| 07/08/2018 | |||
| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Registration | ||
| 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Welcome Reception | ||
| 07/09/2018 | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | Welcome/Opening Remarks Conference Organizing Committee | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Strozzi, LLNL | |||
| 8:50 am - 9:10 am | Influence of magnetic fields on nonlinear electron plasma waves and kinetic stimulated Raman scattering Winjum, UCLA | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Resonant absorption of a broadband laser pulse Palastro, LLE | ||
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Simulations of stimulated Raman scattering for speckled laser with temporal bandwidth Wen, UCLA | ||
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Laser-plasma instabilities at large-angle oblique laser incidence Yan, Univ. Sci. &Tech. China | ||
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Albright, LANL | |||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Theory of laser driven ablation Molvig, LANL/MIT | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Effects of double shell joint morphology and capsule size on implosion performance Sauppe, LANL | ||
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | 2-Dimensional simulations of the Revolver direct-drive multi-shell ignition concept Schmitt, LANL | ||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Experimental investigation of hydrodynamic instability inhibition in a material gradient Wan, LANL | ||
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | High-yield implosions via radiation trapping and high rR Ho, LLNL | ||
| Invited Evening Talk Session Chair: Casanova, CEA | |||
| 7:00 pm - 7:40 pm | Mitigation of SBS and associated optics damage in NIF experiments Michel, LLNL | ||
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Evening Poster Session | ||
| Advances in laser pre-heat modeling for MagLIF Weis, SNL | |||
| A new model for alpha transport and deposition Manheimer, RSI | |||
| The particle-in-cell and kinetic simulation software center An, UCLA | |||
| Development of an argon fluoride laser for inertial confinement fusion Myers, NRL | |||
| Fluid modeling on three dimensional two plasma decay instability using FLAME-MD Cao, LLE | |||
| Controlling laser plasma instabilities via bandwidth Tsung, UCLA | |||
| Nike laser-target facility and diagnostic systems Chan, NRL | |||
| Picosecond-resolved collective Thomson scattering in underdense collisional plasmas Davies, University of Rochester | |||
| 07/10/2018 | |||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Tsung, UCLA | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | Plasma physics and broadband lasers - A path to an expanded inertial confinement fusion design space Froula, LLE | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:10 am | Time resolved study of plasma amplifier for beam combination on NIF Poole, LLNL | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Analysis of unabsorbed light beamlet images on OMEGA Edgell, LLE | ||
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Crossed Beam Energy Transfer in "mid" fill hohlraums on the NIF Ralph, LLNL | ||
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Plasma characterization for the OMEGA laser-plasma interaction platform Hansen, LLE | ||
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: M. Schimitt, LANL | |||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | The MARBLE campaign - understanding the interplay between heterogeneous mix and thermonuclear burn Albright, LANL | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Plasma kinetic effects on interfacial mix and burn rates in multi-spatial dimensions Yin, LANL | ||
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Particle-in-cell simulations of laser plasma instabilities and hot electron generation in shock ignition regime Li, UCSD | ||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Photon jets for QED particle-in-cell laser-plasma simulations Luedtke, UT, Austin/LANL | ||
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Laser-plasma instabilities in long-scale-length plasmas in shock ignition Ren, LLE | ||
| Invited Evening Talk Session Chair: A. J. Schmitt, LANL | |||
| 7:00 pm - 7:40 pm | 3-Phase pulse shaping for laser pre-heat in Mag-LIF Geissel, SNL | ||
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Evening Poster Session | ||
| Further examination of multi-species plasma ion transport: results in 1-D ICF configurations Vold, LANL | |||
| Suppressing cross beam energy transfer in direct drive laser-fusion targets using stimulated rotational Raman scattering Bates, NRL | |||
| Simulation of magnetically driven HEDP/ICF experiments with a Lagrangian/ALE Code Rosculp, LANL | |||
| The role of incidence angle in the laser ablation of ICF targets Scheiner, LANL | |||
| Multidimensional simulations of Brillouin amplification experiments Berger, LLNL | |||
| Design of a high-bandwidth probe laser for LPI and plasma photonics experiments Ludwig, LLNL | |||
| Capabilities of the Nike laser for HEDP experiments Kehne, NRL | |||
| Triangulated raytracing in spherically-gridded plasmas Schmitt, NRL | |||
| 07/11/2018 | |||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Geissel, SNL | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | Advances in laser pre-heat modeling for MagLIF Weis, SNL | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:10 am | Design of magnetized, room-temperature capsule implosions for NIF Strozzi, LLNL | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Measuring CH-Au interface in gas-filled hohlraum using Thomson scattering on SG-III prototype Zhao, Tsinghua Univ. | ||
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Factors which determine the magnitude of the Nernst effect in spherical and cylindrical implosions Zimmerman, LLNL | ||
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Ion beam driven isochoric heating on Texas Petawatt Roycroft, LANL | ||
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Froula, LLE | |||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Comprehensive Zakharov-type modeling of parametric instabilities in the corona of direct-drive targets Sary, CEA | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Hot-electron generation and preheat in direct-drive experiments at the National Ignition Facility Solodov, LLE | ||
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Laser-plasma instabilities at ignition-scale: particle-in-cell simulations of shock ignition Seaton, Univ. of Warwick | ||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | The generation of collimated moderate temperature electron beam in shock ignition-relevant planar target experiments on OMEGA-EP Zhang, UCSD | ||
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Inference of the electron temperature in spherical implosions from x-ray spectra Kagan, LANL | ||
| 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | Conference Banquet | ||
| Lobsters 101 Dr. Robert C. Bayer, Director of the Lobster Institute, University of Maine | |||
| 07/12/2018 | |||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Kagan, LANL | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | A fully-conserving, adaptive, multi-scale algorithm with arbitrary temporal integration for the multi-species Vlasov-Ampere system Anderson, LANL | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:10 am | Unraveling the kinetic structure of multi-ion collisional plasma shocks Keenan, LANL | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Assessing xRAGE predictive capability using the high-energy density physics validation suite Wilson, LANL | ||
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Krook and Fokker Planck models for calculation nonlocal transport in a laser fusion target plasma Manheimer, RSI | ||
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Electron heat transport in beryllium sphere on Omega Farmer, LLNL | ||
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Rosenberg, LLE | |||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | The scaling of stimulated backscatter from BigFoot hohlraums with laser power and energy: practical backscatter reduction options Berger, LLNL | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | Nonlinear transition to absolute Raman backscattering instability with trapped electrons - a theory for inflation of Raman reflectivity Liu, UMD | ||
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Modeling of stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas for conditions relevant to the National Ignition Facility Maximov, LLE | ||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Modeling optics damage patterns at the NIF caused by light backscattered from targets Chapman, LLNL | ||
| 11:50 am - 12:10 pm | Business Meeting | ||
| Invited Evening Talk Session Chair: Michel, LLNL | |||
| 7:00 pm - 7:40 pm | Planar laser-plasma interaction experiments at the direct-drive ignition-relevant scale lengths at the National Ignition Facility Rosenberg, LLE | ||
| 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm | Evening Poster Session | ||
| Recent OSIRIS development for improved high-energy-density plasma simulations Miller, UCLA | |||
| CBET studies in long scale-lengths plasmas at the Nike laser Weaver, NRL | |||
| Laser-ion acceleration in the transparency regime Stark, LANL | |||
| Progress on plasma profile measurements for the Nike experiments Oh, NRL | |||
| Progress on plasma profile measurements for the Nike experiments Oh, NRL | |||
| Plasma ion stratification by weak planar shocks Simakov, LANL | |||
| Plasma instability enhancement for generating high fluence, high energy x-ray sources Poole, LLNL | |||
| Modeling the propagation of a nanosecond smoothed laser beam in a multi-millimeter underdense plasma Casanova, CEA | |||
| 07/13/2018 | |||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Hu, LLE | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | Density functional theory methods for transport and optical properties: application to warm dense silicon Karasiev, LLE | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:10 am | Radiative and atomic properties of C and CH plasmas under warm dense conditions Lee, NRL | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | The role of NLTE atomics kinetics in radiation hydrodynamics modeling of ICF targets Patel, LLNL | ||
| 9:30 am - 9:50 am | Imprint mitigation with high-Z coating on Omega EP and NIF imprint experiments Karasik, NRL | ||
| 9:50 am - 10:10 am | Coffee Break | ||
| Oral Session Session Chair: Weaver, NRL | |||
| 10:10 am - 10:30 am | Energy-conserving model of laser propagation and heating in subcritical foam Belyaev, LLNL | ||
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Mitigating laser-imprint effects in direct-drive implosions on OMEGA with low-density foam layers Hu, LLE | ||
| 10:50 am - 11:10 am | HYDRA simulations of laser-heated foams Langer, LLNL | ||
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Analysis of radiation flow experiments in Ti-doped foams on OMEGA Johns, LANL | ||
| 11:30 am - 11:50 am | Effects of thermal conductivity of liquid layer in NIF wetted foam experiments Dhakal, LANL | ||
