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.
