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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


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
  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
  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)
  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

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
  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
  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)
  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
  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

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
  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
  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)
  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
  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

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
  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
  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)
  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
  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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