2011 HEDSA Symposium on High Energy Density
Laboratory Plasmas
Salt Lake City, Utah
November 13th, 2011
A Symposium on High Energy Density Plasma Physics
consisting of five invited talks on topics of current interest in high
energy density laboratory plasmas will be held at Deer Valley I-III in the Mariott Hotel inn downtown Salt Lake City, Utah on Sunday evening, November 13th , starting at 7:30
PM. The symposium is one of a series organized every year at the APS Division of Plasma Physics annual meeting by the High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) www.hedsa.org.
The program
included the following presentations:
7:30 PM "Plasma Nuclear Physics: Opportunities for Nuclear Physics in HED plasmas", Dennis McNabb, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
8:00 PM "Particle Acceleration Using the 300TW Hercules Laser Facility: Physics and Applications", Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan.
8:30 PM "Experiments Investigating Astrophysical Plasma Properties at the Z Facility", Jim Bailey, Sandia National Laboratories.
9:00 PM "The Creation and Diagnosis of Warm Dense Matter with X-Ray Free Electron Lasers", Justin Wark, Oxford University, UK.
9:30 PM "Recent achievements in the Study of X-Pinch Physics", Sergei Pikuz, Cornell University.
3rd High Energy Density Science Association (HEDSA) symposium on High Energy Density Physics will be held on November 7 (Sunday), 2010 from 7:30-11:00 PM in room Columbus GH in Hyatt Regency Chicago (DPP meeting site). The invited speakers include:
Dr. Don Cook, Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration "Comments on the NNSA perspective of the future of HEDLP"
Professor Adam Frank, University of Rochester "The Perfect Storm: Jets and Heterogeneous Flows in Laboratory Astrophysics"
Dr. Mark Herrmann, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque "Using Magnetic Fields to Create and Control High Energy Density Matter"
Professor Todd Ditmire, University of Austin, Texas "High Field Science with Petawatt to Exawatt Lasers"
Dr. Manuel Hegelich, Los Alamos National Laboratory "Ultra-intense laser-matter interactions at extreme parameters: tackling the Extreme Field Frontier"
Dr. Tammy Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory "Effects of Preplasma on Hot Electron Coupling and Propagation in Cone-Guided Fast Ignition"
HEDSA Symposium on High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas
Atlanta, Georgia
November 1st, 2009
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)
The program included 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 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
2009 HEDP Summer School
HEDSA Symposium on High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas
November, 2008
The program included the following presentations:
7:00 PM Laser wakefield accelerator plasma physics and development Cameron G.R. Geddes, LBNL, Berkeley, CA
7:35 PM Visualization of luminal-velocity plasma structures Mike Downer, University of Texas at Austin
8:10 PM Extreme nonlinear optics and applications in HEDLP Margaret M. Murnane, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
8:45 PM HEDLP physics challenges in advanced IFE concepts: shock ignition Riccardo Betti University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
9:20 PM Relativistic collisionless shocks: from astrophysics to fast ignition L. O. Silva GoLP, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
9:55 PM Kinetic modeling using supercomputers: A critical element for the success of HEDLP Brian J. Albright LANL, Los Alamos, NM
HEDLP talk to the Plasma Committee of the NRC, October 10 -11, 2008 titled, "High Energy Density Laboratory Plasmas: Exciting prospects for new physics and technology", given by Bedros Afeyan.
