Omega Laser Facility Users Group 2017 Workshop
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The Ninth Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop, held 26–28 April 2017, attracted 110 researchers from around the world. The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate a continuing dialog among the individual users and between the users and LLE. Most of the 76 contributed posters were given by students and postdocs in attendance.
Agenda
| Wednesday, 26 April 2017 | ||
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| 7:30 AM | Registration Begins–East entrance (entrance with the rounded glass front) of LLE | |
| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 AM – 8:40 AM | Workshop Opening and Announcements | R. Mancini |
| 8:40 AM – 8:45 AM | Welcoming Remarks | R. L. McCrory |
| Session Chair, P. Norreys | ||
| 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM | Dynamic Compression of Planetary Materials at Omega and EP | T. Duffy |
| 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM | Systematic Fuel Cavity Asymmetries in Directly Driven ICF Implosions | R. Shah |
| 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Break | |
| Session Chair, A. Casner | ||
| 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | NNSA Perspective | N. Frazier |
| 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | OLUG Election Results | M. Koepke |
| 11:00 AM – 11:45 PM | Fast-Electron Transport in Warm and Hot Dense Plasmas | F. Beg |
| 11:45 PM – 12:00 PM | Pictures: All attendees, then student/postdocs | |
| 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch (box lunches) OMEGA and OMEGA EP Tours | |
| Poster Sessions | ||
| 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM | Poster Session I: HED Science | |
| 3:45 PM – 5:45 PM | Poster Session II: HED Science< | |
| 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Tutorial: X-ray Imaging at OMEGA | C. Sorce |
| Thursday, 27 April 2017 | ||
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| 7:30 AM – 8:30 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| Session Chair, K. Flippo | ||
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | Omega Laser Facility OLUG 2017 Update: Progress on Recommendations and Items of General Interest | S. Morse |
| Poster Sessions | ||
| 9:15 PM – 11:15 AM | Poster Session III: Facility and HED Science | |
| 11:15 PM – 12:15 PM | Research and Career Opportunities at the National Labs and LLE | |
| 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM | Lunch (box lunches) and roundtable discussion with National lab and LLE Scientists | |
| Session Chair, A. Zylstra | ||
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | Students and Postdocs Town Meeting and Recommendations | |
| Session Chairs, J. Frenje and M. Wei | ||
| 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Discussions of Findings and Recommendations of the Users Breakout Sessions for Focused F and R |
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| 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM | Discussions of Findings and Recommendations of the Users Breakout Sessions for Focused F and R |
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| 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Banquet and No Host Reception | Delmonico’s Italian Steakhouse |
| Friday, 28 April 2017 | ||
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| 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM | Continental Breakfast | |
| Session Chair, M. Koepke | ||
| 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM | Using Multi-Hohlraum Arrays for Studying the Pillars of Creation | D. Martinez |
| 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM | Poster Awards to Graduate Students and Postdocs | M. Gatu-Johnson and C. Sangster |
| Session Chairs, J. Frenje and M. Wei | ||
| 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM | Discussion of Findings and Recommendations with LLE Management | |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 AM | Extended/Informal Discussions Between Students and Postdocs and National Lab and LLE Scientists | |
| 12:00 AM – 1:00 AM | Lunch (box lunches) | |
| 1:00 PM | Workshop adjourns | |
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