| SUNDAY |
| Evening Session | Opening Session |
| Discussion Leader: Klaus Mueller-Dethlefs (University of York) |
| Richard Freeman (University of California)
The Generation of Intense, High Energy, Collimated Proton Beams From Non-Linear Processes Generated By A Short Pulse High Intensity Laser |
| Matthias Lezius (Innsbruck University)
On the Failure of Static Models of Strong Field Molecular Ionization |
| MONDAY |
| Morning Session | Alignment and Orientation |
| Discussion Leader: Paul Houston (Cornell) |
| Roger Miller (U North Carolina)
Molecular Dynamics through Brute Force Orientation |
| Misha Ivanov (NRC, Ottawa)
Forced molecular rotations in an optical centrifuge: Theory and Experiment |
| Henrik Stapelfeldt (Aarhus, Denmark)
Controlling the orientation of molecules by strong laser fields |
| Evening Session | High Harmonics |
| Discussion Leader: Ken Kulander (LLNL) |
| Ferenc Krausz (TU Wien)
Few-cycle-driven high harmonics and light phase control: a route to sub-femtosecond X-ray pulses? |
| Mette Gaarde (Louisiana State University and Lund, Sweden)
High harmonics in the UV - alkali metal atoms in strong fields |
| TUESDAY |
| Morning Session | Free Electron Lasers at Short Wavelengths |
| Discussion Leader: Erik Johnson (Brookhaven) |
| Eric Rohlfing (Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences)
Progress toward the next generation light source |
| Thomas Möller (Hamburg)
A Free Electron Laser for the VUV spectral range: Concept, first Results and Applications |
| Li Hua Yu (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
High Gain Harmonic Generation Experiment |
| Evening Session | Short Pulses for Fourth Generation Sources |
| Discussion Leader: Pierre Agostini (CEA, Saclay) |
| Alexei Sokolov (Stanford)
Subfemtosecond Pulse Generation by Molecular Modulation |
| Ian Walmsley (Rochester)
Metrology of short pulses |
| Zohar Amitay (JILA, University of Colorado)
Coherent Phase Control to Time-Shift the Dynamics of Molecular Wave Packets |
| WEDNESDAY |
| Morning Session | Larger Molecules and Clusters |
| Discussion Leader: Ed Grant (Purdue) |
| Rainer Weinkauf (Düsseldorf)
Test of the charge site by multiphoton excitation |
| Michael Duncan (U Georgia)
Infrared multiphoton ionization with a tunable FEL: Vibrational spectroscopy of metal-carbide clusters |
| Tim Zwier (Purdue)
Laser spectroscopy of H-bonded bridges in and around nature's building blocks |
| Evening Session | Strong Field Effects |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Knight (Imperial College) |
| Todd Ditmire (Livermore)
Intense femtosecond laser interactions with clusters and applications to nuclear fusion |
| Reinhard Doerner (Frankfurt)
Double ionization of He in intense laser fields |
| Lambros Nikolopoulos (IESL - FORTH)
Multiphoton single anddouble ionization of two-electron atoms, using multichannel continuum wavefunctions: Application to Helium |
| THURSDAY |
| Morning Session | Wavepackets and Adaptive Control |
| Discussion Leader: Albert Stolow (NRC, Ottawa) |
| Helen Fielding (King’s College, London)
Rydberg wavepackets in molecules |
| Gustav Gerber (Wuerzburg)
Multiphoton Single and Double Ionization of Calcium by Feeback-Optimized Femtosecond Laser Pulses |
| Phil Bucksbaum (Michigan)
Rydberg wavepackets and quantum computing |
| Evening Session | Special and Hot Topics |
| Discussion Leader: Peter Lambropoulos (MPI Garching) |
| Paul Julienne (National Institute for Standards and Technology)
Nonlinear phenomena in Bose-Einstein condensate wavepacket dynamics |
| Yehuda Band (NIST / Ben-Gurion University)
Spontaneous and Stimulated Elastic Scattering Loss in Bose-Einstein Condensate Systems |
| Uzi Even (Tel-Aviv University)
Evidence for superfluid transition in small He clusters |
