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Computational Methods in High Energy Density Plasmas

Workshop III: Mathematical and Computer Science Approaches to High Energy Density Physics

May 7 - 11, 2012


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Organizing Committee

Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Mathematics)
Andrew Christlieb (Michigan State University, Mathematics)
Phil Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
William Dorland (University of Maryland, Physics)
Leslie Greengard (New York University)
David Levermore (University of Maryland, Department of Mathematics)
Warren Mori (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Physics/Engineering)
James Rossmanith (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Mathematics)

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Scientific Overview

This workshop is intended to be a cross-cutting session that will focus on the fundamental modeling challenges that arise when simulating high energy density plasmas. This includes aspects of classical magnetohydrodynamics, five and six-dimensional formulations of plasma transport theory, plasma-material interactions, and the design of robust analytic techniques for software verification. These are all “multi-physics” problems, involving electromagnetic interactions, turbulent fluid behavior, and both quantum mechanical and relativistic corrections. These problems are also “multi-scale”, requiring multi-resolution/hybrid algorithms and sub-grid modeling. We will consider methods for the simulation of the governing integro-differential equations that scale with problem size and are suitable for high-performance computing, including exa-scale and peta-scale platforms. One goal of the workshop is to make the modeling challenges accessible to applied mathematicians and computational scientists with little or no prior experience in plasma physics.

This workshop will include a poster session; a request for posters will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop.

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Confirmed Speakers

Matt Bettencourt (Sandia National Laboratories)
Amitava Bhattacharjee (University of New Hampshire)
Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Luis Chacon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
CS Chang (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Phil Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Viktor Decyk (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Andris Dimits (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Frederico Fiuza (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Ammar Hakim (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Matt Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)
Maria Kuznettsova (NASA)
Felix Parra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jesus Ramos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Uri Shumlak (University of Washington)
Manuel Torrilhon (RWTH Aachen)
Bei Wang (Princeton University)

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Email: ipam@ucla.edu
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