August 19th:
Location: Lazlo’s Brewery & Grill
Directions from Hotel to Lazlo’s (3 min walk)
6:00 pm: Reception
Day-1/August 20th:
Location: Lied Commons
Directions from Hotel to Lied Center Commons (8-min walk)
Session Chair: Arianna E Gleason-Holbrook
- Colorado State University (Rocca)
- BELLA Laser Facility at LBNL (Leemans)
- University of Nebraska Lincoln (Umstadter)
- University of Michigan (Krushelnick)
10:10 AM: Coffee Break (15 min)
- University of Texas Austin (Ditmire)
- Jupiter Laser Facility at LLNL (Albert)
- Ohio State University (Schumacher)
- Matter in Extreme Conditions (MEC) at SLAC (Dyer)
- University of Rochester MTW (Zuegel)
12:15 PM Lunch
Location: Behlen Lab
Direction from Lied Commons to Behlen (5-min walk)
1:30 PM: Parallel sessions (Behlen)
- LaserNetUS management meeting
- Lab tours (Group 1 begins at 1:30 pm and Group 2 begins at 2:30 pm)
Location: Morrill Hall
Directions from Behlen to Morrill Hall (5-min walk)
3:30 PM: Install posters (only for poster presenters)
4:00 PM: Poster session and networking part 1
5:00 PM: Poster session and networking part 2
Location: Champions Club
Directions from Morrill Hall to Hotel (13-min walk)
Directions from Hotel to Champions Club (11-min walk)
Directions from Morrill Hall to Champions Club (8-min walk)
6:30 PM: Cocktails
7:00 PM: Banquet Dinner
Day-2/August 21st:
Location: Lied Commons
8:30 AM: The scientific case for an open-access large-scale Petawatt Laser Facility in the U.S. (Chair: Roger Falcone)
- NAS Recommendation-4: (Howard Milchberg) (20 min)
- HEDSA perspective (Bedros Afeyan) (20 min)
- Plasma Science Frontiers Report (Skiff) (20 min)
- LaserNetUS representative (20 min)
- LLE perspective (Campbell) (15 min)
10:30 AM: Coffee Break (20 min)
- LLNL perspective (Wilks) (15 min)
- SLAC perspective (Glenzer) (15 min)
- LBNL perspective (Leemans) (15 min)
- SNL perspective (Sinars) (15 min)
- Other members of the HED scientific community (5 min each)
11:55 AM: Contest and prize awarded for best LaserNetUS logo
12:00 PM: Lunch
1:30 PM: Next facility roundtable discussion
2:30 PM: Adjourn
Additional Information:
1. A campus map will be provided in your welcome packets. But an online version is found here
2. The hotel and conference will provide other transportation options