Omega Laser Facility Users Group 2012 Workshop
The Fourth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop, held 25–27 April 2012, attracted over 100 researchers from 19 universities, 18 centers and laboratories, and 9 foreign countries. The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate a continuing dialog among the individual users and between the users and the LLE management. Twenty Findings and Recommendations—past, present and future—for improving the Omega Facility were widely discussed. Important advances on the implementation of previous Recommendations were detailed, and the Users are most grateful for the responsiveness of the LLE management in implementing our Recommendations. Thanks!
One highlight of the workshop was the 75 contributed posters, of which 50 were given by students and postdocs. Their contributions were invaluable and generated lively and spirited discussions! Importantly, 42 students and postdocs received financial travel assistance through a grant from NNSA, gratefully acknowledged, to attend OLUG 2012. Another workshop highlight was the student–postdoc-led Town meeting. There, many critical issues were aired and discussed, and they often focused on infrastructure and transparency issues that could, without great cost, positively and significantly impact the research of young and older researchers alike. Thank you for these recommendations, which will become part of our the Findings and Recommendations for OLUG 2012.
Wednesday, 25 April 2012 | ||
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7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00 AM – 8:10 AM | Introductory Remarks and Workshop Objectives | R. Petrasso |
8:10 AM – 8:20 AM | Welcome from the Laboratory Director and Vice President | R. McCrory |
8:20 AM – 8:30 AM | Welcome from University of Rochester Provost | R. Kuncl |
Session Chair, R. Mancini | ||
8:30 AM – 9:20 AM | Understanding the Critical Steps to Ignition | R. Betti |
9:20 AM – 10:10 AM | Scientific Advances and Challenges on NIC | N. Landen |
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
Session Chair, C-K. Li | ||
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM | X-ray Thomson Scattering: Incisive Probe for Warm, Dense Matter | S. Regan |
11:15 AM – 12:00 AM | Shots, shots, and more shots on OMEGA Allows Diagnostics and Targets Development, Opening new Areas of Science | J. Kilkenny |
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Workshop Pictures | |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch/OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours | |
Session Chair, H. Chen | ||
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Poster Session I: HED Science | |
Session Chair, T. Ma | ||
3:30 PM – 5:45 PM | Poster Session II: HED Science |
Thursday, 26 April 2012 | ||
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7:00 AM – 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00 AM – 8:05 AM | Announcements | R. Petrasso |
Session Chair, M. Koepke | ||
8:05 AM – 8:45 AM | ICF Gamma Spectroscopy: New Window to Plasma Nuclear Science | H. Herrmann |
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | OMEGA Facility Update: Progress on OLUG Recommendations | S. F. B. Morse |
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Target Basics | B. Blue |
Session Chair, J. Cobble | ||
10:00 PM – 12:30 PM | Poster Session III: Facility and HED Science | |
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch/OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours | |
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Student-postdoc panel/Town meeting | Tammy Ma (chair) and panelists |
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM | Coffee Break | |
Session Chair, P. Norreys | ||
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM | Presentation/Discussion of User Findings and Recommendations< | |
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM | Discussion of other Findings and Recommendations raised by Attendees | |
7:00 PM – 10:30 PM | Banquet at Meliora |
Friday, 27 April 2012 | ||
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7:15 AM – 8:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
8:00 AM – 8:05 AM | Announcements | |
Session chair, R. Mancini | ||
8:05 AM – 8:15 AM | ICF Program FY 2013 and Beyond | L. Buitano |
8:15 AM – 8:25 AM | Step-by-Step High Energy Density Laboratory Plasma Program in the Office of Science | A. Satsangi |
8:25 AM – 8:35 AM | Advisor to Under Secretary for Science and Inertial Fusion and National Security Remarks | D. Crandall |
8:35 AM – 10:45 AM | Discussion of Findings and Recommendations with the LLE Management | |
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
Session Chair, J. Frenje | ||
10:55 AM – 1:00 PM | Overview of HED Science at LLNL, LANL, SNL, and LLE | |
10:55 AM – 11:00 AM | Jupiter Users Group | C. Kuranz |
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Overview of HED Science at LLNL | N. Landen |
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | High Energy Density Physics Experiments at Los Alamos | H. Herrmann |
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM | High Energy Density Physics Research at Sandia National Laboratories | R. Leeper |
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM | LLE | C. Sangster |
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Lunch, OMEGA/OMEGA EP tours, and Omega Users Executive Session |
For capturing the spirited ambiance of the workshop through the lens, we thank Eugene Kowaluk.
The OLUG Executive Committee would also like to acknowledge and thank Irina Cashen, Sarah Frasier, Kathie Freson, Jenny Hamson, Karen Kiselycznyk, Katie Leyrer, Jody Mayer, Lisa Stanzel, Jean Steve, and Jennifer Taylor for their extraordinary assistance with the 2009 Workshop.
(with the exception of the first few photos, all are arranged in nearly the chronological order of the workshop)