2010 Science with High Power Lasers and Pulsed Power Workshop

 

Updated Octobert 12, 2010

Wednesday, August 4th

Science with High Power lasers and pulsed power (#2) research opportunities and user meeting: Opening Remarks by Alan Wootton

Next generation lasers and light sources by Todd Ditmire

Wave Compression in Plasma by Nathaniel Fisch

Planetary cores by Gilbert Collins

Generation and Application of Superstrong Magnetic Fields with Ultra-Intense Lasers by Edison Liang

Nonlinear Optical Processes and their Control in High Energy Density Plasmas by Bedros Afeyan

X-rays from black hole accretion disks by Duane Liedahl

Unsolved problems in dense hydrogen and helium by Didier Saumon

Magnetized high energy density plasmas by Dmitri Ryutov

High-pressure phase diagram and planetary interiors by Ronald Redmer

Research at the Nevada Terawatt Facility by Joseph Kindel

White dwarf photospheres by Don Winget

Experiments and modeling of photoionized plasmas at Z by Roberto Mancini

Laboratory tests of stellar interior opacity models by James Bailey

Measurements of Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth in solid liners on the 20 MA Z Facility by Daniel Sinars

Materials at high pressure by Mike Desjarlais

 

Thursday, August 5th

Current research using the UT laser systems by Aaron Bernstein

Proton acceleration experiments by Marius Schollmeier

Proton production theory by Alexey Arefiev

The UT laser facilities and diagnostics: what they can do and how to become a user by Gilliss Dyer

Z Fundamental Science Collaborations Program by Gordon Leifeste

Fundamental Science Experiments on Z: A Diagnostic Perspective by Greg Rochau

The SNL laser facilities (including diagnostics) and how to become a user by Briggs Atherton

 

Friday, August 6th

NIF Governance and Basic Science Proposal Process by Chris Keane

Students and SNL by Ken Struve

The White Dwarf team (UT), Our experience at SNL