Session LZ1: Mini-conference on Fast Ignition Status and Prospects II

Chair: Richard Freeman, Ohio State University
Adam's Mark Hotel - Plaza Ballroom D


Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2:00PM - 2:40PM

LZ1.00001: New science opportunities in multi-kJ, petawatt laser facilities relevant to fast ignition
Peter Norreys

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2:40PM - 3:00PM

LZ1.00002: Fast ignition research project; FIREX at ILE, Osaka
Kunioki Mima

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
3:00PM - 3:40PM

LZ1.00003: Integrated Simulation for Core Heating of Fast Ignition Targets
Tomoyuki Johzaki , Hideo Nagatomo , Hitoshi Sakagami , Tatsufumi Nakamura , Yasuyuki Nakao , Kunioki Mima

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
3:40PM - 4:00PM

LZ1.00004: Fuel Assembly for Fast Ignition Inertial Confinement Fusion
R. Betti , C. Zhou

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:00PM - 4:20PM

LZ1.00005: Scaling of Energy Deposition in Fast Ignition Targets
R.B. Campbell , S.A. Slutz , T.A. Mehlhorn , Dale Welch

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:20PM - 4:40PM

LZ1.00006: Full scale explicit PIC simulation of fast ignition experiments
Yasuhiko Sentoku , Andreas Kemp

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Session LZ2: Mini-conference on Dynamics of Magnetic Flux Tubes in Space and Laboratory Plasmas II

Chair: Mark Linton, Naval Research Laboratory
Adam's Mark Hotel - Governor's Square 14


Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2:00PM - 2:30PM

LZ2.00001: Flux Tubes in the Earth's Magnetotail
Michael Hesse

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2:30PM - 2:45PM

LZ2.00002: Current Sheet Formation and Parker Instability in Line-Tied Flux Tubes
A. Bhattacharjee , K. Germaschewski , C.S. Ng , P. Zhu

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
2:45PM - 3:15PM

LZ2.00003: Toroidal flux tube reconnection experiments at SSX
Michael Brown

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
3:15PM - 3:45PM

LZ2.00004: Experiments and simulations of flux rope dynamics in a plasma
Thomas Intrator , Ivo Furno , Tsitsi Madziwa-Nussinov , Giovanni Lapenta , Adam Light , Sara Abbate , Dmitri Ryutov

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
3:45PM - 4:00PM

LZ2.00005: Simulation of Flux Ropes in Astrophysical Jets, Solar Corona and Laboratory
Giovanni Lapenta , D. Knoll , I. Furno , T. Intrator , P. Kronberg

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:00PM - 4:15PM

LZ2.00006: Phenomenological theory of the kink instability in a slender plasma column
D.D. Ryutov , I. Furno , T.P. Intrator , S. Abbate , T. Madziwa-Nussinov

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:15PM - 4:30PM

LZ2.00007: Rotating kink modes in a non-line tied plasma column in the Reconnection Scaling experiment
Tsitsi Madziwa-Nussinov , Ivo Furno , Thomas Intrator , Adam Light , Dmitri Ryutov , Sara Abbate

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:30PM - 4:45PM

LZ2.00008: Universal mechanism for collimation of magnetic flux tubes
Paul Bellan

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005
4:45PM - 5:00PM

LZ2.00009: Detailed Observations of Magnetic Flux Tube Collimation
Setthivoine You , Gun Su Yun , Paul M. Bellan

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