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9th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics

HEDLA2012

April 30-May 4, 2012, Tallahassee, Florida

Florida State University

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Upcoming Important Date

Abstract submission closes on February 17, 2012.

Introduction

We are pleased to announce the 9th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, to be held April 30-May 4, 2012, on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

During the past decade, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant research utilizing high energy-density (HED) facilities such as intense lasers and z-pinches. Research is underway in many areas, such as compressible hydrodynamic mixing, strong shock phenomena, radiation flow, radiative shocks and jets, complex opacities, equations of state, dust formation, superstrong magnetic fields, and relativistic plasmas.

The HEDLA2012 web site, www.hedla2012.org, provides essential information about the meeting.

Meeting Topics

  • laboratory experiments
  • dust and magnetized HED laboratory astrophysics
  • astrophysical disks, jets, and outflows
  • stellar, solar, and nuclear astrophysics
  • stellar explosions, supernovae, GRBs, and supernova remnants
  • radiation hydrodynamics
  • warm dense matter
  • basic plasma physics processes
  • computations in high-energy density physics applications

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Sarbani Basu, Sergey Blinnikov, Serge Bouquet, Alexis Casner, Peter Celliers, Jungyeon Cho, Ross Falcon, Milad Fatenejad, Jonathan Ferriera, Frederico Fiuza, Will Fox, Ed Hill, Hantao Ji, Robert Kirshner, Nathan Kugland, Sergey Lebedev, Mario Livio, Berenice Loupias, Roberto Mancini, Jonathan Mackey, Burkhard Militzer, Auna Moser, Hye-Sook Park, Radu Presura, Dmitri Ryutov, Yuichi Sakawa, Farid Salama, Debra Shepherd, Vladimir Smalyuk, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Eve Stenson, Jim Stone, Michael Wiescher, Bernie Wilde

Preliminary Program

A preliminary conference program is now available at the Conference Program web page. Please note that ample of time has been reserved for contributed talks and poster presentations. Instructions for submitting abstracts of presentations are given below.

Important Dates

Abstract submission closes on February 17, 2012.
Hotel reservation cut off date is typically March 29 (please check with particular hotel).
Online registration closes on March 30, 2012.

Registration

The conference registration is now open. Please visit the Registration web page to provide your personal details and register for the conference. Please note that this process does not require conference fee payment, but is required for abstract submission.

To pay the conference registration fee please continue to Pay Fees. The conference registration fee is $550. The late conference registration (after March 30, 2012) fee is $650. The cancellation fee is $100.

The fees cover costs of the conference reception, meals (breakfast, lunch), coffee breaks and refreshments, and printed conference materials.

Presentation of Results

After you initiate registration and receive the registration key, you can submit an abstract of your presentation (either a contributed talk or a poster) through the Submit Abstract web page. More than one paper can be submitted per participant. You can submit multiple abstracts using the same registration key.

Publications

All conference presenters will be invited to submit their original papers or reviews for a refereed special issue of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science on the topic 'New Developments in High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics.'

Hotel Information

Blocks of rooms have been negotiated and reserved with several local hotels. For detailed hotel information, please consult Hotel Information web page.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Tina Back, John Bally, James Bailey, Paul Bellan, Nancy Brickhouse, Serge Bouquet, Werner Dappen, Melissa Douglas, Tristan Guillot, John Hillier, Carolyn Kuranz, George Kyrala, Sergey Lebedev, Hui Li, Roberto Mancini, Mikhail Medvedev, Peter Norreys, Tomasz Plewa, Marc Pound (chair), Thomas Ray, Bruce Remington, Steven Rose, Dongsu Ryu, Luis Silva, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Hideaki Takabe, Robin Williams, FeiLu Wang

Local Organizing Committee

Timothy Handy, Peter Hoeflich, Frank Modica, Tomasz Plewa (chair)

Contact Address
Local Organizing Committee
HEDLA 2012
Department of Scientific Computing www: http://www.hedla2012.org
Florida State University email: info@hedla2012.org
484 Dirac Science Library ph: +1-850-644-1959
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, U.S.A. fax: +1-850-644-0098