ATF Scientific Needs Workshop

Name: ATF Scientific Needs Workshop
Start: 2017-05-31T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-06-01T17:30:00-04:00
Location: Physics, Bldg 510

31 May 2017, 09:00 → 1 Jun 2017, 17:30 US/Eastern

Large Seminar Room (Physics, Bldg 510)

Large Seminar Room

Physics, Bldg 510

Mark Palmer (BNL)

Description

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Participation in this event will be supported both in person and via videoconference (details to be provided).

Members of the community are encouraged to prepare a 5-minute presentation (Please restrict yourself to no more than 5 slides). Upon submission, please clearly identify which working group your presentation belongs to.

To be added to the presentation schedule, please submit a presentation request.

Support: Alyssa Petrone

apetrone@bnl.gov

Wednesday 31 May
- Wed 31 May
- Thu 1 Jun
- 09:00 → 10:00
  Workshop Introduction
  - 09:00
    
    Laboratory Welcome 10m
  - 09:10
    
    Accelerator Stewardship Program Comments 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Eric Colby (U. S. DOE)
  - 09:25
    
    Workshop Opening 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 09:45
    
    Scientific Needs Survey Highlights 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
- 10:00 → 12:45
  Topic #1: Topics in Mid-IR Laser Research
  - 10:00
    
    Working Group Survey Results 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    User Community Presentations 30m
    
    AE74: Long-range Self-Channeling of Multi-TW CO2 Laser Pulses in Air 15m
    
    Speaker: Eric Welch (UCLA)
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee Break 15m
  - 11:00
    
    User Community Presentations 1h 15m
  - 12:15
    
    Discussion 30m
- 12:45 → 14:00
  
  Lunch (On Your Own) 1h 15m
- 14:00 → 17:15
  Topic #2: Topics in Laser-Plasma Interactions and Laser Wakefield Acceleration
  - 14:00
    
    Working Group Survey Results 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 14:15
    User Community Presentations 1h
    
    Plasma-based Particle Acceleration Using Synchronized Mid-IR and Near-IR Laser Pulses 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Gennady Shvets (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
    
    Mid-IR laser-driven plasma-based insertion devices for compact coherent x-ray production 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)
    
    Mid-IR Driven Laser Wakefield Acceleration 15m
    
    Speakers: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility), Mike Downer (University of Austin Texas)
    
    Slides
  - 15:15
    
    Coffee Break 15m
  - 15:30
    User Community Presentations 1h 15m
    
    Laser Wakefield Acceleration in the Bubble Regime 15m
    
    Speaker: Navid Vafei-Najafabadi (Stony Brook University)
    
    Slides
  - 16:45
    
    Discussion 30m
- 18:00 → 21:00
  
  No Host Dinner- Bistro 72 3h
Thursday 1 June
- Wed 31 May
- Thu 1 Jun
- 08:30 → 09:30
  
  Committee Executive Session
- 09:30 → 12:45
  Topic #3: Topics in Laser-Electron Beam Interactions
  - 09:30
    
    Working Group Survey Results 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christina Swinson (Brookhaven National Lab. Accelerator Test Facility)
    
    Slides
  - 09:45
    User Community Presentations 1h
    
    Nonlinear Compton Scattering 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Yusuke Sakai (UCLA)
    
    Slides
    
    Beam-driven Surface Wave Accelerator Based on Silicon Carbide 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Gennady Shvets (Cornell University)
    
    Slides
    
    Scaling of plasma-based ion acceleration using multi-TW mid-IR lasers 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Aakash Sahai (Imperial College London)
  - 10:45
    
    Coffee Break 15m
  - 11:00
    User Community Presentations 1h 15m
    
    TBD 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Pietro Musumeci (UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy)
    
    Slides
    
    TBD 15m
    
    Speaker: Yu-shin Chen (Naval Research Laboratory)
  - 12:15
    
    Discussion 30m
- 12:45 → 14:00
  
  Lunch (On Your Own) 1h 15m
- 14:30 → 17:00
  The ATF-II Facility Plan and Response to Community Needs
  - 14:30
    
    Overview of the Facility Plan 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mark Palmer (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 14:50
    
    Addressing the Needs of WG#1 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mikhail Polyanskiy (Brookhaven National Laboratoty)
    
    Slides
  - 15:10
    
    Adressing the Needs of WG#2 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Igor Pogorelsky (BNL/CAD)
    
    Slides
  - 15:30
    
    Addressing the Needs of WG#3 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mikhail Fedurin (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Coffee Break 15m
  - 16:05
    
    User Community Discussion 55m