International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''
MPIPKS

November 27 - December 1, 2006

Scientific Program

SUNDAY, November 26th

18:00 - 21:00 Registration - office 2B4
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome buffet in the hall of the institute


MONDAY, November 27th


08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME
CHAIRPERSON: Roland Sauerbrey
09:00 - 09:30 Tom Heinzl, Plymouth
Laser quantum electrodynamics
09:45 - 10:15 Jörg Jäckel, Durham
Photons as a probe of fundamental physics
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Christoph Keitel, Heidelberg
QED, nuclear and high-energy processes in extremely strong laser pulses
11:45 - 12:15 Dino Jaroszynski, Glasgow
Plasma wakefield accelerators as radiation sources
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Michael Geissler
14:00 - 14:30 Oswald Willi, Düsseldorf
Laser triggered micro-lens for focusing and energy selection of MeV protons
14:45 - 15:15 Victor Malka, Palaiseau
Laser plasma accelerators status: On the production of stable, tunable and
high quality electron beam
15:30 - 16:00 Carsten Müller, Heidelberg
Lepton pair creation in strong laser fields
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30

MPIPKS-Colloquium

Alexander Pukhov, Düsseldorf
Electron acceleration in the bubble regime
17:45 - 21:30 Excursion to Forschungszentrum Dresden Rossendorf
Scientific Tour and Supper

TUESDAY, November 28th


CHAIRPERSON: Ulf Saalmann
09:00 - 09:30 Julien Fuchs, Palaiseau
Proton acceleration: New developments for focusing and energy selection,
and applications in plasma physics
09:45 - 10:15 Matthias Schnürer, Berlin
Temporal evolution of intense electric fields in laser plasmas
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Ulrich Schramm, Dresden
Laser-driven radiation sources at the Forschungszentrum Dresden
11:45 - 12:15 A.P.L. Robinson, Chilton, UK
Spectral control of laser-accelerated proton beams
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Ken Taylor
14:00 - 14:30 Paul Gibbon, Jülich
Mesh-free simulation of laser interaction with mass-limited targets
14:45 - 15:15 Ralf Schützhold, Dresden
On signatures of the Unruh effect
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Teodora Baeva, Düsseldorf
High harmonic generation and attosecond pulse control in the relativistic regime
16:45 - 17:15 Horst Schmidt-Böcking, Frankfurt
Experimental investigation of the decay of highly correlated pair states
17:30 - 18:00 Arie Zigler, Jerusalem
Control of interaction of intense short pulse laser with air
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY, November 29th


CHAIRPERSON: Jan Michael Rost
09:00 - 09:30 Wolfgang Schleich, Ulm
Factorization with Gauss sums and chirped laser pulses
09:45 - 10:15 Thomas Pohl, Cambridge, USA
Strongly magnetized Rydberg atoms: Formation and trapping of antihydrogen
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Andreas Becker, Dresden
Correlated electron dynamics in intense laser pulses
11:45 - 12:15 Robert Moshammer, Heidelberg
Time-resolved 3-d imaging of molecular fragmentation in intense laser fields
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Uwe Becker
13:30 - 14:00 Nora Berrah, Kalamazoo, USA
Probing negative ions and van der Waals clusters from within
14:15 - 14:45 Laurence Malegat, Paris
A numerical exploration of the electron pair dynamics around the double
ionization threshold in helium
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Social program with guided tour in art exhibition
19:00 Workshop dinner

THURSDAY, November 30th


CHAIRPERSON: Stephan Fritzsche
09:00 - 09:30 Peter Lambropoulos, Heraklion
Few-photon processes in the XUV and soft X-ray range:
Opportunities and difficulties
09:45 - 10:15 Manfred Lein, Kassel
Molecular orbital tomography using high harmonic generation
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Lars Bojer Madsen, Aarhus
Effects of molecular alignment in strong-field physics from the IR- to the XUV-regime
11:45 - 12:15 Alfred Maquet, Paris
Atoms in strong fields: Two colour IR - XUV multiphoton ionization
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Josef Tiggesbäumker
14:00 - 14:30 Matthias Weidemüller, Freiburg
Ultracold Rydberg gases
14:45 - 15:15 Harald Friedrich, München
Scattering of ultracold atoms by absorbing nanospheres
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Mathias Richter, Berlin
Quantitative investigation of multi-photon ionization in the soft X-ray regime
16:45 - 17:15 Thomas Möller, Berlin
Clusters in intense soft X-ray beams: Energy absorption, ionisation dynamics
and imaging
17:30 - 18:00 Tilo Döppner, Rostock
Dynamics and intensity dependence of cluster ionization in strong laser fields
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster session

FRIDAY, December 1st


CHAIRPERSON: Karl-Heinz Schartner
09:00 - 09:30 Jamal Berakdar, Halle
Photo-induced generation of localized magnetic pulses
09:45 - 10:15 Ingo Barth + Jörn Manz, Berlin
Electron circulation, ring currents, and induced magnetic fields in atoms and
molecules driven by circularly polarized laser pulses
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Nikolay Kabachnik, Bielefeld
Calculation of DDCS for attosecond laser-assisted photoionization of atoms
11:45 - 12:15 John Briggs, Freiburg
Many-electron ionisation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Agapi Emmanouilidou
14:00 - 14:30 Fernando Martin, Madrid
Enhancement and control of H2 dissociative ionization by intense femtosecond
VUV laser pulses
14:45 - 15:15 Reinhard Dörner, Frankfurt
Double slit interference and decoherence in photoionization of H2
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Anthony F. Starace, Lincoln, USA
Quantum origins of strong field plateau features
16:45 - 17:15 Krzysztof Sacha, Krakow
Time resolved quantum dynamics of double ionization in strong laser fields
17:30 Supper

last update 21 November 2006