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

Part of the Long Program Computational Methods in High Energy Density Plasmas
May 7 - 11, 2012

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 7, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 8:50 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:50 - 9:00 Frank Graziani: Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Felix Parra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
CS Chang (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

Challenges in the extreme-scale first-principles simulation of tokamak plasma

5:00 - 6:30 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Matt Hopkins (Sandia National Laboratories)

Building Blocks for 3D Vacuum Arc Discharge

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Andreas Kemp (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

 

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Amitava Bhattacharjee (University of New Hampshire)

Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Phil Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)

 

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Ammar Hakim (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

Advanced Algorithms for Multi-Moment Fluid and Kinetic Simulations of Plasmas
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Warren Mori (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

 

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Manuel Torrilhon (RWTH Aachen)

Moment Equations for Plasmas: Some Results and More Challenges

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Theory and simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at large and small scales


Thursday, May 10, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Andrew Christlieb (Michigan State University)

An Asymptotically Preserving Implicit Maxwell Solvers

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
James Rossmanith (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Ahmed Ratnani (Association EURATOM - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Cadarache (CEN))

 

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Maria Kuznettsova (NASA)

 


Friday, May 11, 2012

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Matt Bettencourt (Sandia National Laboratories)

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Surface tension models for complex fluids

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Clinton Groth (University of Toronto)

 

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50 Wrap up discussion