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
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 Hammer – 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
