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LaserNetUS Hosts Mini-Symposium at APS Joint March and April Meeting

Feb 12, 2025. News

SAN FRANCISCO, CALaserNetUS has organized a mini-symposium for the American Physical Society’s (APS) Joint March Meeting and April Meeting: Global Physics Summit 2025 on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, starting at 11:30 a.m. PT. Titled "Beam Science with LaserNetUS & Other User Facilities," the highly focused session features 10 presentations in just under three hours.

Guest speakers include facility technical staff and users from many LaserNetUS facilities and other institutions presenting their teams’s research findings on the topics shown at the times listed below:

Time Slot Title Presenter Affiliation
11:30am- 12:06pm (Invited) Generation of multi-Joule, multi-GeV electron beams by laser-driven acceleration in meter-scale plasma waveguides Jaron Shrock University of Maryland, College Park
12:06pm- 12:18pm The Matter in Extreme Conditions LaserNetUS Facility Node at the Linac Coherent Light Source Gilliss Dyer SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
12:18pm- 12:30pm Characterizing laser-heated polymer foams with a new platform for simultaneous X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and Thomson scattering at LCLS/MEC Willow Martin Stanford University
12:30pm- 12:42pm MeV electrons generated using 100 GW few-cycle infrared laser pulses Francois Legare INRS, Energy Materials and Telecommunications
12:42pm- 12:54pm Experimental Comparison of TNSA and LWFA Schemes for Neutron Generation on ALLS 150 TW Simon Vallières Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
12:54pm- 1:06pm Measurements of Proton Stopping Power in Warm Dense Matter approaching the Bragg Peak Krish Bhutwala Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)
1:06pm- 1:18pm machine learning for digital twin surrogates of high-power laser systems Jack Hirschman Stanford University
1:18pm- 1:30pm Demonstration of reliable laser-plasma accelerator driven free electron laser in the SASE regime Kyle Jensen Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
1:30pm- 1:42pm Performance envelope of laser wakefield accelerators Lance Labun The University of Texas at Austin
1:42pm- 1:54pm Exploring ultra-high dose rate radiobiology with laser-driven protons at BELLA PW iP2 Aodhan McIlvenny Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Mike Chini, former Point of Contact for the University of Central Florida’s iFAST Facility, now a Professor of Physics at The Ohio State University Department of Physics, stated, “Our goal in organizing a mini-symposium centered on LaserNetUS research at the APS Global Physics Summit is to inspire collaboration and excitement for the work enabled by open-access laser facilities, ultimately expanding the collective reach and impact of LaserNetUS. The symposium itself bridges communities that traditionally associate with the APS March (Division of Laser Science) and April (Division of Beam Physics) Meetings, and likewise, we hope it can contribute to bridging LaserNetUS and the broader physics community.”

Visit the APS Global Physics Summit webpage for more information, register to attend the APS 2025 Joint March Meeting and April Meeting (March 16–21, 2025), and join us for the "Beam Science with LaserNetUS & Other User Facilities" symposium starting at 11:30 a.m. PT on March 19, 2025!


 

About LaserNetUS
Founded in 2018, LaserNetUS is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science initiative providing scientists access to a network of high-power laser facilities across the U.S. The program fosters collaboration and supports cutting-edge research in areas such as plasma physics, materials science, and particle acceleration.

Media Contact:
Dr. Chandra Breanne Curry
LaserNetUS Coordinator
ccurry@slac.stanford.edu

 

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