HEDLA-2024: THE 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH ENERGY DENSITY LABORATORY ASTROPHYSICS
PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, May 19th Monday, May 20th Tuesday, May 21st Wednesday, May 22nd Thursday, May 23rd Friday, May 24th

Sunday, May 19th

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Monday, May 20th

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08:05-08:35 Session 4: Perspectives and Insights
08:05
The History and Value of HEDLA
08:20
HEDLA at the Extreme
08:35-10:00 Session 5: Materials at High Pressures I
Chair:
08:35
Light Elements at Mbar to Gbar Pressures (abstract)
08:55
Extreme Metastability of Diamond and Its Transformation to BC8 Post-Diamond Phase of Carbon (abstract)
09:15
Diamond Precipitation Dynamics from Hydrocarbons at Icy Planet Interior Conditions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mungo Frost
09:35
Material Properties of Saturn’S Interior from Ab Initio Simulations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Martin Preising
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Session 6: Supernovae, Hydrodynamic Instabilities, and Shocks
10:30
New Regimes of Frontier Science on the National Ignition Facility (abstract)
10:42
Thermonuclear Turbulent Combustion in Type Ia Supernovae (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tomasz Plewa
11:02
Creating Astrophysically Relevant Systems in the Laboratory in the High-Energy-Density Regime (abstract)
PRESENTER: Carolyn Kuranz
11:22
Impact of Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Evolution (abstract)
11:42
The Electron-Ion Temperature Ratio: from Newtonian to Relativistic Weakly Magnetized Shock Waves (abstract)
PRESENTER: Arno Vanthieghem
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:10 Session 7: Collisionless Shocks
13:30
Study of Astrophysical Collisionless Shocks in the Laboratory (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hye-Sook Park
13:50
From Microscale Physics to Astrophysical-Scale Effects: Using Experiments on Omega and the NIF to Unravel the Enduring Enigma of Astrophysical Collisionless Shocks (abstract)
14:10
Measuring Reflected Ions in the Upstream of a Magnetised, Collisionless Shock. (abstract)
PRESENTER: Eleanor Tubman
14:30
From Dimensional Analysis to Mapping Transformations: Scalability of Astrophysical Flows in Accretion-Explosion Environments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emeric Falize
14:42
The Compressible Turbulent Dynamo (abstract)
14:54
Quasi-Nonlinear Approach to the Weibel Instability in the Upstream Medium of a Collisionless GRB Shock (abstract)
15:10-15:40Coffee Break
15:40-17:20 Session 8: Fusion & Particle Acceleration
15:40
Thermonuclear Reactions Probed at Stellar Core Conditions with Laser-Based Inertial Confinement Fusion* (abstract)
16:00
Mutliple Diagnostics of Proton-Boron Fusion Reactions in High-Eneregy-Density Plasma (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shinsuke Fujioka
16:20
Energetic Proton Beam Heating of Targets Relevant to Proton Fast Ignition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Farhat Beg
16:40
Evolution of Relativistic Self-Focusing of Laser Pulses in near-Critical Density Plasmas (abstract)
16:52
Searching for Unruh Radiation in the Lab (abstract)
17:04
New Computational Method for Multigroup Radiative Hydrodynamics Using Artificial Intelligence: Analysis of Radiative Shock Structure (abstract)
Tuesday, May 21st

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08:05-09:30 Session 11: Atomic Physics at High Pressures
08:05
Observing the Onset of Pressure-Driven K-Shell Delocalization (abstract)
08:25
The Colliding Planar Shocks Platform to Study Warm Dense Matter and Laboratory Astrophysics at the National Ignition Facility (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mike MacDonald
08:45
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Warm Dense Matter Diagnostics (abstract)
09:05
Dense Plasma Line Shifts of Inner-Shell Transitions (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Bishel
09:30-10:00Coffee Break
10:00-11:45 Session 12: Magnetized Plasma and Experimental Platforms
10:00
The Jupiter Laser Facility: a Kilojoule-Class Laser for Producing and Exploring Extreme States of Matter (abstract)
10:20
Turbulence in Shock Interaction with Density Inhomogeneities and Foam Hugoniot Experiments on the Nike Laser Facility (abstract)
10:40
Laboratory Analogues of Astrophysical Coherent Electron Cyclotron Maser Processes (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pablo J. Bilbao
11:00
Experiments with Pulsed-Power Driven High Energy Density Magnetized Plasmas: Rotation, Turbulence and Shocks (abstract)
11:20
Developing X-Ray Sources for Plantary Defense Studies at Omega and NIF (abstract)
PRESENTER: Patrick Poole
11:32
X-Ray Driven Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments on MAGPIE Pulsed-Power Generator (abstract)
PRESENTER: Katherine Marrow
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:10 Session 13: Materials at High Pressures II
13:30
Structural Complexity in Ramp-Compressed Sodium to 480 GPa (abstract)
PRESENTER: Danae Polsin
13:50
Proton Superionicity and Double Superionicity in Planetary Ices (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kyla de Villa
14:10
Shock Compression of H-Rich Mixtures at Giant Planet Interior Conditions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Terry-Ann Suer
14:30
Anomalous Sound Speed in Warm Dense Matter (abstract)
14:50
Dynamic Structure Factor and Dielectric Properties of Warm Dense Hydrogen Form Linear-Response Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory (abstract)
15:10-15:40Coffee Break
15:40-17:30 Session 14: Poster Session
Location: Opal Room
FLASH Simulations of Biermann-Generated Magnetic Field in a Convergent System (abstract)
Laboratory Astrophysics Exploration of Early Universe Magnetogenesis via Biermann Battery (abstract)
The CIRENE Project : Modeling Internal Novæ Ejectas Radiative Shocks in the Laboratory. (abstract)
Preparatory Simulations with FLASH of a Laboratory Astrophysics Experiment on the NIF Laser-Facility (abstract)
Effects of Mosaic Crystal Instrument Functions on X-Ray Thomson Scattering Diagnostics (abstract)
Extending Sub-Nanosecond Optical Pyrometry Temperature Measurement to <4000 K (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xuchen Gong
Rotating Plasma Outflows with Tunable Magnetic Fields Resembling YSO (abstract)
Solar Opacity Motivated AutoEdge Xray Opacity Measurement, X-Ray Database Revision, and Validation by RBS Method (abstract)
Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of the Photoionized Expanding Foil Experiment on Z (POSTER PRESENTATION) (abstract)
Electrical Conductivity of Warm Dense Nickel Studied by Single-Shot Terahertz Spectroscopy (abstract)
Comparison Between Induced Compton Scattering Experiments and Particle-in-Cell Simulation (abstract)
High Neutron Flux, High Deuteron and Neutron Yields from the Interaction of a Petawatt Laser with a Cryogenic Deuterium Jet (abstract)
Creating Neutron Star Envelope Conditions Using the Omega-60 Laser (abstract)
Dynamics and Stability of Magnetically Driven High Energy Density Plasma Jets on the 1-MA COBRA Generator (abstract)
Radiative Cooling Effects in X-Ray Driven Plasma Jets from Wedge Targets (abstract)
Numerical Simulations of Laser-Driven Experiments of Ion Acceleration in Stochastic Magnetic Fields (abstract)
Hall-MHD in Driven Turbulence FLASH Simulations (abstract)
Towards THz Time Domain Spectroscopy on the Omega Laser Facility (abstract)
Modelling Electron Deflectometry Measurements of Magnetic Fields in Ultrahigh-Intensity, Femtosecond Laser-Foil Interactions (abstract)
New Computational Method for Multigroup Radiative Hydrodynamics Using Artificial Intelligence: Optimisation of the Eddington Factor Calculation (abstract)
Strong B-Fields Observed in Ion-Weibel Filamented Counter-Streaming Laser-Driven Plasma (abstract)
Overview of the Double Cylinder Platform for NIF and Design Efforts (abstract)
Fabrication of Thick Oxide and Metal Foils for Solar Opacity Motivated High Energy Density Experiments (abstract)
Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Iron Alloys Under Planetary Core Conditions at the OMEGA Laser Facility (abstract)
Electron-Ion Equilibration Rates in Warm Dense Metals (abstract)
Optimization of Ion Acceleration by Irradiating Large-Area Suspended Graphene with an Intense Laser (abstract)
A Study Using Flash to Evaluate a Collisionless Shock Experiment on Z (abstract)
X-Ray Imaging and Electron Temperature Evolution in Laser-Driven Magnetic Reconnection Experiments at the NIF (abstract)
Transfer Learning Approaches for Analyzing Two-Dimensional Thomson Scattering Spectra from Laser-Produced Plasmas (abstract)
Simulation Study of Energy Partition and Particle Injection in Magnetized Collisionless Shocks (abstract)
Characterizing a Cu X-Ray Source for Photoionization Front Experiments (abstract)
FLASH Simulations of Laser-Driven Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments to Study Jets in Common-Envelope Evolution of Binary Stars (abstract)
Wednesday, May 22nd

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08:05-09:40 Session 17: Jets
08:05
Webb Telescope Images and Spectral Data Cubes of Irradiated Interfaces in the Orion Nebula and Shock Waves in Stellar Jets (abstract)
08:25
Evidence of Suppressed Beam-Plasma Instabilities in a Laboratory Analogue of Blazar-Induced Pair Jets (abstract)
PRESENTER: P. J. Bilbao
08:45
Exploring Astrophysical Relevant Plasma Jets on High-Energy-Density Laser Facilities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chikang Li
09:05
A Platform for Studies of Radiative Plasma Jets in the Presence of Magnetic Fields at OMEGA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gabriel Rigon
09:25
Experimental and Numerical Studies of Compressions of Dense Clouds Induced by Herbig-Haro Stellar Jets (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marin Fontaine
09:40-10:10Coffee Break
10:10-11:40 Session 18: High Power Lasers
Chair:
10:10
Generation of Faster Magnetized Shocks to Investigate Drift-Shock Particle Acceleration in the Laboratory (abstract)
10:30
Prospects for Laboratory Astrophysics at Multi-Petawatt Laser Facilities (abstract)
10:50
Numerical Analysis of the Evolution of Kelvin Helmholtz Instabilities and Vortices Generation Associated with Collisionless Shock Experiments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Akira Mizuta
11:10
Particle Acceleration in 3D Simulations of Quasi-Perpendicular Shocks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Luca Orusa
11:22
PIC Simulations of Expanding HED Plasmas with Laser Ray Tracing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kirill Lezhnin
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
15:00-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:00 Session 20: High Power Laser Experiments and Turbulence
15:30
Dynamics of Plasma Formation and Highly Charged Au Ion Acceleration Driven by High-Intensity, High-Contrast Laser Pulse (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mamiko Nishiuchi
15:50
Relativistic Electron Radiography of Laser Driven Foils (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gerrit Bruhaug
16:10
Study on Energy Transport in Laser-Irradiated Nanowire Arrays for Creating Ultra-High Energy Density States with X-Ray Free Electron Laser, SACLA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daisuke Tanaka
16:22
Plasma Structure and Magnetic Field Measurements with Scattered Intense Laser Beam (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kentaro Sakai
16:34
NIF Experiments on the Driving Parameter of Shock-Forced Turbulence for Star Formation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Seth Davidovits
19:45-20:30 Session 21: Banquet Dinner Speech

banquet talk

19:45
ICF, Rampant Instabilities at >500 Gbar, and yet It Burns
Thursday, May 23rd

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08:05-09:40 Session 24: MHD Instabilities and Reconnection
08:05
Study of Electron Acceleration and Ion Acoustic Waves During Low-Beta Magnetic Reconnection Using Laser-Powered Capacitor Coils (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hantao Ji
08:25
Experimental Evidence of Plasmoids in High-β Magnetic Reconnection (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jacob Pearcy
08:45
Magnetic Reconnections Driven by Electron Dynamics in the Presence of a Weak External Magnetic Field (abstract)
09:05
Progress Towards Laboratory Modelling of Magnetized Accretion Disks and Plasma Jets Using Intense Laser and Pulsed-Power Generators (abstract)
09:25
Magnetic Amplification by the Weibel Instability in Weakly Magnetized Astrophysical Shocks and Laboratory Laser Experiments (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taiki Jikei
09:40-10:10Coffee Break
10:10-11:50 Session 25: Turbulence and Magnetized Shocks
Chair:
10:10
Laboratory Evidence of Fluctuation Dynamo in Supersonic Turbulence (abstract)
10:30
‘Dynamo Interrupted at Its Action’: Decaying Magnetic Fields in Turbulent Laser-Plasmas (abstract)
PRESENTER: Archie Bott
10:50
Magnetized Collisionless Shocks on HED Facilities (abstract)
PRESENTER: Derek Schaeffer
11:10
Laboratory Insights into Shock-Driven Turbulent Mixing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yuyao Wang
11:22
Particle Acceleration and Ion-Electron Energy Exchange in Quasi-Parallel Magnetized Collisionless Shocks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yu Zhang
11:34
Design of Experiments on the Orion Laser to Measure Thermal Transport in High-β, Weakly Collisional Plasma (abstract)
PRESENTER: Thomas Vincent
12:00-13:30Lunch Break
13:30-15:15 Session 26: Opacity & Radiation
Chair:
13:30
Radiation Burn-Through Measurements to Infer Opacity at Conditions Close to the Solar Radiative Zone - Convective Zone Boundary. (abstract)
PRESENTER: David Hoarty
13:50
Time-Resolved Spectroscopy to Advance Stellar Opacity Efforts on Z (abstract)
14:10
Progress in Understanding Stellar Interior Opacity with Laboratory Experiments at Z (abstract)
PRESENTER: James Bailey
14:22
The Challenge of Producing Laboratory Photoionized Plasmas in Steady State (abstract)
PRESENTER: Roberto Mancini
14:42
Laboratory Generated Photoionization Fronts Relevant to Astrophysics (abstract)
15:02
Studying Radiation Effects in Shocks and the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability with FLASH (abstract)
PRESENTER: Victor Tranchant
15:15-15:45Coffee Break
15:45-17:05 Session 27: Materials at High Pressures III
Chair:
15:45
High-Pressure Phase Transformations in Ramp-Compressed SiO2 (abstract)
16:05
Phase Diagram Models of Matter and the Kinetics of Phase Transitions at Extreme Conditions (abstract)
16:25
High Pressure Phase Diagram of Silicon (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xuchen Gong
16:45
Multi-Messenger Measurements of the Static Structure of Shock-Compressed Liquid Silicon at 100 GPa (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hannah Poole
Friday, May 24th

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08:05-09:35 Session 30: Hydrodynamic Instabilities
08:05
Laboratory Investigations of Magnetized Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on NIF and OMEGA (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hong Sio
08:25
Investigating Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities at High Energy Densities on the Z Machine (abstract)
PRESENTER: Forrest W. Doss
08:37
Scaling of Vortex Rings Ejected from Shocked Interfaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: Michael Wadas
08:57
Scaling of Shock-Driven Flows over Two Orders of Magnitude in Length Scales Between Shock Tube and NIF Environments (abstract)
09:17
First Observations of Distinct RM Growth Scenarios for Successively Shocked Interfaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: E. C. Merritt
09:35-10:05Coffee Break