Meeting Schedule (2024)
Sunday, April 7
All times in EDT
BREAKFAST available from 7:30am
8:30am Welcome, Introductory Remarks, and Meeting Logistics
Stephen Dewhurst, Vice President for Research, University of Rochester
Saul Gonzalez, Division Director, Division of Physics, US National Science Foundation
Gilbert ‘Rip’ Collins, Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures, University of Rochester
David Schaffner, Chair of the Organizing Committee, Bryn Mawr College
9:00am Selma Mededovic (Clarkson University): Advancements in Plasma-Based Water Treatment of Poly- and Perfluorinated Contaminants: Current Progress and Future Directions
9:30am Wendell Hill (University of Maryland, College Park): Full-power diagnostics of the focal volume of petawatt-class lasers
10:00am BREAK
10:30am Saskia Mordjick (College of William & Mary): Impact of fueling and isotopes on drift-wave experiments on LAPD
11:00am Matthew Kunz (Princeton University): Microphysical constraints on macroscale turbulence in high-beta astrophysical plasmas
11:30am Suo Yang (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): Insights into Nanocluster Nucleation and Growth in Aerosol Synthesis Reactors
12:00pm Gary Zank (University of Alabama in Huntsville): FTPP: Future Technologies and Enabling Plasma Processes
12:30pm WORKING LUNCH
1:30pm Derek Schaeffer (University of California, Los Angeles): Laser-driven, Ion-scale Magnetospheres in Laboratory Plasmas
2:00pm Marien Simeni (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities): Ultrasensitive Picosecond Electric Field and Density Measurements in Electrical Discharges
2:30pm Ryan McBride (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Helical Instability Evolution in Dynamic-Screw-Pinch-Driven Plasma Implosions
3:00pm John Verboncoeur (Michigan State University): Amplifying NSF-sponsored research impact through industry collaboration and translation
3:30pm BREAK
4:00pm Paul Bellan (California Institute of Technology): Exploring solar corona dynamics via lab experiments a billion times smaller and a billion times faster
4:30pm E. Paulo Alves (University of California, Los Angeles): Distilling interpretable reduced plasma physics models from the data of first-principles kinetic simulations
5:00pm Franklin Dollar (University of California, Irvine): Extreme Ultraviolet Light Sources from Intense Laser Matter Interactions
5:30pm END OF DAY 1
Monday, April 8
All times in EDT
BREAKFAST available from 7:00am
8:00am Antonino Di Piazza (University of Rochester): NSF OPAL: A design project to explore physics under extreme conditions
8:30am Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh (University of Louisville): Plasma-mediated plastic upcycling: giving new life to waste plastics
9:00am Nikolai Pogorelov (University of Alabama in Hunstville): Kinetic Behavior of Non-thermal Ions at Collisionless Shocks and Its Incorporation into Global MHD Simulations
9:30am Imani West-Abdallah (University of Rochester): Promoting BIPOC and Marginalized Students to Pursue Computational Physics through CRANE
10:00am BREAK
10:30am Amitava Bhattacharjee (Princeton University): Gkeyll: A Software Ecosystem for Laboratory and Space Plasma Applications
11:00am Sally Bane (Purdue University): Plasma-Assisted Combustion: Better, Faster, Cleaner Combustion for Propulsion and Energy Generation
11:30am Justin Burton (Emory University): Learning force laws in many-body systems
12:00pm Serena Dalena (American Physical Society): From ideas to groundbreaking results: The birth and life of a Letter
12:30pm WORKING LUNCH
1:30pm Poster Session runs through 6:00pm, interrupted by a Reception with Outside Terrace access for the total solar eclipse
6:30pm WORKING DINNER with a presentation by Christopher Deeney, Director of the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (University of Rochester)
Tuesday, April 9
All times in EDT
BREAKFAST available from 7:00am
8:00am Alexander Philippov (University of Maryland, College Park): Modeling of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger signals from extreme plasmas around neutron stars and black holes
8:30am Tim Tharp (Marquette University): Taking antimatter to new heights: testing the gravitational acceleration of antimatter with ALPHA-g
9:00am Bhuvana Srinivasan (University of Washington): Continuum kinetic and multi-fluid simulations of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic instabilities
9:30am Jun Ren (Delaware State University): Plasma Conditions on the Stimulated Raman Backscattering
10:00am BREAK
10:30am Eva Zurek (University at Buffalo): The Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures: Extreme States of Matter within the Universe
11:00am Maria Carreon (University of Arkansas): Perspectives and Insights on CO2 Plasma Catalysis
11:30am Jack Hare (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Magnetic Reconnection Driven by Pulsed Power
12:00pm Carlos Paz-Soldan (Columbia University): Fusion Workforce Accelerator: A Clean Energy Technology Conference
12:30pm WORKING LUNCH
1:30pm Karl Krushelnick (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): First Results from Operation of the ZEUS Multi-Petawatt laser facility at the University of Michigan
2:00pm Michael Hahn (Columbia University): Alfven Waves in Inhomogeneous Plasmas similar to the Solar Corona
2:30pm Steve Shannon (North Carolina State University): The benefits (and peril) of the growing open source simulation movement in the plasma community
3:00pm Matthew Edwards (Stanford University): Beyond the Petawatt: Plasma-Enabled Miniaturization of Ultra-High-Power Lasers
3:30pm Concluding remarks
4:00pm END OF MEETING