What follows is a tentative preliminary program. Some of the titles are tentative. Subject to changes without notice.
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| January 20th (Thursday) |
| 16:00- |
Welcome Party |
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| January 21st (Friday) |
| 8:45- 9:00 |
| Opening Remarks |
| - Shinichi Watanabe (UEC, Japan) |
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| 9:00-10:30 |
| Session I: Phenomena in Intense Laser Fields I |
| Chairperson - Hirohiko Kono |
| "Attosecond atomic and molecular dynamics" |
| - Chii-Dong Lin (Kansas State Univ., USA) |
| "Controlling atomic and molecular processes by light" |
| - Kiyoshi Ueda (Tohoku Univ., Japan) |
| "Influence of laser-induced coherence on the spin and spatial distribution of photoionization products" |
| - Takashi Nakajima (Kyoto Univ., Japan) |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:25 |
| Session II: Phenomena in Intense Laser Fields II |
| Chairperson - Jean-Claude Kieffer |
| "Recoil ion momentum spectra of argon ions produced by intense (-10(15-16) W cm2) laser light" |
| - Hiroyuki Shimada (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
| "Interaction of ultrashort pulses with matter:light-phase-sensitive photoemission and streaking" |
| - Joachim Burgdorfer (Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria) |
| "Femtosecond diffraction imaging of diatomic molecules with their own electrons" |
| - Olga Smirnova (Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria) |
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| 12:25-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 |
| Session III: High Precision and Ultracold Phenomena |
| Chairperson - Masayuki Katsurakawa |
| "Optical lattice and entanglement interferometry" |
| - Immanuel Bloch (U. of Mainz, Germany) |
| "Ultra-Stable Optical Clock" |
| - Hidetoshi Katori (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
| "Taming the Sleeping Dragon: Control over Ultracold Collisions of Molecules" |
| - J. Bohn (JILA, USA) |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30-18:00 |
| Session IV: Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates |
| Chairperson - Immanuel Bloch |
| "Dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates and degenerate Fermi gases" |
| - Charles W. Clark (NIST, USA) |
| "Coherent nonlinear dynamics of collapsing and exploding Bose-Einstein condensate" |
| - Masahito Ueda (Tokyo Inst. of Tech., Japan) |
| "Experimental Applications of BEC" |
| - Kenichi Nakagawa (UEC, Japan) |
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| 18:00-19:30 |
Dinner |
| 19:30-21:00 |
Posters |
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| Januray 22nd (Saturday) |
| 9:00-10:30 |
| Session V: Coherent Processes in Highly Excited Atoms |
| Chairperson - J. Burgdorfer |
| "The kicked Rydberg atom: studying intense-field and ultrafast phenomena at nanosecond timescales" |
| - F. Barry Dunning (Rice Univ., USA) |
| "Rydberg Wave Packet Manipulation" |
| - Carlos Reinhold (ORNL, USA) |
| "Pump-Probe analysis of doubly-excited atomic states" |
| - Toru Morishita (UEC, Japan) |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
| Session VI: High Harmonic Generation and Application I |
| Chairperson - C.D. Lin |
| "High harmonic generation: a tool to monitor molecular dynamics" |
| - Emilio Fiordilino (Univ. Palermo, Italy) |
| "High-order harmonic generation in laser-aligned molecules" |
| - Raffaele Velotta (U. of Naples Federico II, Italy) |
| "Dissociative photoionization of H2 and D2 in intense soft X-ray laser fields" |
| - Kennosuke Hoshina (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
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| 12:30-13:30 |
Lunch |
| 14:30-16:00 |
| Session VII: High Harmonic Generation and Application II |
| Chairperson - Shuntaro Watanabe (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
| "Multiphoton process in the XUV region by high harmonics" |
| - Katsumi Midorikawa (RIKEN, Japan) |
| "Multiphoton double ionization of helium by high-order harmonics" |
| - Kenichi Ishikawa (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
| "Optimization of high-order harmonic brightness in the space and time domains" |
| - Chang Hee Nam (KAIST, Korea) |
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| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:30-18:00 |
| Session VIII: Coherent Optical Phenomena |
| Chairperson - C. Clark |
| "Observation of quantum interferences in the coherent optical phonon" |
| - Masahiro Kitajima (NIMS, Japan) |
| "Secure Key Distribution" |
| - Nobuyuki Imoto (Osaka Univ., Japan) |
| "Phase sensitive memory in molecular wavepackets; READ and WRITE" |
| - Kenji Ohmori (IMS, Japan) |
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| 18:30-21:00 |
BANQUET |
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| Januray 23nd (Sunday) |
| 9:00-10:30 |
| Session IX: Attosecond and Ultrashort Pulses |
| Chairperson - F. B. Dunning |
| "Attosecond Nonlinear Optics" |
| - Shuntaro Watanabe (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
| "Adiabatic driving of Raman coherences and its application to ultrashort pulse generation" |
| - Masayuki Katsurakawa (UEC, Japan) |
| "High-harmonic generation and attosecond pulses in a dense medium" |
| - Andreas Becker (MPI for Physics of Complex Systems, Germany) |
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| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 |
| Session X: Laser-Matter Interaction |
| Chairperson - Chang Hee Nam |
| "Recent results on fast electron propagation in matter" |
| - Dimitri Batani (Univ. Milano Bicocca, Italy) |
| "The Canadian advanced laser light source program: New tools for ultrafast dynamic imaging of complex matter" |
| - Jean-Claude Kieffer (INRS-Energy and Materials, Canada) |
| "A theoretical study of ultrafast electronic dynamics of Molecules in intense laser fields by using wave packet propagation techniques" |
| - Hirohiko Kono (Tohoku Univ., Japan) |
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| 12:30-12:45 |
| Closing Remarks |
| - Kaoru Yamanouchi (U. of Tokyo, Japan) |
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