Preliminary Program
| Tuesday, July 31 | |
| 16:30 - 20:00 | Registration |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome reception |
| Wednesday, August 01 | |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Organizers and Volker Schäfer (WE Heraeus Foundation) |
| Opening and Introduction of the WE Heraeus Foundation | |
| GENERATION OF ATTOSECOND PULSES | |
| Chairman: Paul Corkum | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Shuntaro Watanabe (University of Tokyo) |
| Attosecond nonlinear optics | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | George Tsakiris (MPI for Quantum Optics) |
| En route to intense attosecond pulses | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Anne L'Huillier (Lund University) |
| Attosecond pulse trains and applications | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Dimitrios Charalambidis (FORTH/University of Crete) |
| Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Gerard Mourou (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées) |
| The conjecture ultra high intensity-utrashort pulse: Its implication for the field | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Wolfgang Sandner | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Hiromichi Niikura (National Research Council of Canada) |
| Controlling high harmonic generation by transient lens | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Claudio Cirelli (ETH Zürich) |
| Attosecond angular streaking (pdf-file) | |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Steve Gilbertson (Kansas State University) |
| Attosecond pulse generation from a multiple cycle laser pulse using double gating of high harmonic generation | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| ATTOSECOND METROLOGY | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Nirit Dudovich (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| Attosecond optical gating | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Mauro Nisoli (Politecnico di Milano) |
| Attosecond metrology in the single-cycle regime | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| Thursday, August 02 | |
| ATOMS & MOLECULES | |
| Chairman: C. Lewis Cocke | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | John Briggs (University of Freiburg) |
| The modified Magnus approximation for ionization in attosecond pulses (pdf-file) | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Wilhelm Becker (Max Born Institute) |
| Modeling laser-induced nonsequential multiple ionization of atoms | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Markus Drescher (University of Hamburg) |
| Ion spectrometry revealing ultrafast atomic dynamics | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Anthony Starace (The University of Nebraska) |
| Attosecond pulse carrier-envelope phase effects on ionized electron momentum and energy | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Joachim Ullrich (MPI for Nuclear Physics) |
| Time-resolved measurements with intense ultra-short laser pulses at attosecond precision | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| Chairman: Turgay Uzer | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | André Bandrauk (Université de Sherbrooke) |
| Attosecond molecular physics - The next frontier | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Manfred Lein (University of Kassel) |
| Simulations of orbital tomography and molecular high-harmonic generation with long wavelengths | |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Matthias Kling (MPI of Quantum Optics) |
| Imaging of attosecond electron wave packets | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | David Villeneuve (National Research Council of Canada) |
| Understanding high harmonic emission from aligned molecules with nodal planes | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Chii-Dong Lin (Kansas State University) |
| Accurate retrieval of atomic and molecular structure from laser-induced photoelectron and high-order harmonic spectra | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| 20:00 | Poster session I |
| (incl. beverages) | |
| Friday, August 03 | |
| MOLECULES | |
| Chairman: Kiyoshi Ueda | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Marc Vrakking (AMOLF) |
| Photoexcitation on attosecond time-scales | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Misha Ivanov (National Research Council of Canada) |
| Attosecond dynamics of electron localization in dissociating molecules | |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Pascal Salieres (CEA-Saclay) |
| Control of the attosecond emission from aligned molecules | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Andreas Becker (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) |
| Control of electron excitation and localization in the dissociation of hydrogen molecular ion | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Jonathan Marangos (Imperial College London) |
| Imaging molecular structure and dynamics using HHG | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| HIGH HARMONICS | |
| Chairman: Itzik Ben-Itzhak | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Yann Mairesse (Université de Bordeaux 1) |
| High harmonic transient grating spectroscopy | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Valer Tosa (National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies) |
| Controlling harmonic generation in a multijet system | |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Yulia Mikhailova (General Physics Institute Moscow) |
| Single attosecond x-ray pulse generation in ultrarelativistic laser-foil interaction | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Fabien Quéré (CEA-Saclay) |
| High-order harmonic generation from plasma mirrors (pdf-file) | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Alexander Pukhov (University of Düsseldorf) |
| High harmonics and (sub-)attosecond pulses in relativistic regime | |
| 18:30 | Supper |
| 20:00 | Poster session II |
| (incl. beverages) | |
| Saturday, August 04 | |
| SOLIDS, SURFACES, CLUSTERS | |
| Chairman: Ferenc Krausz | |
| 09:00 - 09:40 | Mark Stockman (Georgia State University) |
| Attosecond nanoplasmonic field microscope | |
| 09:40 - 10:20 | Ulf Saalmann (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) |
| Attosecond resolved charging of clusters | |
| 10:20 - - 10:50 | Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Adrian Cavalieri (MPI of Quantum Optics) |
| Advances in attosecond metrology | |
| 11:30 - 12:10 | Hrvoje Petek (University of Pittsburgh) |
| Ultrafast microscopy of surface plasmon dynamics in silver films | |
| 12:10 - 12:50 | Martin Wolf (Freie Universität Berlin) |
| Electron dynamics at solid state surfaces | |
| 12:50 - 14:30 | Lunch break |
| HIGH HARMONICS | |
| Chairman: Jan-Michael Rost | |
| 14:30 - 15:10 | Louis DiMauro (The Ohio State University) |
| Electrons, photons and attoseconds at long wavelength | |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Vitali Averbukh (University of Heidelberg) |
| Interatomic decay processes in clusters: Ideal ground for application of attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy | |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Sergey Rykovanov (MPI of Quantum Optics) |
| Single intense attosecond pulses from surface harmonics using polarization gating technique | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Mette Gaarde (Louisiana State University) |
| Macroscopic aspects of attosecond pulse generation | |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Vladislav Yakovlev (University of Munich) |
| Modelling attosecond soft X-ray pulse generation in atomic gases: The crucial role of phase-matching | |
| 19:00 | Dinner at the restaurant ``Carolaschlösschen'' |
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