HEDSA Symposium on High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas

 A Symposium on High Energy Density Plasma Physics consisting of six invited talks on topics of current interest in high energy density plasmas will be held at the Hannover F room in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Atlanta Sunday night, November 1 st , starting at 7:30 PM. The symposium is one of a series organized every year at the APS DPP annual meeting by the High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) www.hedsa.org

The program includes the following presentations:

7:30 PM. "Magnetically driven supersonic plasma jets in high energy density experiments", Sergey Lebedev, Imperial College , London

8:00 PM. “High intensity slow wave structures for relativistic particle acceleration” Howard Milchberg, University of Maryland , College Park , MD.

8:30 PM “Current Experiments at the National Ignition Facility and Future Possibilities” , John Kline, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos , NM

9:00 PM“STUD Pulses and KEEN Waves: Two Novel Ways to Control Laser-Plasma Instabilities in HEDP”, Bedros Afeyan , Polymath Research Inc, Pleasanton , CA .

9:30 PM: “Multicolor tomography of high-energy density plasmas" , Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada , Reno , NV

10:00 PM. “Magnetic Fields in High Energy Plasmas”,James Knauer, Laboratory of Laser Energetics, University of Rochester , Rochester , NY

More information about the DPP meeting can be found here: http://www.aps.org/meetings/unit/dpp/index.cfm

4th Annual General Meeting High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA)


Inman Room, Hyatt Regency, Atlanta
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
(Noon-2:00 PM)*

Agenda:

12:00 – 12:10 Welcome and Chair’s Report
Prof. Jorge Rocca
- Chair of the Steering Committee

12:10 – 12:30 National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Perspective on the Joint NNSA/OFES High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas (HEDLP) Program
Dr. Chris Deeney
– Director of the Office of Defense
Science, NNSA, Department of Energy (DOE)

12:30 – 12:50 Office of Fusion Energy Science (OFES) Perspective on the Joint NNSA/OFES HEDLP Program
Dr. Ed Synokowski
– Director of OFES, DOE

12:50 – 1:00 National Science Foundation – Department of Energy Partnership Perspective on HEDLP Research
Dr. Michael Crisp
– Program Manager, OFES, DOE

1:00 – 1:10 Status Report on the HEDLP Research Needs Workshop
Professor Dave Hamme
r – Co-Chair, Research Needs
Workshop (ReNeW) on HEDLP

1:10 – 1:25 High Energy Density Science User’s Project (HEDSUP) Report
Dr. Bedros Afeyan
– Chair, HEDSUP

1:25 – 1:35 HEDSA Student Committee Report
Mike Purvis
– Chair, HEDSA Student Committee

1:35 – 2:00 General Discussion

* Lunch boxes will be available in the Hyatt Regency Hotel Cafeteria for purchase.
Agenda available as a PDF by clicking here

 

2009 HEDP Summer School

The 2009 HEDP Summer School announcement flyer can be found by clicking here. The Summer School website is:   http://meetings.lle.rochester.edu/FSCschool/

 

Also, to access the HEDLP talk to the Plasma Committee of the NRC from October 10 -11, 2008 called, "High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas: Exciting prospects for new physics and technology", given by Bedros Afeyan, click here.