About the workshop
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the "Conference on Laser Energy Science (CLES2016)" and the "14th International workshop on fast ignition and high field physics with high power lasers". The CLES2016 will be held jointly with the workshop at Pacifico-Yokohama, Yokohama Japan, on May 17 (Tue) - 20 (Fir), 2016.
The workshop, held every two years, brings togather the leading international researchers in the field of Fast Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Field Physics with High Power Lasers. This workshop will continue the series of successful workshops, the most recent of which were held in Boston (2006), Crete (2008), Shanghai (2010), Napa (2012), and Oxford (2014).
The program will include invited, oral and poster presentations as well as discussion sessions. The meeting will follow the informal, interactive atmosphere as past workshops.
The 14th workshop will be held jointly with the conference named CLES2016 in the OPIC2016 conference system. OPIC2016 consists of about ten individual conferences, and CLES2016 is one of those.
Abstract submission and registration of this workshop will be organized by OPIC administration.
We look forward to seeing you in Yokohama, Japan's second largest city.
Scope
The recent progresses in the fast ignition and high field physics with high power lasers will be focused in this workshop.
The following topics will be discussed.
- Hydrodynamics of high energy density plasmas
- Laser-plasma and laser-matter interactions
- Heating of high energy density plasmas by high power laser
- Laser beam propagation and channeling in plasmas
- Relativistic electron beam generation by high power laser and its transport in high energy density plasmas
- Fast ion acceleration by high power laser and its transport in high energy density plasmas
- High field generation by high power laser and its applications
- Electron and ion based fast ignition, shock ignition, and impact ignition
- Integrated experiment, simulation, and target design
- Diagnostics for fast ignition study and high field physics
- Laser Technology for the fast ignition study and high field physics
Invited speakers (31/Dec./2015 updated)
The following speakers have already agreed to present invited talks in the workshop
- M. Sherlock (Imperial College, UK), "In-depth plasma-wave heating of dense plasmas (tentative)"
- Y. Kitagawa (GPI, JPN), "Counter-beam fast ignition experiment and the related studies"
- W. Wang (IOP, China), "Magnetically assisted fast ignition (tentative)"
- P. Norreys (Univ. Oxford, UK), "Plasma heating with crossing relativistic electron beams (tentative)"
- J. Honrubia (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, SPAIN), "Ion beam requirements for fast ignition of inertial fusion targets (tentative)"
- S. Wilks (LLNL, USA), "Laser-Plasma Interactions in the High Intensity Regime (tentative)"
- E. Hill (Imperial College, UK), "Electron / positron pair production in HED plasmas (tentative)"
- X. Rieyre (Univ. Bordeaux, FR), "New approach to experimental observation of the Breit-Wheeler pair generation process (tentative)"
- J. Fernandez (LANL, USA), "Towards spectral control of laser-driven ion beams generated in the relativistic transparency regime (tentative)"
- M. Roth (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany), "Nuclear physics with laser-accelerated ion beams (tentative)"
- P. Korneev (MEPhI, Russia), "Generation of strong quasi-stationary magnetic fields with intense lasers (tentative)"
- A. Yogo (Osaka University, JPN), "Anomalous Electron Heating and Ion Acceleration with High-Contrast Kilojoule laser pulses on LFEX (tentative)"
- F. Beg (UC SanDiego, USA), "Status of electron fast ignition research in the USA (tentative)"
- S. Fujioka (Osaka University, JPN), "Progress of FIREX project in Japan (tentative)"
- C. McGuffey (UC Sandiego, USA), "Status of proton fast ignition research in the USA (tentative)"
- R. Betti (LLE, Univ. Rochester, USA), "Shock ignition experiments on OMEGA facility (tentative)"
- D. Batani (CELIA, University Bordeaux, FR), "Shock ignition experiments in European laser facilities (tentative)"
- H. Cai (IAPCM, China), "Physical studies of fast ignition at the IAPCM (tentative)"
- T. Johzaki (Hiroshima Univ., JPN), "Integrated heating simulation of the FIREX project (tentative)"
- P. Patel (LLNL, USA), "Status of Ignition Program on National Ignition Facility (tentative)"
- W-M. Wang (Institute of Physics, CN), "Magnetically Assisted Fast Ignition (tentative)"
- M. Bailly-Grandvaux (Univ. Bordeaux, FR), "Collimation of relativistic electron beams in dense matter by externally imposed B-field (tentative)"
- D. Neely (STFC, UK), "Properties of fast electrons emitted in intense laser-solid interaction experiments (tentative)"
- K. Tanaka (Osaka University, JPN), "Relativistic Laser Self-focusing Approach toward Fast Ignition (tentative)"
- Y. -T. Li (Institute of Physics, China), "THz generation from relativisitc laser produced plasmas (tentative)"
- Y. Arikawa (Institute of Physics, China), "Neutron diagnostics for direct evaluation of heating efficiency (tentative)"
- H. Sawada (University of Nevada Reno, USA), "Compression of a capsule with a cone to high density for fast-ignition (tentative)"
- H. Nagatomo (ILE, Osaka University, JPN), "MHD hydrodynamics for magnetic-assisted fast ignition (tentative)"
Committee Members
| Chair of CLES | Hiroshi Azechi (Osaka University, Japan) |
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| Co-chairs of the workshop | Hiroyuki Shiraga (Osaka University, Japan), Prav Patel (LLNL, USA), Peter Norreys (University of Oxford, UK) |
| Program Commitee | S. Fujioka (Chair), H. Nishimura, M. Nakai, K. Shigemori, H. Nagatomo, A. Morace, H. Sakagami, T. Johzaki, T. Taguchi, T. Ozaki, Y. Sentoku, J. Fernandez, W. Theobald, F. Beg, D. Batani, M. Roth, A. P. L. Robinson, H. Cai, N. Sircombe |
| Local Exective Commitee | H. Nagatomo (Chair), S. Fujioka, N. Mekata |