California Institute of Technology

HEDLA 2010

EpitomeMonday, March 15
7:15 - 7:30 am

Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena

7:30 - 8:20 am

Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration

8:20 - 8:30 am

Opening remarks

8:30 - 8:55 am
8:55 - 9:20 am

9:20 - 9:45 am

Session 1A1: Laboratory experiments: scaling, design, anddiagnostics(Chair: Bruce Remington)
Park, Hye-Sook (LLNL)
Review of experimental, high energy density facilities and capabilities
Ryutov, Dmitri (LLNL)
Scaling of astrophysical phenomena to high-energy-density laboratory
experiments revisited
Gehrels, Neil (NASA-GSFC)
Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries

9:45 - 10:10 am

Moses, Edward (LLNL)The National Ignition Facility: An Experimental Platform for Studying the Behaviorof Matter Under Extreme Conditions

10:10 - 10:40 am

BreakSession 1A2: Laboratory experiments: scaling, design, anddiagnostics(Chair: Dmitri Ryutov)

10:40 - 11:05 am

11:05 - 11:30 am
11:30 - 11:55 am

11:55 - 12:20 pm
12:20 - 12:45 pm

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Glenzer, Siegfried (LLNL)
Mega-joule experiments on the National Ignition Facility - on the road to produce a
microscopic star in the laboratory
Liedahl, Duane (LLNL)
X-ray Photoionized Plasmas in the Laboratory and in Space
Heeter, Robert (LLNL)
Prospects for Photoionized Plasma and Stellar Interior Plasma Experiments on
the National Ignition Facility: A Tutorial
Douglas, Melissa (LLNL)
Laboratory Experiments of Supersonic Flows through Clumpy MediaPetrasso, Richard (MIT)Proton Radiography of Spontaneously-Generated Electromagnetic Fields in LaserProduced High-Energy-Density Plasmas
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration)
Session 1P1: Dense objects: planetary interiors, neutron stars(Chair: James Lattimer)

2:00 - 2:25 pm

Elkins-Tanton, Linda (MIT)Rocky planetary interiors: Pressures, compositions, and evolution

2:25 - 2:50 pm

Valencia, Diana (Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur)
Equations of State and the Properties of Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes

2:50 - 3:15 pm

Nettelmann, Nadine (UCSC)Interior structure of giant planets

3:15 - 3:40 pm

Mazevet, Stephane (CEA)High pressure properties of iron under Earth and super-Earth conditions

3:40 - 4:05 pm

Rygg, Ryan (LLNL)
Off-Hugoniot measurements of iron and hydrogen above 500 GPa

4:05 - 4:35 pm

Break4:35 - 6:15 pm

Poster Session
Poster Boards PB1 to PB81

6:20 - 6:35 pm

Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena

Tuesday, March 16
7:15 - 7:30 am

Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena

7:30 - 8:20 am

Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration

8:20 - 8:30 am

Announcements

8:30 - 8:55 am

2A1: Stars: evolution, atmospheres, opacities(Chair: Paul Drake)
Vishniac, Ethan (McMaster University) Instabilities in Radiative Shocks

8:55 - 9:20 am

Krumholz, Mark (UC Santa Cruz)
Radiation Feedback in the Formation of Massive Stars and Star Clusters

9:20 - 9:45 am

Vink, Jorick (Armagh Observatory)
The theory of stellar mass loss

9:45 - 10:10 am

Hillier, John (University of Pittsburgh)
Spectroscopic Modeling of Massive Stars and Supernovae

10:10 - 10:40 am

BreakSession 2A2: Stars: evolution, atmospheres, opacities(Chair: Roberto Mancini)

10:40 - 11:05 am
11:05 - 11:30 am

11:30 - 11:55 am

Guzik, Joyce (Los Alamos National Laboratory) Recent Advances in Modeling
Stellar Interiors
Turck-Chieze, Sylvaine (SAP/IRFU/DSM/CEA)
Radiative properties of stellar plasma: challenges in absorption coefficientsknowledge
Cosse, Philippe (CEA)
Opacity Studies for Solar and Stellar Models

11:55 - 12:20 pm

Bailey, Jim (Sandia National Laboratories)
Laboratory Tests of Stellar Interior Opacity Models

12:20 - 12:45 pm

Tahir, Naeem (GSI Darmstadt)
Laboratory Planetary Physics Using Intense Heavy Ion Beams at the Facilty for
Antiprotons and Ion Research (FAIR) at Darmstadt: the HEDgeHOB Collaboration
Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration)

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Session 2P1: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs
(Chair: Hideaki Takabe)
2:00 - 2:25 pm

Leonard, Douglas (San Diego State University)
The Progenitors of Core-Collapse Supernovae

2:25 - 2:50 pm

Meakin, Casey (University of Arizona)
Presupernova structure of massive stars

2:50 - 3:15 pm

Lattimer, James (Stony Brook University)
Neutron Stars and the Dense Matter Equation of State

3:15 - 3:40 pm

Audit, Edouard (CEA )Multigroups radiation hydrodynamics

3:40 - 4:05 pm

Nomoto, Ken'ichi (IPMU, University of Tokyo)
Radiation Hydrodynamics of Extremely Bright and Extremely Faint Supernovae

4:05 - 4:35 pm

BreakSession 2P2: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs
(Chair: Douglas Leonard)

4:35 - 5:00 pm

Foglizzo, Thierry (CEA-Saclay )Theory of advective-acoustic shock instability and core-collapse supernovae

5:00 - 5:25 pm

Ohnishi, Naofumi (Tohoku University)
Computational study of standing accretion shock instability in core-collapse

5:25 - 5:50 pm

Kuranz, Carolyn (University of Michigan)Supernova Hydrodynamics: Blast-wave-driven Rayleigh-Taylor instability
i Stephen (Sandia National Laboratories)
Slutz,

5:50 - 6:15 pm

Pulsed power driven Magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor experiments
6:45 - 9:15 pm

9:15 - 9:30 pm

Banquet at Caltech Athenaeum (included in registration); after
dinner speaker: Brownlee, Don (University of Washington) The
Stardust comet sample return mission
Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena

Wednesday, March 17
7:15 - 7:30 am

Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena

7:30 - 8:20 am

Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration

8:20 - 8:30 am

Announcements
Session 3A1: Supernovae: core-collapse, mixing, SNRs
(Chair: Ken Nomoto)

8:30 - 8:55 am

8:55 - 9:20 am

Ott, Christian (TAPIR, Caltech)
General Relativistic Simulations of Stellar Collapse and The Formation of Stellar
Mass Black HolesBurrows, Adam (Princeton University)
Modeling Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions

9:20 - 9:45 am

Medvedev, Mikhail (IAS; Niels Bohr Inst.; KU)
Magnetic field generation and gamma-ray bursts

9:45 - 10:10 am

Sari, Re'em (Caltech & Hebrew University)
Relativistic Self-Similarity and Gamma Ray Bursts

10:10 - 10:40 am

BreakSession 3A2: Jets, disks, and outflows (Chair: Adam Frank)

10:40 - 11:05 am

Bally, John (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Observations of Outflows from Young Stars

11:05 - 11:30 am

Nakamura, Masanori (JHU/STScI )Magnetohydrodynamic Properties of Extragalactic Jets

11:30 - 11:55 am

Suzuki-Vidal, Francisco (Imperial College London)
Experimental studies of magnetically driven plasma jets

11:55 - 12:20 pm

Moser, Auna (Caltech)
Magnetic flux compression in jet impact experiments

12:20 - 12:45 pm

Ciardi, Andrea (LERMA- UPMC)
Numerical simulations of laboratory astrophysics jets experiments

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration)

2:00 - 2:25 pm

2:25 - 2:50 pm
2:50 - 3:15 pm

3:15 - 3:40 pm

Session 3P1: Jets, disks, and outflows(Chair: Sergey Lebedev)
Hartigan, Patrick (Rice University)
Exploring the Synergy Between Observations of Astrophysical Jets and Their
Experimental Counterparts at Omega
Tordella, Daniela (Politecnico di Torino)
Hydrodynamics of hypersonic jets: experiments and numerical simulations
Fujioka, Shinsuke (Osaka University)
Laboratory spectroscopy of photoionized silicon plasma generated with 0.5 keVblackbody radiator
Joshi, Chan (UCLA)High Energy Density Plasma Science with Ultra-Relativistic Particle Beams

3:40 - 4:05 pm

Frank, Adam (University of Rochester)
Astrophysical Jets in the Laboratory: 10 Years of Progress

4:05 - 4:35 pm

Break

4:35 - 5:00 pm

Session 3P2: Radiation hydrodynamics: shock breakouts,
radiation-driven instabilities(Chair: Ethan Vishniac)
Whalen, Daniel (Carnegie Mellon University)
Radiation Hydrodynamical Instabilities in Cosmological and Galactic Ionization
Fronts

5:00 - 5:25 pm

Michaut, Claire (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)
Computational Radiation Hydrodynamics

5:25 - 5:50 pm

Doss, Forrest (University of Michigan)
CRASH: theory and experiments on radiative shocks

5:50 - 6:15 pm

Hohenberger, Matthias (Imperial College London)
Observation of a Velocity Domain Oscillation in a Radiative Shock Expansion

6:20 - 6:35 pm

Buses return to Marriott Old Pasadena

Thursday, March 18
7:15 - 7:30 am

Buses depart Marriott Old Pasadena

7:30 - 8:20 am

Breakfast (at Caltech, included in registration), registration

8:20 - 8:30 am

Announcements

8:30 - 8:55 am

Session 4A1: Radiation hydrodynamics: shock breakouts,radiation-driven instabilities(Chair: Serge Bouquet)
Sanz, Javier (ETSI Aeronauticos, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
Self-Consistent Stability Analysis of Spherical Shocks

8:55 - 9:20 am

Pittard, Julian (The University of Leeds)
The turbulent destruction of interstellar clouds

9:20 - 9:45 am

Hurricane, Omar (LLNL)
Blast-wave driven Kelvin-Helmholtz shear layers in a laser driven high-energydensity plasmaChen, Hui (LLNL)
Laboratory produced relativistic electron-positron jets

9:45 - 10:10 am
10:10 - 10:40 am

BreakSession 4A2: Radiation processes: molecular clouds, starformation, SNRs, ISM(Chair: Edouard Audit)

10:40 - 11:05 am
11:05 - 11:30 am
11:30 - 11:55 am

11:55 - 12:20 pm

Ferland, Gary (University of Kentucky)
Fundamental challenges in understanding spectra of photo-ionized plasmas
Brickhouse, Nancy (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
Magnetic Accretion onto Young Stars
Dorodnitsyn, Anton (NASA GSFC)
The formation of X-ray line spectra from moving gas near black holes and neutronstars
Wolfire, Mark (University of Maryland)
Physics of Photodissociation Regions

12:20 - 12:45 pm

Hall, Iain (University of Nevada, Reno)
Photoionized plasma experiments at Z

12:45 - 2:00 pm

Lunch (at Caltech, included in registration)

2:00 - 2:25 pm

Session 4P1: Plasma physics: ultrastrong fields, particle
acceleration, collisionless shocks (Chair: Luis Silva)
Niemann, Christoph (UCLA / Physics & Astronomy)
Dynamics of exploding plasmas in a large magnetized plasma

2:25 - 2:50 pm

Martins, Samuel (GoLP/IPFN - Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Kinetic simulations of relativistic collisionless shocks

2:50 - 3:15 pm

Presura, Radu (University of Nevada, Reno)
Experimental study of MHD instabilities

3:15 - 3:40 pm

Li, Yutong (Institute of Phsyics, CAS)
Collisionless Shockwaves Formed by two Counter-Streaming Plasmas

3:40 - 4:05 pm

Sakawa, Youichi (ILE, Osaka Univ.)
Collisionless shock generation in high-power laser produced counter-streaming
plasmasBreak

4:05 - 4:35 pm

4:35 - 5:00 pm

Session 4P2: Plasma physics: ultrastrong fields, particle
acceleration, collisionless shocks(Chair: Youichi Sakawa)Reynolds, Stephen (North Carolina State University)
Particle Acceleration in Supernova Remnant Shocks

5:00 - 5:25 pm

Kirk, John (MPI Kernphysik)
Radiation of particles accelerated by the first-order Fermi process at relativistic
shocks

5:25 - 5:50 pm

Kang, Hyesung (Pusan National University)
Self-Similar Evolution of Cosmic-Ray Modified Shocks

5:50 - 6:15 pm

Bell, Anthony (University of Oxford)
Shocks, magnetic field, and energetic particles in laboratory and astrophysicalplasmasBuses return to Marriott Old Pasadena

6:20 - 6:35 pm