Physics of Non-ideal Plasmas 18

15 Sept 2024, 10:00 → 19 Sept 2024, 14:40 Europe/London

Sunday 15 September

16:00 → 18:00 Registration & Refreshments (Tea/Coffee)

Monday 16 September

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 09:00 Welcome

Convener: Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

09:00 → 10:40 ICF and Fusion Energy

Convener: Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

09:00 Progress and outlook of the inertial confinement fusion program at the National Ignition Facility (INVITED)

Speaker: Arthur Pak

09:30 UK Programme of Laser Inertial Fusion Technology for energy (UPLiFT): Our Approach and Rationale (INVITED)

Speaker: Robbie Scott

10:00 Collective x-ray Thomson scattering for conditions inside red dwarf stars using the National Ignition Facility

Speaker: Ronald Redmer

10:20 Modelling of warm dense hydrogen via explicit real time electron dynamics: Dynamic structure factors and transport coefficients

Speaker: Pontus Svensson

10:40 → 11:00 Tea & Coffee

11:00 → 12:40 WDM Simulations (I)

Convener: Michael Bonitz

11:00 Insights on the electronic structure of high-density beryllium from ab initio simulations (INVITED)

Speaker: Mandy Bethkenhagen

11:30 Calculating and diagnosing relaxation in warm dense matter (INVITED, REMOTE)

Speaker: Jan Vorberger

12:00 Non-Markovian effects in the stopping power of electron projectiles in dense plasmas

Speaker: Christopher Makait

12:20 Account of e − e Collisions in DFT-MD Simulations of Electrical Conductivity Calculations for Warm Dense Matter

Speaker: Gert Röpke

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 15:40 WDM Experiments (I)

Convener: Sam Vinko

13:40 Developments in X-Ray Thomson Scattering and dense plasma studies using X-ray Free Electron Lasers and the National Ignition Facility (INVITED)

Speaker: Luke Fletcher

14:10 Measuring shear viscosity at the macroscale (INVITED)

Speaker: Jessica Shang

14:40 Temperature and Structure Measurements of Heavy-Ion-Heated Diamond using in Situ X-Ray Diagnostics

Speaker: Julian Lütgert

15:00 Ultrahigh Resolution X-ray Thomson Scattering Measurements at the European XFEL

Speaker: Thomas Gawne

15:20 Formation and release dynamics of Nanodiamonds produced in laser-driven shocks

Speaker: Ben Heuser

15:40 → 16:00 Tea & Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Kinetic Theory (I)

Convener: Dirk Gericke

16:00 Scaling laws of pairs showers and avalanches driven by lasers (INVITED)

Speaker: Caterina Riconda

16:30 Quantum kinetic simulations of nonequilibrium electrons: the G1-G2 scheme

Speaker: Michael Bonitz

16:50 A general approach to the determination of static and dynamic properties of non-ideal fermionic liquids and partially ionized plasmas

Speaker: Igor Tkachenko

17:10 Structural rearrangement in warm dense water revealed by XFEL X-ray pump X-ray probe experiment

Speaker: Beata Ziaja-Motyka

Tuesday 17 September

08:00 → 08:30 Registration

08:30 → 10:30 WDM Simulations (II)

Convener: Ronald Redmer

08:30 TBD (INVITED)

Speaker: Alina Kononov

09:00 Adiabatic connections for exact and approximate thermal density functional theory (INVITED)

Speaker: Aurora Pribram-Jones

09:30 An ab initio study of the hydrogen-helium phase separation in the Gibbs ensemble

Speaker: François Soubiran

09:50 Ab initio simulations for hydrogen-water mixtures

Speaker: Armin Bergermann

10:10 Average-atom resistivity calculations for expanded metallic plasmas: Which electrons are really conduction ones?

Speaker: Jean-Christophe Pain

10:30 → 10:50 Tea & Coffee

10:50 → 12:40 Plasma Astrophysics

Convener: Thomas White

10:50 Quantum Monte Carlo and Machine Learning methods applied to dense hydrogen (INVITED)

Speaker: David Ceperley

11:20 Production of diamonds at the Facility for Antiprotons and Ion Research using intense heavy ion beams

Speaker: Naeem Tahir

11:40 Demonstration of highly efficient p+ beam energy deposition into meteorite material and its material properties under high-energy irradiation at CERN HiRadMat facility

Speaker: Melanie Bochmann

12:00 EoS uncertainty quantification applied to First Light Fusion amplifier design

Speaker: James Allison

12:20 Non-ideal effects on ionization potential depression and ionization balance of dense Al and Au plasmas

Speaker: Jiaolong Zeng

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 15:40 WDM Experiments (II)

Convener: Charles Heaton

13:40 Quantum effects at atomic pressures

Speaker: Gilbert Collins

14:10 Characteristics of dusty plasma with nanoparticles in a DC glow discharge

Speaker: Almasbek Utegenov

14:30 Measurement of interfacial thermal resistance in high-energy-density matter (INVITED)

Speaker: Thomas White

PNP_TGWhite_Online.pdf

15:00 Direct Measurements of Bond Hardening in Highly Non-Equilibrium Gold

Speaker: Travis Griffin

15:20 Characterising C-H demixing and Hydrogen metallisation in Warm Dense Matter conditions

Speaker: Divyanshu Ranjan

15:40 → 16:00 Tea & Coffee

16:00 → 18:30 Poster session

16:00 Quantum and semi-classical versions of the Vashishta-Singwi theory for the warm dense uniform electron gas

Speaker: Fotios Kalkavouras

PNP18_F.Kalkavouras.pdf

16:10 Warm dense matter composition within the framework of the generalized chemical model of a multicomponent plasma medium

Speaker: Askar Davletov

16:20 UEG polarizational stopping powerwithin the 9-moment self-consistent method

Speaker: S Syzganbayeva

16:30 Dynamic properties of ionic mixtures

Speaker: Abdiadil Askaruly

18:30 → 19:00 Drinks

19:00 → 21:00 Banquet

Wednesday 18 September

08:00 → 08:40 Registration

08:40 → 10:30 WDM Simulations (III)

Convener: Pontus Svensson

08:40 Time-Dependent Density Functional Theory towards coupled electron-ion transport in Non-Ideal Plasmas (INVITED)

Speaker: Alexander White

09:10 Resolving the re-binding of valence states in isochorically heated zinc via resonant inelastic x-ray scattering

Speaker: Oliver Humphries

09:30 Dynamic local field correction of the one-component plasma

Speaker: Hanno Kählert

09:50 Improved Conductivity model for fully and partially ionized hydrogen plasma

Speaker: Uwe Kleinschmidt

10:10 MHD simulations of Z-pinch plasmas in hot and warm dense matter regimes

Speaker: Nikita Chaturvedi

10:30 → 10:50 Tea & Coffee

10:50 → 12:40 Laser Plasma Interactions

Convener: Beata Ziaja-Motyka

10:50 Ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulation of warm dense matter (INVITED)

Speaker: Tobias Dornheim

11:20 Ionization dynamics in ultra-relativistic plasmas

Speaker: Ulf Zastrau

11:40 Ionisation Calculations using Classical Molecular Dynamics

Speaker: Daniel Plummer

12:00 Progress in the atomic modelling of dense plasmas

Speaker: Robin Piron

12:20 Understanding the ionization balance of hot and dense Be plasmas

Speaker: Jianmin Yuan

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 14:40 Special Lecture: Holographic duality methods for strongly interacting plasmas (Andrei Starinets)

Convener: Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

14:40 → 15:40 WDM Experiments (III)

Convener: Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

14:40 A pulsed power facility for studying the warm dense matter regime

Speaker: Benjamin Jodar

15:00 Direct measurement of temperature and Electron-Ion Equilibration Rates in Warm Dense Gold

Speaker: Bob Nagler

15:20 Investigating the liquid-liquid, insulator-to-metal transition in hydrogen and deuterium

Speaker: Marcus Knudson

15:40 → 16:00 Tea & Coffee

16:00 → 17:30 Kinetic Theory and Other Topics

Convener: Mandy Bethkenhagen

16:00 Leveraging machine learning for exoplanet interior modeling and characterization (INVITED)

Speaker: Philipp Baumeister

16:30 Numerical Modelling of a Pulsed Power Facility for the Study of Warm Dense Matter Regime

Speaker: Luc Revello

16:50 First Measurement of the Free-Free Absorption of Hydrogen at Stellar Interior Conditions

Speaker: Samuel Schumacher

17:10 Transport Properties in WDM Shock-Bubble Experiments

Speaker: Kelin Kurzer-Ogul

Thursday 19 September

08:00 → 08:40 Registration

08:40 → 10:30 Kinetic Theory (II)

Convener: Tobias Dornheim

08:40 Free Energy Density Functional Theory for Matter under Extreme Conditions (INVITED)

Speaker: Samuel Trickey

09:10 Finite-temperature generalized Kohn-Sham and the generalized thermal adiabatic connection

Speaker: Brittany Harding

09:30 Dynamical and transport properties of two-dimensional Yukawa system taking into account the finite particle size

Speaker: Djienbekov Nasriddin

09:50 Progress in the self-consistent dielectric formalism for the uniform electron fluid

Speaker: Panagiotis Tolias

10:10 First-principles molecular dynamics equation of state of liquid to dense plasma iron

Speaker: Augustin Blanchet

10:30 → 10:50 Tea & Coffee

10:50 → 12:05 Warm Dense Matter (IV)

Convener: Daniel Plummer

10:50 Towards diffusivity measurements in laser shocked material with X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy

Speaker: Charles Heaton

11:10 Parallelizing time in GPU

Speaker: Muhammad Kasim

11:30 Dynamics of femtosecond laser-heated warm dense metals with time-resolved x-ray absorption

Speaker: Ludovic Lecherbourg

12:05 → 12:40 Round table discussions and Closing

Convener: Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

12:40 → 13:40 Lunch