International Workshop on Warm Dense Matter – 2011
June 5-8, 2011
Pacific Grove, California
The Workshop will consist of review and invited talks, oral and poster contributions, and provide time for discussions.
| Monday June 6, 2011 |
| Subject: Methods of characterizing and diagnosing WDM |
| Time |
Name |
Topic |
Location |
| 7:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
Dining Hall * |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Sebastien Le Pape (LLNL) |
“Probing warm dense matter with X-ray Thomson scattering” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Fabien Dorchies (Bordeaux) |
“Electronic structure investigation of shock compressed aluminum with XANES” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Byoung-ick Cho (LBNL) |
“X-ray absorption spectroscopy of warm dense copper and its electron-phonon coupling and electron heat capacity” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Stefan Hau-Riege (LLNL) |
“Ultrafast Lattice and Electron Dynamics in Warm-dense Graphite” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Sam Vinko (Oxford) |
“Measuring the ionization potential depression in a solid-density plasma by means of X-ray spectroscopy" |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
Dining Hall * |
| Subject: Methods of Producing WDM |
| 1:00-1:30 |
Justin Wark (Oxford) |
"Spectroscopy of Hot Dense Matter Created by X-ray Free-Electron-Lasers" |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Pavel Ni (LBNL) |
“Warm Dense Matter target experiments on NDCX-I and plans for NDCX-II” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Damien Hicks (LLNL) |
“Studies of warm dense matter using multi-Mbar laser-driven shocks” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Hae Ja Lee (SLAC) |
“The MEC instrument and WDM experimental capabilities at LCLS” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Yuichi Inubushi (RIKEN) |
“Nonlinear absorption in metals using intense EUV-FEL” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Eugene Gamaly (Australian National University) |
“Warm Dense Matter at the Bench-top: Discovery of Super-dense Al Produced by Confined Micro-explosion” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Markus Roth (TU Darmstadt) |
“Ultra-fast Melting of Carbon Induced by Intense Proton Beams” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 6:00 |
Dinner |
Seascape Room * |
| Tuesday June 7, 2011 |
| Subject: Hydrodynamic, Molecular Dynamics, and Monte Carlo simulations of WDM |
| ** Poster Session setup is available beginning at 8:00am in the Chapel Room |
| Time |
Name |
Topic |
Location |
| 7:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
Dining Hall * |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Stephane Mazevet (CEA) |
"Iron properties under extreme conditions" |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Michael Desjarlais (SNL) |
“First-principles calculations for x-ray Thomson scattering in Warm Dense Matter” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Charles Starrett (LANL) |
“Variational Treatment of Nucleus-Nucleus and Electron-Nucleus Correlations in Warm Dense Matter” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Vladimir Stegailov (RAS) |
“Atomistic Simulation of Laser Ablation of Gold: The Effects of Electronic Pressure” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Ronald Redmer (Rostock) |
“Matter under extreme conditions and the interior of giant planets” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
Dining Hall * |
| Subject: Applications of WDM to Planetary Science, High-pressure Science, Inertial Fusion Energy, etc |
| 1:00-1:30 |
Jonathan Fortney (UC Santa Cruz) |
“The thermal evolution and structure of giant planets inside and outside the solar system” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Siegfried Glenzer (LLNL) |
“Inertial Confinement Fusion implosions with thermonuclear fuel on the National Ignition Facility” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Yuan Ping (LLNL) |
“Refraction-enhanced X-ray Radiography for Measuring Thermal Conductivity at Fuel-ablator Interface: Warm Dense Matter Region in ICF Capsule” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:30-2:45 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 2:45-5:45 |
Poster session |
Chapel Meeting Room - Side Rooms |
| 6:00 |
Dinner |
Seascape Room * |
| Wednesday June 8, 2011 |
| Subject: The Evolution of WDM when not in Thermodynamic Equilibrium |
| ** Poster Session takedown/removal available through 5pm today in Chapel Room, all posters remaining will be disposed of after 5pm. |
| Time |
Name |
Topic |
Location |
| 7:30-9:00 |
Breakfast |
Dining Hall * |
| 9:00-9:30 |
Beata Ziaja-Motyka (DESY) |
"Modeling of ultrafast transitions within laser-irradiated solids" |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 9:30-10:00 |
Hyun-Kyung Chung (IAEA) |
“Modeling atomic processes in warm dense matter created by XFEL photons” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Dirk Gericke (Warwick) |
“Electron-Ion Temperature Equilibration in Dense Matter” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Sven Toleikis (DESY) |
“Ultrafast Non-equilibrium Collective Dynamic in Warm Dense Hydrogen” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Tadashi Ogitsu (LLNL) |
“Temporal Behavior of Warm Dense Matter: Quasi-Steady State versus Thermal Melting in Metal Nanofoils” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch |
Dining Hall * |
| Subject: Measurements and calculations of WDM equations of state |
| 1:00-1:30 |
Marcus Knudson (Sandia) |
"Deep release measurements of shocked quartz and implications for WDM studies" |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Jianmin Yuan (NUDT) |
“Structure and transport of electrons, ions, and photons in warm dense matters: a quantum Langevin molecular dynamics approach” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Norimasa Ozaki (Osaka) |
“On the EOS of material relevant to planetary physics” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 2:30-3:00 |
David Hoarty (AWE) |
“Equation-of-State Studies in Warm Dense Matter Samples Heated by Laser Produced Proton Beams” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Break |
Chapel Meeting Room - Rear |
| 3:30-4:00 |
Katerina Falk (Oxford) |
“Combined X-ray Scattering and VISAR Measurements of Warm Dense Deuterium at OMEGA” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Martin French (Rostock) |
“Electrical Conductivity and Optical Properties of Warm Dense Water” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Thomas Mattsson (SNL) |
“Equation of State for Heavy Gases in the Warm Dense Matter Regime: Experiments on Sandia’s Z Accelerator and Density Functional Theory (DFT) Simulations” |
Chapel Meeting Room |
| 6:00 |
Working Dinner |
Seascape Room * |
| * Please note that meals marked with an asterisk are only available to conference participants who are registered guests at Asilomar Resort (or have paid the fee for the meal package upon registration) |
Abstract Submissions:
If you would like to submit an abstract for WDM2011, please send in PDF format to Jason Templer - JETempler@lbl.gov You will be notified if your abstract is selected as a talk or a poster.
