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Sunday, March 18, 2007
5:00-8:00 PM Reception and pick up registration materials and program
(Salon F and G at the Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center).
Monday, March 19, 2007
9:00-9:30 Introduction:
John Gillaspy(APiP Conference Chair).
Welcoming Remarks:
James E. Hill (Acting Deputy Director, NIST).
William D. Ott (Deputy Director, NIST Physics Laboratory)
High Energy Density Physics
Session Chair: Francis Thio (DOE, Program Manager, High Energy Density Physics,
Office of Fusion Energy Sciences)
9:30-10:30 Plenary Lecture:
Philip Bucksbaum (Stanford).
"The Stanford LCLS and PULSE." Confirmed.
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Yitzhak Maron (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Measurements of spectral line shapes for studying the particle density and motion
in an imploding Z-pinch plasma." Confirmed.
11:30-12:00 Siegfried Glenzer (LLNL) "X-ray Scattering from Solid Density Plasmas." Confirmed.
12:00-12:30 Peter Celliers (LLNL) "Using laser-driven shocks to study the phase diagrams of low-Z
materials at Mbar pressures and eV temperatures." Confirmed.
12:30-2:00 Lunch
High Energy Density Physics II
Session Chair: Chris Keane (NNSA, Assistant Deputy Administrator, Office of Inertial
Confinement Fusion and the National Ignition Facility Project)
2:00-2:30 Christina Back (General Atomics) "Non-LTE emission from short pulse and long pulse laser
experiments: an overview of data and analysis tools." Confirmed.
2:30-3:00 Patrick Renaudin (CEA, France) "X-Ray Absorption of Dense Plasmas Created by an
Ultra-Short Laser Pulse." Confirmed.
3:00-3:30 Lawrence Hudson (NIST) "Diagnostic Spectrometers for Tomorrow's X-ray Sources." Confirmed.
3:30-4:00 Coffee break and posters
4:00-5:30 Continuation of poster session
PDF file of poster abstracts (4.7 MB PDF)
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Fusion Plasmas
Session Chair: Dan Stutman (John's Hopkins University and PPPL)
9:00-9:30 Ralf Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Greifswald, Germany).
"Plasma-wall interaction: how atomic processes influence the performance of magnetic
fusion plasmas". Confirmed.
9:30-10:00 Dan Thomas (General Atomics) "Lithium Polarization Spectroscopy: Making Precision Plasma
Current Measurements in the D III-D National Fusion Facility." Confirmed.
10:00-10:30 Daniel Dubin (University of California at San Diego) "Modeling Nuclear Fusion with an
Ultracold Nonneutral Plasma." Confirmed.
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Plasmas in Small Traps
Session Chair: Dieter Schneider (LLNL)
11:00-11:30 Thomas Killian (Rice University) "Equilibration in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas" Confirmed.
11:30-12:00 Eric Silver (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) "X-ray Measurements Using a
Microcalorimeter on an Electron Beam Ion Trap." Confirmed.
12:00-12:30 Christoph Biedermann (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Berlin, Germany)
"X-ray and EUV spectroscopy of highly charged tungsten ions." Confirmed.
12:30-1:00 Daniel Vrinceanu (LANL). "A theoretical survey of formation of anti-hydrogen atoms
in a Penning trap." Confirmed.
1:00 Pick up box lunches (provided).
1:15 Afternoon excursion bus to National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Astrophysical Plasmas
Session Chair: Randall Smith (NASA Goddard)
9:00-9:30 Richard Mushotzky (NASA Goddard). "Plasma Astrophysics -- Cosmology and the Growth
of Cosmic Structure." Confirmed.
9:30-10:00 Una Hwang (NASA Goddard). "Probing the Cassiopeia A Supernova Explosion." Confirmed.
10:00--10:30 Nancy Brickhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). "The Role
of Atomic Physics in Understanding Physical Processes in High Energy Astrophysics,"
Confirmed.
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Michel Koenig (Eccole Polytechnique, France) "Radiative shocks and plasma jets as
laboratory astrophysics experiments." Confirmed.
11:30-12:00 Peter Hauschildt (University of Hamburg, Germany) "Line Spectra and Profiles
for Ultracool Substellar Objects." Confirmed.
12:00-12:30 Daniel Savin (Columbia). "Atomic Recombination and Ionization Data Needs for Cosmic
Plasmas." Confirmed.
12:30-1:30 Lunch
Small Laser Plasmas
Session Chair: Todd Ditmire (University of Texas, Austin)
1:30-2:00 Jorge Rocca (Colorado State University) "High repetition rate soft x-ray lasers: a
doorway to coherent soft x-ray science on a table-top." Confirmed.
2:00-2:30 Henry Kapteyn (University of Colorado, Boulder). "New approaches to high-order harmonic
generation for coherent soft x-ray generation." Confirmed.
2:30-3:00 Nathaniel Fisch or Ilya Dodin (Princeton University) "Particle
Manipulation with Nonadiabatic Ponderomotive Forces." Confirmed.
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
Small Laser Plasmas II
Session Chair: Ron McKnight (DOE, retired)
3:30-4:00 Howard Milchberg (University of Maryland). "Corrugated Plasma Optical Fibres Generated
in Gases of Atomic Clusters." Confirmed.
4:00-4:30 Warren Mori (University of California at Los Angeles). "Laser Wakefield Acceleration:
a path to Creating 100 GeV Electron Electron Beams on a Table Top." Confirmed.
6:00-9:00 PM Banquet
Thursday March 22, 2007
Fundamental Data and Modeling
Session Chair: Wolfgang Wiese (NIST)
9:00-9:30 Kim Memorial Lecture: Philip Stone (NIST). "An Overview of the BEB and Scaled PWB
Models for Ionization and Excitation." Confirmed.
9:30-10:00 James Colgan (LANL) "Recent Developments in the Modeling of Atomic Processes in
Dense Plasmas." Confirmed.
10:00-10:30 Steven Federman (University of Toledo). "Atomic Data for Determining Abundances in
Interstellar Clouds." Confirmed.
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Fundamental Data and Modeling II
Session Chair: Joe Abdallah (LANL)
11:00-11:30 Mark Bannister (ORNL). "Experiments on Interactions of Electrons with Molecular Ions
in Fusion and Astrophysical Plasmas." Confirmed.
11:30-12:00 Marcel Klapisch (NRL). "A New and Much Improved HULLAC." Confirmed.
12:00-12:30 Rami Ali (University of Jordan). "Simultaneous COLTRIMS and X-ray Spectroscopic
Studies Relevant to Cometary, Planetary, and Heliospheric X-Ray Emission," Confirmed.
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Plasma Diagnostics
Session Chair: John Seely, NRL
2:00-2:30 Brent Jones (Sandia National Laboratories) "Monochromatic soft x-ray self-emission
imaging in dense Z-pinches." Confirmed.
2:30-3:00 Leslie Welser-Sherrill (LANL) "Inference of Mix from Experimental Data and Theoretical
Mix Models." Confirmed.
3:00-3:30 Riccardo Tommasini (LLNL) "Development of Compton Radiography Using High-Z
Backlighters Produced by Ultraintense Lasers." Confirmed.
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
Industrial Plasmas
Session Chair: James Whetstone (NIST)
4:00-4:30 Thomas Kruecken (Philips Research Laboratory, Aachen Germany). "Discharge Plasmas as
EUV Sources for Future Micro Lithography." Confirmed.
4:30-5:00 Hiroaki Nishimura (Osaka University, Institute of Laser Engineering, Japan).
"Theoretical and experimental studies on high-average power EUV light sources by laser
produced plasmas." Confirmed.
5:00-5:30 Graeme Lister (Osram Sylvania) "Important Atomic and Radiative Processes in Low Pressure
Discharge Lamps." Confirmed.
5:30-5:35 Closing remarks and announcement of next conference Chair:
John Gillaspy (APiP Conference Chair).
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