14th Int. Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics

We are pleased to announce the 14th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA), to be held May 20-24, 2024, at the Hotel Duval in Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. HEDLA is a topical conference series that started in 1996, and has run more or less every other year since then, alternating locations between the US, Europe, and Asia. The goal is to use or develop laboratory experiments to better understand HED phenomena in the universe.

During the past decade, research teams around the world have developed astrophysics-relevant research utilizing high energy-density (HED) facilities such as intense lasers and pulsed power driven magnetic pinch facilities. Research is underway in many areas, such as compressible hydrodynamic mixing; strong shock phenomena; radiation flow; radiative shocks and jets; complex opacities; equations of state; high pressure solid-state phase boundaries, phase transitions, and unique new states of matter; dust formation, acceleration, and impact dynamics; super-strong magnetic fields and magnetic reconnection; relativistic plasmas, and plasma particle acceleration.

Meeting topics

• Laboratory experiments
• Radiation hydrodynamics
• Cosmic ray generation
• Basic plasma physics processes
• Stellar, solar, and nuclear astrophysics
• Warm dense matter
• Stellar explosions, supernovae, GRBs, and supernova remnants
• Dust and magnetized HED laboratory astrophysics
• Equations of state, phase boundaries, and phase transition kinetics, at high pressures and densities
• Properties of planetary and exoplanet interiors, brown dwarf and white dwarf interiors
• Hydrodynamic instabilities, mixing, and the transition to turbulence
• Computations in high-energy density physics applications
• Astrophysical disks, jets, and outflows

Host or Publisher Florida State University