Slides

Wednesday, Nov. 11

Session I: Applications of B fields to ICF

Chair: Will Fox

8:30 am (Slides unavailable)

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 self­-generated magnetic fields in laser­-produced 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

1:15 pm Collisionless plasma magnetization in laboratory astrophysical studies

Emmanuel d'Humieres, CELIA

1:40 pm Self-generated magnetic field in ICF plasmas

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 Ciardi

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 (Slides unavailable)

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

Thursday, Nov. 12

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 Pulsed­-power driven reconnection and the inverse skin effect (Slides unavailable)

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 laser­ driven HEDP: recent experiments and hybrid numerical simulations

Roch Smets, Ecole Polytechnique

11:50 am Magnetic reconnection experiments using laser generated relativistic electron currents (Slides unavailable)

Louise Willingale, U. Michigan

12:15 pm Session Discussion

Discussion Leader: Hantao Ji

Session II: Shocks

Chair: Stefano Atzeni

2:00 pm Magnetized collisionless shocks in the Large Plasma Device (Slides unavailable)

Christoph Niemann, UCLA

2:25 pm Collisionless shock physics in space and in the laboratory (Slides unavailable)

Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton U

2:50 pm (Slides unavailable)

Frederico Fiuza, SLAC

3:15 pm Break

3:45 pm First results from volumetric, high-repetition magnetized collisonless 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

Friday, Nov. 13

Session I: Plasma Dynamos

Chair: Carolyn Kuranz

9:00 am Slides unavailable

Cary Forest, U. Wisconsin

9:25 am Magnetic fields in astrophysics and the role of laboratory experiments

Eric Blackman, U. Rochester

9:50 am Turbulent dynamos from dueling Rayleigh-Taylor plumes

Lan Gao, Princeton University

10:15 am Towards turbulent dynamo in laboratory plasmas (Slides unavailable)

Hui Li, LANL

10:40 am Break

11:10 am Slides unavailable

Gianluca Gregori, Oxford U.

11:35 am Plasma turbulence and particles

Andrey Beresnyak, NRL

12:00 pm Session Discussion

Discussion Leader: Anatoly Spitkovsky

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 (Slides unavailable)

Carolyn Kuranz, U. Michigan

2:45 pm Modelling magnetized multi-pulse laser plasmas (Slides unavailable)

Benjamin Khiar, Obs. Paris

3:10 pm Break

3:30 pm Laboratory accretion studies using magnetized laser-produced plasmas

Guilhem Revet (presented by Julien Fuchs), E. Polytechnique

4:20 pm Session Discussion

Discussion Leader: Hui Li