SILAP (2009) Workshop on
Super Intense Laser-Atom Physics
September 21-23 (2009), Zion National Park, USA
Invited & Featured Speakers:
Sudeep Banerjee – University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
“Generation and Applications of GeV-Class Laser-Driven Electron Beams”
Dieter Bauer – University of Rostock, Germany
"Laser-Generated Relativistic Attosecond Electron Bunches"
Itzik Ben-Itzhak – Kansas State University, USA “Controlled Dissociation of a Molecular Ion Beam Using Intense Two-Color Laser Fields”
Jens Biegert – ICFO, Barcelona, Spain
“Novel Near to Mid-IR Sources for Strong Field Experiments”
Cosmin Blaga – Ohio State University, USA
"Strong Field Ionization in the Tunneling Regime"
Hui Chen – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
"Relativistic Positron Creation Using Ultra Intense Short Pulse Lasers"
"Observing Molecular Dynamics via High Order Harmonic Generation"
Louis DiMauro – Ohio State University, USA
"Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics"
Todd Ditmire – University of Texas, Austin, USA
"High Intensity XUV Pulse Interactions with Atomic and Metallic Clusters"
Joseph Eberly – University of Rochester, USA
"Super-Intense Laser-Atom Physics"
Olivier Faucher – University of Bourgogne, France "Negative and Positive Kerr Nonlinearity of Air Calibrated with Transient Molecular Alignment"
Rainer Grobe – Illinois State University, USA
"The visualization of quantum field theory"
Markus Guehr –Stanford University, USA
"Strong Field Cooper Minimum"
Stan Haan – Calvin College, USA "3D Classical Modeling of Non-Sequential Double Ionization: Recollision Excitation, Escape, Drift, and Possible Reattachment"
Jerome Hastings – Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA
"The LCLS: A High Field Angstrom Wavelength Source"
Karen Hatsagortsyan – Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
"Relativistic Quantum Dynamics in Strong Laser Fields"
Zoltan Harman – Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
“High-Power Laser-Ion Acceleration for Medical Applications”
“X-Ray Diffraction Imaging of Strong-Field-Aligned Molecules”
Henry Kapteyn – University of Colorado, USA "Phase Matching of High Harmonic Generation in the Soft and Hard X-Ray Regions Using Mid-Infrared Lasers"
Chul Min Kim – Advanced Photonics Research Institute, Gwangju, Korea "Propagation of a High Harmonic Pulse through an Active Medium of a Plasma-based X-Ray Laser”
Chii-Dong Lin – Kansas State University, USA “A robust all-non-optical method for the characterization of single-shot few-cycle laser pulses”
Johan Mauritsson – Lund University, Sweden
“Attosecond Electron Interferometry”
Robert Moshammer – Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
“Fragmentation of Atoms and Molecules in CEP Stabilized Laser Pulses”
Carsten Mueller – Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
"High-Energy Processes in Very Intense Laser Fields"
Nikolay B. Narozhny – Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia
"New Prospect for Studying Fundamental Processes in Super Intense Laser Fields"
"Mid-Infrared High-Order Harmonic Yield Scaling"
Howard Reiss – Max-Born-Inst., Berlin, Germany
"Limitations of Gauge Invariance and Consequences for Laser-Induced Processes"
Kenneth Schafer – Louisiana State University, USA
"Attosecond Spectroscopy and Strong Field Physics"
Charles (Qichang) Su – Illinois State University, USA
“Computational High-Intensity Quantum Field Physics”
Akira Suda – RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Japan
"Generation of TW, 2-cycle Pulses Focusable to Relativistic Intensities"
Joachim Ullrich – Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany “Atoms, Molecules and Clusters in the Brilliant Light of Free Electron Lasers”
Donald Umstadter – University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
"Ultra-Intense Laser Interactions with Matter"
Barry Walker – University of Delaware, USA
"Mechanisms behind Ultra-strong Field Interactions with Atoms and Molecules"
Xu Wang – University of Rochester, USA
"Double Ionization Momentum Structure Under Elliptical Polarization"