Sunday Evening, June 30, 2002

Poster Preview

Chair: Prof. E. Grant (Purdue, USA)

1. Poster Preview Talks
2. Hot Topic       TBA

Monday Morning, July 1, 2002

Alignment and Orientation

Chair: Dr. T. Seidmann (NRC, Canada)

1. Dr. M. Vrakking (FOM, The Netherlands)
   “Femtosecond laser-induced molecular alignment”
2. Dr. C. Hayden (Sandia, USA)
   “Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron/photoion coincidence imaging”
3. Prof. R. Gordon (U Illinois, USA)
   “Molecular optics and controlling the motion of molecules”

 Monday Evening, July 1, 2002

High Harmonic Generation

Chair: TBA

1. Prof. M. Murnane (Colorado/JILA, USA)
   “Coherent Control of Atoms and Molecules in Strong Fields”
2. Prof. J. Marangos (Imperial College, England)
   “High harmonic generation and electron wave packet interference in aligned molecules”
3. Hot Topic       TBA

Tuesday Morning, July 2, 2002

Super-Intense Interactions

Chair: Prof. T. Ditmire (U Texas, USA)

1. Prof. B. Walker (Delaware, USA)
   “Ionization, rescattering and radiation dynamics for dtoms in ultra-intense fields”
2. Prof. S. L. Chin (Laval, Canada)
   “Self-focusing and filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses in optical media limited by multiphoton transition: intensity clamping and white light laser”
3. Prof. R. R. Freeman (UC Davis, USA)
   “The ultimate multiphoton interaction: Visible light energy converted to MeV electrons”

 Tuesday Evening, July 2, 2002

Light Manipulation

Chair: Prof. R. Falcone (UC Berkeley, USA)

1. Prof. L. Hau (Harvard, USA)
   “Slowing light”
2. Prof. Jun Ye (JILA, USA)
   “Coherent control of light”
3. Hot Topic       TBA

 Wednesday Morning, July 3, 2002

Strong-Field Molecular Control

Chair: Prof. A. Bandrauk (Sherbrooke, Canada)

1. Dr. A. Stolow (NRC, Canada)
   “Methods for complex molecular wave packets”
2. Prof. R. Levis (Wayne State, USA)
   “Conversations with molecules in the strong field regime”
3. Dr. M. Motzkus (MPI Garching, Germany)
   “Adaptive coherent control of quantum phenomena”

 Wednesday Evening, July 3, 2002

Attosecond Science

Chair: Prof. D. Charalambdis (FORTH Crete, Greece)

1. Prof. H. Muller (FOM, The Netherlands)
   “Optimization and frequency active control of high harmonic generation”
2. Dr. P. Corkum (NRC, Canada)
   “Attosecond electrons for probing molecular dynamics”
3. Hot Topic       TBA

 Thursday Morning, July 4, 2002

Atomic Interactions in Intense Laser Fields

Chair: Prof. P. Bucksbaum (Michigan, USA)

1. Dr. G. Paulus (MPI Garching, Germany)
   “The "absolute" phase of few-cycle laser pulses”
2. Dr. H. Rottke (MBI Berlin, Germany)
   “COLTRIMS applied to strong field ionization: The intensity regime at and
   below the threshold for electron impact ionization”
3. Prof. J. Eberly (Rochester, USA)
   “100,000 strong-field trajectories compared with quantum theory”

 Thursday Evening, July 4, 2002

Future Frontiers in Multiphoton Processes

Chair: Dr. K. Kulander (LLNL, USA)

1. Prof. P. Lambropoulos (FORTH Crete, Greece)
   ”Multiphoton physics beyond the XUV wavelength range; A new frontier?”
2. TBA