accelerator physics , laser plasma interactions , high performance computing , computational physics , nonlinear dynamics , software development
Profile Summary

David Bruhwiler is president, CEO, and Chairman of the Board at RadiaSoft LLC, a startup that he co-founded in 2013. His scientific work in the areas of parallel computing, charged particle acceleration, X-ray optics, nonlinear integrable phase space dynamics, laser-plasma and beam-plasma interactions, electron cooling of ion beams, advanced accelerator concepts and solar physics has produced 55 refereed articles (including two in the Nature series and 3 in Physical Review Letters), 15 invited talks at international conferences, one patent and over 100 other scientific reports and conference proceedings. A Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Senior Member of the IEEE, he regularly reviews funding proposals for the US Department of Energy, Office of High Energy Physics, Office of Basic Energy Sciences and Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research, as well as the National Science Foundation. He routinely reviews articles for Physical Review (Letters, E, Special Topics AB), Physics of Plasmas and IEEE Transactions. Dr. Bruhwiler’s scientific successes include: key contributions to early simulations of quasi-monoenergetic beams from laser-plasma accelerators, the concept of a self-ionizing plasma wakefield accelerator, contributions to initial simulations of the patented Trojan horse concept for producing electron beams of unprecedented brightness, and fundamental improvements to the understanding and use of parametric models for dynamical friction – essential to the next generation of electron-ion colliders for nuclear physics. He is now working to bring scientific computing to the cloud via the open source Sirepo framework, https://sirepo.com, leveraging software investments of the US Department of Energy to stimulate advanced manufacturing and bolster the US economy, and also to educate the next generation of particle accelerator scientists and engineers.
Publications (4)

Proceedings Article | 3 October 2022 Presentation
Boaz Nash, David Bruhwiler, Dan Abell, Nicholas Goldring, Gurhar Khalsa, Jeroen Van Tilborg, Qian Chen, Csaba Tóth, Cameron Geddes
Proceedings Volume PC12218, PC1221806 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2646684
KEYWORDS: Radio propagation, Wave propagation, Solid state lasers, Optical amplifiers, High power lasers, Electromagnetism, Wavefronts, Transform theory, Matrices, Synchrotron radiation

Proceedings Article | 9 September 2019 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 11110, 111100K (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530663
KEYWORDS: Electron beams, Synchrotron radiation, Optical simulations, Light sources, Magnetism, Computer simulations, Wavefronts, Convolution

Proceedings Article | 23 August 2017 Presentation + Paper
Proceedings Volume 10388, 103880R (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2274031
KEYWORDS: Optical simulations, Synchrotron radiation, X-ray optics, X-rays, Optical components, Laser scattering, Scattering, Synchrotron x-ray imaging, X-ray imaging, Interfaces

Proceedings Article | 5 September 2014 Paper
David Bruhwiler, Oleg Chubar, Robert Nagler, Jacek Krzywinski, Amber Boehnlein
Proceedings Volume 9209, 92090Z (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2061947
KEYWORDS: X-ray optics, Optical simulations, X-rays, Computer simulations, Human-machine interfaces, Visualization, Light sources, Optical components, Software development, Synchrotron radiation

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NON-SPIE: Simulation of Beam and Plasma Systems
The purpose of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to numerical modeling techniques used to analyze beam and plasma systems in the context of accelerator technology.
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