Science with High-Power Lasers and Pulsed Power Workshop

Plenary Session Presentations

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• Workshop on Science with High Power Lasers and Pulsed Power: Introduction by Alan Wootton, The University of Texas at Austin

• An Overview of SNL Facilities and User Access by John Porter, Sandia National Labs

• Overview of the Texas Petawatt Laser and other research programs by Aaron Bernstein, The University of Texas at Austin

• An Overview of laboratory astrophysics experiments by Edison Liang, Rice University

• Photoionized Plasmas at Z Relevant for Astrophysics by R.C. Mancini, University of Nevada, Reno

• Laboratory Astrophysics of Active-Galactic-Nuclei Outflows by Ehud Behar, TIIT

• Laboratory Astrophysics on the Z Pulsed Power Facility by Gregory A. Rochau, Sandia National Labs

• Cluster Fusion in a High Magnetic Field by Roger Bengtson and Boris Breizman, The University of Texas at Austin

• Magnetic Liner Inertial Fusion by Steve Slutz, Sandia National Labs

• Laser-driven Production of Particle Beams and their application to medical treatment by Markus Roth, Technische Universitat Darmstadt

• Wakefield Acceleration with Texas Petawatt Laser by Mike Dower, U. Texas-Austin

• An Overview of Proton production and Electron Cone Fast Ignition by Pravesh Patel, Lawerence Livermore National Labs

• Application of Short Pulse Laser Driven X-ray Sources by Erik Brambrink

• Proton Energy Scaling Laws - Generation of above-100-MeV Proton Beams with Z-Petawatt? by Marius Schollmeier, Sandia National Labs

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Parallel Breakout Session Presentations