SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | POSTER PREVIEW SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: Edward R. Grant (Purdue University) |
7:30 pm - 9:15 pm | POSTER PREVIEW TALKS |
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Hot Topic #1: Franck Lepine (FOM/AMOLF)
"Observation of quadrupolar effects in a slow photoelectron experiment" |
9:30 pm | Wine and Cheese Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
8:30 am | Conference Photograph |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ATTOSECOND PHYSICS |
9:00 am - 9:15 pm | Discussion Leader: Alexei Sokolov (Texas A&M University) |
9:15 am - 10:05 am | Ferenc Krausz (Technische Universitaet Wien)
"Control and measurement within the light wave cycle: attosecond physics comes of age" |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Hot Topic #2: Johan Mauritsson (LSU)
"Tailoring of Attosecond Pulses and High-Order Harmonics" |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:40 am | Francois Legare (NRC Canada/Universite de Sherbrooke) "Femtosecond Coulomb explosion imaging for probing molecular structure and dynamics" |
11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Misha Ivanov (NRC Canada)
"Attosecond measurements without atto-second pulses: using two-particle correlations" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Browsing |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | TABLE TOP X-RAY SOURCES AND AMPLIFIERS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Lou DiMauro (Brookhaven National Laboratory) |
7:45 pm - 8:35 pm | George Gibson (University of Connecticut)
"Floquet ladders and coherent control: How to make may photons act as one" |
8:35 pm - 9:25 pm | Jorge Rocca (Colorado State University) "Table-top sources of intense Soft X-ray Laser radiation" |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ALIGNING AND ORIENTING MOLECULES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Henrik Stapelfeldt (University of Aarhus) |
9:15 am - 10:05 am | Tamar Seideman (Northwestern University)
"Alignment by intense pulses. From isolated molecules to solutions" |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Hot Topic #3: Simon Viftrup (Aarhus University) "Observation of enhanced field-free molecular alignment by two laser pulses" |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:40 am | Olivier Faucher (Université de Bourgogne)
"Nonintrusive diagnostic of strong laser field-induced impulsive alignment" |
11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Igor Litvinyuk (NRC Canada/Kansas State University)
"Strong field experiments on dynamically aligned molecules" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Browsing |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | RYDBERG ATOMS AND MOLECULES |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Bart Noordam (FOM Institute, Amsterdam) |
7:45 pm - 8:35 pm | Tom Gallagher (University of Virginia) "Non-dispersing Wavepackets" |
8:35 pm - 9:25 pm | Helen Fielding (University College London)
"Using phase-locked sequences of light to control Rydberg wave packet dynamics" |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROLLING ATOMS AND MOLECULES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Robert Gordon (University of Illinois at Chicago) |
9:15 am - 10:05 am | Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University)
"Tailored light pulses acting as photonic reagents" |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Hot Topic #4: Ilya Averbukh (Weizmann Institute of Science) "Laser cooling in a feedback-controlled optical shaker" |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:40 am | Philip Bucksbaum (University of Michigan)
"Applications of Learning Feedback Algorithms to Multiphoton Processes" |
11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Stephen Leone (University of California/LBNL)
"Phase manipulations of multiple photon transitions" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Poster Browsing |
5:15 pm - 5:45 pm | Business Meeting |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ATOMS AND MOLECULES IN HIGH FIELDS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Ingolf Hertel (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear optics and short pulse spectroscopy) |
7:45 pm - 8:35 pm | Lew Cocke (Kansas State University)
"Mechanisms for Doubly Ionizing H2 by Short Laser Pulses, studied through Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy" |
8:35 pm - 9:25 pm | Chris Greene (University of Colorado)
"Xenon Cluster Ionization by an Intense VUV Laser Field" |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | TIME-RESOLVED MOLECULAR PROCESSES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Kees de Lange (University of Amsterdam) |
9:15 am - 10:05 am | Katherine Reid (University of Nottingham)
"Photoelectron spectroscopy of excited states" |
10:05 am - 10:20 am | Hot Topic #5: Richard Mabbs (University of Arizona) "Time-resolved electronic structure evolution via pump-probe photodetachment imaging of molecular anion dissociation" |
10:20 am - 10:50 am | Coffee Break |
10:50 am - 11:40 am | Christoph Rose-Petruck (Brown University)
"X-ray absorption spectroscopy of solvated transition metal complexes measured with ultrafast laser-driven x-ray sources" |
11:40 am - 12:30 pm | Thomas Baumert (Universität Kassel, Germany)
"Strong field control with shaped femtosecond laser pulses on atoms" |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Browsing |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | HIGH HARMONICS AND ATTOSECOND PULSES |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Harm Muller (FOM Institute, Amsterdam) |
7:45 pm - 8:35 pm | Ken Schafer (Louisiana State University)
"Attosecond pulse trains and strong field processes" |
8:35 pm - 9:25 pm | Pierre Agostini (CEA Saclay)
"Synchronization of high harmonics and Fourier synthesis of attosecond pulses" |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Departure |