2016 Scientific Program

Monday, October 3, 2016  
8:30   MEC Tours and Registration  
10:20 Chi-Chang Kao Welcome SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
10:30 Cindy Bolme Welcome Los Alamos National Laboratory
10:40 Kramer Akli DOE-FES Perspective DOE-Office of Fusion Energy Science
11:10 Arianna Gleason Strength of Iron Under Dynamic Compression Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:30 Tom Duffy High-pressure behavior of high-strength ceramics Princeton University

11:50

   Group Photo

 

 
12:00   Lunch and Vendor Exhibition  
13:10 Luke Fletcher Dynamic strength measurements of polycrystalline diamond near the Hugoniot elastic limit using X-ray diffraction

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
13:30 Marion Harmand Iron alloys at high pressure for planetary modeling Université Pierre et Marie Curie
13:50 Malcolm McMahon Ultrafast Diffraction Studies of Liquid-Liquid Phase Transitions in Cerium, and the Measurement of Off-Hugoniot States using a Diffraction Gauge University of Edinburgh
14:10 Dominik Kraus Phase separation of hydrocarbons at conditions comparable to planetary interiors and the first shock in ICF University of California, Berkeley
14:30

Mike Armstrong

 X-ray diffraction study of the phase transition mechanism from graphite to diamond under ultrafast compression Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
14:50 Frederico Fiuza Probing relativistic laser-plasma interactions with LCLS SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
15:10 Felicie Albert Ultrafast absorption spectroscopy of dense plasmas created by LCLS using betatron xray radiation Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
15:30   Coffee Break  
16:00 Andrew Mckelvey Thermal conductivity measurements of warm dense iron University of Michigan
16:20 Emma McBride LCLS experiments on compressed Si SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory/European XFEL GmbH
16:40 Eliseo Gamboa Measuring K-shell iron line shapes at solid density SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
17:00-19:00   Poster Session, Vendor Exhibition and Reception  
       
Tuesday, October 4, 2016  
8:30 Siegfried Glenzer Plan for the day SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
8:40 Mike Dunne LCLS update and plans for LCLS-II and LCLS-II-HE SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
9:10 Cris Barnes MaRIE facility @ Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:40

Gerald Seidler

Warm Dense Crystallography using Two-Color X-ray Diffraction

University of Washington
10:00   Coffee Break  
10:20 Paul Mabey Low Frequency Collective Modes in Warm Dense Aluminum  University of Oxford
10:40 Tilo Doeppner

Generation and Characterization of Dense Plasmas at Gbar pressures

 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
11:10 Sam Vinko

Measurements of collisional dynamics and opacity in solid density Mg plasmas

 University of Oxford
11:40 David Reis Nonlinear Compton Scattering at LCLS Stanford University / SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
12:00   Lunch and Vendor Exhibition  
13:00 Karen Appel Upcoming capabilities for free electron laser experiments in Germany  European XFEL GmbH
13:30 Dirk Gericke What experiments are needed to test WDM theory? University of Warwick
14:00 Norimasa Ozaki Research on HED material using GEKKO and SACLA Osaka University
14:30  

Coffee Break

  
15:00 Andy MacKinnon MEC instrument capabilities and development plans SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
15:30 Discussion 1. Priorities for Standard configurations (e.g. Phase contrast imaging, short pulse, beatron)  
  Cindy Bolme 2. Priorities for laser upgrades  
  Siegfried Glenzer    - Long pulse, short pulse, rep rate  
  Andy MacKinnon    -- Current status of phase plates and plans for phase plates with the laser upgrade  
  Phil Heimann 3. Priorities for diagnostics improvements or additions  
       -- Visar refresh, beam profile monitoring, pulse shaping  
       -- EMP mitigation and progress on the determination of the laser generated EM-field  
       -- Detector status, plans, and development recommendations  
       -- Target fabrication and characterization tools  
    4. Changes as we move towards LCLS-II and LCLS-II-HE  
       -- Expected operational changes  
       -- New experiments  
       -- Staffing levels  
17:00-19:00   Poster Session, Vendor Exhibition and Reception  
       

 

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