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Multiphoton Processes

Gordon Research Conference

June 6 - 11, 2010
Chair Mette Gaarde
Vice Chair David Villeneuve

Conference Description

The Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes will be held for the 15th time in 2010. The meeting continues to evolve as it embraces both the rapid technological and intellectual growth in the field as well as the multi-disciplinary expertise of the participants. This time the sessions will focus on:

  • Ultrafast coherent control
  • Free-electron laser experiments and theory
  • Generation of harmonics and attosecond pulses
  • Ultrafast imaging
  • Applications of very high intensity laser fields
  • Strong-field processes in molecules and solids
  • Attosecond science
  • Controlling light

The scientific program will blur traditional disciplinary boundaries as the presenters and discussion leaders involve chemists, physicists, and optical engineers, representing both experiment and theory. The broad range of expertise and different perspectives of attendees should provide a stimulating and unique environment for solving problems and developing new ideas in this rapidly evolving field.

Conference Program

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmPOSTER 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 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmHHG AND ATTOSECOND PULSE PRODUCTION
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Franz Kaertner (MIT, USA)
9:15 am - 9:50 amMargaret Murnane (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
"Phase Matching and Attosecond Pulse Generation using High Harmonics at Photon Energies > 0.5 keV"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am Hot Topic #1: Jochen Mikosch (NRC, Canada)
"Multiple Continua in the Strong Field Ionization of Polyatomic Molecules"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 amHot Topic #2: Marcus Dahlström (Lund University, Sweden)
"Interference effects in two-color high-order harmonic generation"
10:25 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am Group Photo / Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amKatsumi Midorikawa (RIKEN, Japan)
"Nonlinear Fourier transform spectroscopy using an attosecond pulse train"
11:35 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmMichael Spanner (NRC, Canada)
"One-electron ionization of multielectron systems in strong nonresonant laser fields"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Browsing
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmATTOSECOND ELECTRON DYNAMICS
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Lew Cocke (Kansas State University)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmMarc Vrakking (AMOLF, the Netherlands)
"Attosecond electron dynamics in small molecules"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmHans-Jacob Wörner (National Research Council, Canada)
"Following chemical reactions using high-harmonic spectroscopy"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmJohan Mauritsson (Lund University, Sweden)
"Attosecond electron interferometry"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmULTRAFAST COHERENT CONTROL
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Phil Bucksbaum (Stanford University, USA)
9:15 am - 9:50 amThomas Weinacht (SUNY Stony Brook, USA)
"Creating and controlling multi-hole electronic wave packets in molecules"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am Hot Topic #3: Renate Pazourek (TU Wien, Austria)
"Apparent time delays in atomic attosecond streaking"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am Hot Topic #4: Avner Fleisher (Technion, Israel)
"Continuum and bound attosecond electron wavepackets"
10:25 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amRegina de Vivie-Riedle (Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany)
"Control of nuclear and electron motion by light"
11:35 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmHenrik Stapelfeldt (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Photoelectron angular distributions from strong-field ionization of oriented molecules"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Browsing
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmULTRAFAST IMAGING
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Paul Corkum (National Research Council, Canada)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmNirit Dudovich (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
"Probing electronic wavefunctions via attosecond pulse generation process"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm Stefan Hau-Riege (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
"Interaction of high-intensity x-ray radiation with matter"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmAlfred Maquet (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)
"Imaging of Molecular Orbitals from Harmonic Spectra: Challenges in Theory"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFEL EXPERIMENTS AND THEORY
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Roger Falcone (UC Berkeley, USA)
9:15 am - 9:50 amNora Berrah (Western Michigan University, USA)
"First Results on Ultrafast and Ultraintense X-Ray Studies of Molecular Photoabsorption using the LCLS Free Electron Laser"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am Hot Topic #5: Anne Marie March (Argonne National Lab., USA)
"Atomic response to ultraintense femtosecond duration x-rays"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am Hot Topic #6: James Cryan (Stanford University, USA)
"Auger electron angular distribution from double core hole states in the molecular frame"
10:25 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amPeter Lambropoulos (FORTH Institute, Greece)
"Postmodern multiphoton physics: Atoms in strong X-ray radiation"
11:35 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmRobert Moshammer (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany)
"Break-up of atoms and molecules in intense VUV FEL radiation"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Browsing
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pm - 7:30 pmBusiness 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 pmCONTROL OF LIGHT
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Ian Walmsley (Oxford University, UK)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmJun Ye (JILA/University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
"VUV and XUV frequency combs"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmLou DiMauro (Ohio State University, USA)
"Ionization Dynamics in the Tunneling Regime"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmAaron Lindenberg (Stanford University, USA)
"High field THz generation from air: Generation mechanisms and application to materials"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
9:30 pm Poster Session
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmSTRONG FIELD PROCESSES IN MOLECULES AND SOLIDS
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Jonathan Marangos (Imperial College, London, UK)
9:15 am - 9:50 amIngolf Hertel (Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany)
"Large molecular systems in intense, short laser pulses"
9:50 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:10 am Hot Topic #7: Shambhu Ghimire (Stanford University, USA)
"High-harmonic generation in strongly driven bulk periodic solid"
10:10 am - 10:15 am Discussion
10:15 am - 10:25 am Hot Topic #8: Kiyoshi Ueda (Tohuko University, Japan)
"Multiphoton Processes in nanoclusters by intense EUVFEL pulses at Spring-8"
10:25 am - 10:30 am Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 amUwe Thumm (Kansas State University, USA)
"Time-resolved photoemission from atoms and surfaces"
11:35 am - 11:45 am Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmRoseanne Sension (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
"Optical control of condensed phase molecular reactions via multiphoton excitation"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Browsing
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSUPERINTENSE LASER FIELDS
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Discussion Leader: Donald Umstadter (University of Nebraska)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmRainer Hörlein (Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany)
"Generation of ultra-intense attosecond pulses from solid density plasmas: Status and Prospects"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pm Discussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmRainer Grobe (Illinois State University, Normal, USA)
"The visualization of electron-positron interactions in strong fields"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pm Discussion
8:55 pm - 9:05 pm Hot Topic #9: Ben King (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)
"A matterless double-slit"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm Hot Topic #10: Turgay Uzer (Georgia Tech, USA)
"Recollisions and correlated double ionization with circularly polarized light"
9:20 pm - 9:25 pm Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDepart

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