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OSU HEDP professor Chris Orban and his students have been working to enhance ultra-intense laser interactions with machine learning / artificial intelligence tools since 2021, thanks to funding…
The Department of Physics at the Ohio State University announces an opening for a tenure-track faculty hire in theoretical or experimental Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (AMOP). The…
On February 28, 2020, Preston Pozderac competed in the 34th Annual Edward F. Hayes Graduate Research Forum at the Ohio State University. The event features oral and poster presentations of cutting…
The annual NIF and Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF) User Group meeting held this month brought together 186 researchers to review recent experimental results, preview upcoming Discovery Science…
Several people from the HEDP group presented at the Statewide Users Group Conference at the Ohio Supercomputer center:
Joseph Smith - Awarded Second Place
Optimizing Laser-Plasma…
Douglass Schumacher presented at the National Nuclear Security Administration 2019 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Symposium in Albuquerque, NM. He described a new DOE funded project of Enam…
The LaserNetUS collaboration became official on August 20, 2018. The LaserNetUS network serves scientists in the United States by providing access to domestic user facilities and enabling a broad…
The Hazel Brown Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award was awarded to Anthony Zingale at the Annual Physics Picnic on April 25, 2017.
This award recognizes Outstanding Performance as a…
The annual OMEGA Laser Users' Group (OLUG) Workshop at LLE hosts a poster competition during the meeting. Derek Nasir won Honorable Mention in the Graduate Student category for Best Poster Award.…
Featured in the 2017 Stewardship Science Academic Programs Annual are:
Current graduate student Ginevra Cochran and former graduate student Sheng Jiang.
On page 35, Ginevra Cochran is…
Christopher Orban, assistant professor, physics (Marion), will conduct an Ohio State-affiliated, Physics of Video Games camp,…
The Physics Graduate Student Council hosted their annual poster competition in December of 2016. At the following Physics Department Spring Picnic, three winners were awarded with Clifford Heer…
Prof. Chowdhury, in collaboration with Prof. Jay Gupta, won one of the three of this year’s Institute of Material Research (IMR) team building seed grant awards, to study intense field interaction…
Prof. Chowdhury’s Lab is part of AFOSR MURI (Multi-disciplinary Univeristy Research Initiative) program headed by Prof. Dimauro of OSU Physics. The Program focuses on probing intense field light…
Undergrad Evan Lang (Adviser: Enam Chowdhury) worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory for Directed Energy in Kirtland Air Force Base in Summer 2014 as an AFRL fellow (http://afrlscholars.usra…
Students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group gave posters at the Ohio Supercomputer Center Statewide Users Group Meeting in December.
Congratulations to…
Students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group gave posters at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF) User Group Meeting in February.
Special…
Photo by Randy Montoya (on behalf of US Government laboratory). Courtesy, Sandia National Laboratories.
"A higher-than-predicted measurement of iron opacity at solar interior temperatures"…
Graduate students of the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group present posters at the 2nd High-Power Laser Workshop and LCLS USER Meeting at SLAC.
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group is represented at the 13th International Workshop on the Fast Ignition of Fusion Targets, 2014 by graduate student Sheng Jiang.
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The Femto-Solid Laboratory headed by Dr. Enam Chowdhury from the High Energy Density Physics Research Group has brought up the GRAY laser.
GRAY operates at 3 mJ/pulse 1 kHz, 50 fs and is…
Patrick Poole, C. David Andereck, and Douglass Schumacher file provisional patent 62/001,698, "HIGH-REPETITION RATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL THIN-FILM LASER TARGET INSERTER"
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Patrick Poole, a graduate student in the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group, gave a poster presentation at the Extreme Light Infrastructure-Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS)…
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group is represented at the 56th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS DPP), 2014.
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Scott Feister presents a paper at the 20th Topical Conference on High-Temperature Plasma Diagnostics (HTPD) 2014. All conference proceedings are published in the peer reviewed journal Review of…
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group gave three presentations at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Program in Ultrafast Laser Science and Engineering (PULSE)…
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group is represented at the 55th annual meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS DPP) with three talks and two…
Research Assistant Professor, Enam Chowdhury, gave the introduction to the Ultrastrong High Energy Processesand High Intensity Science at the Multi Photon Processes Gordon Research Conference. Dr…
Research Assistant Professor, Enam Chowdhury, gave a SPECIAL Condensed Matter Seminar to the Department of Physics at Princeton University.
Understanding strong field laser solid…
The Physics Graduate Student Council (PGSC) Poster Competition was held in August of 2014. High Energy Density Physics graduate students won two of three $1500 prizes.
Kyle Kafka - Advisor…
Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Science, Richard R. Freeman, is taking a one year sabbatical from The Ohio State Univeristy. Dr. Freeman is the lead Principal Investigator for…
Liquid Crystal Target Development at OSU
Patrick Poole and Professor Douglass Schumacher, members of the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group, gave a talk at…
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group was in attendance for the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2014.
Four graduate students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group attended and presented posters at the 2014 Omega Laser Facility Users Group Workshop.
The High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group was in attendance for the 2014 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium.
Sponsored by the National Nuclear Security…
Professor Boqin Ma, Communication University of China, joins the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) research group…
Four graduate students from the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Research Group gave posters at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF) User Group Meeting in…
Research Assistant Professor Kramer Akli and Research Scientist Michael Storm of the High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) Group will be leading the design and construction of a new target chamber…
Linn Van Woerkom, associate provost and director for University Honors & Scholars and professor of physics, has been chosen to receive a prestigious Fulbright International Education…
The 27th Annual Edward F. Hayes Research Forum was held on March 1, 2013 at the Ohio Union. The Hayes Research Forum, co-sponsored by CGS, The Graduate School, and the Office of Research, is put…
During a somewhat "contrived" group meeting in the Smith Seminar Room on February 12, there was a surprise interruption. President Gordon Gee, Divisional Dean Peter March, President of the Alumni…
HEDPSS 2013
The 2013 High-Energy-Density-Physics (HEDP) Summer School, organized by the Fusion Science Center at the University of Rochester, with co-sponsorship from LLNL's Institute for Laser…
A Workshop on Frontiers In Extreme Relativistic Optics (FIERO) will be held on February 20-21 at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, sponsored by the High Energy Density Research Laboratory…