MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
 

Workshop on 'Atomic Physics'

December 9 - 13, 2002

PROGRAM

Sunday, December 8th
19:30 Arrival and welcome reception


Monday, December 9th

08:50 - 09:00 Welcome
  Chairperson: Andreas Becker
09:00 - 09:40 Tilo Döppner, Rostock
  Coulomb explosion dynamics of free and encapsulated metal clusters
09:40 - 10:20 David Zaretsky, Moscow
  Nonlinear effects in clusters irradiated by strong laser fields
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Alexander Magunov, Moscow
  The soft x-ray emission spectra from clusters, irradiated by
an intense laser pulse
11:40 - 12:20 Claus Peter Schulz, Berlin
  C60 ionization and fragmentation dynamics
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
  Chairperson: Horst Rottke
14:00 - 14:40 Alfred Maquet, Paris
  Molecular response with moving nuclei to intense laser pulses
14:40 - 15:20 Ekaterina Eremina, Berlin
  Molecular double ionization in high intensity ultra-short laser pulses
15:20 - 16:00 Hartmut Figger, Garching
  H2+ and its isotopomers in intense laser light fields -
dissociation and Coulomb explosion under high energetic resolution
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
 
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS COLLOQUIUM
T. W. Hänsch, Garching
Precision spectroscopy with ultra-short pulses
 
17:40 - 18:20 Alejandro Saenz, Konstanz
  Molecular hydrogen in intense DC or low-frequency laser fields
   
18:30 Supper



Tuesday, December 10th

  Chairperson: Wilhelm Becker
09:00 - 09:40 Jan Posthumus, Louvain
  Experimental observation of the timescale of mulitphoton ionisation
of molecular hydrogen
09:40 - 10:20 Henrik Stapelfeldt, Aarhus
  Imaging and control of interfering wave packets in a dissociating molecule
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Mikhail Fedorov, Moscow
  Stabilization of molecules with respect to photodissociation
by a strong laser field
11:40 - 12:20 Jon Marangos, London
  High harmonic generation in molecules
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
  Chairperson: Bruno Eckhardt
14:00 - 14:40 Robert Moshammer, Heidelberg
  Signatures of electron rescattering for single ionization
of Ne in the tunneling regime
14:40 - 15:20 Carla Faria, Berlin
  Quantum-orbit analysis of above-threshold ionization and
nonsequential double ionization
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Krzysztof Sacha, Krakow
  Simultaneous escape of electrons in multiple ionization of atoms
and strong fields
16:40 - 17:20 Farhad H. M. Faisal, Bielefeld
Correlated double-escape in intense laser field
   
18:00 Supper
19:00 - 21:00 Poster Session



Wednesday, December 11th

  Chairperson: Jan-Michael Rost
09:00 - 09:40 Thomas Schlathölter, Groningen
  Coulomb explosion of small DNA/RNA nucleobases
09:40 - 10:20 Deepak Mathur, Mumbai
  Control of cluster explosions in intense laser fields
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Yuichi Fujimura, Sendai
  Molecular reaction dynamics induced by intense lasers
11:40 - 12:20 Christoph Lemell, Wien
  Electron emission from metal surfaces by ultrashort pulses:
determination of carrier-envelope phase
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:40 Thomas Moeller, Hamburg
  Interaction of intense soft x-rays from a free electron laser
with rare gas atoms and clusters
14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break
16:00 Guided tour in the PORCELAIN COLLECTION, Zwinger
   
19:30 Conference Dinner



Thursday, December 12th

  Chairperson: Thomas Pattard
09:00 - 09:40 Karl-Heinz Schartner, Giessen
  Partial wave analysis of autoionizing states by
orientation and alignment transfer
09:40 - 10:20 Tom Kirchner, Heidelberg
  Manipulating ion-atom collisions with coherent
electromagnetic radiation
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Christoph Keitel, Freiburg
  Multiply charged ions in intense high-frequency laser pulses
11:40 - 12:20 Bernd Witzel, Freiburg
  Wavelength dependent multiphoton ionization of xenon
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
  Chairperson: Henri Bachau
14:00 - 14:40 Uwe Becker, Berlin
  Coherence and scattering in photoionization
14:40 - 15:20 Jürgen Zanghellini, Ottawa
  Multielectron dynamics in strong laser fields
15:20 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:40 Manfred Lein, Dresden
  Molecules in strong lasers: Interference effects in high-harmonic
generation and above-threshold ionization
16:40 - 17:20 Mathias Uhlmann, Dresden
  Dynamics of H2+ and H2 in intense laser fields
   
18:00 Supper
19:00 - 21:00 Poster Session



Friday, December 13th

  Chairperson: Ulf Saalmann
09:00 - 09:40 Vsevolod Balashov, Moscow
  Kinetic equation approach to charge exchange and
transient excitation effects in stopping of fast
highly-charged ions propagating through matter
09:40 - 10:20 Nico Stolterfoht, Berlin
  Young type interferences in the electron emission from H2
by fast ion impact
10:20 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40 Nimrod Moiseyev,
  Controlled tunneling of cold atoms: from full suppression
to strong enhancement
11:40 - 12:20 Andreas Buchleitner, Dresden
  Anderson localization in light-matter interaction
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch



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