Invited & Overview Speakers

Session 1 (Wednesday)

• Reinhard Kienberger
  Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (Germany)
  Overview: Attosecond physics - from generation of as pulses to applications on solids
• Ursula Keller
  ETH; Switzerland
  Laser induced tunneling in less than 12 attoseconds: instantaneous or invalid concept?
• Giussepe Sansone
  Technical University of Milan; Italy
  Generation and application of attosecond pulses for time-resolved investigations of atoms and molecules
• H. Mashiko
  Kansas State University; USA
  Temporal characterization of isolated attosecond pulse generated with double optical gating

Session 2 (Wednesday)

• Katsumi Midorikawa
  RIKEN (Japan)
  Overview: Generation of sub-keV harmonics and isolated attosecond pulses by an IR-OPA source
• Steve Leone
  UC Berkeley & LBNL; USA
  Transient absorption x-ray probing in the attosecond limit
• Kaoru Yamanouchi
  Tokyo University; Japan
  Chemistry in attoseconds: ultrafast hydrogen migration in hydrocarbon molecules in intense laser fields
• Chang-Hee Nam
  KAIST; Korea
  Transform-limited attosecond pulse generation

Session 5 (Thursday)

• Paul Corkum
  National Research Council (Canada)
  Overview: Molecules and attosecond science
• Pascal Salieres
  Commissariat à L'Energie Atomique; France
  Imaging orbitals from the attosecond emission of aligned molecules
• Anh-Thu Le
  Kansas State University; USA
  Probing fixed-in-space molecular structures with high harmonic generation
• Jon Marangos
  Imperial College; England
  Optimising fields for HHG

Session 6 (Thursday)

• Jun Ye
  University of Colorado (USA)
  Overview: Coherent frequency combs and spectroscopy - from far IR to XUV
• F. X. Kärtner
  Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy; USA
  Octave spanning Ti:Sapphire lasers and carrier-envelope phase control
• Zhiyi Wei
  Chinese Academy of Sciences; China
  Carrier envelope phase stabilized sub-5fs laser for attosecond pulse generation
• Akira Ozawa
  Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics; Germany
  Current progress in XUV frequency combs

Session 7 (Thursday)

• Yaron Silberberg
  Weizmann Institute (Israel)
  Overview: Quantum control with shaped pulses
• Jochen Küpper
  Fritz-Haber-Institut; Germany
  Manipulating the motion of large molecules: translation, rotation, and conformer selection
• Donald Umstadter
  University of Nebraska; USA
  Ultra-relativistic electron acceleration by a high-power ultrafast laser

Session 8 (Friday)

• Anne L'Huillier
  Lund University (Sweden)
  Overview: Attosecond pulse trains: measurement, control and application
• Marc Vrakking
  AMOLF; Netherlands
  Attosecond time-resolved electron dynamics in molecules
• Predrag Ranitovic
  Kansas State University; USA
  Control of electron dynamics in light systems using attosecond XUV and femtosecond IR radiation
• Mette Gaarde
  Louisiana State University; USA
  High harmonics and attosecond pulses as diagnostics of intensity spikes in laser filamentation

Session 9 (Friday)

• David Neely
  Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (England)
  Overview: Recent advances in ultra intense laser plasma interactions
• A. Staudte
  National Research Council; Canada
  Continuum attosecond electron wavepackets
• Karen Hatsagortsyan
  Max Planck Institute; Germany
  Relativistic high-order harmonic and short pulse generation
• Howard Milchberg
  University of Maryland; USA
  High power filament propagation in atmospheric quantum wakes

Session 10 (Friday)

• Joachim Ullrich
  Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (Germany)
  Overview: Brilliant FEL light: New frontiers in AMO physics
• Robin Santra
  Argonne National Lab; USA
  Multiphoton physics in the x-ray domain
• Markus Drescher
  University of Hamburg; Germany
  Pushing the temporal resolution at an XUV-FEL:tagging, streaking, seeding

Session 11 (Saturday)

• Ruxin Li
  Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (China)
  Overview: Generation of intense few cycle laser pulses for driving attosecond high harmonic emission
• Henry Kapteyn
  University of Colorado; USA
  Coherent x-rays from ultrafast lasers, and applications - attosecond science meets nonlinear optics
• B. Fabre
  University of Bordeaux; France
  Phase-resolved attosecond near-threshold photoionization of molecular Nitrogen
• Louis DiMauro
  Ohio State University; USA
  Intense laser-atom physics in the long wavelength limit

Session 12 (Saturday)

• Martin Wolf
  Free University Berlin (Germany)
  Overview: Ultrafast dynamics in solids and at interfaces
• Dimitris Charalambidis
  IESL-FORTH; Greece
  Intense attosecond pulses
• Jan-Michael Rost
  Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems; Germany
  Simultaneous excitation of equivalent electrons to non-equilibrium with attosecond pulses
• Steven Cundiff
  NIST-JILA; USA
  Two-dimensional Fourier transform spectroscopy