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There will be a Town Meeting on the HEDLP
ReNeW at the American Physical Society
Division of Plasma Physics meeting (November
2-6, 2009) in Atlanta, GA, at which the
goals and methods of the Workshop will be
discussed and many panelists will be present
to receive your suggestions and hear your
comments. The Town Meeting is scheduled for
Monday, November 2 at 9 PM, at the Hyatt
Regency Atlanta. The room is Hanover F-G.
The Office of Fusion Energy Science (SC/OFES)
and the National Nuclear Security Administration
(NNSA/DP) will be holding a Joint Research Needs
Workshop on High Energy Density Laboratory
Plasmas (HEDLP) from November 15-18, 2009 at the
Hilton in Rockville, MD. For the purpose of the
Workshop, the field of HEDLP is one of the four
research categories of high energy density
physics as described in the Report of the
Interagency Task Force on High Energy Density
Physics, August 2007. An
announcement letter
was distributed to the HEDLP community.
Please Note: the venue has changed since
this original letter. Attendance at the Workshop
is by invitation only, but mechanisms for
collecting community-wide input are being set up
(see below).
Background
In January this year, the Fusion Energy Sciences
Advisory Committee (FESAC) submitted its report
to the U.S. Department of Energy on “Advancing
the Science of High Energy Density Laboratory
Plasmas,”
prepared by its Panel on High Energy Density
Laboratory Plasma, chaired by Professor Riccardo
Betti of the University of Rochester.
This report: (1) identified the compelling
scientific opportunities for research in
fundamental HEDLP and (2) identified the
scientific issues of implosion and target design
that need to be addressed to make the case for
inertial fusion energy as a potential energy
source.
Goals
As recommended by FESAC report,
SC/OFES and NNSA/DP are jointly sponsoring this
Workshop with the goal of examining these
research opportunities in depth and deliberating
on the research needs in order to pursue these
opportunities. The workshop output will be a
concise authoritative report suitable for wide
distribution. The report of the Workshop will
provide technical input to be used as guidance
in strategic planning for the joint program in
HEDLP by OFES and NNSA.
Organization and Community Input
The Workshop will be modeled after the Basic
Research Needs Workshops conducted by the Office
of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) as described in
the BES report,
The “Basic Research Needs”
Workshop Series.
The following panels and
subpanels have been set up to
address the
opportunities and needs of the HEDLP field.
Members of the HEDLP research community have
been invited to be panelists who will attend the
Workshop.
While attendance at the Workshop
itself will be by invitation only, the
OFES and NNSA Technical Leads for the Workshop,
Dr. Francis Thio and Dr. Dillon McDaniel,
respectively, and the Workshop Chair and
Co-chair, Professor Robert Rosner of the
University of Chicago and Professor David Hammer
of Cornell University, respectively, invite your
input to the HEDLP ReNeW.
You may send input
via e-mail
(with attachments up to 25MB)
to any of the panels or subpanels by clicking
on the name of the corresponding panel or
subpanel above. For input to the Workshop
leadership please click
here.
Please be advised that input submitted to the
panels may be posted publically on this website.
To view public
input to the panels, please click
here.
Comments or
Questions regarding this site? click
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