08:00-08:30 08:30-09:10 09:10-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-11:40 11:40-12:40 12:40-13:40 13:40-15:00 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Central ignition I Session Chair: Stéphane Liberatore, CEA/DIF, France Achieving Target Gain >2 with 2.2 MJ Drive Implosions on the NIF David Schlossberg, LLNL, United States Improving target gain in inertial confinement fusion implosions on NIF Christopher Young, LLNL, United States Relating Metrology to Performance in Recent High Yield Implosions on the National Ignition Facility Brian Haines, LANL, United States Measurements of Thermonuclear Burn Dynamics from Nuclear Reaction History Robert Dwyer, LANL, United States Inertial Fusion Science: Alternative laser-driven approaches I Session Chair: Markus Roth, Focused Energy, Germany Appearance of a dense electron flow efficient for core heating in PW laser-driven fast ignition Natsumi Iwata, ILE, Japan Neutron heating in fast ignition DT fusion: exploring magnetic field effects Tomoyuki Johzaki, Hiroshima U., Japan Enhancement of J×B acceleration with the structured target Ryunosuke Takizawa, ILE, Japan Recent progress of the DCI campaign from R11-R12 experiments Jie Zhang, CAS IoP, China Inertial Fusion Science: Laser-plasma Interactions I Session Chair: Dustin Froula, LLE, USA Ion acoustic instability resulting from suprathermal electrons generated by stimulated Raman scattering in laser-plasma interactions Laurent Gremillet, CEA/DIF, France Convective Nature of the Stimulated Raman Side Scattering in Inertial Confinement Fusion Rui Yan, USTC, China A parametric study of stimulated Raman side-scattering on directly-driven experiments Kevin Glize, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Impact of the near-forward stimulated Brillouin scattering in indirect drive experiments Charles Ruyer, CEA/DIF, France
15:00-15:40 Poster session I: Inertial Fusion Science (Laser-plasma interactions | Fundamental properties) & High Energy Density Science (salons Agnès Sorel) Modeling stimulated Brillouin scattering from two smoothed laser beams crossing at large angle Gaétan Sary, CEA/DIF, France Unexpected Thomson signatures of strong density fluctuations in plasmas experiencing stimulated Raman scattering of nanosecond laser pulses Christophe Rousseaux, CEA/DIF, France Exploring polarization smoothing parameters to improve laser propagation: experiment and simulations Adrien Fusaro, CEA/DIF, France Stimulated Raman scattering : growth, saturation, break-up, and production of hot electrons Didier Benisti, CEA/DIF, France Modeling optically smoothed laser fields with thick rays Emeric Robinet, CEA/DIF, France Numerical studies of intermediate-field laser-plasma interaction on the Laser Mégajoule Paula Andrea Cardenas Ayala, CEA/DIF, France Influence of Spectral Bandwidth on the Nonlinear Kinetic Regime of Stimulated Raman Scattering for Spatially Smoothed Laser Beams Paul-Edouard Masson-Laborde, CEA/DIF, France Influence of the modulation parameters on smoothing performance of a quadruplet propagation in a plasma Gilles Riazuelo, CEA/DIF, France The Development of Nonlinear Inline Laser-Plasma Instability Models using Machine Learning for Inertial Fusion Studies Lin Yin, LANL, United States Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of Increased Laser Bandwidth Effects on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Hohlraum Conditions Albertine Oudin, LLNL, United States Optimal bandwidth spectra for minimizing Two Plasmon Decay Archis Joglekar, Ergodic LLC, United States Laser interaction with foam target in the context of inertial fusion research Sushil Kumar Singh, CzAS IoP, Czechia Characteristics of charged particles and bremsstrahlung radiation in laser foam interaction at sub-relativistic intensity Shubham Agarwal, CzAS IoP, Czechia Current status of counter-illumination using the kJ-class petawatt LFEX system Yoshitaka Mori, GPI, Japan PIC simulation of laser-foam interaction: energy transfer and ion heating mechanisms Antonio Zurzolo, POLIMI, Italy Resonance Density Range Governs Nonlinear Saturation in Parametric Instability Can Yao, USTC, China Relativistic Effects on Stimulated Brillouin Scattering and Filamentation Instabilities in High-Temperature Plasmas Karima Bendib-Kalache, USTHB, Algeria Particle-in-cell simulations of laser-plasma instabilities in shock-ignition Ben Gosling, Warwick U., United Kingdom Characterization of Hot Electrons Generated by Stimulated Raman Side-Scattering in Shock-Ignition Relevant Regimes Yuyao Wang, York U., United Kingdom Multi-dimensional effects of Stimulated Raman Backscatter far below quarter critical density Warren Mori, UC Los Angeles, United States Controlling Laser-Plasma Instabilities Using STUD Pulses: Instabilities with Nonlinear Electron Plasma Waves and KEEN Waves Bedros Afeyan, Polymath Research, United States Plasma harmonics emission and re-scattering in laser-plasma interaction Frederic Perez, LULI, France Effect of spectral bandwidth on the stimulated scattering of spatially smoothed laser beams in direct drive experiments Vladimir Tikhonchuk, CELIA, France Off-resonance Cross Beam Energy Transfer between temporally smoothed laser beams Godefroy Meynard, CPhT, France A mirror to the Sun: novel measurements of the variant T(t,2n)α spectrum Charlotte B. Stuart, Oxford U., United Kingdom The nonlocal electron heat conduction model based on superGaussian distribution function Wenyi Huo, IAPCM, China An improved nonlocal electron heat transport model for magnetized plasmas Zehao Chen, NUDT, China A decoupling method to introduce correlations in electron dynamical equations for dense plasmas Kamel Bennadji, USTHB, Algeria Debris produced by PW-class lasers incident on solid targets Philip Bradford, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Shock Compression of Pre-Compressed Water: Towards the 300 K Isotherm with a Novel Diamond Anvil Cell Dimitri Batani, CELIA, France Experimental and numerical investigation of laser intensity distribution influence on laser pressure loading Mathieu Weber, LULI, France Phase diagrams of dynamically shocked transition metals studied using X ray Diffraction Victor Pellier, LULI, France Influence of absorption by inverse-bremsstrahlung and electron heat conduction on scattering and x-ray conversion Olivier Poujade, CEA/DIF, France Innovative source of intense laser-driven electromagnetic pulses and its manipulation of charged particle beams Fabrizio Consoli, ENEA, Italy Tightly focused laser wake field acceleration to generate high field gradient for verification of the Unruh effect Kotaro Kondo, QST, Japan Generation of attosecond electron beam in wakefields driven by a few-cycle laser pulse Guo-Bo Zhang, NUDT, China Machine learning-based laser driven ion acceleration modeling and optimization Pudu Zhang, NUDT, China Generation of quasi-monoenergetic proton beams from near-critical density plasmas irradiated by picosecond laser pulses Weiquan Wang, NUDT, China GeV Proton Generation at Moderate Intensities via an Energy-Matched Double-Pulse Scheme in Micronozzle Acceleration Diya Pan, ILE, Japan Ion acceleration from micrometric targets immersed in an intense laser field Ishay Pomerantz, Tel Aviv U., Israel Reproducibility of plasma generation in a laser ion source with liquid metal target using a rotating drum Kakeru Watanabe, Nagaoka Tech. U., Japan Control of Ablation Plasma in a Laser Ion Source Using a Permanent Ring Magnet Kazumasa Takahashi, Nagaoka Tech. U., Japan Comprehensive numerical analysis of laser-ion acceleration including prepulse plasma generation process Kawai Ryotaro, Tohoku U., Japan Nuclear Reactions in Ion Acceleration by Irradiating a Nanometer-thick Graphene Target with LFEX Laser Hayato Kusano, Osaka U., Japan Characterization of short laser-driven proton pulses for ion stopping power experiments Carlos Sanchez, CLPU, Spain Bright pulsed point neutron sources using ultra-intense lasers and spherical deuterated capsules Kensei Iwasa, Osaka U., Japan Foam-based intense laser-driven source of near-14 MeV neutrons Piotr Rączka, IPPLM, Poland Multi-state Fusion Reactor for Diverse Applications Han-Ying Liu, Astral Neutronic Ltd, United Kingdom Investigation of metallic x-ray sources at the Omega laser facility Bertrand Martinez, CEA/DIF, France Pulsed-Power Approach to Pair Production in Magnetic Fields below the Schwinger Limit Connor Williams, SNL, United States First laboratory observation of anisotropic proton emission in small-scale vicinity of laser-produced cosmic-ray sources Jinglong Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Laboratory Magnetized Radiative Shocks: Properties and Interaction with Foam Obstacle Diego Oportus, LULI, France Towards the generation of petawatt near-infrared few-cycle light pulses via forward Raman amplification in plasma Zhi-Yu Lei, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Particle-in-cell study of the time evolving laser self-focusing characteristics in near-critical plasmas David Stark, William & Mary College, United States
15:40-16:10 16:10-16:40 16:40-18:00 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Central ignition II Session Chair: Mike Rosenberg, LLE, USA The Indirect-drive ICF program on LMJ Stephane Laffite, CEA/DIF, France Investigation of Laser-Plasma Instabilities in the First ICF Implosions Using Low Gas-Filled Hohlraums on the LMJ Marion Lafon, CEA/DIF, France Yield degradation in the compressive regime at the LMJ Raphael Riquier, CEA/DIF, France Magnetized ICF: studies of the transport of heat and magnetic flux in pre-magnetized cylindrical implosions João Jorge Santos, CELIA, France Technologies: Diagnostics I Session Chair: Guillaume Boutoux, CEA/DIF, France Progress in High Spatiotemporal Resolution Diagnostic Technology for implosion Stage in laser inertial confinement fusion experiments Feng Wang, CAEP, China Diagnosing the temporal evolution of thermonuclear burn Brian Appelbe, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Diagnosing Igniting Implosions with Detailed Neutron Spectroscopy Alastair Moore, LLNL, United States Measuring mix in ICF implosions using narrowband crystal imaging Gareth Hall, LLNL, United States Inertial Fusion Science: Hydrodynamics I Session Chair: Gabriel Rigon, LULI, France Radiation Transport through Hohlraum Windows to Harness the Power of Ignition Alison M. Saunders, LLNL, United States Studies of Non-Maxwellian ion-velocity distributions and their signatures in Fusion Product Spectra in Inertial Confinement Fusion plasmas Maria Gatu Johnson, MIT, United States Mitigation of residual kinetic energy in indirect drive ignition implosions on the National Ignition Facility Eduard Dewald, LLNL, United States Experimental investigation of the magneto Rayleigh-Taylor instability in Z-pinch implosions: harmonic generation, inverse cascade, and dynamic similarity Daniel Ruiz, SNL, United States
08:00-08:30 08:30-09:00 09:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:20 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Target design I Session Chair: Robbie Scott, STFC/CLF, UK Achieving efficient target implosion through hybrid optimization and hydro-equivalent analysis for direct-driven inertial confinement fusion Xiaohu Yang, NUDT, China Implosion Target Designs for Focused Energy’s Fusion Pilot Plant Stefano Atzeni, Focused Energy, Germany Highly resolved computer simulations of AM wetted-foam experiments at OMEGA including the foam structure Jose Milovich, LLNL, United States A common model framework for advancing physics models in radiation hydrodynamic codes for inertial fusion energy John Kline, LANL, United States Technologies: Drivers I Session Chair: Denis Marion, CELIA, France The Jupiter Laser Facility: a kilojoule-class laser for producing and exploring extreme states of matter Felicie Albert, LLNL, United States Recent progress for commercializing IFE based on a novel high efficiency 10 MJ laser Trevor Cohen, Blue Laser Fusion, United States Research on LD pumped 1 kJ lasers and IFE related technologies Takashi Sekine, Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan Experimental observation of power coupling insensitivity to electrode contamination in a pulsed power fusion target Nathan Brown, SNL, United States High Energy Density Science: Secondary Sources I Session Chair: Frédéric Pérez, LULI, France Experimental and numerical characterization of high-energy point-like X-ray sources for radiography applications at the LMJ-PETAL laser facility Xavier Davoine, CEA/DIF, France Mechanisms of hard x-ray generation in foam-filled hohlraums using non-thermal electrons accelerated by laser plasma interactions Luis Leal, LLNL, United States Improvement of laser plasma sources of soft X-rays and extreme ultraviolet by using an aerosol target Henryk Fiedorowicz, MUT, Poland Ultraintense laser-driven Terahertz radiation and applications Yutong Li, CAS IoP, China
12:20-13:30 13:30-14:50 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Central ignition III Session Chair: Marion Lafon, CEA/DIF, France Multi-Dimensional Study of Laser Spot Zooming for Direct-Drive Fusion Targets Philip Moloney, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Self-Similar Hot Spots in Layered Inertial Fusion Capsules Brian Albright, LANL, United States Advancing Physical Insights into OMEGA Implosions through Statistical Analysis with the 2-D DRACO Simulation Database Duc Cao, LLE, United States Monoenergetic charged-particleradiography of plasma structure and dynamics in laser-driven hohlraums Chikang Li, MIT, United States Technologies: Targets I Session Chair: Michael Stadermann, LLNL, USA Status of fabrication methods for wetted foam targets Neil Alexander, General Atomics, United States Monolithic Fabrication of High-Precision Shells and Gradient-Density Foams via Two-Photon Grayscale Lithography Andrea Bertoncini, Nanoscribe, Germany Update on the latest developments in the Target Fabrication Department Guillaume Legay, CEA/Valduc, France Toward Continuous Operation Laser Fusion Reactors: Integrated Target Injection, Tracking, and multi-beam Illumination at 10 Hz Yu Takagaki, EX-Fusion, Japan Inertial Fusion Science: Fundamental properties I Session Chair: Joao Santos, CELIA, France Electron heat transport across different regimes using Non-Equilibrium-Molecular-Dynamics and Particle-In-Cell methods Daniel Guerroudj, PIIM, France Nonlocal transport in magnetized plasmas: heat conduction and beyond Nicholas Mitchell, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Cooling and recombination dynamics of an Al plasma in AlTi or AlAu mixtures heated by an ultraintense laser pulse Ludovic Lecherbourg, CEA/DIF, France Data-Driven Heat Transport Modeling in Plasmas Using Neural Networks Mufei Luo, Oxford U., United Kingdom
14:50-15:30 Poster session II: Inertial Fusion Science (except Laser-Plasma Interactions & Fundamental properties) (salons Agnès Sorel) Enhancing dI/dt via current switching using parallel targets on the Z facility Hannah Hasson, SNL, United States FLEXO Simulations of Low-Density Plasma Behavior Around a New Combined Stability Platform for Z-Pinch ICF Jeffrey Woolstrum, SNL, United States Overview of experimental efforts to understand and control liner instabilities in MagLIF Jeffrey Fein, SNL, United States Evaluating the use of a secondary current path to preheat a deuterium ice fiber on axis in MagLIF Maren Hatch, SNL, United States Effect of power flow asymmetry on wire-array Z-pinch ablation flow Chiatai Chen, Pacific Fusion, United States Achieving efficient implosion for double-shell targets driven by Z-pinch dynamic hohlraum Lingrui Li, NUDT, China Ablation flow sensitivity to ablator density modulations in ICF Adrien Gallin, CPhT, France Transition to Turbulence in a Shock-Driven High-Energy-Density Experiment Sam Pellone, LANL, United States Investigation of early-stage laser imprinted perturbations and evolution via x-ray phase contrast imaging in laser-driven planar targets Xu Zhao, York U., United Kingdom Investigating Material Response to Laser Imprint at SACLA Ben Fisher, York U., United Kingdom Foam with variable pore size and average density for laser-plasma experiments based on regular closed-pore SiO2 structure Ondrej Klimo, CTU Prague, Czechia High-power laser irradiation of 3D-printed micro-structures: experiments and simulations Mattia Cipriani, ENEA, Italy Spatiotemporal evolution of instabilities and electromagnetic turbulence driven by asymmetric counter-streaming plasmas Fuka Nikaido, Osaka U., Japan Model Comparison of Photoionization Front Propagation in Multi-Dimensional Geometries James Zola, Notre Dame U., United States Simulations of CH ablation in direct-drive relevant conditions using a coupled electron Vlasov-Fokker-Planck and ion hydrodynamics code Sam O'Neill, York U., United Kingdom A multivariate sensitivity analysis of the Revolver target to radiation transport model configurations Adam Fraser, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Study of magnetic field transport in laser-produced plasma using extended MHD model in simulation code FLASH Jirí Löffelmann, CTU Prague, Czechia New self-similar Solution for Multi-stacked Converging Shocks and High Compression of Matter Masakatsu Murakami, ILE, Japan Investigating jet dynamics in radiation hydrodynamic simulations of high-energy-density plasmas Adam Dearling, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Optimised laser tamping design for enhanced direct-drive implosion efficiency in triple-shell targets Jumana Ibrahim Mohamed , First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Automated target and pulse design for laser direct drive using multi-fidelity and differentiable optimisation schemes Aidan Crilly, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Numerical studies of foam-based target designs for stable direct-drive implosions Diego Viala, LULI, France Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Revolver Ignition target Ewan Ferdinandi, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Bayesian Optimization of Fusion Gain in 1D ICF Simulations Cara Clarke, QUB, United Kingdom Designing a High Yield Polar Direct Drive Target for a 10MJ Laser Camille Samulski, LANL, United States xRAGE Modeling for Xcimer Baffled Hohlraum Designs John Kuczek, LANL, United States A collision-based, simple target model with a buffer layer perturbation term Isobel Wilson, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Recent numerical simulations of two-sided hybrid ICF targets with ARWEN radiation hydrodynamics code Manuel Cotelo, UPM, Spain Accelerating target design workflows with probabilistic machine learning and artificial intelligence Rafel Bordas, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom IGNIS: First Light Fusion’s Next Generation Multi-Physics code for IFE and HEDP Sean Barrett, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Verification and Validation of First Light Fusion’s Multi-Physics Codes, B2 and IGNIS Sam Rudgyard, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Progress of the US DOE project on Kinetic IFE Simulations at Multiscale with Exascale Technology (KISMET) Jean-Luc Vay, LBNL, United States Studying proton-11boron fuel compositions for fast ignition IFE Esmat Ghorbanpour, New South Wales U., Australia The Perspectives of the Proton-Boron Fusion Reaction Dieter Hoffmann, Xi'an Jiaotong U., China Efficient energy transport in conical implosions Yihang Zhang, CAS IoP, China Laser parameter design for DCI laser fusion Wei-Min Wang Wang, Renmin U., China Optimization of Laser Irradiation Uniformity for the DCI Scheme with Three-dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations Fuyuan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Localized End-on Heating for Hotspot Ignition in Precompressed Isochoric Plasmas Bofang Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China The colliding of high Mach number plasma jets: a kinetic investigation Dong Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Laser-driven Ion Acceleration Using Large-area Suspended Graphene for Ion Fast Ignition Naoya Tamaki, Osaka U., Japan DCI Direct-Drive Laser Modeling and Pulse Shape Optimization Tao Tao, USTC, China Proton Fast Ignition: High gain concept for Inertial Fusion Energy Fahrat Beg, UC San Diego, United States Implosion design using a multi-objective optimization method for fast ignition Hideo Nagatomo, ILE, Japan Post Compressor for Extreme Intensity LFEX laser and application to Fast Ignition Alessio Morace, ILE, Japan Potential for Pure Deuterium Fusion at Extreme Densities via Neutron-Mediated Chain Reactions Alex Robinson, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Direct-drive implosions at the Laser MegaJoule facility Witold Cayzac, CEA/DIF, France 3D implosion symmetry of ICF on LMJ Rodolphe Collin, CEA/DIF, France Indirect drive ICF experiments on the LMJ facility in 2025 Stéphane Liberatore, CEA/DIF, France Three-Dimensional Measurements of Thermodynamic and Atomic Properties of Igniting Plasmas on the NIF Benjamin Bachmann, LLNL, United States High-yield implosions using DT wetted foam for intertial fusion energy (IFE) Darwin Ho, LLNL, United States Adjusting physical models within uncertainties as an intermediate step towards eliminating the drive deficit William Farmer, LLNL, United States Revealing the Structure and Dynamics of Self-Generated Electric and Magnetic Fields Near Plasma Stagnation in Laser-Driven Hohlraums Jacob Pearcy, LANL, United States Evaluating the effects of a modified hohlraum with thin windows on capsule implosion behavior using the 2DConA surrogate platform Yongho Kim, LANL, United States THOR: Developing a Next-Generation Platform for Radflow and Opacity Measurements Ryan Lester, LANL, United States Constraining Hydrodynamic Models of Indirect Drive Ignition Implosions with Capsule Surrogate Experiments Nicholas Ruof, LLNL, United States Simulations of asymmetric implosions in magnetised direct drive cylindrical targets on NIF and OMEGA César Freitas, Imperial College London, United Kingdom On the origin and nature of the alpha knock-on tail in neutron spectra from ignited implosions at the NIF Johan Frenje, MIT, United States
15:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:50 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Central ignition IV Session Chair: Raphaël Riquier, CEA/DIF, France First demonstration of a layered direct-drive inertial confinement fusion target on the National Ignition Facility G. Elijah Kemp, LLNL, United States Testing wetted foam performance in the self-heating regime at the National Ignition Facility Steve Maclaren, LLNL, United States Frustraum 1050 campaign on the National Ignition Facility Kevin Baker, LLNL, United States Low-Mode X-ray Drive Asymmetries in ICF Hohlraums: 3D Rad-MHD Simulations with Chimera Benjamin Duhig, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Inertial Fusion Science: Hydrodynamics II Session Chair: Chris Weber, LLNL, USA First experiment using an hydrodynamic growth radiograph platform at LMJ Laurent Masse, CEA/DIF, France Observation of mitigated surface feature growth in laser direct drive Rahul Shah, LLE, United States Bubble re-acceleration in the ablative Rayleigh-Taylor instability during the coasting phase of direct-drive irradiation Yu Dai, CAS IoP, China The impact of ion mixing and viscosity on the evolution of Richtmyer–Meshkov instability Hongbo Cai, IAPCM, China Technologies: Diagnostics II Session Chair: Siegfried Glenzer, SLAC, USA Towards model-free x-ray scattering diagnostics of warm dense matter Tobias Dornheim, HZDR, Germany Ray-Based Thomson Scattering Model for Characterizing Laser-Induced Bow Shocks in Underdense Plasma Wojciech Rozmus, Alberta U., Canada The Perfect Backlighter: Advancing Inertial Fusion Energy with an XFEL Alejandro Laso Garcia, HZDR, Germany Coherent X-ray imaging of shock and cylindrical implosion dynamics in ultra-short relativistic laser-solid interactions relevant to IFE research Lingen Huang, HZDR, Germany
08:30-10:30 Plenary lectures II (auditorium Ronsard) Session Chair: Ryosuke Kodama, ILE, Japan IREX-NEO Project in ILE - Strategy to Demonstrate Fast Ignition by Upgraded GEKKO-XII and LFEX Lasers Yasuhiko Sentoku, ILE, Japan Implosion and illumination design for laser driven fusion energy Duncan Barlow, CEA/DIF, France Experimental platforms and plasma diagnostics updates at LMJ/PETAL Guillaume Boutoux, CEA/DIF, France The crucial role of diagnostics in achieving ignition and beyond on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) David Bradley, LLNL, United States
10:30-11:00 11:00-12:00 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Technologies: Drivers II Session Chair: Félicie Albert, LLNL, USA Recent laser performance results at the National Ignition Facility Jean Michel Di Nicola, LLNL, United States Refinement project on GekkoXII and LFEX facility Yasunobu Arikawa, ILE, Japan Horizon: an Emerging Architecture for High-Pulse Energy, Multi-Kilowatt Picosecond Lasers Denis Marion, CELIA, France Inertial Fusion Science Session Chair: Yasuhiko Sentoku, ILE, Japan Performance Enhancement of Direct-Drive Shock Augmented Ignition Inertial Fusion Implosions through Shock Timing Optimisation Matthew Khan, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Magnetized ICF implosions: ignition at lower laser energy using designs with more mass remaining Chris Walsh, LLNL, United States Experimental evaluation of a 10-PW-driven Nano Accelerator for IFE Daniel Rivas, Marvel Fusion, Germany Inertial Fusion Science: Fundamental properties II Session Chair: Masakatsu Murakami, ILE, Japan The Sensitivity of Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations to Equations of State and Conductivity Datasets Lucas Stanek, SNL, United States Bridging the pressure gap between pulsed power and laser facilities for EoS platforms Victor Beltran, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Low-density materials Equation of State measurements Pauline Valois, CEA/DIF, France
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08:30-09:00 09:00-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:20 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Technologies: IFE reactors I Session Chair: Akifumi Iwamoto, ILE, Japan Addressing the First Wall Challenges for an ICF Pilot Plant Mykola Ialovega, GenF, France Pacific Fusion’s approach to high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion Alex Zylstra, Pacific Fusion, United States The Development of a Point Design for LD-FIRST (Laser Driven Fusion Integration Research and Science Test Facility) Informed by Integrated Systems Modeling Justin Galbraith, LLNL, United States Towards Laser Port Designs for Reduced Laser Imprint in Inertial Fusion Facilities Arnaud Debayle, Focused Energy, Germany Inertial Fusion Science: Hydrodynamics III Session Chair: Fabrizio Consoli, ENEA, Italy Heat Transport in Laser-Produced Magnetized Plasmas Angelos Triantafyllidis, LULI, France Simulations of electron and radiation preheat effects in laser-shocked 3D-printed plastic lattice media Kevin Ma, LANL, United States Shock-compressed foam targets revealed in high spatial resolution on XFEL Thibault Goudal, CEA/DIF, France Quantifying wetted foams shock-front non-uniformities with 2D VISAR: two-photon polymerization foams wetted with cryogenic D2 Audrey Devault, MIT, United States High Energy Density Science: Secondary Sources II Session Chair: Henryk Fiedorowicz, WAT, Poland Pulse Ramp Effects on Target Normal Sheath Acceleration at Relativistic Intensities Jan Psikal, CTU Prague, Czechia Laser-wakefield acceleration of µC-class electron beams at LMJ-PETAL Benoit Mahieu, CEA/DIF, France Experimental characterization of high brightness Xenon and Krypton x-ray sources at the LMJ facility Claire Baccou, CEA/DIF, France Status on laser-driven spin polarized neutron generation Ryuya Yamada, ILE, Japan
12:20-13:30 13:30-14:50 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline IFE programmes Session Chair: Sylvie Jacquemot, LULI, France Germany's Fusion 2040 Initiative: Building a Collaborative Framework for Advancing Fusion Energy Constantin Haefner, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Germany Inertial Fusion Research at the European XFEL Thomas Cowan, HZDR, Germany The IFE-STAR RISE hub research efforts to advance inertial fusion Carmen Menoni, Colorado State U., United States UPLiFT: UK Programme of Laser Inertial Fusion Technology for Energy Robbie Scott, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Inertial Fusion Science: Laser-plasma Interactions II Session Chair: Sophie Baton, LULI, France High-energy density laser matter interaction at ELI Beamlines Raj Laxmi Singh, ELI Beamlines, Czechia The impact of ponderomotively driven bow shocks on Cross Beam Energy Transfer Stefan Hüller, CPhT, France Direct and indirect effects from magnetized cross-beam energy transfer John Moody, LLNL, United States An early look at laser plasma interaction in laser indirect drive designs at 10 MJ of incident energy Thomas Chapman, LLNL, United States Technologies: Diagnostics III Session Chair: Stéphane Darbon, CEA/DIF, France X-ray phase contrast imaging with lasers and XFELs: a comparative study Victorien Bouffetier, HZDR, Germany 3D reconstruction of inertial confinement fusion hot spots using a hybrid neural-voxel algorithm Qing Jia, USTC, China Temporally and spectrally resolved measurements of the optical reflectivity of HED materials on OMEGA-EP Neel Kabadi, LLE, United States Reaction-in-Flight Neutrons: Thick and Thin Plasmas Joshua Martin, LANL, United States
14:50-15:30 Poster session III: Technologies & IFE programmes (salons Agnès Sorel) Femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy of desorbed neutral surface contaminants from rapidly heated wires Trevor Johannes Smith, SNL, United States Small Scale Pulsed Power Facilities at Sandia National Laboratories Jens Schwarz, SNL, United States Overview of Fuse’s Capabilities for Advancing Inertial Fusion Sciences and Applications J.c. Btaiche , Fuse Energy Technologies Corp., United States An evaluation of gain media for use in a laser driver for fusion as part of the UPLiFT project Agnes Wojtusiak, STFC/CLF, United Kingdom Optimization of bonded-chip amplifier medium to optimized repetition rate and spatial gain uniformity of laser Front-end Laura Blanchet, CEA/CESTA, France Liquid-crystal spatial light modulator for large-scale high-power infrared laser amplitude control Sébastien Montant, CEA/CESTA, France PETAL performance: achieving PW on target with upgraded optics Nathalie Blanchot, CEA/CESTA, France Laser performances on Laser MegaJoule facility for ICF experiments Margaux Chanal, CEA/CESTA, France High-performance frequency conversion for future ICF laser chains Gabriel Mennerat, LIDYL, France Performance and Technology of High Power Density Laser Diode Bar Stacks Nobuto Kageyama, Hamamatsu Photonics, Japan Deuterium filling and phase transition in LMJ ICF targets Anthony Seret, CEA/Valduc, France Development of an automated electroplating process for the manufacturing of thin-walled hohlraum. Ronan Botrel, CEA/Valduc, France Foam target structures developed by two-photon polymerization for inertial confinement fusion Raphaël Pénélope, CEA/Valduc, France Metrology for LMJ target structures: current state Rémi de Mollerat Du Jeu, CEA/CESTA, France Characterization automation of LMJ ICF capsules Maxime Dumas, CEA/Valduc, France Numerical Simulation of IFE Targets Injection Florian Condamine, GenF, France 10Hz target injection and multi-beam laser tracking facility Hideki Minato, EX-Fusion, Japan Development of a Φ150 mm steering mirror for commercial laser fusion reactors Yuki Yoshimura, EX-Fusion, Japan Advances in Target Delivery for Inertial Fusion Energy: Electromagnetic Injection and Cryogenic Liquid Jet Formation Takuya Sugimoto, EX-Fusion, Japan Effects of Claw Geometry in MEMS Silicon Cooling Arms on Stress Distribution and Temperature Uniformity for Inertial Confinement Fusion Hanshuo Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Development of Fuel Target Injection Systems for Fast Ignition Mayuko Koga, Hyogo U., Japan High-Precision Foam Target Fabrication Using Two-Photon Polymerization for Double-Cone Ignition Experiments Hao Bian, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China Dynamic Nuclear Polarization in Solid DT Jean-Pierre Didelez, IJCLab, France X-ray calibration of Laser MégaJoule cameras over the 0.1-20 keV range. Radiometric calibrations of X-ray CCDs, X-ray Streak and framing cameras by means of monochromatic multi-anodes X -ray generators Sébastien Hubert, CEA/CESTA, France Dynamic calibrations of Streak Cameras and Gated Framing Cameras for LMJ time resolved Plasma Diagnostics. Charles Crespy, CEA/CESTA, France On target multi beams power shot pointing performance experiment on LMJ Laurent Le Déroff, CEA/CESTA, France Relative cross-calibration of the SAFT and the Near Backscatter Imager on LMJ for the measurement of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Bastien Derruau, CEA/CESTA, France Integrated reflectivity measurements of cylindrical crystals used in x-ray crystal spectrometers of LMJ Charles Reverdin, CEA/DIF, France Design and simulation of a high acceptance electron-positron magnetic spectrometer for PETAL/LMJ Marc Olivier Frégeau, CEA/DIF, France Luminescent concentrators as reflectivity source for emissivity measurement in WDM regime Baptiste Leprovost, CEA/DIF, France Radiation Detection and Dosimetry with Silica-Based Optical Fibers Stéphane Darbon, CEA/DIF, France HRXS – a new High Resolution X-ray Spectrometer for LMJ Benjamin Vauzour, CEA/DIF, France DP21: an enhanced time-resolved broadband X-ray spectrometer Pierre Gruning, CEA/DIF, France General Atomics Excalibur facility for cold opacity and crystal calibration Haibo Huang, General Atomics, United States Simultaneous, dual-species radiography of a hohlraum-driven shock Mariana Alvarado Alvarez, LANL, United States Simulation of a NIF Polar Direct Drive implosion platform for Neutron Capture cross-section measurements Warren Garbett, AWE, United Kingdom Development and Operational Modeling of an X-ray Imaging Detector for High-Resolution Turbulence Observation at the National Ignition Facility Nobuhiko Izumi, LLNL, United States Diagnosing burning plasmas at the National Ignition Facility via reaction-in-flight deuterium-tritium fusion neutron spectral measurements Justin Jeet, LLNL, United States Neutron Imaging at the Sandia National Laboratories Z-Facility: Current and Future Michael Mangan, SNL, United States Modernization of the Chaco Laser at the Z-Backlighter Laser Facility Mark Kimmel, SNL, United States New approach in inertial laser fusion Yuri Chivel, Lagrange, France Toward inertial fusion energy with lasers and reactor design Xavier Ribeyre, CEA/CESTA, France Inertial fusion reactor system modeling: precursor to a digital twin Hugo Chesneau, GenF, France Optimizing fused silica for commercial fusion energy applications Eduard Klett, Heraeus Quarzglas, Germany Development of quasi-aneutronic reactor concepts using alternate fuel cycles Thomas Mehlhorn, HB11 Energy, Australia Dependence of tritium breeding ability on mixing ratio of neutron multiplier to breeding material Akifumi Iwamoto, ILE, Japan Novel high-power and high-efficiency OEC laser-based high-gain shock ignition IFE reactor Atsushi Sunahara, Blue Laser Fusion, United States Simulation of Liquid First Wall Thermodynamics for Fast Ignition Reactors Rodrigo Romero, Osaka U., Japan STARFIRE: Bridging technology gaps towards Inertial Fusion Energy within a cohesive U.S. strategy Clement Goyon, LLNL, United States Status and Update on Public-Sector Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Efforts in the U.S. Tammy Ma, LLNL, United States Accelerating Workforce Development for Inertial Fusion Energy Patrick Poole, LLNL, United States Focused Energy’s Perspective on Germany’s Laser Fusion Approach Markus Roth, Focused Energy, Germany
15:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 16:30-17:30 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science Session Chair: Olivier Poujade, CEA/DIF, France Magnetic Collimation of Relativistic Electron Beams through Resistivity Gradients William Riedel, LLNL, United States Influence of Collisional Effects on Ion-Acoustic Wave Properties in Non-Maxwellian Laser-Heated Plasmas Remi Capdessus , CEA/DIF, France Improvements to Inverse Bremsstrahlung Absorption Models for Indirect Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Simulations Damyn Chipman, LANL, United States Technologies: Diagnostics IV & IFE reactors II Session Chair: Xavier Ribeyre, CEA/CESTA, France Fusion plasma - materials interactions simulated with ion and molecular beams experiments Régis Bisson, PIIM, France EOS pack at the LMJ: Instrument overview and probe laser upgrade Lucien Lehmann, CEA/DIF, France Interpreting Time-resolved X-ray Data on Igniting Fusion Experiments Shahab Khan, LLNL, United States High Energy Density Science: Secondary Sources III & Laboratory astrophysics I Session Chair: Carolyn Kuranz, Michigan U. Ultra-intense neutron source generation from double-layer convertors driven by the PETAL laser Lucas Ribotte, CEA/DIF, France Radiatively-cooled Magnetic Reconnection Experiments on the Z Machine Jack Hare, Cornell U., United States Study of the impact of the interstellar medium on the morphology of Supernova remnant from astrophysics to the laboratory Gabriel Rigon, LULI, France
18:50-22:30
08:00-13:00 08:30-10:30 Plenary lectures IV (auditorium Ronsard) Session Chair: Greg Rochau, SNL Pulsed power ICF driver science, technology and development efforts on the path towards high yield fusion Kyle Peterson, SNL, United States Pulsed power driven preheat using a cryogenic Ice fiber for MagLiF experiments on Z Chris Jennings, SNL, United States Progress, challenges, and plans for the MagLIF platform on Z Adam Harvey-Thompson Adam Harvey-Thompson, SNL, United States Approaching hydro-equivalent inertial confinement fusion ignition in OMEGA direct-drive cryogenic implosions Michael Rosenberg, LLE, United States
10:30-11:00 11:00-12:20 auditorium Ronsard auditorium Descartes room Courteline Inertial Fusion Science: Alternative laser-driven approaches II Session Chair: Tomoyuki Johzaki, Hiroshima U. Bayesian Calibration of Liner experiments using Neural Posterior Estimation James Allison, First Light Fusion, United Kingdom Demonstration of Fast Heating Performance in Double-Cone Ignition Scheme via Fusion-neutron Detection Xiao Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong U., China 1D hydrodynamics study on proton-driven fast ignition laser fusion with p11B fuel Igor Morozov, HB11 Energy, Australia Development of Liquid Deuterium Filled Solid Sphere for Fast Ignition Inertial Fusion Energy Research Shinsuke Fujioka, ILE, Japan Inertial Fusion Science: Target design II Session Chair: Stéphane Laffite, CEA/DIF, France Toward Robust High-Gain Designs for Inertial Fusion Energy via Bayesian Optimization M. Giselle Fernández-Godino, LLNL, United States Tuning inertial confinement fusion designs using Bayesian optimization Shailaja Humane, Michigan U., United States Laser Indirect Drive Designs at 10 MJ of Incident Energy Denise Hinkel, LLNL, United States High yield design options for a next-generation ICF facility Chris Weber, LLNL, United States Inertial Fusion Science: Z-pinch physics Session Chair: Alex Zylstra, Pacific Fusion, USA Demonstrating dual current paths as a method to preheat and implode a magneto-inertial fusion target Matthew Gomez, SNL, United States Electrothermal instability growth in Magnetised Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) liners Nikita Chaturvedi, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Improved Machine-Target Coupling Through Tailored Electrode Coatings Alex Sarracino, SNL, United States Simulations of electrothermal instabilities in wires, foils and liners of relevance to magneto-inertial fusion. Jeremy Chittenden, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
12:30-13:00
