International Workshop on

Atomic Interactions in Laser Fields

September 1-3, 1999 at Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

 

Program of the Workshop

Wednesday, September 1, 1999:

8:30 - 8:45
Opening and Welcome
8:45 - 9:25
Joachim GROSSER, Hannover, Germany:
Direct observation of collisions by laser excitation of the collision complex. [Abstract]
9:25 - 10:05
Frank REBENTROST, Garching, Germany:
Theoretical investigations of differential optical collisions. [Abstract]
10:05 - 10:45
Paul KLEIBER, Iowa City, USA:
Laser spectroscopic studies of metal atom - hydrocarbon interactions. [Abstract]
10:45 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:50
Mark HAVEY, Norfolk, VA, USA:
Light scattering spectroscopy: a new method for determining atomic oscillator strengths. [Abstract]
11:50 - 12:30
Gustav GERBER, Wuerzburg, Germany:
Wave Packet Dynamics: Femtosecond resolved pump-probe experiments in molecular beams. [Abstract]
12:30 - 13:10
Jan W. THOMSEN, Copenhagen, Denmark:
Obserwation of vibrational levels in cold He*. [Abstract]
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:40
Wolfgang BEHMENBURG, Duesseldorf, Germany:
Study of excitation transfer Li(3D → 3P) occuring in optical collisions with rare gas atoms experimentally. [Abstract]
15:40 - 16:00
Teresa GRYCUK, Warsaw, Poland:
Optical spectra of Li (n = 2,3)-He collision molecules probing interaction potentials and dipole moments. [Abstract]
16:00 - 16:20
Eugeniusz CZUCHAJ, Gdansk, Poland:
Ca+ - H2 and Ca+ - N2 collisions in laser fields. [Abstract]
16:20 - 16:40
Ewa PAUL - KWIEK, Gdansk, Poland:
Effects of spin-changing collisions on redistribution of resonance radiation of Ba perturbed by rare gases. [Abstract]
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:40
Yukinori SATO, Tohoku University, Japan:
Frequency and time domain studies of the first and second order optical collisions in mercury - rare gas diatomic systems. [Abstract]
17:40 - 18:20
Alexander Z. DEVDARIANI, St. Petersburg, Russia:
Absorption and radiation of quasimolecules - a Fourier transform approach. [Abstract]
18:20 - 18:50
Francesco FUSO, Pisa, Italy:
Molecular oxygen dissociation in pulsed laser ablation. [Abstract]
19:00 Dinner

Thursday, September 2, 1999:

8:30 - 9:10
Paul S. JULIENNE, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA:
Photoassociation spectroscopy: Past, Present, and Future. [Abstract]
9:10 - 9:50
Kalle - Antti SUOMINEN, Helsinki, Finnland:
Cold collisions between laser-cooled magnesium atoms. [Abstract]
9:50 - 10:30
Luigi MOI, Siena, Italy:
White-light laser cooling. [Abstract]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40
Klaus SENGSTOCK, Hannover, Germany:
Coherent atom optics with Bose-Einstein condensates. [Abstract]
11:40 - 12:30
Kazimierz RZAZEWSKI, Warsaw, Poland:
Fluctuations of Bose-Einstein condensate. [Abstract]
12:30 - 13:10
Matthias BUECHNER, Caroline CHAMPENOIS, Christophe BOISSEAU, Leszek JOZEFOWSKI, Carlo RIZZO, and Jacques VIGUE, Toulouse, France:
Principle and design of an atomic interferometer working with lithium atom. [Abstract]
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 15:40
Volker STAEMMLER, Bochum, Germany:
An ab initio study of the modifications of atomic and molecular Rydberg states in the condensed phase. [Abstract]
15:40 - 16:20
Martin JUNGEN, Basel, Switzerland:
Ab initio potential surfaces for collision complexes: Excited states of the KAr molecule. [Abstract]
16:20 - 16:40
Burcin BAYRAM, Norfolk, VA, USA:
Anomalous depolarization of the magnetic dipole - electric quadrupole transitions in atomic 87Rb. [Abstract]
16:40 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:40
Goran PICHLER, Zagreb, Croatia:
Laser guided discharge and laser switching in dense lithium vapour. [Abstract]
17:40 - 18:20
Gillian PEACH, London, UK:
The pressure broadening of spectral lines produced in an intense monochromatic radiation field. [Abstract]
19:00 Dinner

Friday, September 3, 1999:

8:30 - 9:10
Hans KLEINPOPPEN, Stirling, UK:
Quantum mechanically complete photoionization experiments with polarized atoms. [Abstract]
9:10 - 9:50
Andrzej RACZYNSKI and Jaroslaw ZAREMBA, Torun, Poland:
Suppression of photoionization in strong fields. [Abstract]
9:50 - 10:30
Gerard NIENHUIS, Leiden, Netherlands:
Dynamics of atoms in optical lattices. [Abstract]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30
General discussion
Co-chairman: Joachim GROSSER and Wolfgang BEHMENBURG
12:30
Closing of the Workshop
13:00 Lunch

As a satellite seminar to this Workshop the Second Polish Meeting of Young Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physicists (Polish abbreviation: FAMO) will be held on Friday afternoon, September 3, 1999 in Torun at the Institute of Physics, N. Coopernicus University. The FAMO '99 is devoted to presentations of recent results of young FAMO-physicists (mostly PhD students) during a special Poster Session. All posters should be in English. Although the FAMO '99 is addressed first of all to young physicists from Polish scientific centres anyone from outside Poland interested in subjects of this meeting is cordially invited to attend. The cost of accomodation in student dormitories at Bielany Campus for one person is 35 Zloty per night in single-occupancy rooms and 30 Zloty in double-occupancy rooms.

To register please write to the Organizing Committee:

e-mail: famo99@phys.uni.torun.pl