MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME
International Workshop and Seminar on
Atomic Systems in Extreme Fields
Workshop: March 23 - 28, 2000
Seminar: March 13 - April 20, 2000
Scientific Coordinators:
| Christoph H. Keitel | Peter L. Knight | Jan-Michael Rost |
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| University of Freiburg | Imperial College | MPI-PKS |
| Freiburg, Germany | London, United Kingdom | Dresden, Germany |
| ARRIVAL | |
| 19:00 | Welcome reception (Cafeteria at the Max Planck Institute)
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THURSDAY, MARCH 23
| 09:00 - 09:15 | OPENING | ||
| CHAIR: Jan-Michael Rost | |||
| 09:15 - 10:00 | Ferenc Krausz (Vienna) | ||
| Few-cycle-driven soft-X-ray harmonics: status and prospects | |||
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Peter A. Norreys (Oxon) | ||
| Harmonic generation for plasma surfaces - a bright, coherent source | |||
| of X-UV radiation | |||
| 10:45 - 11:15 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Wolfgang Sandner (Berlin) | ||
| Dynamics of multi-electron ionization in strong laser fields | |||
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Farhad Faisal (Bielefeld) | ||
| Interplay of intense-field interaction and electron-correlation | |||
| in laser induced double and multiple ionization | |||
| 12:45 - 14:15 | LUNCH | ||
| CHAIR: Peter L. Knight | |||
| 14:15 - 15:15 | Todd Ditmire (Livermore) | ||
| - Colloquium - | Studies of intense laser driven coulomb explosions in large clusters | ||
| and applications to deuterium nuclear fusion | |||
| 15:15 - 16:00 | Hellmut Haberland (Freiburg) | ||
| Excitation of sodium clusters in (not so extreme) fs-laser fields | |||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Rüdiger Schmidt (Dresden) | ||
| Dynamics of atomic clusters in intense laser fields | |||
| 17:15 - 18:00 | Phil H. Bucksbaum (Ann Arbor) | ||
| Evolutionary algorithms for strong field quantum control | |||
| 18:00 | SUPPER | ||
| 19:00 | POSTER SESSION: 2nd floor |
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
| CHAIR: Christoph H. Keitel | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Charles J. Joachain (Brussels) | ||
| Relativistic effects in laser-atom interactions | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Alfred Maquet (Paris) | ||
| Atomic processes in ultra-intense fields | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | David D. Meyerhofer (Rochester) | ||
| Physics at extreme laser intensities: Nonlinear QED | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Ken Ledingham (Glasgow) | ||
| Lasers split the atom | |||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH | ||
| CHAIR: Lew Cocke | |||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Joachim Ullrich (Freiburg) | ||
| Multiple ionization dynamics in extreme fields: From Atto to Femtoseconds | |||
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Jörg Eichler (Berlin) | ||
| Relativistic collisions with highly charged ions | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Thomas Stöhlker (Darmstadt) | ||
| Strong field effects on the structure and the dynamics of high-Z ions | |||
| 19:00 | WORKSHOP DINNER IN 'LUISENHOF', BERGBAHNSTR. 8, DRESDEN |
SATURDAY, MARCH 25
| CHAIR: Howard Reiss | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Paul B. Corkum (Ottawa) | ||
| Timed Coulomb explosion imaging | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Hanspeter Helm (Freiburg) | ||
| Multiphoton fragmentation of H2+ at 800 nm | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Reinhold Schuch (Stockholm) | ||
| Effects of superintense EM pulses generated by ultra-relativistic | |||
| ions in matter | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Gerhard Soff (Dresden) | ||
| Test of QED in the strong electromagnetic fields of highly charged ions | |||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
MONDAY, MARCH 27
| CHAIR: Yousef I. Salamin | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Thomas Brabec (Vienna) | ||
| Attosecond pulse measurement and applications - theory | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Niels Kylstra (Durham) | ||
| Stabilization in short, intense, high-frequency laser pulses: | |||
| non-adiabatic effects and the breakdown of the dipole approximation | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Wilhelm Becker (Berlin) | ||
| Quantum trajectories in above-threshold ionization and high- | |||
| harmonic generation | |||
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Carla Faria (Dresden) | ||
| Control of high-harmonic generation | |||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH | ||
| CHAIR: ALEJANDRO SAENZ | |||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Reinhard Dörner (Frankfurt/Main) | ||
| Correlated electron emission in strong field double ionisation | |||
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Bernold Feuerstein (Freiburg) | ||
| Nonsequential multiple ionization in intense laser pulses | |||
| 15:30 - 16:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 16:00 - 16:45 | Dorin C. Ionescu (Darmstadt) | ||
| Dynamics of atomic processes in very strong electromagnetic fields | |||
| 16:45 - 17:30 | Suxing Hu (Berlin) | ||
| Multiply charged ions in intense laser fields | |||
| 18:00 | SUPPER |
TUESDAY, MARCH 28
| CHAIR: Alexei Ermolaev | |||
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Paul-Gerhard Reinhard (Erlangen) | ||
| Cluster dynamics - laser excitation versus ionic collisions | |||
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Josef Tiggesbäumker (Rostock) | ||
| Small metal clusters in intense laser fields | |||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | ||
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Mikhail V. Ivanov (Heidelberg) | ||
| Finite-difference calculations for atoms and simple diatomic molecules | |||
| in strong magnetic and static electric fields | |||
| 12:30 - 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 1. | Brunne, Tim | Two-center coupled channel calculations of relativistic |
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| ion-ion collisions | ||
| 2. | Döppner, Tilo | Metal clusters in intense laser fields |
| 3. | Dundas, Daniel | Laser-driven helium - a visual analysis |
| 4. | Ermolaev, Alexei | A new approach: Integral boundary conditions for the time-dependent |
| atomic problems with electromagnetic field | ||
| 5. | Farkas, Gyozo | High-harmonic generation at metal surfaces in an external |
| electrostatic field for attosecond pulse creation | ||
| 6. | Farkas, Gyozo | New concepts in laser-free-electron interactions |
| of laser accelerators (up to 100 GeV) and stong (Terawatt) | ||
| x-ray sources | ||
| 7. | Kiyan, Igor | Atomic structure of negative ions |
| 8. | Kornberg, Mariano | Energy distribution of electrons in a two-photon transition to the |
| double continuum | ||
| 9. | Lenz, Ernst | to be announced |
| 10. | Magunov, Alexander | Features in soft x-ray spectra of multicharged ions in plasmas |
| produced by super intense (above 1017 W/cm2) laser pulses in | ||
| gaseous and cluster targets | ||
| 11. | Milosevic, Dejan | Generation of circularly polarized high-order harmonics by two-color |
| coplanar field mixing | ||
| 12. | Muth-Böhm, Jens | Theoretical investigations of the ionization dynamics of molecules |
| in intense laser fields | ||
| 13. | Niehaus, Thomas | Interaction of molecules with ultrashort intense laserpulses: |
| A quantum molecular dynamics approach | ||
| 14. | Paul, Thierry | Methods from classical perturbation theory in quantum mechanics |
| 15. | Persson, Emil | Open quantum systems; Microwave billiards with attached waveguides |
| 16. | Reinhard, Irene | PHELIX - A high-energy laser for heavy-ion experiments |
| 17. | Sabry, Abdelhadi | Numerical approach of the lorentz model |
| 18. | San Roman, Julio | Dirac evolution of a free relativistic electron driven by a very |
| intense laser field | ||
| 19. | Savichev, Vladimir | The problem of hidden crossings in stark problem |
| 20. | Schwengelbeck, Uwe | Plasma waves and laser-induced photon emission |
| from thin metal films | ||
| 21. | Siedschlag, Christian | Small clusters in strong laser fields |
| 22. | Smirnov, Mikhail | X-ray radiation of large metal clusters in a super-intense laser field |
| 23. | Teuber, Silvio | Coulomb explosion of metall clusters measured by the |
| pump-probe-technique | ||
| 24. | Varro, Sandor | The effect of laser-induced oscillating double layers on |
| multiphoton photoeffect | ||
| 25. | Varro, Sandor | High-harmonic generation at metal surfaces in a static electric field |
| 26. | Vazquez de Aldana, J. | Spin effects in the interaction of atoms with intense |
| and high-frequency laser fields: the Pauli equation | ||
| 27. | Walser, Markus | Spin induced forces in ultraintense laser fields |
| 28. | Yoshida, Shuhei | Quantum localization of the periodically kicked Rydberg atom |
| 29. | Zloh, Gabriela et al | Circular dichroism in electron-hydrogen scattering in a |
| bichromatic field |