Workshop on Plasma Physics with Intense Ion and Laser Beams

from Friday, 21 November 2008 (08:45) to Saturday, 22 November 2008 (18:00)
GSI (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Nov 2008
22 Nov 2008
AM
08:45
Welcome addresses (until 09:00) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall)
08:45 Welcome by the Director of the ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI - P. Braun-Munzinger (GSI, EMMI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall)
08:50 Introductory remarks to the workshop by the Director of the Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow - V. Fortov (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall)
09:00
PHELIX and its research potential (until 10:00) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
09:00 PHELIX – Present performance and upgrades - K. Witte (GSI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
09:30 Scientific program of the new division “Plasma Physics with Intense Ion and Laser Beams” - Th. Kühl (GSI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
10:00
Laser-matter interaction at relativistic intensities (until 14:00) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
10:00 Ion acceleration in intense laser fields - Th. Schlegel (GSI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
10:30 Relativistic electron-positron plasma and x-rays - Th. Cowan (FZ Dresden-Rossendorf, Institut für Strahlenphysik)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Bright sources of radiation and high-energy electrons using gas, solid, and nano-structured targets irradiated by short intense laser pulses - N. Andreev (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
12:00 Weibel instability of a relativistic electron beam in a quasi-neutral plasma - A. Karmakar (FZ Jülich, Supercomputing Centre)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
09:00
Diagnostics of high energy-density plasmas (until 11:50) (Theory Seminar Room)
09:00 Applications of PHELIX-produced plasmas as a powerful source of x-ray photons and fast charged particles - I. Skobelev (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
09:30 Future experiments on the laser interaction with nanostructures - O. Rosmej (GSI)   (Theory Seminar Room)
10:00 Non-equilibrium phenomena, phase transitions, and non-ideal plasma under the action of short intense laser pulses: experiments and time-resolved diagnostics - S. Ashitkov (Institute of High Energy Density RAS)   (Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
10:30 X-ray scattering from warm dense matter/ strongly coupled plasmas - D. Riley (Queen’s University Belfast, Centre for Plasma Physics)   (Theory Seminar Room)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20 Atomic physics in dense plasmas - F. Rosmej (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris VI, Groupe Physique Atomique des Plasmas Denses)   (Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
11:50
Code development (until 14:00) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
11:50 Multi-phase code development for the simulation of PHELIX experiments - M. Povarnitsyn (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
12:20 Hydrodynamic simulations for extreme matter research - A. Tauschwitz (Universität Frankfurt, Theoretische Physik)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
12:50 --- Lunch ---
PM
14:00
Interaction of heavy ion beams with matter (until 16:50) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
14:00 Slowing down of swift ions in strongly magnetized matter and in dense binary ionic mixtures - C. Deutsch (Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Physique de Gaz et de Plasma)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
14:30 Laser-accelerated ions and interaction of swift ions with dense plasma - A. Blazevic (GSI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
15:00 Experimental and theoretical investigations of high-energy-density states in matter induced by intense heavy ion and laser beams - I. Lomonosov (Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics RAS)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
15:30 Status of HEDP research by intense heavy ion beams at GSI - D. Varentsov (GSI)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:20 Theoretical investigations and experiments with PHELIX and intense heavy ion beams - B. Sharkov (Moscow Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
17:00
Joint signature of the Memorandum of Understanding (until 17:30) (WD-Zimmer)
17:00 Joint signature of the Memorandum of Understanding between GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Extreme Matter Institute and Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences: Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS   (WD-Zimmer)
17:30
Laboratory Visits: PHELIX, Z6 and HHT (until 19:00) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
19:00
Buffet (until 21:00) (GSI Foyer)
14:00
Equation of State: Theory and measurements (until 16:30) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
14:00 Wide-range equations of state and radiative opacity of substances at high energy density - K. Khishchenko (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
14:30 Thermodynamic and transport properties of warm dense hydrogen and deuterium based on first principle Direct-Path Integral Monte Carlo and Wigner dynamics approaches - P. Levashov (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
15:00 Wide-range models for optical, transport, and thermodynamic properties of WDM and laser plasmas - M. Veysman (Joint Institute for High Temperature RAS, Moscow)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
Slides
15:30 Laser and Ion Beam Interaction with Matter - V. Efremov (Joint Institute for High Temperatures)   (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)
16:00
Concluding Remarks (until 16:30) (Meeting Room beside Lecture Hall & Theory Seminar Room)