The 4th LaB Workshop Program
Princeton Center for Theoretical Science
November 11-13, 2015
Wednesday, Nov. 11
8:00 am Registration / Continental breakfast
8:20 am Hantao Ji Welcome
Session I: Applications of B fields to ICF
Chair: Will Fox
8:30 am Title pending
John Perkins (presented by John Moody), LLNL
8:55 am Improving inertial fusion with external magnetic fields
Jonathan Davies, LLE
9:20 am Magnetic field modeling of inertial confinement fusion experiments
Adam Sefkow, SNL
9:45 am Towards predictive laser fusion fluid simulations, with application to shock ignition and exploding pusher implosions
Stefano Atzeni, U. Roma
10:10 am Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Julien Fuchs
10:40 am Break
Session II: Generation and Dynamics of B Fields
Chair: Lan Gao
11:00 am Magnetized transport in HED plasmas
Martin Read, U. York
11:25 am Measurements and simulations of selfgenerated magnetic fields in laserproduced plasma on OMEGA EP
Igor Igumenshev, LLE
11:50 am A kinetic model for the Biermann battery and the interplay with the Weibel instability
Kevin Schoeffler, IPFN, U. de Lisboa
12:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Collisionless plasma magnetization in laboratoryastrophysical studies
Emmanuel d'Humieres, CELIA
1:40 pm Magnetohydrodynamics of laser foil interaction
Raphael Riquier, E. Polytechnique
2:05 pm Nernst effect in ICF plasmas: magnetic field transport and reconnection
Archis Joglekar, U. Michigan
2:30 pm Magnetic reconnection driven by Nernst effect and heat flux viscosity
Chang Liu, Princeton University
2:55 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Andrea Ciadi
3:30 pm Break
Session III: Measuring B Fields
Chair: Philip Efthimion
4:00 pm Measuring magnetic fields in magnetized liner inertial fusion experiments: past successes and future opportunities
Matt Gomez, SNL
4:25 pm Laserdriven magnetic field generation for improved hohlraum performance and HED science at the NIF
John Moody, LLNL
4:50 pm Strong laser-driven magnetic fields for HED-physics and lab-Astrophysics
Joao Santos, U. Bordeaux
5:15 pm Magnetic field diagnostics in HED plasmas
Yitzhak Maron, Weizmann Inst.
5:40 pm Development of high resolution x-ray spectroscopy for diagnosis of high energy density plasmas
Ken Hill, PPPL
6:05 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Gennady Fiksel
6:30 pm End
Thursday, Nov. 12
8:00 am Registration / Continental breakfast
Session I: Magnetic Reconnection
Chair: Cary Forest
8:30 am Experimental studies of supersonic magnetized plasma flows: shocks, pile-up of magnetic flux and reconnection
Sergey Lebedev, Imperial College
8:55 am Pulsedpower driven reconnection and the inverse skin effect
John Greenly, Cornell U.
9:20 am Radiative magnetic reconnection in coronae of accreting black holes: prospects for laboratory studies in laserplasma experiments
Dmitri Uzdensky, U. Colorado
9:45 am Strongly driven magnetic reconnection and particle energization in magnetized high-energy-density plasma
Gennady Fiksel, U. Michigan
10:10 am Experiments and modeling of Weibel instability and magnetic reconnection in colliding laser-produced plasmas
Will Fox, PPPL
10:35 am Break
11:00 am Detailed structures of MR region in laser-plasma experiments on SGII facility
Quanli Dong, Ludong University, China
11:25 am Magnetic reconnection in laserdriven HEDP: recent experiments and hybrid numerical simulations
Roch Smets, Ecole Polytechnique
11:50 am Magnetic reconnection experiments using laser generated relativistic electron currents
Louise Willingale, U. Michigan
12:15 am Title pending
Jiayong Zhong, Beijing Normal U.
12:40 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Hantao Ji
1:00 pm Lunch
Session II: Shocks
Chair: Stefano Atzeni
2:00 pm Magnetized collisionless shocks in the Large Plasma Device
Christoph Niemann, UCLA
2:25 pm Collisionless shock physics in space and in the laboratory
Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton U
2:50 pm Title pending
Frederico Fiuza, SLAC
3:15 pm Break
3:45 pm First results from volumetric, highrepetition magnetized collisionless shock
Derek Schaeffer, UCLA
4:10 pm Collisionless fast plasma interpenetration and particle energization in an external magnetic field
Julien Fuchs, Ecole Polytechnique
4:35 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Eric Blackman
5:30 pm End
7:00 pm Dinner at Nassau Inn in the Einstein Room
Friday, Nov. 13
8:30 am Continental breakfast
Session I: Plasma Dynamos
Chair: Carolyn Kuranz
9:00 am Title pending
Cary Forest, U. Wisconsin
9:25 am Magnetic fields in astrophysics andthe role of laboratory experiments
Eric Blackman, U. Rochester
9:50 am Turbulentdynamos from dueling Rayleigh-Taylor plumes
Lan Gao, Princeton University
10:15 am Towards turbulent dynamo in laboratory plasmas
Hui Li, LANL
10:40 am Break
11:10 am Title pending
Gianluca Gregori, Oxford U.
11:35 am Plasma turbulence and particles
Andrey Beresnyak, NRL
12:00 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Anatoly Spitkovsky
12:30 pm Lunch
Session II: Jets and Magnetized Disks
Chair: Emmanuel d'Humieres
1:30 pm Studying astrophysical jets with magnetized laser-produced plasmas
Andrea Ciardi, Obs. Paris
1:55 pm Exploring astrophysical jets with scaled laboratory experiments
Chikang Li, MIT
2:20 pm Astrophysically relevant magnetized flows on the Omega Laser
Carolyn Kuranz, U. Michigan
2:45 pm Modelling magnetized multi-pulse laser plasmas
Benjamin Khiar, Obs. Paris
3:10 pm Break
3:30 pm Title pending
Bruce Remington (presented by John Moody), LLNL
3:55 pm Jet formation and accretion studies using magnetized laserproduced plasmas
Guilhem Revet (presented by Julien Fuchs), E. Polytechnique
4:20 pm Session Discussion
Discussion Leader: Hui Li
5:30 pm Adjourned