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Program
Sunday, March 14 |
5:00 - 6:00 pm |
Registration table open, alcove near Huntington Room
Courtyard by Marriott Old Pasadena
180 North Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena CA 91103 |
6:00 - 8:00 pm |
Welcome Reception at Huntington Room, Courtyard by Marriott Old Pasadena
180 North Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103
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Monday, March 15 |
7:15 - 7:30 am |
Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena |
7:30 - 8:20 am |
Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration |
8:20 - 8:30 am |
Opening remarks |
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Session 1A1:
Laboratory experiments: scaling, design, and diagnostics |
8:30 - 8:55 am |
Park, Hye-Sook (LLNL)
Review of experimental, high energy density facilities and capabilities |
8:55 - 9:20 am |
Ryutov, Dmitri (LLNL)
Scaling of astrophysical phenomena to high-energy-density laboratory experiments revisited |
9:20 - 9:45 am |
Gehrels, Neil (NASA-GSFC)
Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries |
9:45 - 10:10 am |
Moses, Edward (LLNL)
The National Ignition Facility: An Experimental Platform for Studying the Behavior of Matter Under Extreme Conditions |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
Break |
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Session 1A2: Laboratory experiments: scaling, design, and diagnostics |
10:40 - 11:05 am |
Glenzer, Siegfried (LLNL)
Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a microscopic star in the laboratory |
11:05 - 11:30 am |
Liedahl, Duane (LLNL)
X-ray Photoionized Plasmas in the Laboratory and in Space |
11:30 - 11:55 am |
Heeter, Robert (LLNL)
Prospects for Photoionized Plasma and Stellar Interior Plasma Experiments on the National Ignition Facility: A Tutorial |
11:55 - 12:20 pm |
Douglas, Melissa (LLNL)
Laboratory Experiments of Supersonic Flows through Clumpy Media |
12:20 - 12:45 pm |
Petrasso, Richard (MIT)
Proton Radiography of Spontaneously-Generated Electromagnetic Fields in Laser-Produced High-Energy-Density Plasmas |
12:45 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration) |
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Session 1P1: Dense objects: planetary interiors, neutron stars |
2:00 - 2:25 pm |
Elkins-Tanton, Linda (MIT)
Rocky planetary interiors: Pressures, compositions, and evolution |
2:25 - 2:50 pm |
Valencia, Diana (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
Equations of State and the Properties of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes |
2:50 - 3:15 pm |
Nettelmann, Nadine (UCSC)
Interior structure of giant planets |
3:15 - 3:40 pm |
Mazevet, Stephane (CEA)
High pressure properties of iron under Earth and super-Earth conditions |
3:40 - 4:05 pm |
Rygg, Ryan (LLNL)
Off-Hugoniot measurements of iron and hydrogen above 500 GPa |
4:05 - 4:35 pm |
Break |
4:35 - 6:15 pm |
Poster Session
Poster Boards PB1 to PB81 |
6:20 - 6:35 pm |
Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena |
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Tuesday, March 16 |
7:15 - 7:30 am |
Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena |
7:30 - 8:20 am |
Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration |
8:20 - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
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2A1: Stars: evolution, atmospheres, opacities |
8:30 - 8:55 am |
Vishniac, Ethan (McMaster University) Instabilities in Radiative Shocks |
8:55 - 9:20 am |
Krumholz, Mark (UC Santa Cruz)
Radiation Feedback in the Formation of Massive Stars and Star Clusters |
9:20 - 9:45 am |
Vink, Jorick (Armagh Observatory)
The theory of stellar mass loss |
9:45 - 10:10 am |
Hillier, D. John (University of Pittsburgh) Spectroscopic Modeling of Massive Stars and Supernovae |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
Break |
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Session 2A2: Stars: evolution, atmospheres, opacities |
10:40 - 11:05 am |
Guzik, Joyce (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Recent Advances in Modeling Stellar Interiors |
11:05 - 11:30 am |
Turck-Chieze, Sylvaine (SAP/IRFU/DSM/CEA)
Radiative properties of stellar plasma: challenges in absorption coefficients knowledge |
11:30 - 11:55 am |
Cosse, Philippe (CEA)
Opacity Studies for Solar and Stellar Models |
11:55 - 12:20 pm |
Bailey, Jim (Sandia National Laboratories)
Laboratory Tests of Stellar Interior Opacity Models |
12:20 - 12:45 pm |
Tahir, Naeem (GSI Darmstadt)
Laboratory Planetary Physics Using Intense Heavy Ion Beams at the Facilty for Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt: the HEDgeHOB Collaboration |
12:45 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration) |
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Session 2P1: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs |
2:00 - 2:25 pm |
Leonard, Douglas (San Diego State University)
The Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae |
2:25 - 2:50 pm |
Meakin, Casey (University of Arizona)
Presupernova structure of massive stars |
2:50 - 3:15 pm |
Lattimer, James (Stony Brook University)
Neutron Stars and the Dense Matter Equation of State |
3:15 - 3:40 pm |
Audit, Edouard (CEA )
Multigroups radiation hydrodynamics |
3:40 - 4:05 pm |
Nomoto, Ken'ichi (IPMU, University of Tokyo)
Radiation Hydrodynamics of Extremely Bright and Extremely Faint Supernovae |
4:05 - 4:35 pm |
Break |
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Session 2P2: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs |
4:35 - 5:00 pm |
Foglizzo, Thierry (CEA-Saclay )
Theory of advective-acoustic shock instability and core-collapse supernovae |
5:00 - 5:25 pm |
Ohnishi, Naofumi (Tohoku University)
Computational study of standing accretion shock instability in core-collapse supernovae |
5:25 - 5:50 pm |
Kuranz, Carolyn (University of Michigan)
Supernova Hydrodynamics: Blast-wave-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments |
5:50 - 6:15 pm |
Slutz, Stephen (Sandia National Laboratories)
Pulsed power driven Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor experiments |
6:45 - 9:15 pm |
Banquet at Caltech Athenaeum (included in registration); after dinner speaker: Brownlee, Don (University of Washington) The Stardust comet sample return mission |
9:15 - 9:30 pm |
Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena |
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Wednesday, March 17 |
7:15 - 7:30 am |
Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena |
7:30 - 8:20 am |
Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration |
8:20 - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
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Session 3A1: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs |
8:30 - 8:55 am |
Ott, Christian (TAPIR, Caltech)
General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Collapse and The Formation of Stellar Mass Black Holes |
8:55 - 9:20 am |
Burrows, Adam (Princeton University)
Modeling Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions |
9:20 - 9:45 am |
Medvedev, Mikhail (IAS; Niels Bohr Inst.; KU)
Magnetic field generation and gamma-ray bursts |
9:45 - 10:10 am |
Sari, Re'em (Caltech & Hebrew University)
Relativistic Self-Similarity and Gamma Ray Bursts |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
Break |
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Session 3A2: Jets, disks, and outflows |
10:40 - 11:05 am |
Bally, John (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Observations of Outflows from Young Stars |
11:05 - 11:30 am |
Nakamura, Masanori (JHU/STScI )
Magnetohydrodynamic Properties of Extragalactic Jets |
11:30 - 11:55 am |
Suzuki-Vidal, Francisco (Imperial College London)
Experimental studies of magnetically driven plasma jets |
11:55 - 12:20 pm |
Moser, Auna (Caltech)
Magnetic flux compression in jet impact experiments |
12:20 - 12:45 pm |
Ciardi, Andrea (LERMA- UPMC)
Numerical simulations of laboratory astrophysics jets experiments |
12:45 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration) |
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Session 3P1: Jets, disks, and outflows |
2:00 - 2:25 pm |
Hartigan, Patrick (Rice University)
Exploring the Synergy Between Observations of Astrophysical Jets and Their Experimental Counterparts at Omega |
2:25 - 2:50 pm |
Tordella, Daniela (Politecnico di Torino)
Hydrodynamics of hypersonic jets: experiments and numerical simulations |
2:50 - 3:15 pm |
Fujioka, Shinsuke (Osaka University)
Laboratory spectroscopy of photoionized silicon plasma generated with 0.5 keV blackbody radiator |
3:15 - 3:40 pm |
Joshi, Chan (UCLA)
High Energy Density Plasma Science with Ultra-Relativistic Particle Beams |
3:40 - 4:05 pm |
Frank, Adam (University of Rochester)
Astrophysical Jets in the Laboratory: 10 Years of Progress |
4:05 - 4:35 pm |
Break |
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Session 3P2: Radiation hydrodynamics: shock breakouts, radiation-driven instabilities |
4:35 - 5:00 pm |
Whalen, Daniel (Carnegie Mellon University) Radiation Hydrodynamical Instabilities in Cosmological and Galactic Ionization Fronts |
5:00 - 5:25 pm |
Michaut, Claire (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)
Computational Radiation Hydrodynamics |
5:25 - 5:50 pm |
Doss, Forrest (University of Michigan)
CRASH: theory and experiments on radiative shocks |
5:50 - 6:15 pm |
Hohenberger, Matthias (Imperial College London)
Observation of a Velocity Domain Oscillation in a Radiative Shock Expansion |
6:20 - 6:35 pm |
Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena |
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Thursday, March 18 |
7:15 - 7:30 am |
Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena |
7:30 - 8:20 am |
Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration |
8:20 - 8:30 am |
Announcements |
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Session 4A1: Radiation hydrodynamics: shock breakouts, radiation-driven instabilities |
8:30 - 8:55 am |
Sanz, Javier (ETSI Aeronauticos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
Self-Consistent Stability Analysis of Spherical Shocks |
8:55 - 9:20 am |
Pittard, Julian (The University of Leeds)
The turbulent destruction of interstellar clouds |
9:20 - 9:45 am |
Hurricane, Omar (LLNL)
Blast-wave driven Kelvin-Helmholtz shear layers in a laser driven high-energy-density plasma |
9:45 - 10:10 am |
Chen, Hui (LLNL)
Laboratory produced relativistic electron-positron jets |
10:10 - 10:40 am |
Break |
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Session 4A2: Radiation processes: molecular clouds, star formation, SNRs, ISM |
10:40 - 11:05 am |
Ferland, Gary (University of Kentucky)
Fundamental challenges in understanding spectra of photo-ionized plasmas |
11:05 - 11:30 am |
Brickhouse, Nancy (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Magnetic Accretion onto Young Stars |
11:30 - 11:55 am |
Dorodnitsyn, Anton (NASA GSFC)
The formation of X-ray line spectra from moving gas near black holes and neutron stars |
11:55 - 12:20 pm |
Wolfire, Mark (University of Maryland)
Physics of Photodissociation Regions |
12:20 - 12:45 pm |
Hall, Iain (University of Nevada, Reno) Photoionised plasma experiments at Z |
12:45 - 2:00 pm |
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration) |
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Session 4P1: Plasma physics: ultrastrong fields, particle acceleration, collisionless shocks |
2:00 - 2:25 pm |
Niemann, Christoph (UCLA / Physics & Astronomy)
Dynamics of exploding plasmas in a large magnetized plasma |
2:25 - 2:50 pm |
Martins, Samuel (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Kinetic simulations of relativistic collisionless shocks |
2:50 - 3:15 pm |
Presura, Radu (University of Nevada, Reno)
Experimental study of MHD instabilities |
3:15 - 3:40 pm |
Li, Yutong (Institute of Phsyics, CAS)
Collisionless Shockwaves Formed by two Counter-Streaming Plasmas |
3:40 - 4:05 pm |
Sakawa, Youichi (ILE, Osaka Univ.)
Collisionless shock generation in high-power laser produced counter-streaming plasmas |
4:05 - 4:35 pm |
Break |
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Session 4P2: Plasma physics: ultrastrong fields, particle acceleration, collisionless shocks |
4:35 - 5:00 pm |
Reynolds, Stephen (North Carolina State University)
Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant Shocks |
5:00 - 5:25 pm |
Kirk, John (MPI Kernphysik)
Radiation of particles accelerated by the first-order Fermi process at relativistic shocks |
5:25 - 5:50 pm |
Kang, Hyesung (Pusan National University)
Self-Similar Evolution of Cosmic-Ray Modified Shocks |
5:50 - 6:15 pm |
Bell, Anthony (University of Oxford)
Shocks, magnetic field, and energetic particles in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas |
6:20 - 6:35 pm |
Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena |
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