FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT - 14th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA) 2024

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

14th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics HEDLA-2024

May 20 - May 24, 2024, Tallahassee, Florida

Florida State University

Introduction

We are pleased to announce the 14th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA), to be held May 20-24, 2024, at the Hotel Duval in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A.HEDLA is a topical conference series that started in 1996, and has run more or less every other year since then, alternating locations between the US, Europe, and Asia. The goal is to use or develop laboratory experiments to better understand HED phenomena in the universe.

During the past decade, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant research utilizing high energy-density (HED) facilities such as intense lasers and pulsed power driven magnetic pinch facilities. Research is underway in many areas, such as compressible hydrodynamic mixing; strong shock phenomena; radiation flow; radiative shocks and jets; complex opacities; equations of state; high pressure solid-state phase boundaries, phase transitions, and unique new states of matter; dust formation, acceleration, and impact dynamics; super-strong magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection; relativistic plasmas, and plasma particle acceleration.

Meeting topics

Laboratory experiments	Radiation hydrodynamics
Cosmic ray generation	Basic plasma physics processes
Stellar, solar, and nuclear astrophysics	Warm dense matter
Stellar explosions, supernovae, GRBs, and supernova remnants	Dust and magnetized HED laboratory astrophysics
Equations of state, phase boundaries, and phase transition kinetics, at high pressures and densities	Properties of planetary and exoplanet interiors, brown dwarf and white dwarf interiors
Hydrodynamic instabilities, mixing and the transition to turbulence	Computations in high-energy density physics applications
Astrophysical disks, jets, and outflows

Important Dates

Registration opens on December 15, 2023
Abstract submission deadline is March 15, 2024
Hotel reservation deadline is April 15, 2024

Conference dates May 20-24, 2024

Scientific Organizing Committee

Mandy Bethkenhagen, LULI	Maria Gatu Johnson, MIT
Dan Casey, LLNL	Marcus Knudson, SNLA
Alexis Casner, Univ. of Bordeaux	Carolyn Kuranz, Univ. of Michigan
Andrea Ciardi, Sorbonne Univ.	Ivan Oleynik, Univ. of South Florida
Gilbert (Rip) Collins, Univ. of Rochester	Hye-Sook Park, LLNL
Tilo Doeppner, LLNL	Tomasz Plewa, FSU
Forrest Doss, LANL	Bruce Remington, LLNL (chair)
Frederico Fiuza, Inst. Superior Technico	Dmitri Ryutov, LLNL
Gianluca Gregori, Oxford Univ.	Derek Schaeffer, UCLA
Natsumi Iwata, Osaka Univ.	Petros Tzeferacos, Univ. of Rochester, and LLE
Hantao Ji, Princeton Univ.	Feilu Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Local Organizing Committee and Contact Information

Cecelia Farmer	HEDLA-2024
Monica Hartsfield	Department of Scientific Computing
Michael McDonald	College of Arts & Sciences
Tomasz Plewa (chair)	Florida State University
Email: tplewa@fsu.edu	Tallahassee, FL, U.S.A.