Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop
25 April–27 April | Rochester, NY
| We highly encourage all participants to car pool for the entire workshop. Please note that the maximum capacity of the main conference room is 110 people. We are not able to go above this number so please register early. |
Dear OLUG Members and Colleagues:
We look forward to your participation in making the 2012 Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop a success (see the AGENDA and REGISTRATION tabs). This workshop will explore ways to enhance and extend current research and collaborations at OMEGA as well as to help formulate further improvements to, and novel operating regimes for, the OMEGA facilities. The workshop will be very informal and interactive and students and post-docs, for whom we will do our best to provide substantial support for travel and lodging and registration, are strongly encouraged to attend (see SUBSIDY tab). At the workshop, we especially encourage the presentation of nascent ideas and concepts that are not fully developed, possibly even tentative, but which could stimulate discussion and lively exchange and which could, as well, open novel and exciting vistas of new research (see TITLES tab). Students or first-time users will find this venue ideal for presenting potential experimental topics with the result of obtaining expert opinions and suggestions. In addition we will discuss in the general sessions progress in implementing OLUG Findings and Recommendations as well as formulating new ones.
Foreign Nationals: Please bear in mind that we must have your registration submitted on line by 21 February 2012, else we cannot accommodate your registration. If in doubt, we strongly suggest that you register before that date.
U.S. Citizens: It is equally imperative that you register on line by 30 March 2012. After that date we cannot guarantee that we will be able to accommodate your registration due to the limited capacity of the room.
As space limitations at LLE prevent more than 110 people from registering, please consider doing so early on, as we will be forced to close registration once that number is reached. (Because of this issue, last year's registration was closed two weeks before the Workshop began.)
We hope that you, your colleagues, students, advisors, will join us in making this a memorable and enjoyable workshop. Bring your enthusiasm and ideas!
| Richard Petrasso, Chair Massachusetts Institute of Technology petrasso@psfc.mit.edu |
Mark Koepke West Virginia University mark.koepke@mail.wvu.edu |
| Hui Chen Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory Chen33@llnl.gov |
Tammy Ma Student-Postdoc Chair, LLNL ma8@llnl.gov |
| Paul Drake University of Michigan rpdrake@umich.edu |
Roberto Mancini University of Nevada at Reno rcman@unr.edu |
| James Knauer University of Rochester, Laboratory for Laser Energetics jkna@lle.rochester.edu |
Peter Norreys Rutherford Appleton Laboratory p.norreys@rl.ac.uk |
| James Cobble Los Alamos National Laboratory cobble@lanl.gov |
Acknowledgements:
This OMEGA Users Workshop is made possible in part by the generous support of the National Nuclear Security Administration for travel expenses of students and postdocs; by the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences for support of general workshop costs; by the Fusion Science Center; by the MIT/Plasma Science and Fusion Center; and by the Laboratory for Laser Energetics for the use and availability of critical resources and support.
Please contact Jean Steve (585-275-5286) or email Jean Steve if you have any questions.
