22-24 September 2008 - Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France

Presentations and book of abstracts are now available online.

WORKSHOP RATIONALE.
Extreme Laboratory Astrophysics (XLA) experiments aim to reproduce in the laboratory scaled, complex phenomena of astrophysical interest. These include compressible hydrodynamic mixing, hypersonic jets and their interaction with the ambient medium, magnetohydrodynamic jet formation, radiation dominated shocks, photo-ionised plasmas, collisionless shocks and magnetic reconnection.

The workshop will bring together scientists from the astrophysics and plasma physics communities with the aim of stimulating an interdisciplinary collaborative effort, and identifying common objectives in this emerging area of research. The following three point will be central to discussions at the workshop:
i) to expose the astrophysical community to the advances and the opportunities existing in XLA, while at the same time presenting to the plasma physics community the current status of research in a number of key areas in astrophysics;
ii) to identify fundamental astrophysical issues that could benefit from current and future XLA experiments;
iii) to discuss the creation of a framework for an integrated interdisciplinary approach comprising theory, numerical modelling, experiments and observations, and explore funding issues.

Partecipation is under invitation only.

Organizing Committee S.V. Lebedev (Imperial College, UK) A. Ciardi (Observatoire de Paris, France) T.P. Ray (DIAS, Ireland) C. Stehle (Observatoire de Paris, France)