International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''

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November 24 - 28, 2008

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

SUNDAY, November 23th

18:00 - 21:30 Registration - entrance hall of the institute
19:00 - 21:30 Welcome buffet in the entrance hall


MONDAY, November 24th


08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME
CHAIRPERSON: Walter Strunz
09:00 - 09:30 Alexander Eisfeld, Dresden
A stochastic Schrödinger equation approach to quantum aggregates
09:45 - 10:15 Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Bremen
Applying time-local theories to dissipative dynamics and transport
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Michael Thoss, München
Dynamics of electron transfer processes in molecular systems at surfaces
11:45 - 12:15 Oliver Kühn, Rostock
Vibrational spectroscopy of the hydrogen bonds in DNA base pairs
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Rüdiger Schmidt
14:00 - 14:30 Gerhard Stock, Frankfurt
Quantum-classical simulation of the energy-flow in biomolecules
14:45 - 15:15 Alexandra Olaya-Castro, London
Energy transfer efficiency in a light-harvesting core
15:30 - 16:00 Frank Grossmann, Dresden
Semiclassical approaches to dissipative dynamics
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30

mpipks-Colloquium

John S Briggs, Freiburg
Max Born's legacy to quantum mechanics: From entanglement to quantum gravity
18:30 Supper

TUESDAY, November 25th


CHAIRPERSON: Jan M Rost
09:00 - 09:30 Christoph Meier, Toulouse
Local control for mixed quantum-classical approaches
09:45 - 10:15 Michael Thorwart, Freiburg
Enhanced quantum entanglement in the non-Markovian dynamics of biomolecular excitons
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Joachim Ankerhold, Ulm
Quantum dynamics in strongly condensed phase:
The quantum Smoluchowski equation
11:45 - 12:15 Sigmund Kohler, Augsburg
State preparation and readout in circuit QED
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Manfred Kleber
14:00 - 14:30 Klaus Hornberger, München
Bell test for the motion of free material particles
14:45 - 15:15 Gernot Alber, Darmstadt
Quantum error correction in many-qubit systems - methods and perspectives
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Pierre Gaspard, Brussels
Stochastic Schrödinger equation and the localization of subsystem-environment observables
16:45 - 17:15 Daniel Burgarth, Oxford
Restricted quantum control of spin chains
17:30 - 18:00 Jamal Berakdar, Halle
Stochastic dynamics and control of spin systems
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY, November 26th


CHAIRPERSON: John S Briggs
09:00 - 09:30 Marcel Mudrich, Freiburg
Fs spectroscopy of alkali-doped helium nanodroplets:
Wavepacket dynamics and reactions
09:45 - 10:15 Oliver Gessner, Berkeley
Ultrafast electronic dynamics in Helium nanodroplets studied by
femtosecond time-resolved EUV photoelectron imaging
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Edward Grant, Vancouver
The very slow expansion of an ultracold plasma formed in a seeded
supersonic molecular beam of NO
11:45 - 12:15 Klaus Muller-Dethlefs, Manchester
ZEKE Rydberg states in a crowd and "Condensed Rydberg Clusters":
A new state of matter?
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Jan M Rost
13:30 - 14:00 Vera Bendkowsky, Stuttgart
Observation of a novel binding mechanism for ultra-long range molecules
14:10 - 14:40 Thomas Pohl, Dresden
Dynamical crystallization in cold Rydberg gases
14:50 - 15:20 Igor Lesanovsky, Innsbruck
Trapped Rydberg ions
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15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break
15:30 Social program with guided tour in the Old Masters Picture Gallery
19:00 Workshop dinner in Restaurant Kahnaletto

THURSDAY, November 27th


CHAIRPERSON: Karl-Heinz Schartner
09:00 - 09:30 Harald Friedrich, München
Near-threshold properties of s-waves in two dimensions
09:45 - 10:15 Peter Schlagheck, Regensburg
Strong and weak localization with Bose-Einstein condensates
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Matthias Weidemüller, Heidelberg
Formation of ultracold polar molecules and the quest for chemistry without entropy
11:45 - 12:15 Günter Wunner, Stuttgart
Exceptional points, bifurcations, and chaos in ultracold atoms with long-range interactions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Vitali Averbukh
14:00 - 14:30 Lars Bojer Madsen, Aarhus
Theory of time-resolved strong-field ionization dynamics
14:45 - 15:15 Kamal Singh, Manhattan KS
Femtosecond photodissociation of molecules facilitated by noise
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Paula Riviere, Dresden
Strong field dynamics with electron wave packet replicas
16:45 - 17:15 Darko Dimitrovski, Aarhus
The Magnus expansion for laser-matter interaction
17:30 - 18:00 Stefan Fritzsche, Darmstadt
Angular correlations in sequential two-photon double ionisation
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster session

FRIDAY, November 28th


CHAIRPERSON: Ulf Saalmann
09:00 - 09:30 Christoph Bostedt, Berlin
Ultrafast processes in clusters induced by soft x-ray radiation from the FLASH - FEL
09:45 - 10:15 Thomas Fennel, Rostock
Nanoplasma dynamics in laser irradiated clusters
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Lothar Ph H Schmidt, Frankfurt
Young-type interference in collisions between hydrogen molecular ions and helium
11:45 - 12:15 Uwe Becker, Berlin
Study of entanglement of continuous variables by photoinduced processes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
CHAIRPERSON: Anatole Kenfack
14:00 - 14:30 Lampros Nikolopoulos, Belfast
Multiphoton processes in helium: Ab-initio time-dependent studies
14:45 - 15:15 Richard Taieb, Paris
Imaging of molecular orbitals from high-order: Harmonic spectra:
Challenges in theory
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Sabre Kais, Dresden
Finite size scaling and quantum criticality
17:00 Supper

last update November 20, 2008