International Workshop on ''Atomic Physics''
MPIPKS, November 28 - December 2, 2005


Scientific Program
also in pdf-format

Sunday, November 27th
18:00 - 22:00 Registration (office 2 B 4)
19:00 - 22:00 Welcome Buffet in the hall of the institute

Monday, November 28th

08:50 - 09:00 WELCOME
Chairperson: Robert van Leeuwen
09:00 - 09:30 Leeor Kronik, Rehovoth
Time-dependent density-functional calculations for molecules, clusters, and nanocrystals
09:45 - 10:15 Kieron Burke, Rutgers
TDDFT in strong fields: Promises and challenges
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Roi Baer, Jerusalem
Time dependent density functional theory beyond adiabatic approximation: New approaches and applications
11:45 - 12:15 David Tozer, Durham
Charge transfer excitations and the chemical hardness in DFT
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Alejandro Saenz
14:00 - 14:30 Artem Rudenko, Heidelberg
Multiple ionization of atoms in intense laser fields
14:45 - 15:15 Andreas Becker, Dresden
Ab-initio calculation of double ionization of He and H2 by few-cycle laser pulses
15:30 - 16:00 Hugo van der Hart, Belfast
Multiphoton processes in multi-electron atoms using the R-matrix Floquet approach
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30 MPIPKS-Colloquium
Angel Rubio, San Sebastian/Donostia
Response functions from a TDDFT-based formalism: Applications to low dimensional structures
18:00 Supper

Tuesday, November 29th

Chairperson: Karl-Heinz Schartner
09:00 - 09:30 Klaus Ziegler, Augsburg
Small electronic systems with electron-phonon interaction
09:45 - 10:15 Rashid Nazmitdinov, Palma de Mallorca
Interplay between Zeeman interaction and spin-orbit coupling in a two-dimensional semiconductor system
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Andrei Nefiodov, St. Petersburg
Double photoeffect on inner-shell electrons
11:45 - 12:15 Thomas Pattard, Dresden
Single-photon double ionization of the hydrogen molecule within a half-collision picture
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Andreas Becker
14:00 - 14:30 Alejandro Saenz, Berlin
Influence of nuclear motion on the ionization of molecules in intense laser fields
14:45 - 15:15 Armin Scrinzi, Vienna
Few-electron dynamics in strong fields - the MCTDHF code
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
Chairperson: David Tozer
16:00 - 16:30 E.K.U. Gross, Berlin
Towards time-dependent multi-component DFT and optimal control of many-particle dynamics
16:45 - 17:15 Robert van Leeuwen, Groningen
Time-dependent density-functional theory and variational functionals from many-body perturbation theory
17:30 - 18:00 Alberto Castro, Berlin
Useful computational tools for the implementation of TDDFT: Adaptive coordinates and real-space domain parallelization
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session
Wednesday, November 30th

Chairperson: Ulf Saalmann
09:00 - 09:30 Manchikanti Krishnamurthy, Heidelberg
Immense ionization of clusters in intense laser fields
09:45 - 10:15 Dieter Bauer, Heidelberg
Collective absorption in laser cluster interaction beyond linear resonance
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Josef Tiggesbäumker, Rostock
Dynamics of metal clusters in helium droplets
11:45 - 12:15 Sergei Popruzhenko, Moscow
Collisionless energy absorption in a heated nanoplasma
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Josef Tiggesbäumker
14:00 - 14:30 Bernd von Issendorff, Freiburg
Photoelectron spectroscopy of large sodium clusters
14:45 - 15:15 Paul-Gerhard Reinhard, Erlangen/Nürnberg
Strong-field dynamics of embedded metal clusters
16:00 Social program with guided tour in the city center
19:30 Workshop dinner
Thursday, December 1st

Chairperson: Nikolay Kabachnik
09:00 - 09:30 Vsevolod Balashov, Moscow
Coherent and incoherent interactions of channeled highly-charged ions in crystals
09:45 - 10:15 Joachim Burgdoerfer, Vienna
Atomic dynamics probed by attosecond pulses
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Richard Taieb, Paris
Multicolor above-threshold ionization of helium:
Quantum interference effects in angular distributions
11:45 - 12:15 Robin Santra, Argonne
Many-electron aspects of the three-step model of high-harmonic generation
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Joachim Burgdörfer
14:00 - 14:30 Stephan Fritzsche, Kassel
Alignment and polarization effects in relativistic ion-atom collisions
14:45 - 15:15 Stefan Schippers, Giessen
Hyperfine structure of highly charged ions investigated by dielectronic recombination
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Josef Anton, Kassel
Calculations of differential cross sections in slow atom-ion collisions
16:45 - 17:15 Aigars Ekers, Riga
Molecular Autler-Townes effect and its applications
18:30 Supper
19:30 Poster Session

Friday, December 2nd

Chairperson: Joachim Brand
09:00 - 09:30 Ralf Wehlitz, Madison
Double photoionization of C60 from threshold up to 280eV
09:45 - 10:15 Tim Laarmann, Berlin
Non-adiabatic multi-electron dynamics in large finite systems:
Analysis and control of C60 photophysics with ultrashort and temporally shaped laser pulses
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30 Tim Softley, Oxford
Deceleration and surface scattering of Rydberg molecules
11:45 - 12:15 Helen Fielding, London
Coherent control of Rydberg wave packets
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chairperson: Tim Softley
14:00 - 14:30 Harald Friedrich, München
Trapping ultracold atoms by quantum reflection
14:45 - 15:15 Frederic Merkt, Zürich
Towards trapping Rydberg atoms
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30 Thibault Vogt, Paris
High resolution Rydberg excitation of cold atoms
16:45 - 17:15 Stephan Kraft, Freiburg
Ultracold atom-molecule collisions
17:30 Supper

Gabriele Makolies 2005-11-24