SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 11:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | POSTER PREVIEWS |
| Discussion Leader: Ed Grant (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
9:30 pm | Wine and Cheese Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | STRONG FIELD PROCESSES IN MOLECULES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Andre Bandrauk (Sherbrooke University, Canada) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Lew Cocke (Kansas State University, USA)
"EUV/IR pump-probe experiments in a COLTRIMS geometry" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic #1: Xibin Zhou (JILA, University of Colorado, USA)
"Phase and polarization of high order harmonic emission from transiently aligned molecules" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Hot Topic #2: Akihisha Goban (University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Laser-field-free molecular orientation" |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Bernhard Schlegel (Wayne State University, USA)
"Time-dependent configuration interaction simulations of molecules in strong fields" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Phil Bucksbaum (Stanford University, USA)
"Ultrafast Quantum Control" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Group Photo / 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 | FREE ELECTRON LASER SCIENCE AND X-RAYS |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Robert Moshammer (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Alexander Föhlisch (University of Hamburg, Germany)
"X-ray induced dynamics with high-brilliance FEL radiation" |
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
8:25 pm - 8:55 pm | Linda Young (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
"Strong-field control of x-ray processes" |
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Hot Topic #3: Helmut Zacharias (University of Munster, Germany)
"Autocorrelation of Soft R-ray FEL pulses at FLASH" |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ULTRAFAST IMAGING |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Tom Weinacht (SUNY, Stony Brook, USA) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Sarah Baker (Imperial College, England)
"Probing molecular structure and dynamics with electron recollisions" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic #4: Hans-Jakob Worner (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
"Observing molecular dynamics using high-harmonic generation" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Hot Topic #5: Omair Ghafur (AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
"Controlling Impulsive Orientation and Alignment of state-selected NO" |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Manfred Lein (Kassel University, Germany)
"Orientation dependence of harmonic amplitude and phase in molecular high harmonic generation" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Arvinder Sandhu (University of Arizona, USA)
"Probing femtosecond dynamics of highly-excited molecular states" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 | LASER CONTROL OF MOLECULES |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Robert J. Levis (Temple University, USA) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Albert Stolow (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
"Non-adiabatic Molecular Dynamics and its Quantum Control" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Tamar Seideman (Northwestern University, Evanston, USA)
"Toward Coherent Control in the Nanoscale" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Herschel Rabitz (Princeton University, USA)
"Hiking Over Quantum Control Landscapes" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | ULTRAFAST DYNAMICS OF MOLECULES |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Oliver Gessner (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Wolfgang Domcke (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
"Ultrafast photoinduced electron and proton dynamics in polyatomic molecules: theoretical aspects" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic #6: Karen Hatsagortsyan (MPI für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
"Laser-driven relativistic recollisions" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Hot Topic #7: Tim Laarman (DESY, Hamburg, Germany)
"Coherent control of bond breaking in building blocks of proteins with tailored femtosecond pulses" |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Andrei Sanov (University of Arizona, USA)
"Negative ion dynamics from the electronic perspective" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Matthias Kling (Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
"Controlling electron dynamics in molecular dissociation" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Browsing |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| (Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair) |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ATTOSECOND SCIENCE |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Misha Ivanov (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Ken Schafer (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Attosecond excitation of coherent electron wave packets" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Dimitris Charalambidis (FORTH, Crete, Greece)
"Multi-XUV-photon processes with table-top, sub-fs radiation sources" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Olga Smirnova (National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada)
"HHG spectroscopy of polyatomic molecules" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CONTROLLING ATOMS WITH LIGHT AND VICE VERSA |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Discussion Leader: Tom Gallagher (University of Virginia, USA) |
9:15 am - 9:50 am | Joachim Burgdorfer (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
"Coherent control at the quantum to classical crossover: Shaping and manipulating Rydberg wavepackets" |
9:50 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
10:00 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic #8: Brett Esry (Kansas State University, USA)
"General theory of carrier-envelope phase effects" |
10:15 am - 10:30 am | Hot Topic #9: Gilles Doumy (Ohio State University, USA)
"Attosecond synchonization of harmonics from long wavelength drivers" |
10:30 am - 11:00 am | Coffee Break |
11:00 am - 11:35 am | Bob Jones (University of Virginia, USA)
"Which way is up? Inducing and Probing Dynamics Using Asymmetric Pulses" |
11:35 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
11:45 am - 12:20 pm | Lene Hau (Harvard University, USA)
"Slow Light in Bose-Einstein condensates: A new paradigm for quantum control" |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
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 | SUPER HIGH INTENSITY |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Discussion Leader: Wolfgang Sandner (Max-Born Institute, Berlin, Germany) |
7:45 pm - 8:15 pm | Todd Ditmire (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
"Strong Field Interactions with Wavelength-Scale Structures" |
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm | Discussion |
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm | Arnaud Couarion (École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France)
"Ultrafast nonlinear optics of filamentation" |
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm | Discussion |
8:55 pm - 9:25 pm | Barry Walker (University of Delaware, USA)
"Is the Field Strong or Ultrastrong?" |
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
9:30 pm | Poster Session |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |