Wednesday, July 27th
Eldorado Court6:00 – 8:00 pm Reception and Registration
Thursday, July 28th
Sunset Room7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast and Registration
8:30 – 9:00 Introduction, proposal review process – Alan Wootton (UTX)
9:00- 12:35 pm Session 1a: User experiments: status at Z. Chaired by Alan Wootton (UTX)
9:00 – 9:30 White dwarf work status: Don Winget (UTX)
9:30 – 9:55 Opacities work status: Anil Pradhan (Ohio St)
9:55 – 10:20 Solar opacity work status: Jim Bailey (SNL)
10:20 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:05 Photo-ionized plasma work status: Roberto Mancini (UNR)
11:05 – 11:35 Black hole accretion disk status: Duane Liedahl (SNL)
11:35 – 12:05 Giant Planets: far out, close in, and deep inside: Nadine Nettelmann (U. Rostock)
12:05 – 12:35 Earth core work status: Stein Jacobsen (Harvard)
12:35 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:00 Session 1b: User experiments: status at UT. Chaired by Mike Donovan (UTX)
2:00 – 2:30 Solid Target Experiments on the Texas Petawatt and GHOST Laser Facilities: Michael Storm & Kramer Akli (Ohio St)
2:30 – 3:00 Cluster fusion work status: Gilliss Dyer (UTX)
3:00 – 3:30 Wakefield acceleration work status: Xiaoming Wang (UTX)
3:30 – 4:00 pm Antimatter work status: Edison Liang (Rice)
4:00 – 4:15 pm Break
4:15 – 5:30 Session 2: Facility access, facility status. Chaired by Briggs Atherton (SNL)
4:15 – 5:00 Z diagnostics & Z plasma platforms: Greg Rochau (SNL)
5:00 – 5:30 The Texas Petawatt Laser User Program: Mike Donovan (UTX)
Friday, July 29th
Breakout rooms
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast (Sunset Room)
8:30 – 6:00 pm Session 3: Breakout sessions:
10:30 – 10:45 Aaron Bernstein (UT), Current research using the UT laser systems
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch
3:30 – 3:45 Break
3.1) Magnetized HED, chaired by Dan Sinars (SNL) – Pinon Room, 2nd FL
Magnetized liner fusion: scaled ionization experimental possibilities
Cluster fusion
3.2) Planetary Science, chaired by Thomas Mattsson (SNL) – Chaparral Room, 3rd FL
Earth core – working group prepares for experiments
Jupiter – working group prepares for experiments
3.3) Astrophysics, chaired by Don Winget (UTX) and Jim Bailey (SNL) – Sunset Room
White dwarf (including magnetic field effects)
Stellar opacities
Photoionized plasmas
Black hole accretion disks and RAD
3.4) Additional HED topics – Turquoise Room, 4th FL
Saturday, July 30th
Sunset Room
8:00 – 9:00 Breakfast
Out-brief from panel chairs
9:00 – 9:20 Magnetized HED breakout session report (Dan Sinars)
9:20 – 9:40 Planetary Science breakout session report (Thomas Mattsson)
9:40 – 10:00 Astrophysics breakout session report (Jim Bailey)
10:00 – 11:00 Discussion