Invited Speakers

A Future for High-Energy-Density Science at Brilliant Light Sources
Cris Barnes, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

Recent advances in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester, USA

Searching for turbulence in High Energy Density Rayleigh-Taylor Instability experiments
Alexis Casner, National Ignition Facility, USA

High Charge Electron Acceleration from Solid Target
Liming Chen, Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Modeling and projecting ICF implosion performance for the National Ignition Facility
Dan Clark, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Real and complex-valued geometrical optics inverse ray tracing in adaptive meshes for inline field calculations and nonlinear laser-plasma interactions
Arnaud Colaitis, Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications, France
Direct Ion heating by lasers
Amita Das, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

The Mallat Scattering Transform (MST) in high energy density plasmas: a new look at nonlinear, multiscale physics in HED
Michael Glinsky, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Exploring stellar nucleosynthesis and basic nuclear science using high energy density plasmas at OMEGA and the NIF
Maria Gatu Johnson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Exploring the dense Universe using compact pulsed-power drivers
Pierre Gourdain, University of Rochester, USA

Modeling consistent material properties and observables for high-energy-density science
Stephanie Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Warming Up Density Functional Theory for High-Energy-Density Plasmas
Suxing Hu, University of Rochester, USA

Machine learning guided discovery and design for inertial confinement fusion
Kelli Humbird, Texas A&M University, USA
Acceleration of proton and electron from high energy, kilojoule, and multi-picosecond laser pulses
Joohwan Kim, Universtiy of Sand Diego, California, USA

A spectroscopic study of keV solid-density Fe plasma isochorically heated by LCLS X-ray FEL
Hae Ja Lee, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

Experimental Investigation of Source and Impact of 3D Asymmetry on ICF Performance at the NIF
Derek Mariscal, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

High energy protons from foils undergoing relativistic induced transparency driven by intense laser light
Paul McKenna, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Laser and pulsed power coupling for magnetized liner inertial fusion (MagLIF)
Stephanie Miller, University of Michigan, USA
Investigating the insulator to metal transition in dense fluid hydrogen and helium with laser-driven dynamic compression
Marius Millot, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
A semi-analytic model of gas-puff Z-pinch liner-on-target magneto-inertial fusion
Jeff Narkis, University of San Diego, USA
High-Pressure Structural and Electronic Properties of Ramp-Compressed Sodium
Danae Polsin, University of Rochester, USA
The NIF Re-Shock platform for studying Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities in a planar geometry
Kumar Raman, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Warm dense matter studies relevant for planetary science
Alessandra Ravasio, LULI Laboratory, France
Generation of ultra-high energy density plasmas by the interaction of relativistic laser pulses with nanostructures
Jorge Rocca, Colorado State University, USA
Experiments on magnetized high energy-density physics using strong laser-driven magnetostatic fields
Joao Jorge Santos, University of Bordeaux, France
Graeme Scott
Counterpropagating radiative shock experiments on the SG-II laser
Francisco Suzuki-Vidal, Imperial College London, UK
Developing High-Intensity Laser-plasma experimental capability on NIF-ARC
Jackson Williams, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA

Diffusion-dominated mixing in moderate convergence OMEGA implosions
Alex Zylstra, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA