329th Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar:
Manipulation of Few-Body Quantum Dynamics

Programme


Wednesday, 23.6.

Until 18:00 Arrival and registration
18:30 Dinner
19:30 Posters (with drinks)

Thursday, 24.6.

Session 1.1 8:45 - 10:45 Controlled reactions
8:45 Welcome
9:00 Fleming Crim (U Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
Vibrational state control of bimolecular reactions
9:35 Frank Stienkemeier (U Bielefeld, D)
Formation of exciplexes on the surface of superfluid vs. normalfluid helium nanodroplets
10:10 Stephan Schlemmer (R. and B. Sackler Laboratory, Leiden, NL)
Laser-controlled reactions in ion traps
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
Session 1.2 11:15 - 13:00 Charge transfer
11:15 Brett Depaola (KSU Manhattan (KS), USA)
MOTRIMS: A source of surprising results in single charge transfer collisions experiments
11:50 Ronnie Hoekstra (KVI Groningen, NL)
Charge transfer studied with MOTRIMS: impact parameter dependencies and inner-shell processes
12:25 Andreas Wolf (MPI-K Heidelberg, D)
Dissociative recombination of H 3+
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
Session 1.3 14:30 - 16:15 Laser-assisted collisions
14:30 Richard Taieb (U Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, FR)
Laser-assisted (e,2e) collisions
15:05 Alexander Dorn (MPI-K Heidelberg, D)
Laser-assisted electron impact ionisation
15:40 Tom Kirchner (TU Clausthal, D)
Electron transfer dynamics in laser-assisted ion-atom collisions
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
Session 1.4 16:45 - 18:30 Reactive scattering
16:45 Piero Casavecchia (U of Perugia, I)
Crossed molecular beam reactive scattering: towards the "universal" product detection by "soft" electron impact ionization
17:20 Roland Wester (U Freiburg, D)
Kinematically complete ion-molecule reactions
17:55 Stefan Schmatz (U Göttingen, D)
State-selected dynamics of complex-forming elementary chemical reactions
19:00 Heraeus dinner

Friday, 25.6.

Session 2.1 9:00 - 10:45 Laser manipulation
9:00 Markus Drescher (U Bielefeld, D)
Attosecond-metrology: manipulating electron wave-packets with light
9:35 Zohar Amitay (Technion, Haifa, IL)
State selective coherent control of large molecular populations
10:10 Henrik Stapelfeldt (U Aarhus, DK)
Laser alignment of molecules with short laser pulses
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
Session 2.2 11:15 - 13:00 Coherent control and decoherence
11:15 Thomas Baumert (U Kassel, D)
Quantum control in intense phase shaped laser fields
11:50 Tobias Brixner (U of California, Berkeley, USA)
Adaptive quantum control of femtochemistry
12:25 Walter Strunz (U Freiburg, D)
Decoherence of few-body systems
13:00 Lunch break
Session 2.3 14:30 - 16:15 Atoms in strong fields
14:30 Hanspeter Helm (U Freiburg, D)
Fragmentation in weak and in strong laser fields
15:05 Ekaterina Eremina (MBI Berlin)
Sub-threshold non-sequential double ionisation
15:40 Manfred Lein (MPI-PKS Dresden, D)
High harmonic generation
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break
Session 2.4 16:45 - 18:30 Molecules in strong fields
16:45 Lew Cocke (KSU Manhattan (KS), USA)
Mechanisms for double electron removal from light molecules by intense laser pulses: fast clocks
17:20 Alejandro Saenz (Humboldt U Berlin, D)
Molecular hydrogen in intense laser pulses
17:55 Dieter Bauer (MBI Berlin, D)
Clusters in intense laser fields
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Posters

Saturday, 26.6

Session 3.1 8:30 - 10:50 Controlled fragmentation
8:30 Wim van der Zande (U Nijmegen, NL)
The interaction of sub picosecond half cycle pulses with Rydberg atoms: from photons to fields
9:05 Till Jahnke (U Frankfurt, D)
Electrons from fixed-in-space molecules and clusters
9:40 Bernold Feuerstein (MPI-K Heidelberg, D)
Wave packet imaging of H2+ with ultrashort laser pulses
10:15 Uwe Thumm (KSU Manhattan (KS), USA)
Laser-induced wave packet dynamics of small molecules
10:50 - 11:15 Coffee break
Session 3.2 11:15 - 13:00 Cluster dynamics
11:15 Jan-Michael Rost (MPI-PKS Dresden, D)
Intense field interaction with clusters
11:50 Bernd v. Issendorff (U Freiburg, D)
Cluster anions in "mild" laser fields
12:25 Daniel Zajfman (Weizmann Inst. Rehovot, IL)
Size dependent electron impact detachment of internally cold negative clusters
13:00 Lunch