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Monday, April 30
Session 1A1: Laboratory Experiments I: Design, diagnostics, scaling
Session Chair: Jave Kane
Radu Presura (University of Nevada, Reno)
Lab diagnostics primer for astronomers [40]		 Slides Video
Nathan Kugland (LLNL)
Proton imaging of collisionless shock experiments at OMEGA EP [20]		 Slides Video
Carlos Di Stefano (University of Michigan)
Proton-diagnostic performance in laser-driven hydrodynamics experiments [15]		 Slides Video
Kristopher Yirak (LANL)
Mach stem hysteresis: Experiments addressing a novel explanation of clumpy astrophysical jet emission [15]		 Slides Video
Paul Drake (University of Michigan)
HEDLA 1996 vs. 2012 [30]		 Slides Video
Session 1P1: Astrophysical Jets & Disks I. AGN, black hole, protostellar
Session Chair: Sergey Lebedev
Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Astrophysical jets [40]		 Slides Video
Debra Shepherd (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
ALMA and JVLA: Insight into astrophysical jets [20]		 Slides Video
Francisco Suzuki-Vidal (Imperial College, London, UK)
Interaction of radiatively cooled plasma jets with collimated, supersonic gas flows [15]		 Slides Video
Andrea Ciardi (Observatoire de Paris)
Outflow collimation by a poloidal magnetic field [15]		 Slides Video
Anton Dorodnitsyn (NASA GSFC and the University of Maryland)
How to hide a supermassive black hole: AGN obscuration through dusty infrared dominated flows [15]		 Slides Video
Session 1P2: Plasma Physics I. Collisionless shocks, magnetic reconnection, ultrastrong fields, turbulence, instabilitiess
Session Chair: Dmitri Ryutov
Hantao Ji (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Laboratory studies of magnetic reconnection [30]		 Slides Video
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University)
Astrophysical collisonless shocks		 Slides Video
Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Osaka University, Japan)
Electron scale magnetic reconnection in a laser produced plasma [15]		 Slides Video
Jiayong Zhong (Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, Beijing, China)
Spatial and temporal evolution of extremely strongly laser driven magnetic reconnection [15]		 Slides Video
Yutong Li (National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing, China)
Collisionless shockwaves formed by counter-streaming laser-produced plasmas [15]		 Slides Video

Tuesday, May 1
Session 2A1: Supernovae I. SNe, SNRs, GRBs, exploding systems
Session Chair: Tomasz Plewa
Robert Kirshner (Harvard University)
Supernovae: the gift that keeps on giving [40]		 Slides Video
Alexis Casner (CEA, France)
Designs and implementation plan for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability experiments on the National Ignition Facility [20]		 Slides Video
Vladimir Smalyuk (University of Rochester)
Laboratory basic science, hydrodynamic growth experiments on OMEGA [20]		 Slides Video
Desmond John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh)
Unlocking the secrets of supernovae through their spectra [15]		 Slides Video
Session 2A2: Solar and Stellar Physics I. Evolution, structure, opacities, radiative transfer, white dwarfs, neutron stars
Session Chair: Chris Orban
Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)
The physics of reaction rates in stellar environments [40]		 Slides Video
Irina Sagert (Michigan State University)
Strange matter in neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae [15]		 Slides Video
James Bailey (SNL)
ZAPP: The Z astrophysical plasma properties collaboration [15]		 Slides Video
Ross Falcon (University of Texas at Austin)
An experimental platform for creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory [20]		 Slides Video
Quan-Li Dong (National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing, China)
Observations of anomalous plasmoid ejection, plasma jets and electron diffusion regions of magnetic reconnections in laser-plasma experiments [15]		 Slides Video
Session 2P1: Computing I. Astrophysical simulations, design of experiments, validation studies
Session Chair: Serge Bouquet
Jim Stone (Princeton University)
Challenges of modeling astrophysical MHD [40]		 Slides Video
Frederico Fiuza (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
Full-scale modeling of Weibel mediated collisionless shocks in laboratory scenarios [20]		 Slides Video
Bruce Fryxell (University of Michigan)
Collaborative comparison of high-energy-density physics codes [15]		 Slides Video
Timothy Handy (Florida State University)
Computer experiments for supersonic turbulent flows in high-energy density plasmas [15]		 Slides Video
Hanbyul Jang (Chungnam National University, Korea)
A relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code based on upwind scheme [15]		 Slides Video
Session 2P2: Warm Dense Matter: Planetary interiors, EOS, magnetic fields in giant planets, exoplanets
Session Chair: Dongsu Ryu
Peter Celliers (LLNL)
Experiments to probe warm dense matter conditions for planetary science [40]		 Slides Video
Burkhard Militzer (University of California, Berkeley)
Phase separation in giant planet interiors and novel first-principles simulation of plasmas [20]		 Slides Video
Francois Soubiran (ENS Lyon, France)
Thermodynamical and transport properties of dense H-He mixtures [15]		 Slides Video
Manuel Cotelo (Instituto de Fusion Nuclear, Madrid, Spain)
Improvements in equation of state and opacities for warm dense matter [15]		 Slides Video
Stanley Davis (University Bordeaux, France)
Numerical simulations of electron heating during energy transfer in a laser driven collisionless shock [15]		 Slides Video

Wednesday, May 2
Session 3A1: Radiative Hydrodynamics I. Radiative shocks, radiatively driven instabilities, molecular clouds, stellar winds
Session Chair: Tim Handy
Roberto Mancini (University of Nevada, Reno)
Laboratory photoionized plasma experiments relevant for astrophysics [40]		 Slides Video
Edward Hill (Imperial College, London, UK)
Alternative methods of producing photoionised plasmas in the laboratory [20]		 Slides Video
Carolyn Kuranz (University of Michigan)
The evolution of a radiative shock system on the OMEGA Laser [15]		 Slides Video
Siegfried Glenzer (LLNL)
Expanding shock waves from 100 Gbar implosions on the National Ignition Facility [15]		 Slides Video
Jim Ferguson (Texas A&M University)
Asymptotic accuracy of the equilibrium-diffusion approximation [15]		 Slides Video
Session 3A2: Astrophysical dust & magnetized HEDLA
Session Chair: Bruce Remington
Farid Salama (NASA Ames)
Interstellar dust - a review [40]		 Slides Video
Dmitri Ryutov (LLNL)
Basic scalings for collisionless shock experiments [20]		 Slides Video
Sergey Lebedev (Imperial College, London, UK)
Magnetized jet experiments and radiative shocks driven by pulsed power		 Slides Video
Adam Frank (University of Rochester)
The formation of magnetized molecular clouds: New results and experimental possibilities [15]		 Slides Video

Thursday, May 3
Session 4A1: Plasma Physics II
Session Chair: Naofumi Ohnishi
Jungyeon Cho (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Magnetized turbulence in astrophysical fluids [30]		 Slides Video
Yuichi Sakawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Laboratory experiments to study collisionless shocks [20]		 Slides Video
Hye-Sook Park (LLNL)
Astrophysical collisionless shocks in the laboratory [20]		 Slides Video
Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea)
A simulation study of intracluster turbulence [15]		 Slides Video
Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas)
Theory and numerical modeling of radiation from sub-Larmor-scale magnetic turbulence [15]		 Slides Video
Session 4A2: Supernovae II
Session Chair: Irina Sagert
Sergey Blinnikov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia)
Radiation hydrodynamics of supernova shock breakouts		 Slides Video
Tomasz Plewa (Florida State University)
Diverging core-collapse supernova experiments on NIF [15]		 Slides Video
Vikram Dwarkadas (University of Chicago)
The acceleration and escape of particles in young supernova remnants [15]		 Slides Video
Alexei Poludnenko (Naval Research Laboratory)
Spontaneous deflagration-to-detonation transition in thermonuclear supernovae [15]		 Slides Video
Session 4P1: Solar and Stellar Physics II
Session Chair: Paul Bellan
Sarbani Basu (Yale University)
Confronting stellar structure theory with asteroseismic data [40]		 Slides Video
Eve Stenson (Caltech)
The dynamics of arched, plasma-filled magnetic flux tubes [20]		 Slides Video
Shule Li (University of Rochester)
Clumps with self-contained magnetic field and their interaction with shocks [15]		 Slides Video
Guy Malamud (University of Michigan)
On the possibility of a two-dimensional, multimode RM experiment on EP [15]		 Slides Video
Session 4P2: Astrophysical Jets and Disks II. Laboratory Experiments
Session Chair: Pat Hartigan
Jonathan Ferreira (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
What does it take to launch jets from accretion discs? [40]		 Slides Video
Martin Huarte-Espinosa (University of Rochester)
Comparing Poynting flux dominated magnetic towers with kinetic-energy dominated jets [15]		 Slides Video
Edison Liang (Rice University)
Magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in relativistic shear boundary layer [15]		 Slides Video
Auna Moser (Caltech)
Laboratory observations of magnetic reconnection resulting from multiscale instability cascade [20]		 Slides Video

Friday, May 4
Session 5A1: Laboratory Experiments II
Session Chair: Carolyn Kuranz
Serge Bouquet (CEA, France)
Scaling astrophysical radiation hydrodynamics for the laboratory [40]		 Slides Video
Will Fox (University of New Hampshire)
Fast magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density laser-produced plasmas [20]		 Slides Video
Yong-Joo Rhee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea)
Laser-produced high density plasmas [15]		 Slides Video
Kirk Flippo (LANL)
Investigating mix in colliding-shock experiments [15]		 Slides Video
Matteo Bocchi (Imperial College, London)
Numerical simulations of Z-Pinch experiments to create supersonic differentially rotating plasma flows [15]		 Slides Video
Session 5A2: Computing II
Session Chair: Paul Keiter
Bernie Wilde (LANL)
The art of designing and fielding relevant HEDP experiments		 Slides Video
Milad Fatenejad (University of Chicago)
FLASH simulations of experiments to explore the generation of cosmological magnetic fields [20]		 Slides Video
James Glimm (Stony Brook University)
Turbulent mixing at the high Re limit: V&V/UQ [15]		 Slides Video
J. Tiberius Moran-Lopez (University of Michigan)
A weighted essentially nonoscillatory implementation of a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes model for Richtmyer-Meshkov instability-induced mixing [15]		 Slides Video
Session 5P1: Radiative Hydrodynamics II
Session Chair: Marc Pound
Jonathan Mackey (Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn, Germany)
Effects of magnetic fields on photoionised pillars of dense gas [20]		 Slides Video
Berenice Loupias (CEA, France)
Theory and experiments of accretion processes in cataclysmic variables [40]		 Slides Video
Christine Krauland (University of Michigan)
Reverse radiative shock laser experiments relevant to accreting stream-disk impact in interacting binaries [15]		 Slides Video
Emeric Falize (CEA, France)
Recent advances in the experimental simulation of X-ray binary stars accretion shocks [15]		 Slides Video
Bart van der Holst (University of Michigan)
Simulating the long-term evolution of radiative shocks in shock tubes [15]		 Slides Video
Bruce Remington (LLNL)
Conference Summary [15]		 Slides Video