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<p class="MsoNormal">Folks – Chris Orban will be presenting a Special Colloquium tomorrow – Wednesday February 5, 2014 at 11:30 am in 4138 PRB as part of the interview process for the faculty position at OSU-Marion. This will be a talk aimed at a general audience.
A reception will take place outside 4138 at 11:15 am.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please come and support Chris tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Title: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
Bringing the Stars to Earth: Laboratory Astrophysics, Fusion Energy and other Unique Opportunities in an Age of High-Powered Lasers <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p>Abstract: <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
Advances in laser technology and other technical achievements have enabled the creation of laboratory plasmas that reach stellar temperatures at near-or-above solid densities for the first time. I will describe a few recent, on-going and planned experiments
in this category, often called High Energy Density Physics (HEDP), that myself (using theory/simulation) and others at Ohio State University are investigating. Although located at radically different facilities, these experiments are united by the common goal
to better understand both the conditions for laser fusion and the properties of matter at these high temperatures. Along these lines, I will overview my work on so-called "fast ignition" fusion, and I will discuss my collaborations with different teams working
to test theoretical models of x-ray opacities. Experiments in this latter category are interesting in their own right as they may help resolve an outstanding issue in solar astrophysics. Finally, I will mention my recent work with the “Extreme Light” team
at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, where analysis of electron trajectories in Particle-in-Cell simulations indicates a highly efficient and possibly new mechanism of electron acceleration in laser fields.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bradley Hand ITC"">Shelley<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#BB0000;background:white">Shelley Palmer</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333"><br>
Administrative Associate to the Chair<br>
</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#BB0000;background:white">Department of Physics</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:#333333">
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1040P Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210<br>
(614) 292-2653 Office<br>
<a href="mailto:palmer.14@osu.edu"><span style="background:white">palmer.14@osu.edu</span></a>
<a href="http://osu.edu"><span style="background:white">osu.edu</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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