MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME

Atomic Systems in Extreme Fields

Focus Meeting on Relativistic Effects


April 10 - 11, 2000

Scientific Coordinator:
Christoph H. Keitel


Workshop Program

Monday, April 10

12:30 LUNCH

14:00 OPENING Christoph H. Keitel

14:15 - 15:10 Peter L. Knight (Imperial College, UK) Relativistic effects on atomic wavepackets in intense laser fields

15:10 - 15:40 BREAK

15:40 - 16:35 Luis Roso (Universidad de Salamanca, Spain) Pauli and Dirac electrons interacting with an intense laser field

16:35 - 17:30 Markus W. Walser (Universität Freiburg, Germany) Spin Signatures in ultra-intense laser-electron and laser-atom interaction

18:00 DINNER

19:30 POSTER SESSION

Tuesday, April 11

09:00 - 09:55 Howard Reiss (American University, USA) Foundations of relativistic photoionization of atoms

09:55 - 10:50 Rainer Grobe (Illinois State University, USA) New phenomena in the relativistic laser-atom interaction

10:50 - 11:20 BREAK

11:20 - 12:15 Dejan Milosevic (MBI Berlin, Germany) High-harmonic generation in a magnetic field

12:15 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:55 Klaus Dietz (Universität Bonn, Germany) Many-electron atomic bound states in relativistic QED

14:55 - 15:25 BREAK

15:25 - 16:20 Steve Rose (Rutherford Laboratory, U.K.) Plasma physics experiments on the VULCAN laser

16:20 - 17:15 Paul Gibbon (Universität Jena, Germany) High order harmonic generation in plasmas

18:00 DINNER

• 45 minutes and 10 minutes discussion
• We aim at a relaxed workshop atmosphere with ample time for discussion and questions