MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop on
ATOMIC PHYSICS
November 23 – 27, 2009
Focus Days on
Ultra-fast dynamics in finite atomic and molecular
systems probed with novel light sources
Scientific Coordinators:
Ulf Saalmann Fernando Martı́n Jan M Rost
mpipks Dresden Universidad Autónoma de mpipks Dresden
Madrid
co–sponsored by the COST Action CM0702
Local Organization: Gabriele Makolies
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
Tel: +49-351-871-2204, Fax: +49-351-871-2299
e-mail: atom2009@[Link]
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Program
MONDAY, November 23
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome: Jan M Rost, Fernando Martı́n
Chairperson: Fernando Martı́n
09:00 - 09:30 Joachim Burgdörfer, Vienna
Attosecond streaking
09:45 - 10:15 Luca Argenti, Stockholm
The role of doubly excited states when atoms interact with short laser pulses
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Rebeca de Nalda, Madrid
Femtosecond imaging of molecule and cluster dynamics
11:45 - 12:15 Marie-Christine Bacchus, Lyon
Non-adiabatic effects in photodissociation and charge transfer processes
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Piero Decleva
14:00 - 14:30 Wim Vanroose, Antwerpen
Numerical analysis of absorbing boundary conditions for intense laser pulse
14:45 - 15:15 Hugo van der Hart, Belfast
Multi-electron dynamics studied using the time-dependent R-matrix approach
15:30 - 16:00 Marta Labuda, Jena
Ultrafast quantum dynamics of the low energy charge transfer
in the S3+ + H system
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
Chairperson: Ulf Saalmann
16:30 - 17:30 mpipks - Colloquium
Peter Abbamonte, Urbana, Illinois
Why isn’t graphene a strongly correlated electron system?
Insights from x-ray attosecond imaging
18:30 Supper
Program
TUESDAY, November 24
Chairperson: Bernard Piraux
09:00 - 09:30 Ken Taylor, Belfast
Kinetic energy cutoffs and partitions in double ionization
09:45 - 10:15 Alejandro Saenz, Berlin
Orientation-dependent ionization of molecules in intense laser pulses:
A tool for time-resolved imaging?
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Laurence Malegat, Orsay
Combining the time-propagation of a wavepacket with the hyperradial-
propagation of its Fourier components
11:45 - 12:15 Vitali Averbukh, Dresden
Intra- and inter-atomic decay processes in multiply ionized clusters
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Peter Lambropoulos
14:00 - 14:30 Christian Lubich, Tübingen
Variational splitting time integration in multi-configuration methods
for quantum dynamics
14:45 - 15:15 Graham Worth, Birmingham
Accurate quantum dynamics simulations of multimode problems
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Roberto Marquardt, Strasbourg
The multidimensional quantum dynamics of vibrational photoexcitations
16:45 - 17:15 Xavier Urbain, Louvain
Vibrational excitation and alignment of molecular ions in the ultrafast
multiphoton regime
17:30 - 18:00 Niels Engholm Henriksen, Lyngby
Detection and control of molecular dynamics
18:15 Supper
19:00 COST Management Committee Meeting (room 1 D 1)
19:30 Poster session (second floor)
Program
WEDNESDAY, November 25
Chairperson: Lars Bojer Madsen
09:00 - 09:30 Giuseppe Sansone, Milano
Molecular dynamics in the attosecond domain
09:45 - 10:15 Johan Mauritsson, Lund
Attosecond experiments at Lund High-Power Laser Facility
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Paris
Theoretical investigation of the ultrafast dissociation of ionized
biomolecules immersed in water: Direct and indirect effects
11:45 - 12:15 Mario Barbatti, Vienna
Ultra-fast dynamics of photoactivated molecules:
What simulations can tell us
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Ladislau Nagy
13:30 - 14:00 Danielle Dowek, Paris
Electronic and nuclear dynamics probed by molecular frame photoemission
14:15 - 14:45 Alicia Palacios, Madrid
Two-electron time-delay interference in atomic double ionization
by attosecond pulses
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 Social Program with audio-guided tour in the Historic Green Vault
or guided tour in the Old Masters Picture Gallery, Zwinger
19:00 Workshop Dinner
Restaurant CENTRAL, Altmarkt 6
Program
THURSDAY, November 26
Chairperson: Harald Friedrich
09:00 - 09:30 Itzik Ben-Itzhak, Manhattan KS
Controlling the dissociation of a molecular ion beam
with intense two-color laser fields
09:45 - 10:15 Uwe Becker, Berlin
Evidence for non-locality of time in position based EPR experiments
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Robert Moshammer, Heidelberg
Atoms and molecules in intense XUV FEL pulses
11:45 - 12:15 Piero Decleva, Trieste
Resonances in transition metal compounds: From atoms to molecules
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: John Briggs
14:00 - 14:30 Ulli Eichmann, Berlin
Acceleration of neutral atoms in strong laser fields
14:45 - 15:15 Agapi Emmanouilidou, London
Electronic correlation triggered by strong laser fields in atomic and
molecular systems: A quasiclassical approach
15:30 - 16:00 Javier Madroñero, Munich
Highly double excited states of two-electron atoms
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
16:45 - 17:15 Olga Smirnova, Berlin
High harmonic spectroscopy of small molecules
17:30 - 18:00 Eleftherios Goulielmakis, Munich
Real time observation of valence electron motion
18:15 - 18:45 Lars Bojer Madsen, Aarhus
Attosecond photoelectron spectroscopy: Propagation and polarization effects
19:00 Supper
19:45 Poster session (second floor)
Program
FRIDAY, November 27
Chairperson: Klaus Hornberger
09:00 - 09:30 Gerhard G. Paulus, Jena
Recent experiments in above-threshold ionization
09:45 - 10:15 Alexey Mikaberidze, Dresden
Ultrafast formation of a resonant nanoplasma in doped helium droplets
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Rüdiger Schmidt, Dresden
Giant collective vibrational modes in laser- and collision-induced
fullerene dynamics
11:45 - 12:15 Alberto Castro, Zaragoza
Quantum optimal control theory with time-dependent density-functional theory
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Anatole Kenfack
14:00 - 14:30 Günter Wunner, Stuttgart
Bright solitons, self-organized structures, and pitchfork bifurcations
in ultracold dipolar atoms
14:45 - 15:15 Nimrod Moiseyev, Haifa
Atoms and molecules in strong laser fields: Observable phenomena which
can not be predicted by the standard formalism of quantum mechanics
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Jamal Berakdar, Halle-Wittenberg
Nondestructive current and polarization generation by high frequency
high intensity photon fields
16:45 - 17:15 Vladimir Kraynov, Moscow
Electron heating at the irradiation of large atomic clusters
by intense femtosecond and attosecond laser pulses
17:30 Supper
