6th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics

6th International Conference on

High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics
Conference Program

(Posters will be on display throughout the Conference)

	Friday March 10
7:00 pm	*Reception: Pre-Registration, Reception & Cash Bar at the Marriott*
	Saturday March 11
Opening Remarks
8:20	*Dr. Eugene Levy, Provost of Rice University — Welcome Address*
First Talk
8:30	Paul Drake	HED Facilities and Their Connection to Issues in Astrophysics
I	Stellar Evolution, Stellar Envelopes, Opacities, Radiation Transport Chair: Justin Wark/Jim Bailey
9:00	Steve Rose	Photoionized Plasmas
9:20	Michel Busquet	Recent Advances in Atomic Physics Codes for Astrophysics Studies
9:40	Richard Klein	Scaled Neutron Star Atmospheric and Radiation Dominated Accretion Disk Conditions on NIF: A New Paradigm in Extreme Physics
10:00	Break
10:30	John Castor	Astrophysical Radiation Hydrodynamics
10:50	Jim Stone	Radiation MHD Simulations of Astrophysical Accretion Disks
11:10	Justin Wark	Radiation Transfer Effects on the Spectra of Laser-generated Plasmas
11:30	Ken Ohsuga	2D Radiation-hydro Simulations of Accretion Flow
11:50	Jim Bailey	Iron Opacity Measurements with Samples Heated by Z-pinch Radiation
12:10	Lunch
II	Astrophysical Jets, High-Mach-number Flows, Magnetized Radiative Jets, magnetic reconnection Chair: Tom Ray/Paul Bellan
1:40	Patrick Hartigan	Astro – Jet Observations (overview)
2:00	John Bally	A Review Talk on Outflows from Young Stars
2:20	Sett You	Experimental Work on MHD Jets
2:40	Sergey Lebedev	Laboratory Modeling of Astrophysical Jets
3:00	Break
3:20	John Foster	Laboratory Experiments with Dense Plasma Jets
3:40	Rob Coker	Numerical Simulations and Astrophysical Applications of Laboratory Jets at Omega
4:00	Andrea Ciardi	3D MHD Simulations of Laboratory Plasma Jets
4:20	Adam Frank	Jet-jet Interactions and Turbulence in Molecular Clouds; Experiment Simulations – AstroBEAR
4:40	Yoshi Kato	A magnetic-tower Jet Solution for Launching Astrophysical Jets and the Formation of First Jets in the Universe
7:30	Panel-Round Table: Future of HEDP	*Panelists: David Meyerhofer, Chris Keane, Tina Back,* *Bruce Remington, Ron Davidson, Steve Rose, Neal Lane and Takayosi Sano* *Moderator: George Kyrala,*

	Sunday March 12
III	Compact Objects, Accretion Disks, X-ray Photoionized Plasmas Chair: Steve Rose/Dimitri Ryutov
8:20	Dmitri Ryutov	Scaling Laws for Collisionless Laser-plasma Interactions of Relevance for Laboratory Astrophysics
8:40	David Alexander	Laboratory Exploration of Solar Energetic Phenomena
9:00	Ken Ebisawa	Title not available
9:20	Julian Krolik	General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Jets from Accreting Black Holes
9:40	Ian Parish	Title not available
10:00	Break
IV	Astrophysical jets part II Chair: Adam Frank/Pat Hartigan
10:30	Hui Li	3-D Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling of Large Scale Structures of Jets
10:50	Shreekrishna Tripathi	Emergence of Kinetic Plasma Jets in a Coronal Loop Simulation Experiment Ê
11:10	Richard Lovelace	Poynting Jets from Pulsars, Disk Accreting Stars, and Z Pinches
11:30	Victor Malka	Title not available
11:50	M. Boettcher	Astrophysical Jets of Blazars and Microquasars
12:10	Lunch
V	Supernova Remnants, Shock Processing, Radiative Shock Chair: Serge Bouquet/Paul Drake
1:40	Craig Wheeler	Non-axisymmetric Dynamics and Magnetosonic Flux in Core Collapse
2:00	Vikram Dwarkadas	The Evolution of Supernova Remnants in the Winds of Massive Stars, and Study of associated Hydrodynamic Instabilities
2:20	Jeff Hester	Instabilities in Thermal and Relativistic Plasmas in the Crab Nebula
2:40	Freddy Hansen	Laboratory Observation of Secondary Shock Formation Ahead of a Strongly Radiative Blast Wave
3:00	Break
3:20	Amy Reighard	Astrophysical Connections to a Driven Radiative Shock Experiment
3:40	Roland Smith	Colliding Blast Waves Driven by Interaction of Short Pulse Laser with Clusters in Gas
4:00	Robert Peterson	Radiative shock experiments on Z
4:20	Claire Michaut	Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Radiative Shocks
4:40	Jim Hawreliak	Studies of Iron at Pressures Above the a-e Phase Transition in a Laboratory Using Shock Loading and in-situ X-ray Diffraction.
7:30	Dessert & Coffee

	Monday 13
VI	Supernovae, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Exploding Systems, Strong Shocks Turbulent Mixing Chair: Bruce Remington
8:30	Mikhail Medvedev	Weibel Turbulence in Laboratory Experiments and GRB/SN Shocks
8:50	Don Lamb	Exciting Recent Discoveries About Gamma-ray Bursts
9:10	Dov Shvarts	Recent Studies of RT and RM Dynamics - Theoretical-Computational and Experimental Results
9:30	Carolyn Kuranz	Supernova Hydrodynamics Experiments with Attention to the Transition to Turbulence
9:50	Break
10:20	Shigehiro Nagataki	Explosion Mechanism of Core-collapse Supernovae and Collapsars
10:40	Akira Mizuta	Collimated Jet or Expanding Outflow: Possible Origins of GRBs and X-ray Flashes
11:00	Tomek Plewa	Simulations and Models of Core-collapse SNe
11:20	Marc Pound	Pillars of Heaven
11:40	Jave Kane	Structures in Molecular Clouds: Modeling Jave Kane <jave@llnl.gov>
12:00	Lunch
12:20
12:40
1:00

2:20	NASA TOUR	Bus will pick up participants at Hotel between 2:00-2:10 p.m.
7:00	Cocktails	Cash Bar
7:30	Banquet	Speaker: Dr. Everett Gibson, (JSC-KR) (NASA)
		Title: "Lifting the Veil: Secrets of the Red Planet"

	Tuesday 14
VII	Planetary Interiors, High-Pressure EOS, Dense Plasma Atomic Physics Chair: George Kyrala/Michael Koenig
8:00	Jonathan Fortney	High Pressure Equations of State and the Structure of Jupiter, Saturn, and Exoplanets
8:20	Peter Cellier	Equation of State and Transport Properties in Dense Helium
8:40	Marcus Knudson	Isentropic Compression EOS Experiments
9:00	Michel Koenig	Density Measurement in Laser Shock Compressed Targets Using Proton and Hard X-ray Beams
9:20	Gilles Chabrier	The Equation of State of Dense Hydrogen and Helium
9:40	Break
10:10	Phil Heimann	High Energy Density Applications at X FELs
10:30	Giancula Gregori	Warm Dense Matter Experiments
10:50	Barukh Yaakobi	EXAFS Studies of EOS and Phase Transformation in Ti, V and Fe Using Laser-based Radiation Source
11:10	Vladimir Fortov	Canceled on March 10th
11:10	Stephane Mazevet	Quantum Simulations of Warm, Dense Matter
11:30	Luis O. Silva	Collisionless Instabilities in Unmagnetized Relativistic Outflows and the Formation of Relativistic Shocks
11:50	Lunch
VIII	Ultrastrong Fields, Particle Acceleration, Collisionless Shocks *Chair: Edison Liang*
1:30	Matthew Baring	Particle Acceleration Mechanisms in Astrophysical Shocks
1:50	Karl Krushelnick	Measurements of the Evolution of Large Magnetic Fields in High Power Laser-plasma Interactions
2:10	Sergey Gordienko	Scalable Dynamics in Laboratory and Astrophysical Ultra-relativistic Plasmas and its Application to Electron Acceleration: Theory and Numerical Simulation
2:30	Anatoly Spitkovski	Pulsar Winds and Wind Shocks
2:50	Break
3:20	Takayosi Sano	New Direction of Research at ILE, Osaka University: High Energy Density Science and Laser Astrophysics
3:40	Sebastien Le Pape	Proton Radiography of Megagauss Electromagnetic Fields Generated by the Irradiation of a Solid Target by an Ultra Intense Laser Pulse
4:00	Session Chairs	Summary and Review of the Conference
4:20	Break
7:00	Dessert & Coffee

POSTERS

Posters will be available for viewing throughout conference

Dedicated sessions on Sunday and Tuesday

(2 people per assigned double poster board)

Assigned # below

Poster # Name Last Name Title

1	David	Ampleford	Laboratory modeling of radiatively cooled proto-stellar jets with angular momentum
1	David	Ampleford	The steady state interaction of a radiatively cooled jet with a side-wind
2	Matthew	Baring	Electrostatic Potentials in Supernova Remnant Shocks
2	Paul	Bellan	Collimation of astrophysical jets via pile-up of frozen-in convected toroidal magnetic flux Paul Bellan <pbellan@its.caltech.edu>
3	Vadim	Belyaev	No title available
3	R.	Bingham	High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics
4	Markus	Boettcher	Models of Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Jets of Microquasars: Orbital Modulation
4	Alan	Calder	Flame Energetics in Type Ia Supernovae_ <calder@flash.uchicago.edu>
5	Aaron	Edens	Study of the Evolution of Perturbations on High Mach Number Blast Waves

I

Panel-Round Table:

Future of HEDP

V

Supernova Remnants, Shock Processing, Radiative Shock

VIII

Dessert & Coffee