Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 20 NOVEMBER 1997

16:00 qThpI1.01 Improved Gas-Filled Hohlraum Performance on Nova with Beam Smoothing

Robert L. Kauffman (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550)

16:30 qThpI1.02 Non LTE Effects in Laser Plasmas

Marcel Klapisch (ARTEP,inc.)

17:00 qThpI1.03 Progress in fast ignitor research with the Nova petawatt laser

Michael H Key (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory PO Box 808 Livermore CA 94550)

17:30 qThpI1.04 Relativistic Laser-Plasma Interactions via Multi-Dimensional Particle-In-Cell Simulations. Perspectives and Limitations.

Alexander Pukhov (Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany.)

16:00 qThpI2.01 The FOM Free Electron Maser as a tool to manipulate magnetic confined plasmas

A.G.A. Verhoeven (FOM-Instituut voor Plasmafysics, Association Eura-tom-FOM, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands)

16:30 qThpI2.02 High-intensity scattering processes of relativistic electrons

F. V. Hartemann (ILSA/LLNL and UC Davis DAS)

17:00 qThpI2.03 Kinetics of Excitation and Ionization in a Non-ideal Plasma

A. N. Starostin (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia; TRINITI, Russia)

17:30 qThpI2.04 Generation of Radiation from a Static Electric Field by a Relativistic Ionization Front

Patrick Muggli (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA)