| SUNDAY |
| 2:00-9:00 | Arrival and check-in |
| 6:00 | DINNER |
| POSTER PREVIEW |
| Chair: Prof. E. Grant (Purdue, USA) |
| 7:30-9:15 | Poster Preview Talks |
| 9:15-9:30 | Hot Topic 1: M. D. Poulsen, E. Skovsen and H. Stapelfeldt (Aarhus, Denmark)
"Photochemical Reactions Studied by Laser Induced Alignment" |
| 9:30 | Reception and Poster Session I |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| 8:30 | Conference Photo |
| ALIGNMENT AND ORIENTATION |
| 9:00-9:15 | Dr. T. Seideman (NRC, Canada), discussion leader |
| 9:15-10:05 | Prof. R. Gordon (U Illinois Chicago, USA)
"Molecular optics and controlling the motion of molecules" |
| 10:05-10:35 | Coffee Break |
| 10:35-11:25 | Dr. M. Vrakking (FOM, The Netherlands)
"Femtosecond laser-induced molecular alignment" |
| 11:25-12:15 | Dr. C. Hayden (Sandia, USA)
"Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron/photoion coincidence imaging" |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 6:00 | DINNER |
| HIGH HARMONIC GENERATION |
| 7:30-7:40 | Dr. E. Constant (Bordeaux, France), discussion leader |
| 7:40-8:30 | Prof. M. Murnane (Colorado/JILA, USA)
"Multiphoton EUV Photonics" |
| 8:30-9:20 | Prof. J. Marangos (Imperial College, England)
"High harmonic generation and electron wave packet interference in aligned molecules" |
| 9:20-9:35 | Hot Topic 2: Hirofumi Sakai, S. Minemoto, H. Nanjo, H. Tanji and T. Suzuki (Tokyo, Japan)
"Controlling the Orientation of Polar Molecules with Combined Electrostatic and Pulsed, Nonresonant Laser Fields" |
| 9:35 | Poster Session I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| SUPER-INTENSE INTERACTIONS |
| 9:00-9:15 | Prof. T. Ditmire (U Texas, USA), discussion leader |
| 9:15-10:05 | Prof. B. Walker (Delaware, USA)
"Ionization, rescattering and radiation dynamics for atoms in ultra-intense fields" |
| 10:05-10:35 | Coffee Break |
| 10:35-11:25 | Prof. S. L. Chin (Laval, Canada)
"Self-focusing and filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical media limited by multiphoton transition: intensity clamping and white light laser" |
| 11:25-12:15 | Prof. R. R. Freeman (UC Davis, USA)
"The ultimate multiphoton interaction: Visible light energy converted to MeV electrons" |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 6:00 | DINNER |
| LIGHT MANIPULATION |
| 7:30-7:40 | Dr. Pierre Agostini (Saclay, France), discussion leader |
| 7:40-8:30 | Prof. L. Hau (Harvard, USA)
"Slowing light"
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| 8:30-9:20 | Prof. Jun Ye (JILA, USA)
"Coherent control of light" |
| 9:20-9:35 | Hot Topic 3: E. Wells, I. Ben-Itzhak and R. R. Jones (Virgina, USA)
"Evidence for Ponderomotive-Gradient Field-Ionization in an Intense Focused Laser Beam" |
| 9:35 | Poster Session I |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| STRONG-FIELD MOLECULAR CONTROL |
| 9:00-9:15 | Prof. A. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada), discussion leader |
| 9:15-10:05 | Dr. A. Stolow (NRC, Canada)
"Methods for complex molecular wave packets" |
| 10:05-10:35 | Coffee Break |
| 10:35-11:25 | Prof. R. Levis (Wayne State, USA)
"Conversations with molecules in the strong field regime" |
| 11:25-12:15 | Dr. M. Motzkus (MPI Garching, Germany)
"Adaptive coherent control of quantum phenomena" |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 6:00 | DINNER |
| ATTOSECOND SCIENCE |
| 7:30-7:45 | Business Meeting |
| 7:45-7:55 | Prof. D. Charalambdis (FORTH Crete, Greece), discussion leader |
| 7:55-8:45 | Prof. H. G. Muller (FOM, The Netherlands)
"Optimization and frequency active control of high harmonic generation" |
| 8:45-9:35 | Dr. P. Corkum (NRC, Canada)
"Attosecond electrons for probing molecular dynamics" |
| 9:35 | Poster Session 2 |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
| ATOMIC INTERACTIONS IN INTENSE LASER FIELDS |
| 9:00-9:15 | Prof. P. Bucksbaum (Michigan, USA), discussion leader |
| 9:15-10:05 | Dr. G. Paulus (MPI Garching, Germany)
"The "absolute" phase of few-cycle laser pulses" |
| 10:05-10:35 | Coffee Break |
| 10:35-11:25 | Dr. H. Rottke (MBI Berlin, Germany)
"Cold target "recoil" ion momentum spectroscopy applied to strong field ionization: The intensity regime at and below the threshold for electron impact ionization" |
| 11:25-12:15 | Prof. J. Eberly (Rochester, USA)
"100,000 strong-field trajectories compared with quantum theory" |
| 12:30 | LUNCH |
| 6:00 | DINNER |
| FUTURE FRONTIERS IN MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES |
| 7:30-7:40 | Dr. K. Kulander (LLNL, USA), discussion leader |
| 7:40-8:30 | Prof. P. Lambropoulos (FORTH Crete, Greece)
"Multiphoton physics beyond the XUV wavelength range; A new frontier?" |
| 8:30-8:45 | Hot Topic 4: H. Wabnitz, P. Gurtler, A.R.B. Castro, R. Dohrmann, T. Laarmann, W. Laasch, J. Schulz, A. Swiderski and T. Moller (Hamburg, Germany)
"Coulomb Explosion of Rare Gas Clusters Irradiated by Intense VUV Pulses of a Free Electron Laser" |
| 8:45-9:00 | Hot Topic 5 Dr. Thomas Brabec (Vienna, Austria)
"Many Body Strong Laser Field Physics" |
| 9:00 | Poster Session 2 |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30-8:30 | Breakfast |
