OLUG 2009 Workshop, Agenda

Omega Laser Facility Users Group 2009 Workshop > Agenda
29 April to 1 May 2009

Wednesday, 29 April 2009
7:15	Registration (East entrance to LLE)
7:45-8:30	Continental breakfast
	General Session: Seminar Room
8:30-8:35	Welcome	Robert L. McCrory, Jr.
8:35-8:45	Workshop objectives, agenda, working groups, announcements	Richard Petrasso
8:45-9:15	OMEGA/OMEGA EP Facility: Status and Performance	Sam Morse
9:15-9:45	Engineering Support and Qualification Process for Interfacing New Experiments	Greg Pien
9:45-10:15	Diagnostics Status for OMEGA/OMEGA EP	Craig Sangster
10:15-10:30	Break
10:30-11:00	Status of OMEGA EP, an Experimentalist's perspective	Christian Stoeckl
11:00-11:30	Status of integrated Fast- and Shock-Ignition Experiments on OMEGA/OMEGA EP	Wolfgang Theobald
11:30-12:00	Laboratory Astrophysics at OMEGA/OMEGA EP	Paul Drake
12:00-12:30	Materials under extreme conditions at OMEGA, OMEGA EP, and the NIF	Rip Collins
12:30-12:40	Entire Workshop Photo; Student-Postdoc photo
12:40-1:30	Lunch....box lunches; OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours
1:30-3:45	First Poster Session: Posters 1–18
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-6:15	Second Poster Session: Posters 1–18

Thursday, 30 April 2009
7:45-8:30	Continental breakfast
8:30-9:00	Laser Properties: Pulse shaping, pulse duration(s), phase plates...	Keith Thorp
9:00-9:30	Targets	David Harding, Mark Bonino, Brian Vermillion
9:30-10:00	The Role of Simulation on Design and Analysis of OMEGA Experiments	Roberto Mancini
10:00-10:30	Basic Science Connections between OMEGA/OMEGA EP and HiPER Risk Reduction	Peter Norreys
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:55	Student/postdoc/new-user Forum Testament of issues, experiences, recommendations for the Workshop and Workshop Report (to continue this discussion during the working groups)
11:55-12:00	Discussion of working groups/goals/charge
12:00-1:00	Lunch; tour of OMEGA and OMEGA EP
	Working Group 1:(Seminar Room ) ICF, Fast and Advanced ignition, Diagnostics	Expeditors: R. Mancini, P. Norreys, J. Knauer
	Working Group 2:(Coliseum ) Materials, Shocks, Warm-Dense-Matter, X-ray Generation, LabAstro,	Expeditors: P. Drake, J. Cobble, M. Schneider, H. Baldis
1:00-3:30	Working Group Sessions I and II
1:00-2:30	Contributed Oral presentations
3:30-3:45	Break
3:45-6:00	Working group session
7:00-10:30	No Host Reception and Dinner at the UR Faculty Club

Friday, 1 May 2009
7:45-8:30	Continental breakfast
	General Session: Seminar Room
8:30-9:30	Basic HED Science is Important to NNSA	Christopher Deeney
9:30-11:30	Executive session
11:30-12:00	Initial Presentation and discussion of workshop findings and recommendations to LLE Management and NNSA
12:30-2:00	Lunch and adieus.....Tours of OMEGA and OMEGA EP
2:00-2:30	OLUG Executive Council meeting; review report writing and schedule