MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME DRESDEN


International Workshop on

ATOMIC PHYSICS



Talks should be 30min + 5min discussion.

Sunday, November 28th
19:30 - 22:00 Welcome buffet and registration


Monday, November 29th

08:50 - 09:00 Welcome
Chairperson: Andreas Becker
09:00 - 09:35 Gregor Tanner, Nottingham
Classical dynamics near the triple collision in two-electron atoms
09:35 - 10:10 Alexander Dorn, Heidelberg
(e,3e) on helium at low excess energies:
The highly correlated three-electron continuum
10:10 - 10:45 Agapi Emmanouilidou, Atlanta
Triple photoionization of lithium near threshold
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Uwe Becker, Berlin
Towards time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of molecules
11:50 - 12:25 Thomas Schlathölter, Groningen
Ion and laser induced ionization and fragmentation dynamics
of biomolecules
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Ulf Saalmann
14:30 - 15:05 Hartmut Figger, Garching
HD+ in intense pulsed laser fields
15:05 - 15:40 Mathias Uhlmann, Dresden
Molecular alignment in strong laser fields
15:40 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS-Colloquium
Gerard Meijer, Berlin
Manipulation of molecules with electric fields
18:30 Supper


Tuesday, November 30th

Chairperson: Karl-Heinz Schartner
09:00 - 09:35 Marek Seliger, Wien
Non-unitary quantum trajectory Monte Carlo method
for open quantum systems
09:35 - 10:10 Harald Friedrich, München
Quantum reflection of metastable hydrogen atoms from a conducting surface
10:10 - 10:45 Matthias Weidemüller, Freiburg
Ultracold Rydberg gases: State-of-the-art and perspectives
10.45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50 Thomas Pohl, Dresden
Relaxation dynamics of ultracold neutral plasmas
11:50 - 12:25 Michael Drewsen, Aarhus
Towards single molecular ion studies using Coulomb clusters
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Thomas Pattard
14:30 - 15:05 John Briggs, Freiburg
Ionisation and recombination in intense, short electric field pulses
15:05 - 15:40 Volker Engel, Würzburg
Quantum control fields from instantaneous dynamics
15:40 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 16:50 Henrik Cederquist, Stockholm
Collision dynamics with fullerenes and clusters of fullerenes
16:50 - 17:25 Claus Peter Schulz, Berlin
Multi-electron dynamics in large finite systems: Excitation, ionisation
and fragmentation of C60 in strong laser fields
18:00 Supper
19:30 Poster session with beer and wine

Wednesday, December 1st

Chairperson: Ingolf Hertel
09:00 - 09:35 Tim Laarmann, Berlin
Optimal control of energy redistribution in C60: Selection of
relaxation pathways using temporally shaped laser pulses
09:35 - 10:10 Stefan Schippers, Giessen
Photoionization of fullerene ions by synchrotron radiation
10.10 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 11:20 Dieter Bauer, Heidelberg
Above-threshold ionization in few-cycle laser pulses: Comparison
between exact numerical solution and quantum orbit theory
11:20 - 11:55 Frank Stienkemeier, Bielefeld
Real-time experiments of doped helium nanodroplets:
Relaxation and decoherence
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Jan M Rost
13:30 - 14:05 Daniel Zajfman, Rehovot
Electron impact detachment of small negative clusters:
Does size matter?
14:05 - 14:40 Marc J.J. Vrakking, Amsterdam
Direct and indirect ways to observe ultrafast strongly-driven electron dynamics
15:00 Departure from the Institute
15:45 - 17:30 Guided tour in the city of Meissen
18:00 Guided tour, workshop dinner & wine tasting
in the vineyard Zadel


Thursday, December 2nd

Chairperson: Wilhelm Becker
09:00 - 09:35 Eleanor E.B. Campbell, Göteborg
Collision and laser-induced dynamics of fullerenes
09:35 - 10:10 Andrey Solov'yov, Frankfurt
Collective electron excitations in fullerenes and metalic clusters
10.10 - 10:45 Jamal Berakdar, Halle
Electronic correlation effects in multi-electron emission from C60
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50 Sergei Popruzhenko, Moscow
Collisionless heating of a classical electron nanoplasma in laser-irradiated clusters
11:50 - 12:25 Thomas Brabec, Ottawa
Complex materials in strong laser fields
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Andreas Becker
14:30 - 15:05 Joshua Jortner, Tel Aviv
Extreme multi-electron ionization of clusters in ultra-intense laser fields
15:05 - 15:40 Vladimir Krainov, Moskau
Second-harmonic generation at the relativistic laser-cluster interaction
15:40 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 16:50 Lutz Schweikhard, Greifswald
Photoexcitation of stored dianionic clusters
16:50 - 17:25 Bernd von Issendorff, Freiburg
Electron-phonon coupling in highly excited free sodium clusters
18:00 Supper
19:30 Poster session with beer and wine


Friday, December 3rd

Chairperson: Eric Suraud
09:00 - 09:35 Wolf-Dieter Schneider, Lausanne
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of a self-assembled
adatom supperlattice: Ce on Ag(111)
09:35 - 10:10 Heinz Hövel, Dortmund
Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of metal clusters on graphite
10:10 - 10:45 Richard Berndt, Kiel
Adatoms interacting with surface states
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:50 Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Erlangen
Dynamics of free and embedded clusters
11:50 - 12:25 Alberto Castro, Berlin
A computational approach, based on TDDFT, to the description of
high-intensity irradiation of clusters and molecules
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Josef Tiggesbäumker
14:30 - 15:05 Thorsten Bernhardt, Berlin
Femtosecond laser spectroscopy of mass-selected noble metal clusters
15:05 - 15:40 Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer, Rostock
Ion and electron emission from metal clusters subject to
dual-pulse fs radiation
15:40 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 16:50 Thomas Möller, Berlin
Interaction of intense VUV-pulses with molecules and clusters
16:50 - 17:25 Christian Siedschlag, Amsterdam
Clusters in VUV fields
18:00 Supper