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

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

08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
Frank Graziani: Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Frederico Fiuza (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
Multi-scale particle-in-cell simulations of high energy density scenarios
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Felix Parra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title not available
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Andris Dimits (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Higher-Order and Multi-Level Time Integration of Stochastic Differential Equations and Application to Coulomb Collisions

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jesus Ramos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fluid and drift-kinetic theory for macroscopic plasma dynamics at low collisionality
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
CS Chang (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)
Challenges in the extreme-scale first-principles simulation of tokamak plasma
17:00-18:30
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Luis Chacon (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Fully implicit particle-in-cell algorithms for kinetic simulation of plasmas
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)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Amitava Bhattacharjee (University of New Hampshire)
Magnetic Reconnection in High-Energy-Density Laser-Produced Plasmas
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Recent numerical and analytical issues for Vlasov-Boltzmann-Maxwell systems

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Phil Colella (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory)
Title not available
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
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Warren Mori (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Manuel Torrilhon (RWTH Aachen)
Moment Equations for Plasmas: Some Results and More Challenges
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Stanislav Boldyrev (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Theory and simulations of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence at large and small scales

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Andrew Christlieb (Michigan State University)
An Asymptotically Preserving Implicit Maxwell Solvers
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
James Rossmanith (Iowa State University)
Title not available
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Bei Wang (Princeton University)
A Particle-in-Cell Method with Adaptive Phase-Space Remapping for Kinetic Plasmas

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Ahmed Ratnani (Association EURATOM - Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA), Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Cadarache (CEN))
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Maria Kuznettsova (NASA)
Title not available

Friday, May 11, 2012

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Uri Shumlak (University of Washington)
The Multi-Fluid Plasma Model: Derivation, Context, and Computational Solution
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Matt Bettencourt (Sandia National Laboratories)
Title not available
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Andrea Bertozzi (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Surface tension models for complex fluids

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Clinton Groth (University of Toronto)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Wrap up discussion
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