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Program of the 10^th Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop

Prague, May 27 - 30, 2012

19³⁰ - 20⁰⁰ Registration
20⁰⁰ - 21³⁰ Welcome reception

08⁰⁰	Registration
08³⁰	Opening
08⁴⁰	*Joachain* - ESF research networking programme SILMI (Super-intense laser-matter interactions)

08⁵⁰	Short break
	Chair: V. Tikhonchuk
09⁰⁰	*Evans* - Collisional PIC Simulations at Ultra-high Intensity (including tutorial overview on hot electron generation)
10⁰⁰	*Fedosejevs* - Fast electron generation and transport for fast ignition at 527nm

10³⁰	Coffee break
	Chair: A. Andreev
11⁰⁰	*Ramakrishna* - Electron beam transport and collimation in structured targets
11³⁰	*Temporal* - Study of the ignition conditions of polarized DT for ICF
12⁰⁰	Cornet - A hybrid PIC-MHD model for high density laser plasma simulations

12³⁰	Lunch break
	Chair: M. Murakami
14⁰⁰	*Schlegel* - Fast Ignition with Ponderomotively Accelerated Ions (including tutorial overview on ion fast ignition)
15⁰⁰	*Kawata* - Multi-stage laser ion acceleration
15³⁰	*Andreev* - Fast ions generation from nanostructure target irradiated by high intensity short laser pulse

16⁰⁰	Coffee break
	Chair: B. Canaud
16³⁰	*Ter-Avetissyan* - Energetic neutral and negative ion beams accelerated from spray target irradiated with ultra-short intense laser pulses
17⁰⁰	*Korn* - Research and technology development with ultra-intense lasers at ELI-Beamlines-Prague
17³⁰	*Panel discussion*

	Chair: R. Evans
08³⁰	*Ribeyre* - Shock ignition and converging shock evolution (including tutorial overview on shock ignition)
09³⁰	*Canaud* - Towards Direct-Drive Shock-Ignition on the Laser Megajoule
10⁰⁰	*Brandon* - 1D baseline target design for direct drive shock ignition

10³⁰	Coffee break
	Chair: S. Guskov
11⁰⁰	*Murakami* - High compression of matter by hyper-spherical shockwaves and its implication to ICF
11³⁰	*Davie* - Perturbed Reflected Shocks relating to the Shock Ignition IFE Scheme
12⁰⁰	*Levy* - Self-Generated Magnetic Fields and Rayleigh-Taylor Instability

12³⁰	Lunch break
	Chair: S. Kawata
14⁰⁰	*Tikhonchuk* - Laser interactions with long corona relevant to SI (including tutorial overview)
15⁰⁰	*Klimo* - Modeling laser plasma interaction in shock ignition
15³⁰	*Masek* - Vlasov-Fokker-Planck simulations of electron gas in long scale length laser plasmas

16⁰⁰	Coffee break
	Chair: J. Badziak
16³⁰	*Limpouch* - Foams in direct-drive fusion: Laser-supported ionization wave in gases and foams
17⁰⁰	*Gus'kov* - Non-cryogenic fast- and shock-ignited ICF targets
17³⁰	*Panel discussion*
19⁴⁵	Workshop dinner (Restaurant Petrinske terasy - please, see additional instructions)

	Chair: T. Schlegel
08³⁰	*Psikal* - Proton acceleration in thin foils with micro-structured surface
09⁰⁰	*Elkina* - Multi-scale modeling of laser-plasma interaction at ultra-high intensity
09³⁰	*Badziak* - Efficient acceleration of ion beams and macroparticles for fast ignition in the LICPA accelerator
10⁰⁰	*Liska* - Hydrodynamics simulation of interpenetrating laser generated plasma plumes

10³⁰	Coffee break
	Chair: X. Ribeyre
11⁰⁰	*Laffite* - Symmetry in a 48 beams Direct Drive configuration
11³⁰	*Drska* - Laser-driven Positron and Meson Generation
12⁰⁰	*Panel discussion*

12³⁰	Lunch break

14⁰⁰	Optional - *Excursion to PALS laboratory or Discussion at IoP AS CR*

Program of the 10th Direct Drive and Fast Ignition Workshop