International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''

November 20 - 25, 2011

with focus days on "Quantum Aggregates"

Preliminary Scientific Program


SUNDAY, November 20th


18:00 - 21:30
REGISTRATION - Entrance hall of the institute
19:00 - 21:30
WELCOME RECEPTION - Entrance hall

MONDAY, November 21st


08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME Jan M Rost
Chairperson: Jan M Rost
09:00 - 09:30 Stefanie Gräfe, Vienna
Low-energy peak structure in strong-field ionization by mid-infrared laser pulses
09:45 - 10:15 Lars Bojer Madsen, Aarhus
Theory of tunneling ionization: Weak-field asymptotics,
Stark shifts and multielectron effects
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Morten Førre, Bergen
Atomic stabilization in intense laser fields
11:45 - 12:15 Stephan Fritzsche, Darmstadt
Double ionization of atoms and ions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: John S Briggs
14:00 - 14:30 Ulf Saalmann, Dresden
Electron-energy bunching in laser-driven soft recollisions
14:45 - 15:15 Uwe Becker, Berlin
Gedankenexperiment to prove the entanglement of time
15:30 - 16:00 Nora Berrah, Kalamazoo
Probing molecules from within using ultra-intense and ultra-fast XFEL pulses
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Jan M Rost
16:30 - 17:30

mpipks-Colloquium

Robert Moshammer, Heidelberg
Time-resolved experiments with atoms and molecules using XUV and IR laser pulses
17:30 - 18:00 Raimund Feifel, Uppsala
Concerted electron spectroscopy studies of atoms and molecules
18:30 Supper

TUESDAY, November 22nd


Chairperson: Harald Friedrich
09:00 - 09:30 Nimrod Moiseyev, Haifa
Breakdown of adiabatic theory for slowly varying chirped laser pulses:
The phenomenon and its application
09:45 - 10:15 Vasily Strelkov, Moscow
Resonant high harmonic generation: Beyond the three-step model
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Carsten Müller, Heidelberg
Electron recombination in dense environment
11:45 - 12:15 Maria Krikunova, Berlin
Ultrafast dynamics driven with intense XUV and NIR pulses
in molecules and nanoparticles
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Guenter Wunner
14:00 - 14:30 Luca Argenti, Madrid
Spectral analysis of correlated wave functions for attosecond
photoionization processes
14:45 - 15:15 Alfred Maquet, Paris
Time-delays in photoionization with attosecond XUV pulses
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Andreas Becker, Boulder
Attosecond intramolecular electron dynamics
16:45 - 17:15 Johannes Nipper, Stuttgart
Interferometric studies of Förster resonances
17:30 - 18:00 Peter Schmelcher, Hamburg
Tunneling dynamics of strongly correlated bosons:
A key mechanism for atomtronical setups
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY, November 23rd


Chairperson: Thomas Pohl
09:00 - 09:30 Matthias Weidemüller, Heidelberg
Electromagnetically induced transparency in ultracold Rydberg gases
09:45 - 10:15 Hans Jakob Wörner, Zürich
Coherent high-harmonic spectroscopy of valence electron dynamics in molecules
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Siva Rama Krishnan, Heidelberg
Dopant induced ignition and expansion dynamics of He nanodroplets
in intense few-cycle NIR pulses
11:45 - 12:15 Sebastian Wüster, Dresden
Flexible Rydberg aggregates
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Frank Stienkemeier
13:30 - 14:00 Moritz Sokolowski, Bonn
Superradiant J aggregates of dye molecules on surfaces
14:15 - 14:45 John S Briggs, Freiburg
Electronic energy transfer on aggregates - Quantum or classical?
15:00 - 15:30 Tom Gallagher, Charlottesville
Interacting oscillating Rydberg dipoles
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Social program
19:00 Workshop dinner, Ballhaus Watzke

THURSDAY, November 24th


Chairperson: Peter Reineker
09:00 - 09:30 Martin B Plenio, Ulm
Systems, environment and long-lived coherence
09:45 - 10:15 Anna Stradomska, Groningen
Excitons and their optical dynamics in linear and tubular molecular J-aggregates
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Frank Stienkemeier, Freiburg
Helium nanodroplet isolation: From collective excitations in organic
aggregates to ultra-short time studies at millikelvin temperatures
11:45 - 12:15 Andrew H Marcus, Eugene
Conformation of exciton-coupled molecular dimers by phase-modulation
2D fluorescence spectroscopy
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Ulf Saalmann
14:00 - 14:30 John Lupton, Regensburg
Excited-state engineering in molecular aggregates
14:45 - 15:15 Tobias Brixner, Würzburg
Coherent two-dimensional nanoscopy
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Jianshu Cao, Cambridge, USA
Optimization of coherent energy transfer in light-harvesting systems
16:45 - 17:15 Tõnu Pullerits, Lund
Two-excitons, annihilation and coherent multidimensional spectroscopy:
Towards understanding the role of coherence in transport processes
17:30 - 18:00 Ulrich Kleinekathöfer, Bremen
Atomistic modeling of light-harvesting complexes:
Dissipation, correlation and spectra
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster session

FRIDAY, November 25th


Chairperson: Ulrich Kleinekathöfer
09:00 - 09:30 Roman Krems, Vancouver
Controlled open quantum systems with ultracold molecules
09:45 - 10:15 Hashem Zoubi, Innsbruck
Excitons and polaritons for optical lattice ultracold atoms
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Stefan Lochbrunner, Rostock
Mobility of excitons in molecular systems
11:45 - 12:15 Semion Saikin, Cambridge, USA
Exciton diffusion in thin-film J-aggregates
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Sebastian Wüster
13:30 - 14:00 Walter Strunz, Dresden
Non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion: Absorption and electronic
excitation transfer in molecular aggregates
14:15 - 14:45 Peter Reineker, Ulm
Modelling energy transport in molecular aggregates
15:00 - 15:30 Ahsan Nazir, London
A variational master equation approach to dissipative energy transfer dynamics
15:45 Coffee break

last update November 16, 2011