HEDLA2012 booklet - 9th International Conference on High Energy ...

The <strong>9th</strong> <strong>International</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, April 30 - May 4, 2012
Day 2 15
Session 2A1: Supernovae I. SNe, SNRs, GRBs, exploding systems 15
15 Supernovae: the gift that keeps on giving
Robert P. Kirshner
16 Designs and implementation plan for highly nonlinear ablative Rayleigh-Taylor Instability experiments on the
National Ignition Facility
A. Casner, V. Smalyuk, L. Masse, I. Igumenshchev, A. Moore, B. Remington, S. Liberatore, H.S Park, L.Jacquet,
F. Girard, D. Bradley, O.Poujade, S. Sarkar, D. Galmiche, J-P. Jadaud, P. Loiseau, L. Videau
17 Laboratory basic science, hydrodynamic growth experiments on OMEGA
V. A. Smalyuk
18 Unlocking the secrets of supernovae through their spectra
D. John Hillier, Luc Dessart, Chendong Li
Session 2A2: Solar and Stellar Physics I. Evolution, structure, opacities, radiative transfer, white dwarfs, neutron
stars 19
19 The physics of reaction rates in stellar environments
Michael Wiescher
20 Strange matter in neutron stars and core-collapse supernovae
I. Sagert, T. Fischer, M. Hempel, G. Pagliara, J. Schaffner-Bielich, F.-K. Thielemann, M. Liebendoerfer
22 ZAPP: The Z Astrophysical Plasma Properties collaboration
J.E. Bailey, C. Ball, C. Blancard, A.L. Carlson, D. Cohen, Ph. Cosse, G. Dunham, T. Durmaz, J.L. Ellis, R.E.
Falcon, G. Faussurier, F. Gilleron, I. Golovkin, M.R. Gomez, I. Hall, S.B. Hansen, C.A. Iglesias, M. Kernahan,
P.W. Lake, D. Liedahl, T. Lockard, G. Loisel, J. MacArthur, J.J. MacFarlane, R.C. Mancini, D. Mayes, M.H.
Montgomery, S.N. Nahar, T. Nagayama, T.J. Nash, D.S. Nielsen, J.C. Pain, M. Pinsonneault, A.K. Pradhan, G.A.
Rochau, M. Sherrill, D.E. Winget
24 An experimental platform for creating white dwarf photospheres in the laboratory
Ross E. Falcon, G. A. Rochau, J. E. Bailey, J. L. Ellis, A. L. Carlson, T. A. Gomez, M. H. Montgomery, D. E.
Winget, M. R. Gomez, T. J. Nash
25 Observations of anomalous plasmoid ejection, plasma jets and electron diffusion regions of magnetic reconnections
in laser-plasma experiments
Quan-Li Dong, Shou-Jun Wang, Da-Wei Yuan, Xun Liu, Yu-Tong Li, Xiao-Xuan Lin, Hui-Gang Wei, Jia-Yong
Zhong, Jian-Rong Shi, Bo-Bin Jiang, Kai Du, Yong-Jian Tang, Neng Hua, Zhan-Feng Qiao, Kui-Xi Huang, Ming
Chen, Jian-Qiang Zhu, Gang Zhao, Zheng-Ming Sheng, and Jie Zhang
Session 2P1: Computing I. Astrophysical simulations, design of experiments, validation studies 27
27 Challenges of modeling astrophysical MHD
James M. Stone
28 Full-scale modeling of Weibel mediated collisionless shocks in laboratory scenarios
F. Fiuza, R. A. Fonseca, J. Tonge, W. B. Mori, L. O. Silva
29 Collaborative comparison of high-energy-density physics codes
Bruce Fryxell, Milad Fatenejad, Eric Myra, Chris Fryer, John Wohlbier, Don Lamb, Carlo Grazianni
30 Computer experiments for supersonic turbulent flows in high-energy density plasmas
Timothy A. Handy, Tomasz Plewa, R. Paul Drake, Frank Modica, Andrey V. Zhiglo
31 A relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code based on upwind scheme
Hanbyul Jang, Dongsu Ryu
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