3rd US-Japan Workshop on Ultra-Intense Laser-Plasma and Beam Plasma Interactions

November 23 and 24, 2008
Austin, Texas

The US-Japan Joint Institute for Fusion Theory is announcing the Third US-Japan Workshop on Ultra-Intense Laser-Plasma and Beam-Plasma Interactions. The focus of this Workshop is on the applications of lasers, particle beams, and plasmas to inertial fusion, plasma-based accelerators, high energy density physics, and inertial confinement fusion. The Workshop will take place on November 23 - 24, 2008 in Austin, Texas, at the newly constructed AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. It will immediately follow the APS-DPP meeting in Dallas. Guided tours of the recently commissioned Texas Petawatt Laser will be offered. This workshop will run in parallel with another US-Japan Workshop on MHD Control, Magnetic Islands and Rotation.

Organizers: 
Gennady Shvets, Univesity of Texas at Austin, Institute for Fusion Studies
Kunioki Mima, Osaka University, Institute of Laser Engineering

Speakers from Japan (all confirmed):

  • Kunioki Mima, Osaka University, Institute of Laser Engineering
  • Ryosuke Kodama, Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University
  • Hideo Nagatomo, ILE/Osaka University
  • Toshihiro Taguchi, Faculty of Engineering, Setsunan University
  • Atsusi Sunahara, Institute of Laser Technology, Osaka
  • Noboru Yugami, Utunomiya University

Speakers from US (*confirmed):

  • Michael Downer, UT-Austin*
  • Igor Kaganovich, PPPL“*
  • Ron Davidson, PPPL
  • Chris Clayton, UCLA*
  • Wei Lu, UCLA*
  • Jonathan Wurtele, UC-Berkeley
  • Todd Ditmire, UT-Austin*
  • Wim Leemans, LBNL*
  • Yashiko Sentoku, University of Reno, Nevada
  • Joseph M. Kindel, University of Reno, Nevada 
  • Nathaniel Fisch, PPPL
  • Ricardo Betti, Univesity of Rochester
  • Karl Krushelnick, University of Michigan*
  • Edison Liang, Rice University*
  • Sergey Kalmykov, UT-Austin*
  • Oleg Polomarov, Laser Laboratory for Energetics (Rochester)
  • Chuan Sheng Liu, University of Maryland
  • Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Associates*
  • Luis Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico*
  • Andrew Schmitt, Cornell Universtiy*