International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''
MPIPKS

November 25 - 30, 2007

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

SUNDAY, November 25th

18:00 - 21:00 Registration - office 2 B 4
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome buffet in the hall of the institute


MONDAY, November 26th


08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME Jan M Rost
CHAIRPERSON: Matthias Weidemüller
09:00 - 09:30 Robin Coté, Storrs
Long-range interaction and macrodimers in ultracold Rydberg samples
09:45 - 10:15 Thibault Vogt, Charlottesville
Towards transient orientation of diatomic molecules
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Christian Giese, Freiburg
Coherent effects in ultracold Rydberg gases
11:45 - 12:15 Cenap Ates, Dresden
Rydberg excitations: From ultracold gases to BECs
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Tom Kirchner
14:00 - 14:30 James Martin, Waterloo, CA
ac electric-field-induced resonant energy transfer between cold
Rydberg atoms
14:45 - 15:15 Robert Loew, Stuttgart
Strongly interacting Rydberg gases
15:30 - 16:00 Ben van Linden van den Heuvell, Amsterdam
Spatially resolved observation of dipole-dipole interaction
between cold Rydberg atoms
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30

mpipks-Colloquium

Hanspeter Helm, Freiburg
Electric field effects in Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen
18:30 Supper

TUESDAY, November 27th


CHAIRPERSON: Alejandro Saenz
09:00 - 09:30 Oliver Mülken, Freiburg
Quantum transport in ultracold Rydberg gases
09:45 - 10:15 Wieland Schöllkopf, Berlin
Trapping of Rb atoms by ac electric fields
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Shuhei Yoshida, Vienna
Electric dipole echoes in Rydberg atoms
11:45 - 12:15 F Barry Dunning, Houston
Designer atoms: Engineering atomic wavefunctions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Nark Nyul Choi
14:00 - 14:30 Chris Greene, Boulder
Spectroscopy and collision physics of molecular Rydberg states
14:45 - 15:15 Igor Lesanovsky, Innsbruck
Trapped Rydberg ions
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Gregor Tanner, Nottingham
Scaling laws in the photo-ionisation cross section of helium
below the double ionisation threshold - The role of the triple collision
16:45 - 17:15 Frédéric Merkt, Zürich
Hyperfine effects in atomic and molecular Rydberg states
17:30 - 18:00 Peter Schmelcher, Heidelberg
Trapping and aligning of ultracold Rydberg atoms in the quantum regime
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY, November 28th


CHAIRPERSON: Pierre Pillet
09:00 - 09:30 Charles S Adams, Durham
Photon interactions using Rydberg dark states
09:45 - 10:15 Hossein Sadeghpour, Cambridge, USA
Energy transfer in electron-Rydberg collisions (revisited):
Substantial implications for recent ultracold plasmas
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Daniel Comparat, Orsay
Electric-field induced dipole blockade with Rydberg atoms
11:45 - 12:15 Georg Raithel, Ann Arbor
Spectroscopy of Rydberg-atom interactions in a dipole trap
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 Edward Shuman, Charlottesville
Many-body ionization in a frozen Rydberg gas
14:15 - 14:45 Harald Friedrich, München
How useful is the concept of quantum defects for
not-so-long-ranged potentials?
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:30 Social program with guided tour in the New Green Vault
19:00 Workshop dinner in Ballhaus Watzke

THURSDAY, November 29th


CHAIRPERSON: Andreas Becker
09:00 - 09:30 Uwe Thumm, Manhattan, KS
Controlling and imaging the nuclear motion in small molecules
with ultrashort laser pulses
09:45 - 10:15 Nikolay Kabachnik, Bielefeld
Attosecond chronoscopy: Probing the time-evolution of strong field
atomic photoionization
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Bernd Witzel, Québec
Visualization of xenon double ionization as a function of the wavelength
11:45 - 12:15 Camilo Ruiz Mendez, Dresden
Correlated particles in strong laser fields
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Stephan Fritzsche
14:00 - 14:30 Stefan Schippers, Giessen
Collective excitations in (endohedral) fullerene ions illuminated by synchrotron radiation
14:45 - 15:15 Steven Manson, Atlanta
Theoretical studies of photoabsorption by confined atoms
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Andrey Solov'yov, Frankfurt
Collective dynamics in fullerenes and fullerene-like systems
16:45 - 17:15 Matthias Brack, Regensburg
Coupling of surface and volume plasmons in C-60 molecules
17:30 - 18:00 Josef Tiggesbäumker, Rostock
Angular resolved photoelectron spectroscopy on fullerenes and clusters
in intense laser fields
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster session

FRIDAY, November 30th


CHAIRPERSON: Ulf Saalmann
09:00 - 09:30 Thomas Möller, Berlin
Interaction of intense soft X-rays with clusters: Ultrafast processes
and imaging of clusters
09:45 - 10:15 Andreas Wolf, Heidelberg
Fast-beam molecular fragment imaging experiments for probing
dissociation dynamics
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Kamal Priya Singh, Dresden
Optimal stochastic photoionization of atoms
11:45 - 12:15 Jakub Prauzner-Bechcicki, Krakow
Suppression of correlated electron escape in double ionization
in strong laser fields
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Jan M Rost
14:00 - 14:30 Ennio Arimondo, Pisa
Mott insulator for Rydberg excitation
14:45 - 15:15 Peter Schlagheck, Regensburg
Nonlinear transport of Bose-Einstein condensates
through disorder potentials
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Discussion
18:00 Supper

last update November 22, 2007