4th LaB Meeting, November 11-13, 2015
4th Workshop on Magnetic Fields in Laboratory High Energy Density Plasmas (LaB)
The “LaB” workshop series aims at bringing together, in a trans-disciplinary forum, scientists interested in the emerging areas of coupling laboratory high-energy-density (HED) plasmas and external and internal intense magnetic fields in varied domains, including plasma astrophysics, inertial fusion, and particle acceleration. Magnetic fields have been widely recognized to have profound effects in these areas, but specific progress is hindered by limited theoretical understanding and diagnostics capabilities. The main aim of such a forum is to serve as an exchange of ideas, discussion of theoretical and experimental work that has been done, and to explore potential new collaborations in these critical areas.
In the spirit of the PCTS, we emphasize crosscutting issues between theoretical/numerical aspects and experimental/diagnostics aspects in the emerging areas of magnetized HED plasmas:
(1) New theoretical ideas and numerical predictions
(2) New experimental results and diagnostics on magnetic fields in HED plasmas
(3) New applications of laboratory magnetized HED plasmas to astrophysics
The organization of this meeting is
Meeting Organizers:
Amitava Bhattacharjee (Astrophysical Sciences; PPPL)
Philip Efthimion (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Will Fox (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Lan Gao (Astrophysical Sciences)
Hantao Ji (Astrophysical Sciences; PPPL)
International Advisors/Coordinators:
Andrea Ciardi (Sorbonne University-UMPC, Observatoire de Paris, France)
Emmanuel d’Humières (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, CEA, CELIA, France)
Dustin Froula (Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester, USA)
Julien Fuchs (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Mattias Marklund (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Carlo Rizzo (U. Toulouse, LNCMI-CNRS, France)
Youichi Sakawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Hideaki Takabe (Helmholtz Center in Dresden, Germany)
Jie Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)