FSC Agenda

FSC Agenda

11th Meeting FSC for Extreme States of Matter

Event Information

Friday October 21, 2011

Welcome

  • 8:45 - 9:00
  • R. Freeman (OSU)

Overview of the Fusion Science Center

  • 9:00 - 9:15
  • Betti (UR)

Shock Ignition

Laser‐plasma interaction experiments for shock‐ignition

  • 9:15 ‐ 9:35
  • W. Theobald (UR)

Strong shock generation in planar geometry

  • 9:35 ‐ 9:55 
  • M. Hohenberger (UR)

Kinetic simulations of shock ignition scenarios

  • 9:55 ‐ 10:15
  • M. Tzoufras (UCLA)

Discussion on shock ignition

  • 10:15 ‐ 10:35
  • (R. Betti)

Coffee break

  • 10:35 ‐ 10:45

Fast Ignition

Electron source and transport in solid target experiments on Titan and EP

  • 10:45 ‐ 11:15
  • M. Wei (GA)/ R. Stephens (GA)

Simulations of electron divergence with LSP

  • 11:15 ‐ 11:35
  • D. Schumacher (OSU)

Measurements of fast electron temperature

  • 11:35 ‐ 11:55
  • J. Davies (UR)

Discussion on fast ignition experiments

  • 11:55 ‐ 12:15
  • (Freeman and Beg)

Lunch

  • 12:15 ‐ 1:30
  • [Box lunches provided]

Tour of SCARLET

  • 1:30 ‐ 2:45
  • (and coffee break)

Basic HED Science

Nuclear cross section measurements using OMEGA

  • 2:45 ‐ 3:05
  • C. Li and R. Petrasso (MIT)

PIC Simulations

Hybrid simulations of fast electron generation and transport with OSIRIS

  • 3:05 ‐ 3:25
  • W. Mori and J. Tonge (UCLA)

PIC simulations of fast electron generation in cones

  • 3:25 ‐ 3:45
  • C. Ren (UR)

PCLS simulations of cone‐guided fast ignition

  • 3:45 ‐ 4:05
  • Y. Sentoku (UNR)

Simulations of electron source and transport with PICLS

  • 4:05 ‐ 4:25
  • R. Mishra (UCSD)

Discussion on fast ignition simulations and electron divergence

  • 4:25 ‐ 5:05

Saturday October 22, 2011

Fast Ignition Integrated Experiments and Point Design

Fast Ignition Integrated Experiments on OMEGA

  • 8:30 ‐ 8:50
  • L. Jarrott (UCSD) / W. Theobald (LLE) / M. Wei

Electron transport in well‐characterized shocked foam targets on EP

  • 8:50 - 9:10
  • H. Sawada (UCSD)

Ignition electron source and consequence for ignition energy

  • 9:10 - 9:30
  • P. Patel (LLNL)

Mitigation strategies to reduce ignition energy

  • 9:30 - 9:50
  • M. Key (LLNL)

Discussion on integrated fast ignition experiments and point design

  • 9:50 ‐ 10:15
  • (Patel and Key)

FSC support to the National Ignition Campaign

  • 10:15 ‐ 10:35
  • C. Li / R. Petrasso (MIT)

Coffee Break

  • 10:35 - 10:50

Poster Session Lunch

  • 10:50 - 12:00
  • [Box lunches provided] (OSU)

Adjourn