International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''

November 26 - 30, 2012

with focus days on "Quantum electronics and quantum optics with X-rays"

Scientific Program


SUNDAY, November 25th


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

MONDAY, November 26th


08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME
Chairperson: Nina Rohringer
09:00 - 09:30 Peter Lambropoulos, Heraklion
Quantum optics problems recycled at short wavelength
09:45 - 10:15 Philipp Demekhin, Heidelberg
Light-induced conical intersections:
Application to transient electronic states of molecules
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Peter Gilch, Düsseldorf
Applications of femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy (FSRS)
in photochemistry and photobiology
11:45 - 12:15 Miroslav Kloz, Amsterdam
Multidimensional femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy – troubles
beyond the four-wave-mixing: present state and outlook towards X-ray regime
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Oriol Vendrell
14:00 - 14:30 Ralf Röhlsberger, Hamburg
Cooperative emission and quantum optics with atomic nuclei
14:45 - 15:15 Adriana Palffy, Heidelberg
X-rays and nuclei: From controlling single X-ray photons to isomer depletion
via photons and electrons
15:30 - 16:00 Jörg Evers, Heidelberg
X-ray quantum optics with nuclei
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Jan M Rost
16:30 - 17:30

mpipks-Colloquium

Robin Santra, Hamburg
Ultrafast X-ray atomic physics
18:00 Supper

TUESDAY, November 27th


Chairperson: Bruce Patterson
09:00 - 09:30 Faris Gelmukhanov, Stockholm
Dissociative X-ray lasing
09:45 - 10:15 Victor Kimberg, Hamburg
X-ray lasing in diatomic molecules pumped by XFEL radiation
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 James Harries, Hyogo
Superfluorescence from helium gas following FEL excitation
11:45 - 12:15 Catalin Miron, Gif-sur-Yvette
Recent developments in high-resolution gas-phase studies using synchrotron radiation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Peter Lambropoulos
14:00 - 14:30 Tom Penfold, Lausanne
Simulating time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy of molecules
14:45 - 15:15 Artem Rudenko, Manhattan, KS
Ultrafast charge rearrangement and nuclear dynamics upon multiple
inner-shell ionization of molecules
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Oriol Vendrell, Hamburg
Photoionization and fragmentation of water clusters by XUV light:
Correlated proton-hole motion and non-adiabatic effects
16:45 - 17:15 Sharon Shwartz, Ramat Gan
X-ray parametric down-conversion
17:30 - 18:00 Kenji Tamasaku, Hyogo
Parametric down-conversion of X-rays into the optical region and its applications
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

WEDNESDAY, November 28th


Chairperson: Peter Schmelcher
09:00 - 09:30 Manfred Kleber, München
Quantum simulations with quantum sources
09:45 - 10:15 Günter Wunner, Stuttgart
Bose-Einstein condensates in PT-symmetric double wells
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Andreas Buchleitner, Freiburg
Multipath quantum interference – from atoms to biomolecules
11:45 - 12:15 Klaus Richter, Regensburg
The Weyl law for many-particle excitations:
A geometrical approach to the mean density of states
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Javier Madronero
13:30 - 14:00 Tim-Oliver Müller, München
Interatomic collisions and spectra at near-threshold energies
14:00 - 14:30 Martin Fink, München
Scattering and absorption of ultracold atoms by nanotubes
14:30 - 15:00 Peter Schmelcher, Hamburg
Atoms in magnetic and electric fields: A journey through the past
and an outlook into the future
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
Social program & Workshop Dinner

THURSDAY, November 29th


Chairperson: Harald Friedrich
09:00 - 09:30 Thomas Pohl, Dresden
Nonlinear quantum optics with highly excited atoms
09:45 - 10:15 Marcus Dahlström, Stockholm
Time-independent approach to attosecond delay experiments
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Olga Smirnova, Berlin
Attosecond Larmor clock
11:45 - 12:15 Lampros Nikolopoulos, Dublin
Strong-field effects on the ionization of atomic systems with short
wavelength radiation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Sebastian Wüster
14:00 - 14:30 Markus Kitzler, Wien
Laser-pulse-induced fragmentation of polyatomic molecules:
From observation to control
14:45 - 15:15 Markus Gühr, Menlo Park
Soft x-ray probing of ultrafast chemical dynamics
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Ulf Saalmann, Dresden
Parallel ionization and Coulomb explosion:
"Antibunching" and bunching
16:45 - 17:15 Thomas Möller, Berlin
Ultrafast X-ray induced dynamics in clusters
17:30 - 18:00 Philippe Wernet, Berlin
Molecular dynamics with ultrafast X-rays: Opportunities with non-linear spectroscopy
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster session

FRIDAY, November 30th


Chairperson: Klaus Ziegler
09:00 - 09:30 Nirit Dudovich, Rehovot
Looking inside the recollision process
09:45 - 10:15 Hans Jakob Wörner, Zürich
Probing electronic dynamics and coherence with high-harmonic spectroscopy
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Norio Takemoto, Rehovot
Phase-space approach to the time-dependent Schrödinger equation:
Toward propagation of a multi-electron wavepacket
11:45 - 12:15 Agapi Emmanouilidou, London
Formation of highly excited atoms in the fragmentation of strongly driven moleculs
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Nark Nyul Choi
13:30 - 14:00 Lukas Gallmann, Zürich
Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy: Shedding new light
on fundamental light-matter interaction
14:15 - 14:45 Thomas Pfeifer, Heidelberg
Time- and quantum-state-resolved measurement and Fano control
of two excited electrons in He
15:00 - 15:30 Luca Argenti, Madrid
Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of doubly-excited states in helium
15:45 Coffee

last update November 23, 2012