Multiphoton Processes

Gordon Research Conference

Attoseconds, Intense Fields, and Ultrafast Imaging

June 3 - 8, 2012
Chair
Vice Chair
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States
 Venue and Travel Information

Conference Description

The 16th Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes will take place at a new venue, Mount Holyoke College. The field has progressed considerably since the first meeting, and so the conference topics have adapted as exciting new research areas open up. The scientific program is cross-disciplinary, including physicists, chemists and optical engineers, in both theory and experiment. The speakers and discussion leaders are a mixture of established leaders in the field and young and upcoming researchers from around the world. The sessions will focus on:

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

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: Barry Walker (University of Delaware, USA)
7:40 pm - 9:30 pmPoster Previews: 2 minute presentation by each poster contributor.
9:30 pm - 11:30 pmWine and cheese reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
8:45 amGroup Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pmAttosecond Electron Dynamics
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Dimitrios Charalambidis (IESL-FORTH, Greece)
9:15 am - 9:50 amMette Gaarde (Louisiana State University, USA)
"Theory of attosecond transient absorption"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 amEleftherios Goulielmakis (MPQ, Garching, Germany)
"Attosecond transient absorption"
11:05 am - 11:15 amDiscussion
11:15 am - 11:25 amGuillaume Laurent (Kansas State University, USA)
"Hot Topic: Attosecond control of orbital parity mix interferences"
11:25 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:40 amGopal Dixit (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)
"Hot Topic: Imaging electronic quantum motion with light"
11:40 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmOlga Smirnova (Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany)
"Attosecond multielectron dynamics in tunnel ionization"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Optional)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmElectron Dynamics in Strong Fields
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Andreas Becker (JILA / University of Colorado, USA)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmReinhard Dörner (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
"Interference and electron entanglement in molecular photoionization"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pmDiscussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmChris Greene (JILA / University of Colorado, USA)
"Transient absorption spectroscopy of laser-dressed helium autoionizing states"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pmDiscussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmMatthias Kling (Kansas State University, USA)
"Imaging of correlated electron emission"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPoster Session
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmAbove Threshold Ionization and Photoelectrons
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Johan Mauritsson (Lund University, Sweden)
9:15 am - 9:50 amArnaud Rouzee (AMOLF, Netherlands)
"ATI with far infrared sources"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 amCosmin Blaga (Ohio State University, USA)
"Molecular imaging with recollision electrons"
11:05 am - 11:15 amDiscussion
11:15 am - 11:25 amPatrick Grugan (University of Delaware, USA)
"Hot Topic: Validity of the dipole approximation for the bound-state interaction in ultrastrong fields"
11:25 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:40 amLauge Christensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Hot Topic: Femtosecond x-ray induced electron diffraction from aligned molecules"
11:40 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmPeter Hommelhoff (MPQ, Garching, Germany)
"Above-threshold photoemission and strong-field physics with a nanometric metal tip"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Optional)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmStrong Fields and XUV Sources
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Chang Hee Nam (KAIST, Korea)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmFrançois Légaré (INRS-EMT, Canada)
"Intense CEP stable few-cycle IR laser pulses for ultrafast X-ray science"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pmDiscussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmHenry Kapteyn (JILA / University of Colorado, USA)
"High harmonic generation to the water window"
8:50 pm - 8:55 pmDiscussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmLars Bojer Madsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Strong field ionization of molecules"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPoster Session
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmHigh Harmonic Spectroscopy
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Jiro Itatani (University of Tokyo, Japan)
9:15 am - 9:50 amMarkus Guehr (Stanford University, USA)
"HHG with molecules"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 amCaterina Vozzi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
"HHG with molecules"
11:05 am - 11:15 amDiscussion
11:15 am - 11:25 amKyung Taec Kim (NRC/University of Ottawa, Canada)
"Hot Topic: The characterization of attosecond pulses in space and time"
11:25 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:40 amMing-Fu Lin (UC Berkeley and LBNL, USA)
"Hot Topic: Molecular orbital dynamics probed by XUV transient absorption spectroscopy"
11:40 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmChii-Dong Lin (Kansas State University, USA)
"Quantitative rescattering theory"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Optional)
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 pmImaging with X-rays
7:30 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Chris Jacobsen (Argonne National Lab)
7:50 pm - 8:30 pmAdam Hitchcock (McMaster University, Canada)
"Chemically sensitive imaging with soft X-rays"
8:30 pm - 8:40 pmDiscussion
8:40 pm - 9:20 pmJohn Spence (Arizona State University, USA)
"Femtosecond X-ray protein nanocrystallography"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPoster Session
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmPhotoionization Delay
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Paul Hockett (National Research Council, Canada)
9:15 am - 9:50 amClaudio Cirelli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Delay in tunnel ionization"
9:50 am - 10:00 amDiscussion
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:30 am - 11:05 amMarcus Dahlstrom (Stockholm University, Sweden)
"Theory of attosecond delays in laser-assisted photoionization"
11:05 am - 11:15 amDiscussion
11:15 am - 11:25 amThushani Herath (Wayne State University, USA)
"Hot Topic: Strong field ionization rate depends on the sign of the magnetic quantum number"
11:25 am - 11:30 amDiscussion
11:30 am - 11:40 amJens Nielsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"Hot Topic: Alignment of molecules in helium droplets"
11:40 am - 11:45 amDiscussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pmMartin Schultze (MPQ, Garching, Germany)
"Attosecond delay in photoionization"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session (Optional)
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmFree Electron Laser Experiments
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: John Costello (Dublin City University, Ireland)
7:45 pm - 8:15 pmLi Fang (Western Michigan University)
"Double-core-hole spectroscopy for chemical analysis"
8:15 pm - 8:20 pmDiscussion
8:20 pm - 8:50 pmNina Rohringer (CFEL, Hamburg, Germany)
8:50 pm - 8:55 pmDiscussion
8:55 pm - 9:25 pmKiyoshi Ueda (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Multiphoton processes of atoms, molecules and clusters by intense FEL pulses"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pmDiscussion
9:30 pm - 11:30 pmPoster Session
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 amDeparture

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