Scientific program

The program of the HEDLA conference is available below. The poster session is on Monday, thus the titles and abstracts are available on the Monday tab. Check also this section for important information regarding the oral and poster presentations.


A PDF version of the HEDLA program can be downloaded here .


Monday, May 23rd

09:00 - 09:45
 
Registration
09:45 - 10:00
 
Welcome Session
Session: New Frontiers
Chairperson: Sergey Lebedev
10:00 - 10:30 A. Zylstra (LLNL)
Burning and ignited plasmas at the National Ignition Facility
10:30 - 10:55 B. A. Remington (LLNL)
Recent Advances in Relativistic Electron-Positron Pair Production Using High Power Lasers
10:55 - 11:20 M. Vranic (IST)
Creating and accelerating electron-positron beams with intense laser pulses
11:20 - 11:50
 
Break
Session: Accretion
Chairperson: Salvatore Orlando
11:50 - 12:05 F. Suzuki-Vidal (Imperial)
A laser-driven platform to study angular momentum transport in disk-jet transitions
12:05 - 12:30 L. Van Box Som (CEA)
Megajoule designs relevant to study radiative accretion shocks in magnetic accreting white dwarfs
12:30 - 12:55
 
Poster Flash Presentation (slides )
12:55 - 14:40
 
Lunch
Session: Laser-Plasma Interactions
Chairperson: Laurent Gremillet
14:40 - 14:55 J. J. Santos (U. Bordeaux)
Investigations of strongly magnetized HED plasmas via laser-driven magnetic flux compression
14:55 - 15:10 B. K. Russell (U. Michigan)
Extreme magnetic field generation in ultra-intense laser solid interactions
15:10 - 15:25 Y. Kuramitsu (Osaka U.)
Weibel instabilities with relativistic laser pulses
15:25 - 15:40 M. J.-E. Manuel (General Atomics)
Early-time Linear-saturation of the Ion-Weibel Instability in Counter-streaming Plasmas of CH, Al, and Cu
15:40 - 15:55 R. S. Dorst (UCLA)
High Repetition Rate Mapping of the Interaction Between a Laser Plasma and a Magnetized Background Plasma via Laser Induced Fluorescence
15:55 - 16:25
 
Break
Session: Warm Dense Matter
Chairperson: Alessandra Ravasio
16:25 - 16:50 M. Gatu Johnson (MIT)
Exploring Stellar Nucleosynthesis and Basic Nuclear Science using High Energy Density plasmas at OMEGA and the NIF
16:50 - 17:15 S. H. Glenzer (SLAC)
X-ray measurements of the equation of state of White Dwarf conditions
17:15 - 18:45
 
Poster Session and Reception
Poster Presentations
#01 W. Yao (E. Polytechnique)
Laboratory investigation of the interpenetration between two subcritical collisionless shocks
#02 A. Grassi (E. Polytechnique)
Simulations of particle acceleration in collisionless shocks for conditions relevant to NIF experiments
#03† D. R. Russell (Imperial)
Radiatively cooled shocks in jets at the MAGPIE pulsed-power facility
#04† K. Sakai (Osaka U.)
Local measurements of laser-driven electron-scale magnetic reconnection
#05 K. M. Schoeffler (IST)
Limits on the compression of magnetic islands in strongly radiative magnetic reconnection
#06 L. Gremillet (CEA)
Efficient photon-stimulated scattering of fast electrons in solar flares
#07 F. Cruz (IST)
Coherent emission from QED cascades in pulsar polar caps
#08† V. Tranchant (CEA)
New Class of Laboratory Astrophysics Experiments: Application to Radiative Accretion Processes Around Neutron Stars
#09 F. D. Cruz (IST)
Particle-in-cell simulations of laser-driven, ion-scale magnetospheres in laboratory plasmas
#10† H. Hasson (U. Rochester)
Experimental results from a pulsed-power platform to study accretion-driven astrophysical outflows
#11 R. Torres (IST)
General relativistic particle-in-cell simulations of compact neutron star magnetospheres
#12† E. Figueiredo (IST)
Kinetic models in neutron star charge starved vacuum gaps
#13† S. Antunes (IST)
Time resolved opacity maps of warm dense Ti: a Bayesian search of coupling parameters
#14 L. Hanna (E. Polytechnique)
Experimental stellar opacity and simulation
#15 T. Taguchi (Osaka U.)
Automation of Etch Pit Analyses on Solid-State Nuclear Track Detectors with Machine Learning
#16 S. Egashira (Osaka U.)
Multidimensional ion radiography with AI individually recognizing multicomponent n-particles on solid state nuclear track detectors
#17 Y. Benkadoum (E. Polytechnique)
Recent results of a laboratory astrophysics experiment performed to study Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities
#18† R. Babjak (IST)
Direct laser acceleration enhancement using plasma density modulations
#19† B. Martinez (IST)
Ultra-high-intensity lasers for channel acceleration of positrons
#20 C. Riconda (E. Polytechnique)
Plasma Injector and Electron Acceleration in a Wedge Diffracted High Intensity Laser Pulse
#21† W. Zhang (IST)
Strong-field QED features in the leptonic beam collision
#22† O. Amaro (IST)
Electron beam and photon distribution functions after a laser-electron scattering: analytical model accounting for 3D focusing geometry and non-ideal spatio-temporal synchronization
#23 S. Montefiori (MPIK)
SFQEDtoolkit: a high-performance library for the accurate modelling of strong-field QED effects in relativistic laboratory astrophysics codes
#24 M. Pardal (IST)
Breaking the Radiation Frequency Limit in PIC Codes
#25† P. J. Bilbao (IST)
Synchrotron cooling as a progenitor of kinetic instabilities and coherent radiation
#26 C. Badiali (IST)
An efficient implementation of Neural network models into particle-in-cell simulations for Compton scattering events
#27 C. Badiali (IST)
Prospect on the application of subluminal pulses as drivers for plasma-based acceleration of non-relativistic muons
#28 B. Malaca (IST)
Coherent light from plasma waves in density gradients
#29 B. K. Russell (U. Michigan)
Measuring extreme magnetic fields
#30 M. Moreira (IST)
Control of the self-modulation and long-bunch hosing instabilities with plasma frequency detuning
#31† D. Maslarova (Czech Academy)
Transient Relativistic Plasma Grating to Tailor High-Power Laser Fields, Wakefield Plasma Waves, and Electron Injection
#32 C. Willim (IST)
High-energetic proton bunches from double-layer target driven by Laguerre-Gaussian laser

† Presenters who decided to participate in the flash presentation. More details below or clicking here.

Tuesday, May 24th

09:00 - 09:30
 
Registration
Session: Shocks and Turbulence
Chairperson: Amir Levinson
09:30 - 10:00 D. Ryu (UNIST)
Outstanding issues of intracluster plasma for laboratory astrophysics
10:00 - 10:25 W. Yao (E. Polytechnique)
Laboratory evidence for proton energization by collisionless shock surfing
10:25 - 10:50 D. Caprioli (U. Chicago)
The Ubiquity of Diffusive Shock Acceleration
10:50 - 11:20
 
Break
Session: Shocks and Turbulence
Chairperson: Thomas Grismayer
11:20 - 11:35 A. Bohdan (DESY)
The electron foreshock at oblique SNR shocks
11:35 - 11:50 Y. Sakawa (Osaka U.)
Laser-driven collisionless electrostatic shock generation in a multicomponent-ion plasma
11:50 - 12:15 B. Reville (MPIK)
Proton acceleration in laser driven turbulent plasmas - insights from astrophysics
12:15 - 12:40 A. Spitkovsky (Princeton)
Particle heating, injection, and acceleration in collisionless shocks: the role of nonlinearities
12:40 - 12:50
 
Group Picture
12:50 - 14:10
 
Lunch
Session: Shocks
Chairperson: Damiano Caprioli
14:10 - 14:25 M. Zakaria (CNRS)
Relaxation shocks in variable relativistic jets
14:25 - 14:40 P. J. Morris (DESY)
Pre-acceleration in the Electron Foreshock: Electron Acoustic Waves
14:40 - 14:55 S. V. Lebedev (Imperial)
A novel experimental framework for investigating colliding plasma flows with radiative cooling
14:55 - 15:10 Q. Moreno-Gelos (ELI-Beamlines)
Collision between Radiative and Adiabatic Supersonic Flows
15:10 - 15:25 J-H. Ha (UNIST)
Electron Preacceleration at Weak Quasi-Perpendicular Shocks in Merging Galaxy Clusters
15:25 - 15:55
 
Break
Session: New Frontiers
Chairperson: Marija Vranic
15:55 - 16:20 L. Gremillet (CEA)
Advances in the understanding of ultrarelativistic beam-plasma instabilities
16:20 - 16:45 A. Frank (U. Rochester)
The Dynamics of Colliding Radiative Jets: Experiments and Simulations
16:45 - 17:00 V. Horny (CEA)
Laboratory demonstration of rapid neutron captures: a quantitative feasibility study
17:00 - 17:15 S. Montefiori (MPIK)
SFQEDtoolkit: a high-performance library for the accurate modelling of strong-field QED effects in relativistic laboratory astrophysics codes
17:15 - 17:30 A. Reyes (U. Rochester)
The FLASH code for computational HEDP - recent additions and improvements
17:30 - 17:45 K. Fulat (U. Potsdam)
PIC simulations of SNR's shock waves with a turbulent upstream medium

Wednesday, May 25th

09:00 - 09:30
 
Registration
Session: Reconnection and Turbulence
Chairperson: Anatoly Spitkovsky
09:30 - 10:00 L. Willingale (U. Michigan)
Bow shock formation in a asymmetric relativistic electron driven magnetic reconnection geometry
10:00 - 10:25 E. Dal Pino (U. São Paulo)
Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Jets to Extreme Energies
10:25 - 10:50 G. Gregori (Oxford)
Transport of Charged Particles through Spatially Intermittent Turbulent Magnetic Fields
10:50 - 11:20
 
Break
Session: Warm Dense Matter, Astrophysics, and Astrophysical Plasmas
Chairperson: Luca Del Zanna
11:20 - 11:35 A. M. Angulo (U. Michigan)
Experiments to study KH evolution of filaments feeding starburst galaxies on Omega-EP
11:35 - 11:50 F. Soubiran (CEA)
Electrical conductivity and optical properties of hydrogen-helium mixtures in giant planet interiors
11:50 - 12:15 S. Orlando (INAF)
The Progenitor-Supernova-Remnant connection: recent progresses and future prospects
12:15 - 12:40 V. V-Villaseca (Imperial)
Characterization of quasi-Keplerian, Differentially Rotating, Free-Boundary Laboratory Plasmas
12:40 - 14:10
 
Lunch
Session: Laser-Plasma Interactions and Magnetic Field Generation
Chairperson: Bruce Remington
14:10 - 14:25 S. J. Tanaka (Aoyama Gakuin U.)
Experimental observation of induced Compton scattering in laser produced plasmas
14:25 - 14:40 C. Arran (U. York)
Measurement of magnetic dynamics driven by heat flow in a plasma
14:40 - 14:55 Z. Gong (MPIK)
Retrieving self-generated magnetic fields of ultrarelativistic laser plasma via ejected electron polarization
14:55 - 15:10 T. Minami (Osaka U.)
Laser ion acceleration with a large-area suspended graphene target from sub-relativistic to relativistic intensities
15:10 - 15:25 H. S. Kumar (Tohoku U.)
A Coupling Simulation Integrating Molecular Dynamics and Particle-in-Cell Methods for Accurate Intense Laser-Target Simulations
15:25 - 15:55
 
Break
Session: Shocks, Turbulence, Reconnection, and Warm Dense Matter
Chairperson: Dongsu Ryu
15:55 - 16:10 S. Totorica (Princeton)
Nonthermal electron and ion acceleration by magnetic reconnection in large laser-driven plasmas
16:10 - 16:25 B. A. Remington (LLNL)
Hydrodynamic instabilities, mixing, and turbulence in high energy density settings
16:25 - 16:40 M. Bohme (HZDR)
Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations of hydrogen snapshots at warm dense matter conditions
16:40 - 16:55 A. Vanthieghem (Princeton)
Microturbulence in relativistic blast waves
16:55 - 17:10 T. Dornheim (HZDR)
Electronic pair alignment and roton feature in the warm dense electron gas
19:00 - 20:00
 
Reception at the Geographical Society of Lisbon
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner at the Geographical Society of Lisbon
Banquet Speaker: Prof. Vitor Cardoso (IST and Niels Bohr Institute)

Thursday, May 26th

09:00 - 09:30
 
Registration
Session: Warm Dense Matter
Chairperson: Marta Fajardo
09:30 - 10:00 A. Ravasio (E. Polytechnique)
Electrical conductivity of warm dense silica from double-shock experiments
10:00 - 10:25 F. Coppari (LLNL)
Investigating planetary interior structure with laboratory laser-compression and X-ray diffraction experiments
10:25 - 10:50 J. Wicks (Johns Hopkins U.)
Direct measurements of temperature and phase transitions along the MgO shock Hugoniot
10:50 - 11:20
 
Break
Session: Warm Dense Matter and New Frontiers
Chairperson: Adam Frank
11:20 - 11:35 J. S. Wark (Oxford)
Creating Planetary Interior Conditions via Laser Ablation - A Perspective
11:35 - 11:50 Z. Moldabekov (HZDR)
Inhomogeneous electron gas under warm dense conditions
11:50 - 12:15 A. Araudo (Czech Academy)
Jets at all scales: from the non-thermal sky to the laboratory
12:15 - 12:40 M. Perucho (U. Valencia)
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Radio Jets
12:40 - 14:10
 
Lunch
14:10 - 18:15
 
Excursion / Free Afternoon

Friday, May 27th

09:00 - 09:30
 
Registration
Session: Shocks
Chairperson: Louise Willingale
09:30 - 10:00 F. Fiuza (SLAC)
Laboratory observation of electron acceleration in turbulent collisionless shocks
10:00 - 10:25 D. R. Russell (Imperial)
Perpendicular subcritical shock structure in a collisional plasma experiment
10:25 - 10:50 A. Levinson (Tel Aviv U.)
The role of plasma instabilities in relativistic radiation-mediated shocks
10:50 - 11:20
 
Break
Session: Reconnection
Chairperson: Luis Silva
11:20 - 11:35 L. G. Suttle (Imperial)
Drift velocity measurements and enhanced Thomson scattering in a magnetic reconnection current sheet
11:35 - 12:00 A. Ciardi (Paris Observatory)
Magnetized laser experiments to study astrophysical plasmas
12:00 - 12:25 L. Del Zanna (U. Florence)
Mean-field dynamo and fast reconnection mechanisms in relativistic astrophysical plasmas
12:25 - 12:50 D. B. Schaeffer (Princeton)
Fast Reconnection in Highly-Extended Current Sheets on the NIF
12:50 - 13:10
 
Closing and Ph.D. Prizes Announcement
Important information for oral and poster presentations
Oral presentations
  • Plenary/invited/contributed presentations will be 30/25/15 minutes long (discussion included), respectively.
  • There will be a computer available at the conference to display PDF presentations (Microsoft PowerPoint and Keynote will also be available, however note that file format/missing fonts conflicts may occur). Using a personal laptop is also possible (screening tests are advised, contact the LOC for more information at the conference).
  • The projector in the conference works best with a 16:9 format (i.e., using 4:3 slide format is discouraged).
Poster presentations
  • Posters should be printed in A0 format, portrait orientation.
  • Before the poster session, poster contributions may be introduced in a flash oral presentation. Those who wish to give a flash presentation about their work and did not fill the abstract submission accordingly should contact us at hedla@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.
  • The number tag at the end of the program above (on Monday) identifies the board on which the poster should be displayed.
  • Pins/tape will be available.
  • Posters should be put up by their owners on Monday (May 23rd), preferably before the afternoon sessions.
Flash presentations

People presenting posters at HEDLA will be able to deliver flash oral presentations to introduce their work. This is an excellent opportunity to bring attention to posters and increase their impact. Important information about the flash presentations:

  • Those who wish to give a flash presentation about their work and did not fill the abstract submission accordingly should contact us before May 19th at hedla@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.
  • Flash presentations will be 2 minutes long.
  • It will be possible for participants to project one slide (and one slide only) during the flash presentation. This slide should be sent to the conference organisation (hedla@tecnico.ulisboa.pt) in PDF format before May 21st.
  • The projector in the conference works best with a 16:9 format (i.e., using 4:3 slide format is discouraged).