Conference Program

All events take place at the Florida State Conference Center.

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Sunday, April 29
5:45 - 8:00 pm Registration
6:00 - 8:00 pm Welcome Reception

Monday, April 30
7:00 - 7:30 am Bus departs
7:30 - 8:20 am Breakfast (at Conference Center, included in registration), registration
8:20 - 8:30 am Opening remarks
  Session 1A1: Laboratory Experiments I: Design, diagnostics, scaling
Session Chair: Jave Kane
8:30 - 9:10 am Radu Presura (University of Nevada, Reno)
Lab diagnostics primer for astronomers [40]
9:10 - 9:30 am Nathan Kugland (LLNL)
Proton imaging of collisionless shock experiments at OMEGA EP [20]
9:30 - 9:45 am Carlos Di Stefano (University of Michigan)
Proton-diagnostic performance in laser-driven hydrodynamics experiments [15]
9:45 - 10:00 am Kristopher Yirak (LANL)
Mach stem hysteresis: Experiments addressing a novel explanation of clumpy astrophysical jet emission [15]
10:00 - 10:30 am Paul Drake (University of Michigan)
HEDLA 1996 vs. 2012 [30]
10:30 - 12:30 am Break and poster viewing [120]
12:30 - 1:45 pm Lunch (at Conference Center, included in registration) [75]
  Session 1P1: Astrophysical Jets & Disks I. AGN, black hole, protostellar
Session Chair: Sergey Lebedev
1:45 - 2:25 pm Mario Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute)
Astrophysical jets [40]
2:25 - 2:45 pm Debra Shepherd (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
ALMA and JVLA: Insight into astrophysical jets [20]
2:45 - 3:00 pm Francisco Suzuki-Vidal (Imperial College, London, UK)
Interaction of radiatively cooled plasma jets with collimated, supersonic gas flows [15]
3:00 - 3:15 pm Andrea Ciardi (Observatoire de Paris)
Outflow collimation by a poloidal magnetic field [15]
3:15 - 3:30 pm Anton Dorodnitsyn (NASA GSFC and the University of Maryland)
How to hide a supermassive black hole: AGN obscuration through dusty infrared dominated flows [15]
3:30 - 4:15 pm Break and poster viewing [45]
  Session 1P2: Plasma Physics I. Collisionless shocks, magnetic reconnection, ultrastrong fields, turbulence, instabilitiess
Session Chair: Dmitri Ryutov
4:15 - 4:45 pm Hantao Ji (Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Laboratory studies of magnetic reconnection [30]
4:45 - 5:15 pm Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton University)
Astrophysical collisonless shocks
5:15 - 5:30 pm Yasuhiro Kuramitsu (Osaka University, Japan)
Electron scale magnetic reconnection in a laser produced plasma [15]
5:30 - 5:45 pm Jiayong Zhong (Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy, Beijing, China)
Spatial and temporal evolution of extremely strongly laser driven magnetic reconnection [15]
5:45 - 6:00 pm Yutong Li (National Laboratory of Condensed Matter Physics, Beijing, China)
Collisionless shockwaves formed by counter-streaming laser-produced plasmas [15]
6:10 pm Bus returns

Tuesday, May 1
7:00 - 7:30 am Bus departs
7:30 - 8:20 am Breakfast (at Conference Center, included in registration), registration
8:20 - 8:30 am Announcements
  Session 2A1: Supernovae I. SNe, SNRs, GRBs, exploding systems
Session Chair: Tomasz Plewa
8:30 - 9:10 am Robert Kirshner (Harvard University)
Supernovae: the gift that keeps on giving [40]
9:10 - 9:30 am Alexis Casner (CEA, France)
Designs and implementation plan for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability experiments on the National Ignition Facility [20]
9:30 - 9:50 am Vladimir Smalyuk (University of Rochester)
Laboratory basic science, hydrodynamic growth experiments on OMEGA [20]
9:50 - 10:05 am Desmond John Hillier (University of Pittsburgh)
Unlocking the secrets of supernovae through their spectra [15]
10:05 - 10:45 am Break and poster viewing [40]
  Session 2A2: Solar and Stellar Physics I. Evolution, structure, opacities, radiative transfer, white dwarfs, neutron stars
Session Chair: Chris Orban
10:45 - 11:25 am Michael Wiescher (University of Notre Dame)
The physics of reaction rates in stellar environments [40]
11:25 - 11:40 am Irina Sagert (Michigan State University)
Strange matter in neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae [15]
11:40 - 11:55 pm James Bailey (SNL)
ZAPP: The Z astrophysical plasma properties collaboration [15]
11:55 - 12:15 pm Ross Falcon (University of Texas at Austin)
An experimental platform for creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory [20]
12:15 - 12:30 pm 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]
12:30 - 1:45 pm Lunch (at Conference Center, included in registration) [75]
  Session 2P1: Computing I. Astrophysical simulations, design of experiments, validation studies
Session Chair: Serge Bouquet
1:45 - 2:25 pm Jim Stone (Princeton University)
Challenges of modeling astrophysical MHD [40]
2:25 - 2:45 pm Frederico Fiuza (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal)
Full-scale modeling of Weibel mediated collisionless shocks in laboratory scenarios [20]
2:45 - 3:00 pm Bruce Fryxell (University of Michigan)
Collaborative comparison of high-energy-density physics codes [15]
3:00 - 3:15 pm Timothy Handy (Florida State University)
Computer experiments for supersonic turbulent flows in high-energy density plasmas [15]
3:15 - 3:30 pm Hanbyul Jang (Chungnam National University, Korea)
A relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code based on upwind scheme [15]
3:30 - 4:15 am Break and poster viewing [45]
  Session 2P2: Warm Dense Matter: Planetary interiors, EOS, magnetic fields in giant planets, exoplanets
Session Chair: Dongsu Ryu
4:15 - 4:55 pm Peter Celliers (LLNL)
Experiments to probe warm dense matter conditions for planetary science [40]
4:55 - 5:15 pm Burkhard Militzer (University of California, Berkeley)
Phase separation in giant planet interiors and novel first-principles simulation of plasmas [20]
5:15-5:30 pm Francois Soubiran (ENS Lyon, France)
Thermodynamical and transport properties of dense H-He mixtures [15]
5:30-5:45 pm Manuel Cotelo (Instituto de Fusion Nuclear, Madrid, Spain)
Improvements in equation of state and opacities for warm dense matter [15]
5:45 - 6:00 pm Stanley Davis (University Bordeaux, France)
Numerical simulations of electron heating during energy transfer in a laser driven collisionless shock [15]
6:10 pm Bus returns

Wednesday, May 2
7:00 - 7:30 am Bus departs
7:30 - 8:20 am Breakfast (at Conference Center, included in registration), registration
8:20 - 8:30 am Announcements
  Session 3A1: Radiative Hydrodynamics I. Radiative shocks, radiatively driven instabilities, molecular clouds, stellar winds
Session Chair: Tim Handy
8:30 - 9:10 am Roberto Mancini (University of Nevada, Reno)
Laboratory photoionized plasma experiments relevant for astrophysics [40]
9:10 - 9:30 am Edward Hill (Imperial College, London, UK)
Alternative methods of producing photoionised plasmas in the laboratory [20]
9:30 - 9:45 am Carolyn Kuranz (University of Michigan)
The evolution of a radiative shock system on the OMEGA Laser [15]
9:45 - 10:00 am Siegfried Glenzer (LLNL)
Expanding shock waves from 100 Gbar implosions on the National Ignition Facility [15]
10:00 - 10:15 am Jim Ferguson (Texas A&M University)
Asymptotic accuracy of the equilibrium-diffusion approximation [15]
10:15 - 10:45 am Break [30]
  Session 3A2: Astrophysical dust & magnetized HEDLA
Session Chair: Bruce Remington
10:45 - 11:15 am Farid Salama (NASA Ames)
Interstellar dust - a review [40]
11:15 - 11:35 am Dmitri Ryutov (LLNL)
Basic scalings for collisionless shock experiments [20]
11:35 - 12:05 pm Sergey Lebedev (Imperial College, London, UK)
Magnetized jet experiments and radiative shocks driven by pulsed power
12:05 - 12:25 pm Adam Frank (University of Rochester)
The formation of magnetized molecular clouds: New results and experimental possibilities [15]
12:05 - 12:25 pm The Conference Photo!
12:45 pm Bus returns
  AFTERNOON FREE

Thursday, May 3
7:00 - 7:30 am Bus departs
7:30 - 8:20 am Breakfast (at Conference Center, included in registration), registration
8:20 - 8:30 am Announcements
  Session 4A1: Plasma Physics II
Session Chair: Naofumi Ohnishi
8:30 - 9:00 am Jungyeon Cho (Chungnam National University, Korea)
Magnetized turbulence in astrophysical fluids [30]
9:00 - 9:20 am Yuichi Sakawa (Osaka University, Japan)
Laboratory experiments to study collisionless shocks [20]
9:20 - 9:40 am Hye-Sook Park (LLNL)
Astrophysical collisionless shocks in the laboratory [20]
9:40 - 9:55 am Dongsu Ryu (Chungnam National University, Korea)
A simulation study of intracluster turbulence [15]
9:55 - 10:10 am Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas)
Theory and numerical modeling of radiation from sub-Larmor-scale magnetic turbulence [15]
10:10 - 11:00 am Break and poster viewing [50]
  Session 4A2: Supernovae II
Session Chair: Irina Sagert
11:00 - 11:40 am Sergey Blinnikov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia)
Radiation hydrodynamics of supernova shock breakouts
11:40 - 11:55 am Tomasz Plewa (Florida State University)
Diverging core-collapse supernova experiments on NIF [15]
11:55 - 12:10 am Vikram Dwarkadas (University of Chicago)
The acceleration and escape of particles in young supernova remnants [15]
12:10 - 12:25 am Alexei Poludnenko (Naval Research Laboratory)
Spontaneous deflagration-to-detonation transition in thermonuclear supernovae [15]
12:30 - 1:45 pm Lunch (at Conference Center, included in registration) [75]
12:45 - 1:45 pm HEDLA Business Meeting (during lunch)
All Interested Participants Welcome To Attend
  Session 4P1: Solar and Stellar Physics II
Session Chair: Paul Bellan
1:45 - 2:25 pm Sarbani Basu (Yale University)
Confronting stellar structure theory with asteroseismic data [40]
2:25 - 2:45 pm Eve Stenson (Caltech)
The dynamics of arched, plasma-filled magnetic flux tubes [20]
2:45 - 3:00 pm Shule Li (University of Rochester)
Clumps with self-contained magnetic field and their interaction with shocks [15]
3:00 - 3:15 pm Guy Malamud (University of Michigan)
On the possibility of a two-dimensional, multimode RM experiment on EP [15]
3:15 - 4:15 pm Break and poster viewing [60]
  Session 4P2: Astrophysical Jets and Disks II. Laboratory Experiments
Session Chair: Pat Hartigan
4:15 - 4:55 pm Jonathan Ferreira (Universite Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
What does it take to launch jets from accretion discs? [40]
4:55 - 5:10 pm Martin Huarte-Espinosa (University of Rochester)
Comparing Poynting flux dominated magnetic towers with kinetic-energy dominated jets [15]
5:10 - 5:25 pm Edison Liang (Rice University)
Magnetic field generation and particle acceleration in relativistic shear boundary layer [15]
5:25 - 5:45 pm Auna Moser (Caltech)
Laboratory observations of magnetic reconnection resulting from multiscale instability cascade [20]
6:10 pm Bus returns

Friday, May 4
7:00 - 7:30 am Bus departs
7:30 - 8:20 am Breakfast (at Conference Center, included in registration), registration
8:20 - 8:30 am Announcements
  Session 5A1: Laboratory Experiments II
Session Chair: Carolyn Kuranz
8:30 - 9:10 am Serge Bouquet (CEA, France)
Scaling astrophysical radiation hydrodynamics for the laboratory [40]
9:10 - 9:30 am Will Fox (University of New Hampshire)
Fast magnetic reconnection in high-energy-density laser-produced plasmas [20]
9:30 - 9:45 am Yong-Joo Rhee (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea)
Laser-produced high density plasmas [15]
9:45 - 10:00 am Kirk Flippo (LANL)
Investigating mix in colliding-shock experiments [15]
10:00 - 10:15 am Matteo Bocchi (Imperial College, London)
Numerical simulations of Z-Pinch experiments to create supersonic differentially rotating plasma flows [15]
10:15 - 11:00 am Break and poster viewing [45]
  Session 5A2: Computing II
Session Chair: Paul Keiter
11:00 - 11:40 am Bernie Wilde (LANL)
The art of designing and fielding relevant HEDP experiments
11:40 - 12:00 am Milad Fatenejad (University of Chicago)
FLASH simulations of experiments to explore the generation of cosmological magnetic fields [20]
12:00 - 12:15 pm James Glimm (Stony Brook University)
Turbulent mixing at the high Re limit: V&V/UQ [15]
12:15 - 12:30 am 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]
12:30 - 1:45 pm Lunch (at Conference Center, included in registration) [75]
  Session 5P1: Radiative Hydrodynamics II
Session Chair: Marc Pound
1:45 - 2:05 pm Jonathan Mackey (Argelander Institut fuer Astronomie, Bonn, Germany)
Effects of magnetic fields on photoionised pillars of dense gas [20]
2:05 - 2:45 pm Berenice Loupias (CEA, France)
Theory and experiments of accretion processes in cataclysmic variables [40]
2:45 - 3:00 pm Christine Krauland (University of Michigan)
Reverse radiative shock laser experiments relevant to accreting stream-disk impact in interacting binaries [15]
3:00 - 3:15 pm Emeric Falize (CEA, France)
Recent advances in the experimental simulation of X-ray binary stars accretion shocks [15]
3:15 - 3:30 pm Bart van der Holst (University of Michigan)
Simulating the long-term evolution of radiative shocks in shock tubes [15]
3:30 - 3:45 pm Bruce Remington (LLNL)
Conference Summary [15]
3:55 pm Bus returns