Salamanca, 22-24 March 2017

 WEDNESDAY222ND

12:30 – 13:30

Welcome Cocktail & Registration
13:30 – 13:45 Opening Session: Juan M. Corchado (USAL Vice Chancellor for Reasearch & Transfer; Luis Roso (CLPU Director) & Luca Volpe (USAL/CLPU Director Chair)
SESSION 1 HYDRODYNAMICS, FUSION & LPI
13:45 – 14:20 Warren Garbett (AWE): Capsule Implosion experiments on Orion [INV]
14:20 – 14:55 Stephano Atzenit (Univ. Rome): Hydrodynamic studies of shock ignition targets[INV]
14:55 – 15:20 Sean Regan (Univ. Rochester LLE): The National Direct-Drive Program: OMEGA to the NIF
15:20 – 15:45 Robbie Scott (STFC-RAL): Ultra high-mode mix in NIF indirect drive implosions
15:45 – 16:10 Coffee Break / Poster Time
16:10 – 16:45 Hideo Nagatomo (ILE-Osaka Univ.): Simulation study of magnetic-field-assisted fast ignition for FIREX [INV]
16:45 – 17:10 Rafael Ramis (Univ. Polit. Madrid): 3D simulations of thin shell capsule implosions
17:10 – 17:35 Jiri Limpouch (Czech Technical Univ.): Fluid simulations of laser interactions with low-density foams
17:35 – 18:00 Arnaud Debayle (CEA-DAM-DIF): Crossed-beam energy transfer: analytical and numerical studies of the linear regime including the transient effect

 

 THURSDAY 23RD 


SESSION 2 PARTICLE ACCELERATION & ALTERNATIVE FUSION SCHEMES (1)
08:30 – 09:05 Masakatsu Murakami (ILE-Osaka Univ.): Efficient proton acceleration by long pulse laser –
Theory & Experiment
[INV]
09:05 – 09:40 Kunioki Mima (The GRaduate School for the Creation of New Photonics Industries): Efficient ion acceleration by kJ petawatt LFEX laser [INV]
09:40 – 10:05 Javier Honrubia (Univ. Polit. Madrid): Proton generation and transport in hollow cones for fast ignition of fusion targets
10:05 – 10:30 Dominic Hill (Imperial College London): Modelling of kinetic magnetized transport effects in ablating laser-produced plasmas
10:30 – 10:55 Poster Session
10:55 – 11:20 Coffee Break / Poster Time
11:20 – 11:45 Milan Holec (ELI-Beamlines): Plasma Euler and TRansport Equations nonlocal hydro code PETE: Simulations of high-power laser interaction with plasmas.
11:45 – 12:20 Gabriel Cristoforetti (Pisa Nat. Inst. of Optics):Experimental Investigation on parametric instabilities in shock ignition regime at PALS [INV]
12:20 – 12:45 Joao J. Santos (CELIA-Univ. Bordeaux): Towards a universal benchmarked Stark-Zeeman code for spectroscopic diagnostics and for integration in trasport codes
12:45 – 13:10 Kazuki Matsuo (ILE-Osaka Univ): Temporal evolution of implosion core in strong magnetic field
13:10 – 13:30 Bus to USAL Science Park
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch in M3 USAL Science Park
14:30 – 15:00 Giancarlo Gatti (CLPU): VEGA Presentation
15:00 – 16:00 Visit VEGA
16:00 – 16:25 Coffee Break
16:25 – 18:00 Round Table
18:00 – 18:20 Bus to Salamanca (Fonseca)

 

 FRIDAY 24TH 


SESSION 3 PARTICLE ACCELERATION & ALTERNATIVE FUSION SCHEMES (2)
08:30 – 09:05 Sergey Gus’kov (P.N. Lebedev Physical Inst. of Russian Academy of Sciences): Neutronless  Nuclear Reaction at Inertial Confinement of the Magnetized Plasma of Laser-Accelerated photons and Boron Nuclei [INV]
09:05 – 09:40 Fernando G. Rubio (Univ. Polit. Madrid): Compression of a magnetized plasma in a MagLIF context [INV]
09:40 – 10:15 Michael Rosemberg (Univ. Rochester LLE): Planar Laser-Plasma interaction experiments at Direct-Drive-Ignition-Relevant Scale lengths at the NIF [INV]
10:15 – 10:40 Andrea Sgattoni (LULI-LESIA): 3-wave electrostatic coupling and electromagnetic emission in hot plasmas
10:40 – 11:05 Vladimir Tikhonchuk (CELIA-Univ. Bordeaux): Quasi-stationary magnetic fields generation with capacitor-coil targets
11:05 – 11:30 Coffee Break / Poster Time
SESSION 4
ENERGY TRANSPORT IN FUSION PLASMA
11:30 – 11:55 Witold Cayzac (CEA-DAM-DIF): Measurements of ion stopping near the Bragg peak in laser-generated plasmas
11:55 – 12:20 Mauro Temporal (Centre de Mathèmatiques-ENS Cachan & CNRS): Effects of alpha stopping power modelling on the ignition threshols ina directly-driven Inertial Confinement Fusion capsule
12:20 – 12:45 Darío del Sorbo (Univ. York): Benchmark of nonlocal transport models with Vlasov-Fokker-Planck codes
12:45 – 13:10 David Casas (Univ. Castilla La-Mancha):Studies on WDM created by laser-accelerated protons in compound targets
13:10 – 13:35 Piotr Raczka (Inst. of Plasma Physics & Laser Microfusion -Warsaw-):Contribution to the ion stopping from the partially degenerate electron plasma