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================================================================= GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE on "Photoions, Photoionization & Photodetachment" January 31 - February 5, 2010 Hotel Galvez Galveston, TX Chair: Albert Stolow Vice Chair: Danielle Dowek Photoionization and photodetachment now play central roles in many emerging fields of modern atomic, molecular, chemical and optical physics. Examples include modern x-ray and synchrotron science, chemical reaction dynamics, high resolution spectroscopy, attosecond science and strong field physics, spectroscopy/dynamics in complex environments, time-resolved spectroscopies etc. The tacit theme of this conference is the unification of electron scattering with spectroscopy, wherein a serious consideration of the electronic continuum is a central aspect of the science. The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers from various areas - laser-based and synchrotron-based, experimentalists and theorists, high energy and threshold, strong field and weak, physicists and chemists – all of whom share a deep interest in the “science and technology” of the electronic continuum. Conference URL: http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2010&program=photoion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ <<<< CONFERENCE PROGRAM >>>> ** SUNDAY ** PHOTODETACHMENT Overview & Discussion Leader: W. Carl Lineberger (JILA, Univ. Colorado) Mark Johnson (Yale Univ.) "Photoelectron imaging studies of vibrationally resonant two photon photodetachment: What works and what is annoying" Matthias Weber (JILA, Univ. Colorado) "Photoelectron Imaging Studies on Vibrational Autodetachment" Andrei Sanov (Univ. Arizona) "Photoelectron imaging of anions, clusters, and reactive intermediates" Lai-Sheng Wang (Brown Univ.) "Photodetachment of Cluster Anions and Multiply Charged Anions" ** MONDAY ** PHOTOIONIZATION Overview & Discussion Leader: Nora Berrah (Western Michigan Univ.) Kiyoshi Ueda (Tohoku Univ.) "Photoelectron and Auger emission in the molecular frame" Pascal Lablanquie (Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie) "Dynamics of multi photo ionisation studied by multi electron coincidence spectroscopy" Erwin Poliakoff (Louisiana State Univ.) "Global nonresonant vibrational-photoelectron coupling in molecular photoionization" Pierre Billaud (Univ. Paris-Sud 11) "Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in Resonant Photoionization of H2 and D2 probed by Molecular Frame Circular Dichroism" Laurent Nahon (SOLEIL) "Valence Photoelectron Circular Dichroism (PECD) on chiral molecules and clusters" COMPLEX SYSTEMS 1 Overview & Discussion Leader: Tom Gallagher (Univ. Virginia) Paola Bolognesi (CNR-IMIP) "Multitechnique investigation of the valence and inner shell excitation, ionization and decay of halogenated pyrimidines" Klaus Müller-Dethlefs (Photon Science Inst., Univ. Manchester) "A very long lifetime ultra-cold, strongly-coupled molecular Rydberg plasma" ! HOT TOPIC Speaker TBA Ed Grant (Univ. British Columbia) "An extraordinary ultracold plasma formed by photoexcitation of nitric oxide in a supersonic molecular beam" ** TUESDAY ** STRONG FIELD IONIZATION Overview & Discussion Leader: Misha Yu. Ivanov (Imperial College London) Henrik Stapelfeldt (Aarhus Univ.) "Photoelectron angular distributions from laser oriented molecules" Andreas Becker (JILA, Univ.Colorado) "Strong field ionization probing of electron dynamics in molecules" Jochen Mikosch (NRC) "Multiple Electronic Continua in Strong Field Ionization of Polyatomic Molecules" Artem Rudenko (Max Planck Center for Free-Electron Laser Science) "Time-resolved imaging of few-photon, few-electron reactions" Thomas Baumert (Univ. Kassel) "Ultrafast Laser Control of Coherent and Incoherent Ionization Processes" Claus-Peter Schulz (Max-Born-Institut) "Excitation and ionization by elliptically polarized, intense, short laser pulses" ! HOT TOPIC Speaker TBA THEORY Overview & Discussion Leader: Tamar Seideman (Northwestern Univ.) Faris Gel’mukhanov (Swedish Royal Institute of Technology) "Multichannel quantum interference leading to strong vibrational anisotropy in resonant Auger scattering" Todd J. Martinez (Stanford Univ.) "Time Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy from First Principles Dynamics" Anna Krylov (Univ. Southern California) "Electronic Structure of DNA Building Blocks: The Effects pi-stacking and Hydrogen Bonding on Ionization Energies, Charge Localization, and Ionization-Induced Hydrogen Transfer" ** WEDNESDAY ** COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2 Overview & Discussion Leader: John H.D. Eland (Oxford Univ.) Manfred Faubel (Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation) "Photoemission from liquid aqueous solutions" Oliver Gessner (LBL, Berkeley) "Electronic dynamics in Helium nanodroplets studied by femtosecond time-resolved EUV photoelectron imaging" Michael Schuurman (NRC) "The simulation of photoelectron spectra involving strongly coupled electronic states" Majed Chergui (Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne) "Photoionization and Photodetachment in liquids probed by ultrafast core level spectroscopies" ! HOT TOPIC Spealer TBA Roger Falcone (Advanced Light Source, UC Berkeley) "Using Next Generation X-Ray Light Sources for Studying Materials" KEYNOTE SESSION: CHEMICAL PHYSICS Overview & Discussion Leader: Robert E. Continetti (UC San Diego) Andrey Boguslavskiy (NRC) "Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy and non-Born-Oppenheimer wavepacket dynamics" Ingo Fischer (Univ. Würzburg) "Structure and dynamics of small carbenes: C3H2" Lionel Poisson (Lab. Francis Perrin, SPAM) "Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy applied to microsolvation studies" ! HOT TOPIC Speaker TBA Keynote Lecture: B. Vincent McKoy (Caltech) "Tracking Wavepacket Dynamics with Time-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy" ** THURSDAY ** ATTOSECOND PHYSICS Overview & Discussion Leader: Margaret Murnane (JILA, Univ.Colorado) Marc J.J. Vrakking (FOM-AMOLF) "XUV photoionization of aligned molecules" Chris Greene (JILA, Univ.Colorado) "Role of electron-ion interactions in multiphoton ionization" ! HOT TOPIC Speaker TBA ! HOT TOPIC Speaker TBA Olga Smirnova (Max-Born-Institut) "Attosecond dynamics of electron rearrangement during strong field ionization" Hans-Jakob Wörner (NRC) "Following a chemical reaction using homodyne high-harmonic spectroscopy" PHOTOELECTRON ANGULAR DISTRIBUTIONS Overview & Discussion Leader: Jonathan G. Underwood (Univ. College London) Robert Lucchese (Texas A&M Univ.) "Single Photon and Multi-Photon Molecular Frame Photoelectron Angular Distributions" Christer Bisgaard (Univ. Copenhagen) "Time-resolved Photoelectron Angular Distributions from laser aligned molecules undergoing excited state dynamics" Katharine Reid (Univ. Nottingham) "Applications of photoelectron velocity map imaging at high resolution" Mauro Stener (Univ. di Trieste) "A TDDFT study on the dichroism in the photoelectron angular distribution from a chiral transition metal compound" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONTRIBUTED PRESENTATIONS: Contributed posters and 'HOT TOPICS' presentations are very strongly encouraged. Of these, six (6) presentations will be chosen for Oral Contributions at the conference. MEETING FEES Conferee (Single) $1,090 Conferee (Double) $940 Conferee (Off-Site) $780 Guest (Single) $915 Guest (Double) $765 Guest (Off-Site) $605 FINANCIAL SUPPORT: There is likely to be partial financial support for this conference, offsetting regsitration fees or travel costs. This will be especially so for students and postdocs. APPLICATION DEADLINE Applications for this meeting must be submitted by January 10, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations. ================================================================= To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html