MEC User Workshop on High-Power Lasers
TUESDAY, October 7, 2014
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9:00 AM | Registration Table Opens | |
10:00 - 11:55 AM | Tour LCLS | |
11:00 - 1:00 PM | Registration and vendor exhibition (lunch included) | |
1:00 - 2:40 PM | Part I: Overviewof High-Energy Density Physics and Matter in Extreme Conditions | |
1:00 PM | Siegfried Glenzer | Workshop Welcome |
1:10 PM | David Meyerhofer | High Energy Density Physics with High Energy and High Intensity Lasers |
1:40 PM | Thomas Fennel | Perspectives of Ultrafast Nanoplasma Dynamics |
2:10 PM | Yogendra Gupta | Dynamic Compression Science at the Advanced Photon Source: New Paradigm for Understanding Materials Dynamics |
2:40 PM | Bob Nagler | Physics at the MEC Instrument |
3:10 - 3:30 PM | Coffee break | |
3:30 - 5:10 PM | Part II: New Results from MEC and Feedback from users | |
3:30 PM | Luke Fletcher | X-ray Scattering from Warm Dense Materials |
3:50 PM | Dominik Kraus | Dynamics of the shock-induced transition from graphite to diamond and liquid carbon |
4:10 PM | Kevin George | Towards the Development of a Nanophase Reference thermometer for low-Z WDM |
4:30 PM | June Wicks | High pressure phase transition pathways of NaCl |
4:50 PM | Arianna Gleason | The Solidification and Structural Transition Dynamics of Liquid and Crystalline H2O |
5:10 - 7:15 PM | Poster Session, Reception, and vendor exhibition | |
7:15 PM | Conference Dinner | |
WEDNESDAY, October 8, 2014
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7:30 - 8:15 AM | Coffee / Vendor Exhibition | |
8:15 - 8:50 AM | Part III: Perspectives | |
8:15 AM | Chi-Chang Kao | SLAC |
8:25 AM | Sean Finnegan | DOE |
8:50 - 10:10 AM | Part II - Continued: New Results from MEC and Feedback from Users | |
8:50 AM | Cindy Bolme | Structural phase transitions in titanium and cerium |
9:10 AM | Richard Sandberg | Ultrafast Coherent Imaging of Shocked Material Dynamics with X-ray Free Electron Laser Pulses |
9:30 AM | Jim Hawreliak | X-Ray Heterodyne Near-Field Scattering of Shockwave Propagation in Low Density Foams |
9:50 AM | Haeja Lee | High Resolution Imaging X-ray Scattering on Shock Compressed Material |
10:10 - 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
10:30 - 11:50 AM | Part II - Continued: New Results from MEC and Feedback from Users | |
10:30 AM | Benjamin Barbrel | Two-color X-ray Thomson Scattering in Warm Dense Matter |
10:50 AM | Sebastian Goede | H-jet Experiments |
11:10 AM | Felicie Albert | Betatron Experiments |
11:30 AM | Marta Fajardo | Measurement of the complex refractive index of solid density matter heated by the LCLS |
11:50 - 1:00 PM | Workshop Photo, Lunch and Vendor Exhibition | |
1:00 - 2:30 PM | Part IV: Future Directions | |
1:00 PM | Alec Thomas | Relativistic Laser-Matter Interaction |
1:30 PM | Farhat Beg | Physics of Laser Proton Acceleration |
2:00 PM | Frederico Fiuza | Laboratory Astrophysics at MEC |
2:30 - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
3:00 PM | Tom Boehly | Equation of State Measurements |
3:20 PM | G.R. Tynan | Concept for using LCLS/MEC for fundamental studies of displacement damage studies in fusion materials |
3:40 PM | Eliseo Gamboa | Diamond Band Structure Measurements |
4:00 - 6:15 PM | Part V: Discussions on User Feedback and Relevant Topics | |
TBD | LCLS | |
Eduardo Granados | Lasers and Proposed Upgrades | |
Eric Galtier | HED Science Range of Conditions (Pressures, Gradients, etc.) | |
Mingsheng Wei | Targets | |
Phil Heimann | Diagnostics and Facility Improvements | |
Stefan Hau-Riege | Theory, Data Analysis and Experimental Design | |
Alan Fry | PW Laser | |
6:15 PM | Siegfried Glenzer | Conclusions |
6:20 - 7:30 PM | Closing Reception |