Howard Milchberg, Distinguished Professor, University of Maryland

Prof. Antonino Di Piazza, Professor of Physics, Distinguished Scientist, LLE, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy

Nick Ernst, GSRA

André Antoine, GSRA

Brendan Stassel, GSRA

Diogo Carvalho, GoLP/IPFN, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa UCLA Physics & Astronomy Dept

Dr. Erik Power, Lab for Laser Engineering (LLE) at the University of Rochester

Dr. Darius Gailevičius, Prof. of Physics, Laser Research Center, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Prof. Yuki Kobayashi, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Department of Chemistry

Aparajit Chandrasekaran , Research Scholar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

Dr. Marko von der Leyen, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford, UK

Yong Chen, KARL LARK-HOROVITZ PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, Purdue University

Chris Giebink , Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

Dr. Linran Fan , Assistant Professor in the Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Jon Murphy,
Applied Physics, UM

Hongmei Tang, ECE

Gregory Robinson, 33-Year Veteran of NASA, Former Director, James Webb Space Telescope, TIME Magazine 100 Most Influential People of 2022, Columbia University Faculty

Dr. Chan Joshi, Distinguished Professor- UCLA

Qian Qian, Joshua Latham, and Nick Ernst, Graduate Student Research Assistants

Mario Balcazar, GSRA, NERS

Dr. Philip Nilson , Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics at the University of Rochester

Brandon Russell and Nicholas Peskosky, Graduate Student Research Assistants, Center for Ultrafast Optical Science

Guest Presenter: Prof. Pierre Gourdain, Professor of Physics, University of Rochester School of Arts and Sciences, ABSTRACT: For years, electron physics has been regarded as irrelevant in many plasma regimes.  While scaling arguments are often used to show that electron effects are negligible, these arguments are there more to hide numerical code shortcomings rather than justify real physical situations.  Going through the generalized Ohm’s law term by term, this talk will show how electron physics plays a role in astrophysical jet stability, in tokamak H-modes, in non-linear magnetic field diffusion and in laser-plasma interactions.

Steven Cundiff, Harrison M. Randall Collegiate Professorship in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan

Herbet Winful, Joseph E. and Anne P. Rowe Professor of Electrical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Nergis Mavalvala, Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics; Assoc. Dept. Head of Physics, MIT