Session 1HE: Stellar Explosions, Turbulence and Instabilities

Sponsoring Units: HEDP HEDLA
Chair: Paul Drake, University of Michigan
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade F


Friday, April 11, 2008
8:30AM - 8:55AM

1HE.00001: HED physics frontiers on OMEGA/OMEGA EP
Invited Speaker: D.D. Meyerhofer

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Friday, April 11, 2008
8:55AM - 9:20AM

1HE.00002: Stellar convection and turbulence
Invited Speaker: Herbert J. Muthsam

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Friday, April 11, 2008
9:20AM - 9:45AM

1HE.00003: Type II Supernovae
Invited Speaker: Tomasz Plewa

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Friday, April 11, 2008
9:45AM - 10:10AM

1HE.00004: Laboratory blast wave driven instabilities
Invited Speaker: Carolyn Kuranz

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Friday, April 11, 2008
10:10AM - 10:35AM

1HE.00005: Theory and simulation of astrophysical explosions and turbulence
Invited Speaker: Aaron Miles

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Friday, April 11, 2008
10:35AM - 11:00AM

1HE.00006: Nonlinear evolution of hydrodynamic instabilities from multimode initial perturbation
Invited Speaker: Dov Shvarts

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Friday, April 11, 2008
11:00AM - 11:15AM

1HE.00007: BREAK


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Session 2HE: Accretion and Photoionized Plasmas

Sponsoring Units: HEDP HEDLA
Chair: Roberto Mancini, University of Nevada-Reno
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade F


Friday, April 11, 2008
11:15AM - 11:40AM

2HE.00001: Photoionized Plasma and Opacity Experiments on the Z Machine
Invited Speaker: James Bailey

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Friday, April 11, 2008
11:40AM - 12:05PM

2HE.00002: Current Challenges of Astrophysical Photoionized Plasmas
Invited Speaker: Michael Witthoeft

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Friday, April 11, 2008
12:05PM - 12:30PM

2HE.00003: Astrophysics of Accretion onto Compact Objects
Invited Speaker: John Hawley

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Friday, April 11, 2008
12:30PM - 12:55PM

2HE.00004: Radiation transfer experiments using high-power lasers.
Invited Speaker: Steven Rose

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Friday, April 11, 2008
12:55PM - 2:25PM

2HE.00005: LUNCH BREAK


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Friday, April 11, 2008
2:25PM - 2:50PM

2HE.00006: Experimental and Computational Analysis of Photo-ionized Non-LTE Plasma Produced by Intense Laser
Invited Speaker: Hideaki Takabe

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Session 3HE: AGN/BH Jet Dynamics

Sponsoring Units: HEDP HEDLA
Chair: Paul Bellan, California Institute of Technology
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade F


Friday, April 11, 2008
2:50PM - 3:26PM

3HE.00001: Astrophysical Jets
Invited Speaker: Mario Livio

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Friday, April 11, 2008
3:26PM - 3:51PM

3HE.00002: 3-D MHD Simulations of Astrophysical Jets
Invited Speaker: Yoshiaki Kato

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Friday, April 11, 2008
3:51PM - 4:16PM

3HE.00003: Episodic ``Magnetic Tower'' Plasma Jets in a Laboratory Experiment
Invited Speaker: Sergey Lebedev

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Friday, April 11, 2008
4:16PM - 4:20PM

3HE.00004: BREAK


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Session 4HE: Launching Dynamics for Stellar Jets

Sponsoring Units: HEDP HEDLA
Chair: Patrick Hartigan, Rice University
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Promenade F


Friday, April 11, 2008
4:20PM - 4:45PM

4HE.00001: Generating Jets from Young Stars: An Observational Perspective
Invited Speaker: Tom Ray

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Friday, April 11, 2008
4:45PM - 5:10PM

4HE.00002: Launching Mechanisms of Astrophysical Jets
Invited Speaker: Attilio Ferrari

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Friday, April 11, 2008
5:10PM - 5:35PM

4HE.00003: Laboratory-produced MHD plasma jets
Invited Speaker: Paul Bellan

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Session 5HE: HEDP/HEDLA Reception and Banquet

Sponsoring Units: HEDP HEDLA
Chair: Bruce Remington, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis E


Friday, April 11, 2008
6:00PM - 6:36PM

5HE.00001: Ushering in A New Era in Lasers: The National Ignition Facility
Invited Speaker: Edward I. Moses

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