Confirmed invited/plenary/special speakers

• Andrew Ng, University of British Columbia, CANADA
  "Progress in the study of electron-ion coupling in warm dense gold"
• Tetsuo Irifune, Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, JAPAN
  "Multi-anvil static high-pressure technology and its applications to deep Earth and materials sciences"
• Tilo Doeppner, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  "Achieving target gain > 1 on the National Ignition Facility"


• Byoung-ick Cho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, KOREA
  "Electron-electron and Electron-phonon relaxations in Non-equilibrium Warm Dense Copper"
• Ichiro Inoue, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, JAPAN
  "Measurement and applications of ultrafast X-ray interactions with matter"


• Francois Soubiran, CEA, FRANCE
  "An ab initio study of the hydrogen-helium phase separation in the Gibbs ensemble"
• Yoshio Kono, Geodynamics Research Center, Ehime University, JAPAN
  "Tetrahedral symmetry breaking in SiO₂ glass under pressure observed by in situ pair distribution function measurement"
• Yongjae Lee, Yonsei University, KOREA
  "XFEL-induced iron-volatile reactions and its implication on the formation of reduced atmosphere in the early Earth"


• Suxing Hu, University of Rochester, USA
  "Probing Warm-Dense Matter with X-ray Spectroscopy"
• Ludovic Rapp, Australian National University, AUSTRALIA
  "Restructuring Matter with Laser Pulses at Ultra-Relativistic Intensity"


• Ludovic Lecherbourg, CEA, FRANCE
  "Dynamics of femtosecond heated warm dense copper with time-resolved L3-edge XANES"
• Tomohito Otobe, QST, JAPAN
  "Quantum and semiclassical simulations of laser excitation processes"
• Lucas Stanek, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  "Quantifying the Sensitivity of Magnetohydrodynamics Simulations of Warm Dense Matter Using Multi-Fidelity Electrical Conductivity Data"


• Tadashi Ogitsu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  "Electron-phonon coupling in nonequilibrium warm dense matter systems"
• Laurent Mercadier, European XFEL, GERMANY
  "Creation and Characterization of Warm Dense Matter by One or Two XFEL Pulses"
• Thomas Preston, European XFEL, GERMANY
  "Spectroscopy opportunities in Warm Dense Matter at the High Energy Density Scientific Instrument of the European XFEL"
• Didier Saumon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
  "White Dwarf Matter"
• Sebastien Hamel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  "Phase behavior of water and hydrocarbons at planetary conditions"
• Motoaki Nakatsutumi, European XFEL, GERMANY
  "Picosecond surface morphology in femtosecond laser- irradiated metals investigated by grazing incidence XFEL"
• Dimitri Khaghani, SLAC, USA
  "X-ray imaging of filamentation dynamics in over-dense plasmas and WDM studies at the MEC instrument"