Sunday April 18th, 2004

8:50-9:00    Welcome + orientation

                                              Low Temperature Plasmas -chair: J. Cohen, LANL

9:00-10:00 Plenary Lecture: Gerald Gabrielse, Harvard: "Formation of anti-hydrogen in merged plasmas"

10:00-10:30                           Coffee Break

10:30-11:00 Niels Madsen, CERN: "Antihydrogen formation using cold plasmas"
11:00-11:30 Steve Rolston, NIST: "Experiments with ultracold neutral plasmas"
11:30-12:00 Tom O'Neil, U. of California-La Jolla: "Guiding center drift atoms in antihydrogen production"

12:00-2:00                              Lunch

                                              Atomic & Molecular Physics -chair: M. Pindzola, Auburn

2:00-2:30 Connor Ballance, Rollins college: "Continuum-coupling effects in electron-atom scattering"
2:30-3:00 Michael Schulz, University of Missouri Rolla: "3-dimensional imaging of atomic 4 body reactions"
3:00-3:30 Chris Fontes, LANL: "An overview of relativistic distorted wave Born (RDWB) cross sections"
 

4:00-6:00                            POSTERS SESSION

                                              Inertial Confinement Fusion -chair: B. Hammel, LLNL

8:30-9:00   Jeff Koch, LLNL:  "Core Temperature and Density Gradients in ICF"
9:00-9:30   Mark May, LLNL: "Measuring the ionization balance of gold in a low-density plasma of importance to ICF"
9:30-10:00 James Bailey, Sandia National Laboratories: "Spectroscopy of capsule implosion cores produced by dynamic hohlraum x-rays"

10:00-10:30                            Coffee-Break

                                               Short Pulse Laser Plasmas -chair: R. Lee, LLNL

10:30-11:00 Nigel Woolsey, University of York, United Kingdom: "Laser-driven collisionless plasma experiments"
11:00-11:30 Klaus Eidmann, MPI fuer Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany: "X-ray spectroscopy of dense plasmas produced by isochoric heating with ultrashort laser pulses"
11:30-12:00 Jean-Claude Gauthier, CELIA-Universite Bordeaux, France: "Ultrafast laser produced plasmas"

12:00-2:00                             Lunch

                                               Hot Topics  -chair: R. Mancini, UNR

2:00-2:20 John Rice, MIT,   "Configuration Interaction Effects from Kr, Mo, Nb and Zr in Near Neon-like Charge States from Alcator C-Mod Plasmas"
2:20-2:40 G. Faussurier, CEA (France), "A Self-Consistent Average-Atom for Laboratory Plasmas applied to equation of state and transport coefficient calculat
ions of dense media"
2:40-3:00 Robert Heeter, LLNL, "Experiments on the scaling of ionization balance vs electron and radiation temperature in non-LTE gold plasmas"
 

3:00-                                             Free Afternoon

                                      Wednesday April 21th, 2004

                                               Astrophysics -chair: J. Guzik, LANL

8:30-9:00 Andreas Scweitzer, Universitaet Hamburg: "Non-LTE models of stellar and giant planet atmospheres"
9:00-9:30 Vasili Kharchenko, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics: "X-ray emission from comets, planets and heliospheric gas"
9:30-10:00 Masao Sako, California Institute of Technology: "X-ray line emission in optically thick, highly ionized astrophysical plasmas"
10:00-10:30 Ming F. Gu, Stanford University: "Introduction to the Flexible Atomic Code and its Application in X-ray Spectroscopy"

10:30-11:00                           Coffee Break

                                          High Energy-Density Physics -chair: M. Knudson, Sandia N.L.

11:00-11:30 Lee Collins, LANL: "Quantum MD simulations of warm dense plasmas"
11:30-12:00 Greg Rochau, Sandia National Laboratories: "Tracer absorption spectroscopy in radiatively heated foams"
12:00-12:30 Howard Scott, LLNL: "Non-LTE radiation transport in high radiation plasmas"

12:30-2:00                               Lunch

                                          LTE and NLTE Opacities -chair: M. Klapisch, NRL

2:00-2:30 Yuri Ralchenko, NIST, Gaithersburg:  "Review of the 3rd Non-LTE Code Comparison Workshop"
2:30-3:00 Carlos Iglesias, LLNL:  "A New detailed term accounting Opacity code for mid-Z elements"
3:00-3:30 Norman Magee, LANL: "Los Alamos Opacities: Transition from LEDCOP to ATOMIC"

3:30-4:00                                 Coffee Break

4:00-4:30 Jim Albritton, LLNL: "NLTE/LTE Equation of State Models"
4:30-5:00 Peter Hakel, LANL: "New chemical-picture-based model for plasma equation-of-state calculations"

6:30-9:00                                 Banquet  (bus leaving at 6:00 and 6:20)

                                                      X-Ray Sources -chair: P. Beiersdorfer, LLNL

8:30-9:00 Greg Brown, University of Maryland: "Simulating cometary and stellar x ray emission in the laboratory"
9:00-9:30 Stephanie Hansen, University of Nevada, Reno: "Effects of the electron energy distribution function on modeled x-ray spectra"
9:30-10:00 Kevin Fournier, LLNL: "Efficient multi-keV x-ray sources from Ti-doped aerogel targets"

10:00 10:30                                  Coffee Break

                                   Low Temperature Plasmas and Beams -chair: D. Schultz, ORNL

10:30-11:00 Charlie Havener, ORNL: "Low Energy Charge Transfer With Multicharged Ions Using Merged Beams"
11:00-11:30 John Gillaspy, NIST: "Latest results of the NIST EBIT team"
11:30-12:00  Walter Lapatovich, Sylvania: "Recent advances in lighting science"

12:00-2:00                                   Lunch