Uwe Thumm,

Topics in Femto- and Attosecond Science

Prof. Christoph Bostedt

Ultrafast imaging of nanoscale samples with intense XFEL pulses – new opportunities at the SwissFEL Maloja Endstation

Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner

Attosecond soft-X-ray and high-harmonic spectroscopies: bridging the complexity gap

Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner

Attosecond time delays in molecules, clusters and liquids: towards electronic dynamics in solutions

Prof. Hans Jakob Wörner

Attosecond charge migration and its interaction with nuclear motion: towards attochemistry

Prof. Jeremy Richardson, ETH D-CHAB

Bending the rules of classical mechanics to simulate quantum dynamics

Prof. Giulio Cerullo, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Ultrafast carrier and spin dynamics in two-dimensional semiconductors

Prof. Alessandra Lanzara, Physics Department, University California, Berkeley

Leveraging local symmetry breaking to engineering novel materials properties

Dr. Tsukasa Takanashi, Molecular spectroscopy laboratory, RIKEN, Wako, Japan

Ultrafast electron and molecular dynamics induced by short wavelength novel free-electron lasers

Prof. Tobias Kampfrath, Freie Universität Berlin and Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society

Probing and controlling spin transport with ultrashort terahertz pulses

Prof. Dr. Jan Michael Rost, MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Purifying electron spectra from noisy pulses with machine learning using synthetic Hamilton matrices

Gerard Mourou - Nobel Prize Winner, École polytechnique, Paris, France

Passion Extreme Light

Dr. Luca Castiglioni, Department of Physics, University of Zurich

Coherence in time-​ and angle-​resolved photoemission: orbital tomography 2.0

Dr. Linda Young, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Capturing transient species in ionized liquid water with ultrafast x-rays

Dr. Ilie Radu (Max Born Institute Berlin, Germany)

Controlling magnetism by light

Prof. Martin Richardson, CREOL, University of Central Florida, USA

Ultrafast laser processing in glass – in three dimension

Dr. Michel Négrerie, Ecole Polytechnique, France

Structural and allosteric transitions of heme protein sensors probed from picosecond to second

Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Wolf, GAP-Biophotonics, Uni Geneva

Quantum Sensing and Control

Prof. Matthew J. Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool, UK

Design of Advanced Materials?

Dr. Giulia Mancini, PSI, OVGA/319, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

Ultrafast spectro-microscopy and coherent scattering of functional nanomaterials: harnessing the power of soft X-ray light

Prof. Dr. Jens Biegert ICFO, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

Lightwave-driven Quantum Dynamics: Molecular “Selfie” to Floquet Oscillation

Prof. Majed Chergui, LSU, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Ultrafast optical and X-ray studies of the dynamics of chemical systems

Dr. Dimitra Markovitsi, LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay

Absorption of low energy UV radiation by DNA: excited states and reactivity

Dr. Samuel Teitelbaum, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, US

Structural Motion far from Equilibrium: Reconstructing Interatomic Forces, Irreversible Phase Transitions, and Anharmonicity

Prof. Yoshitaka Tanimura, Kyoto University, Japan

Modeling, Simulating, and Analyzing 2D IR-Raman and 2D electronic-vibrational Spectroscopies

Dr. Jake Koralek, SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford

Generation of ultrathin free-flowing liquid sheets

Prof. Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Japan

Ultrafast Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Excess Electrons in Water and Alcohols

Prof. Jeremy Johnson, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, US

Examining Nonlinear Terahertz Photonic and Phononic Excitation with Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy

Prof. Henrik Stapelfeldt, Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark

Laser-induced alignment and imaging of molecules embedded in helium nanodroplets

Prof. Elena Mishina, MIREA – Russian Technological University - Moscow, Russia

Impact of strong picosecond THz pulses on dielectrics and semiconductors

Dr. Ivano Tavernelli, IBM, Zürich

New strategies for non-adiabatic dynamics with trajectories

Prof. Chii-Dong Lin, Kansas State University, USA

Characterization, Control and Application of Isolated Attosecond Pulses

Dr. Michael Woerner (Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany)

2D THz spectroscopy on phonons in molecular crystals and semiconductor nanostructures

Dr. Michael Wörner, Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany

2D THz spectroscopy on phonons in molecular crystals and semiconductor nanostructures

Dr. Cornelia Hofmann, MPI Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Disentangling Long Trajectory Contributions in Two-Colour High Harmonic Generation

Dr. Alexandra Landsman

Recent Developments in Rydberg State Formation via Frustrated Tunnel Ionization

Prof. Christos Flytzanis Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Université PSL, France

Amplification of coherent sub-THz acoustic phonons in superlattices. Fashioning and Pumping up the sound and the SASER issue

Prof. Angel Rubio

Time-dependent density-functional theory (TDDFT) and Many-Body Techniques (MBT)

Prof. Dr. Peter Banzer

Nano-Optics with Structured Light – A Tale of Photonic Wheels, Nanoscopic Lighthouses and Polarization Möbius Strips

Dr. Denis Jelovina (Lund University)

Near-exact calculations of photo-breakup by intense laser fields of H2 and H2+ systems

Prof. Alberto Morpurgo, Quantum Electronics Group, University of Geneva, Switzerland

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Prof. Renske van der Veen, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Ultrafast Electron Microscopy: a New Tool to Study Chemical Dynamics at the Nanoscale

Prof. Dr. Günter Steinmeyer, Institute of Physics of the Humboldt-University Berlin and Max-Born-Institute, Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

Carrier-envelope phase stabilization of mode-locked lasers: towards zeptosecond timing control

Prof. Dr. Francesca Calegari Attosecond Science Group, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), DESY, Hamburg

Probing electronic processes in large molecules with attosecond time resolution

Prof. Yasushi Shinohara, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Japan

Theoretical study on solid-state high harmonic generation: from a one-dimensional model to an ab-initio three-dimensional approach

Dr. Oleg I. Tolstikhin, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Adiabatic theory of strong-field ionization

Prof. Tom Allison, Department of Chemistry, Stony Brook University, New York, USA

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Ultrafast extreme ultraviolet photoemission without space charge

Dr. Riccardo Bolis, CNRS, PIMM Laboratory, ENSAM Paris

X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy study of MgO in the Warm Dense Matter regime

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Joint Madison-Lausanne LACUS Workshop

Prof. Adam Kirrander, School of Chemistry, University of Edinburg, UK

Ultrafast x-ray scattering: chemical dynamics and beyond

Prof. Jie Qiao, Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science, Rochester Institute of Technology

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Ultrafast Lasers for Photonics Fabrication and Integration , Optical Differentiation Wavefront Sens ing , and Adaptive Optics

Jon Marangos, Imperial College, South Kensington, London

PSI Photon Science Seminar: Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy towards sub-femtosecond resolution

Dr. Philip Kurian, Howard University, Washington DC, USA

Ultrafast tryptophan-to-tryptophan energy transfer and superradiance in tubulin polymers

Prof. George Keiser, Department of Physics, Washington College, Maryland, USA

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Ultrafast electronic band gap control and inhibition of the photoinduced structural phase transition in an excitonic insulator

Dr. J. Hu, California Institute of Technology and China Academy of Engineering Physics

4D visualization of ultrafast lattice deformation in solids under laser excitation

Dr. Roxana Tarkeshian (Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern)

Laser Seminar: Strong field induced ionization-based techniques for micron cubed particle beam characterization

Selen Mor, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany

LACUS Event: Ultrafast electronic band gap control and inhibition of the photoinduced structural phase transition in an excitonic insulator

Sergej Neb, Molekül- und Oberflächenphysik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Attosecond delays in the photoemission from the layered, centrosymmetric Bi2Te3 and non-centrosymmetric BiTeCl crystals

Dr. Bernhard Lang, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva

Model-free decomposition of complex transient spectra: photometrics of ultrafast broadband transient absorption

Prof. Frank Neese, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany

LACUS Event: Insight into the water oxidizing cluster in Photosystem II (SCS )

Dr. Wojciech Gawelda, European XFEL GmbH, Germany

LACUS Event: Scientific opportunities and challenges for femtochemistry using X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Dr. Wojciech Gawelda, European XFEL GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany

Scientific opportunities and challenges for chemistry using X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Sheida Mahmoodi, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Thulium Doped Fiber Laser Mode-locked by Graphene Saturable Absorber

Tobias Schweizer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Ptychographic reconstruction of XFEL pulses

Dr. Anne Harth, MPI, Heidelberg, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Attosecond timing with spectral resolution

Peter Schunemann, BAE Systems

Highly Nonlinear Crystals for Ultrafast Mid-IR Frequency Conversion

Dr. Laura Cattaneo, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Ultrafast Laser Physics, ETH Zürich

Investigation of photoionization time delays in atomic and molecular targets

Prof. Stephan Thürmer, Department of Chemistry, University of Kyoto, Japan

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Exploring non-radiative relaxation processes in X-ray irradiated liquid water and aqueous solutions

Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer Uni Bern

Terahertzstrahlung - Grundlagen, Forschung und Anwendungen

Dr. Jeremy Rouxel, University of California

LACUS Event: Time-resolved nonlinear signals for X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar Sergej Neb

Dr. Marino Marsi, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, CNRS, Univ. Paris Sud Université Paris-Saclay France

Ultrafast study of out-of-equilibrium quantum materials

Davide Soranzio Department of Phyiscs, Università degli studi di Trieste, Italy

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Non-equilibrium dynamics in WTe2 revealed by ultrafast supercontinuum optical and photoelectron spectroscopies

Various speakers

IAP Day

various speakers

LACUS Day

Dr. Daniela Rupp, MBI Berlin

Diffractive imaging of ultrafast light-induced dynamics on the nanoscale

Prof. Dr. Franz X. Kärtner, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Terahertz Driven Electron and X-ray Sources

Xiaocui Wang Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden Modulation of X-ray Reflectivity by a Photo-Acoustic Transducer

Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann Department of Physics, University of Kaiserlautern, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Revealing the subfemtosecond dynamics of orbital angular momentum in nanoplasmonic vortices

Yiming Zhang, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, BFH Bern University of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Information Technology, Burgdorf

From Theory To Application: Role of Numerical Simulations in Laser-Material Interaction and Laser Amplifier

Dr. Helena Alves, CICECO, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Carbon Based Crystalline Photonic Devices

Prof. Jeremy Richardson

Inaugural lecture: Computer simulations of dynamical molecules and chemical reactions

Prof. Richard Friend, University of Cambridge

LACUS Event: Molecular semiconductors for LEDs and solar cells: designing around the Coulomb interaction

Christoph Bacher, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Introduction to our Matlab software framework: FiberlabFramework

Michela Gazzetto, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Charge and energy transfer processes in Photoactive Molecular Materials

Dr. Fulvio Parmigiani, University of Trieste and University of Cologne

LACUS Event: A Non-equilibrium approach to the optical spectroscopy of high-temperature superconductors

S. Borrelli, M. Bednarzik, C. David, E. Ferrari, V. A. Guzenko, G.L. Orlandi,, C. Ozkan-Loch, E. Pratt and R. Ischebeck, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen

Wire Scanner on a Chip

Prof. Nikolaus Ernsting, Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany

LACUS Event: Hydration Dynamics Seen from the Inside: Possibilities of a Molecular THz Spectrometer

Dr. Leonardo Gasparini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Trento (IT)

Digital Silicon Photo-Multipliers for biomedical, particle physics and quantum physics applications

Prof. Walter Pfeiffer Molekül- und Oberflächenphysik, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Intra-atomic Delays in Attosecond Time-resolved Solid State Photoemission

Gregory Gäumann, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Nonlinear THz spectroscopy and NIR pump THz ellipsometry

David Rohrbach, Institute of Mathematics, University of Bern

THz-driven graphene plasmon-based undulator

Dr. Yunpei Deng, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen Switzerland

Advancing Ultrashort Laser Pulse Technology: Controlling Ultrafast Electron Motion

Prof. Hiromichi Niikura Department of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Japan

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Momentum and phase-resolved attosecond electron wavepacket imaging

Prof. Thomas Fennel Theoretical Cluster Physics Group Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Probing the 3D shape and attosecond quantum dynamics of isolated nanostructures via single-shot XUV coherent diffractive imaging

Dr. Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Attoclock Revisited

Prof. Giuseppe Sansone Physikalisches Institut, Albert-Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Coherent control and attosecond spatial interferometry in the extreme ultraviolet range

Johannes Haase, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen Switzerland

Ultrafast and ultrasensitive coupling to molecular vibrations

Dr. Davide Bossini Institute for Photon Science and Technology, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Laser seminar: Femtosecond quantum spin dynamics at the edges of the Brillouin zone in antiferromagnets

Prof. Laura Herz, University of Oxford, UK

LACUS Event: Mechanisms limiting charge-carrier recombination and mobilities in metal halide perovskites

Prof. Omar Mohammed, KAUST

LACUS Event: Mapping Carrier Dynamics on Semiconductor Material Surfaces and at Interfaces using Laser

Manuel Unternährer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Super-Resolution Quantum Imaging and the Supertwin Project

Prof. André Bandrauk Department of Chemistry, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Laser seminar: Circularly Polarized Molecular High Order Harmonics - Generation and Applications in Attosecond Science

Christoph Bacher, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Yellow light-generation by frequency doubling the output of a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) based cavity

Aaron Christopher Riede, University of Konstanz, DE

Nonlinear Plasmonics of Germanium Nanoantennas in the Midinfrared Range

Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff, Laser Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Ultrafast electron dynamics at the surface of metal nanotips and in graphene

Dr. Anuradha Das, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Deep Eutectic Solvents: Underlying Dynamics and Uses

Dr. Roxana Tarkeshian, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Towards plasma-based techniques for high-field FEL e- beam characterization

Dr. Sarah Houver Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France

Laser seminar: Resonant nonlinear optics in quantum cascade lasers

Christa Biberstein, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Radiofrequent High Voltage Gas Discharges in Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fibers

Dr. Erwan Terrier, Université de Strasbourg

Laser seminar: Ultrafast demagnetization in iron oxide nanostructures

Zoltàn Ollmann, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

High energy THz pulse generation by tilted pulse front pumping

Raphael Blümli, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Fiber optical Gyroscope

Lorenzo Valzania, EMPA Dübendorf

Mechanical contact of skin and textiles: THz imaging of the interface

Prof. Fernando Martín, Departamento de Química, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Attosecond Molecular Dynamics

Universität Bern - IAP Day

Dr. Nina Mosimann, SPIEZ LABORATORY, Radioactivity Group, Federal Office for Civil Protection FOCP, Spiez

Gamma Spectrometry at SPIEZ LABORATORY

Tenio Popmintchev, Physics Department, Center for Advanced Nanoscience, University of California San Diego, USA

Laser Seminar: Quantum Design of Coherent X-rays for Imaging at the Space-Time Resolution Extreme

Prof. Dr. Martin Aeschlimann, Department of Physics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Probing Ultrafast Electron and Spin Dynamics in Momentum, Space, and Time

Jannick Weisshaupt, Max-Born Institut Berlin, Germany

Ultrafast modulation of electronic structure by coherent phonon excitations

Prof. Jiri Vaníček, Laboratory of Theoretical Physical Chemistry LCPT, EPFL, Lausanne

On-the-fly ab initio semiclassical dynamics for computing vibrationally resolved electronic spectra

Dr. Céphise Cacho Artemis Central Laser Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom

Tracking electron dynamics in graphene and transition metal dichalcogenide

Dr. Franziska Frei, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen

Moving from a tabletop experiment to SwissFEL

Prof. Joachim Burgdörfer, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universtität Wien, Austria

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Dynamical correlations in ultrafast laser-atom interactions

Dr. Beat Neuenschwander, Institute for Applied Laser, Photonics and Surface Technologies ALPS of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf

Laser Microprocessing with Ultra-Short Laser Pulses: Basics, Limitations and Needs

Dr. Peter Peier, Eidgenössisches Institut für Metrologie METAS, Labor Ionisierende Strahlung, Bern- Wabern

Electron Beam Diagnostics for FELs and Medical Accelerators

Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Atomic Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden

Laser Seminar / NCCR MUST Seminar: Versatile sources of high-order harmonics

Alice Sciortino, University of Palermo and University of Catania, Italy, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

The Wonderland of Carbon Dots

Prof. Thomas Elsässer, Max-Born-Institut für Nichtlineare Optik und Kurzzeitspektroskopie, Berlin, Germany,

Electric interactions and structure fluctuations of hydrated DNA mapped by 2D infrared spectroscopy

Dr. Florian Enderli, Technologieentwicklung, SwissOptic AG, CH-9435 Heerbrugg

Free form surfaces on all optics?

Dr. Andreas Galler, European XFEL GmbH, 22869 Schenefeld, Germany

Exploring Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics: The Femtosecond X-ray Experiments Instrument

Prof. Mikhail Belkin, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Flat nonlinear optics: efficient frequency conversion in gradient nonlinear metasurfaces

Dr. Esther Hsiao-Rho Tsai, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen

X-ray ptychography

Prof. Dr. Shaul Mukamel, UC Irvine, Professor of Chemistry, University Irvine, California, USA

Probing conical intersections in molecules by stimulated X-ray Raman, photoelectron spectroscopy and at optical cavities

Michael Bauer, Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, University of Kiel, D-24098 Kiel, Germany

Ultrafast Dynamics in solids probed by time-resolved XUV-ARPES

Prof. Thomas Graule, EMPA, Dübendorf

Ceramics and Nanocomposite Research at EMPA's Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics

Prof. Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Applications of Elliptically Polarized, Few-Cycle Attosecond Pulses

Prof. Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FAST Lecture: Tutorial on Attosecond Physics: Near Future Prospects

Prof. Anthony Starace, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

FAST Lecture: Tutorial on Atomic Photoionization with Applications to Harmonic Generation and Multiphoton Ionization

Prof. Dr. Christoph Hauri, Group Leader, Laser Group, Swiss XFEL, Paul Scherrer-Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Manipulating magnetic and optical properties of condensed matter with intense Terahertz pulses

Robert Boyd, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa and on the Faculty at the University of Rochester

Quantum Nonlinear Optics: Nonlinear Optics Meets the Quantum World

Dr. Wim Leemans, Director of the Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics (ATAP) Division and Director of the BELLA (Berkeley Lab Laser Accerlator) Center at LBNL, Berkeley

Laser plasma accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab's BELLA Center

Prof. Dr. Steven Johnson, IQE, ETH Zürich

Driving Atomic-Scale Structure Changes with Ultrashort Pulses of Light

Prof. Steve Johnson, ETH Zürich

Driving Atomic-Scale Structure Changes with Ultrashort Pulses of Light

Prof. Eric Vauthey, Département de Chimie Physique, Université de Genève

Joint seminar Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry / Institute of Applied Physics Addressing basic questions on photoinduced electron transfer processes using ultrafast spectroscopy

Prof. Mona Jarrahi, University of California, Los Angeles

New Frontiers in Terahertz Technology

Dr. Georg Achazi, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Single Shot detection for UV-Spectroscopy

Prof. Ivan Powis, Professor of Chemical Physics, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

Emerging Directions in Chiral Molecule Photoionization

Dr. Andrew Lundgren, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Hannover, Germany

Detection of Gravitational Waves: The GW150914 Event

Prof. Dr. Christian Rüegg, Head of Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS), Paul Scherrer-Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Quantum Magnets and Criticality in and out of Equilibrium

Prof. Ursula Keller, IQE, ETH Zurich

Attosecond Ionization Time Delays

Prof. Dr. Ming Shi, Spectroscopy of Novel Materials Group, Paul Scherrer-Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

ARPES on High-Temperature Superconductors & Topological Materials

Prof. Gregory Scholes, Princeton University

Joint seminar Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry / Institute of Applied Physics Photosynthetic Light Harvesting: An Overview

Dr. Karol Nass, Max-Planck-Institut, Heidelberg, Germany

Radiation Damage and Phasing in Protein Crystallography at X-ray Free-Electron Lasers

Prof. Gregory Scholes, Princeton University, USA

SCS Lectureships: Coherent Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

Prof. Dr. Charles Rhodes, Laboratory for X-Ray Microimaging and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Rewriting the Rules Governing High Intensity Interactions of Light with Matter

Stéphane Sebban Laboratoire d’optique appliquée, École Polytechnique and ELI beamlines, Palaiseau, France

Progress on laboratory-size ultra-intense soft x-ray lasers

Ilie Radu, Max-Born Institute Berlin and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, BESSY II, Berlin, Germany

Engineering Ultrafast Magnetism

Prof. Graham Worth, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham

Unravelling Time-resolved Spectra Using Quantum Dynamics Simulations

Universität Bern - IAP Day

Prof. Dr. Thomas Pfeifer, Director of Division Quantum Dynamics and Control, Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

Fundamental dynamics of small quantum systems probed and controlled by low and high frequency (laser) interactions

Dr. Francesca Calegari, Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies, IFN-CNR, Milano, Italy

Charge migration in amino acids: observing pure electron dynamics induced by XUV attosecond pulses

Dr. Christof Fattinger, Roche Innovation Center Basel

Focal Molography on a Monolithic Brushed-Polymer Layer

Prof. Jean-Pierre Wolf, Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva

High Field Physics and Laser Filamentation

Prof. Ruth Signorell, Aerosols and Nanoscience, ETH Zurich

Spectroscopy with molecular clusters and nanoscale aerosol particles

Dr. Gregor Knopp, Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen

Towards application of nonlinear time resolved X-ray spectroscopy

Yulia Pushkar, Associate Professor of Physics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

Bright, ultrashort X-ray pulses and what you can imagine doing with them

Dr. Robert Boge, ELI Beamlines, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

ELI: Providing Unprecedented Laser Technology to the Research Community

Prof. Henrik Stapelfeldt, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Femtosecond Time-resolved Imaging of Chiral Molecules

Philippe Raisin, Optical Fiber and Fiber Laser Lab, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Intrinsically stable all in-fiber broadband light-source / Two dimensional refractive index mapping of optical fibers

Prof. Petr Slavicek, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague

X-Ray Photodynamics in Liquid Phase: Ab Initio Simulations

Lukas Gallmann, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, and ETH Zurich

Exploring the long-wavelength limit of the electric dipole approximation

R.Wilcox, Berkeley University

SwissFEL Seminar: Timing and phasing of ultrafast pulses for FELs and plasma accelerators

Alexandra Landsman, Max-Planck Institut, Dresden, Germany

Resonant interaction between ultra-short laser pulses and matter

Prof. Ruth Signorell, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich

Spectroscopy with molecular clusters and nanoscale aerosol particles

Darius Torchinsky, Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

Revealing hidden symmetry breaking in strongly correlated matter

Caroline Bösch, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern

Self-Assembly of Phenanthrene-Oligomers into Nanotubes with Light-Harvesting Properties

Eva Lindroth, Department of Physics , Stockholm University, Alba Nova University Center, Stockholm, Sweden

Resonances in photoionization cross sections and delays

Dr. Matthias Hengsberger, UniZH

Study of electronic and structural dynamics by means of time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy and diffraction

Darius H. Torchinsky, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Revealing hidden symmetry breaking in strongly correlated matter

Jens Limpert, Fiber and Waveguide Lasers, Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany

Coherent combination of fiber amplified ultrashort laser pulses

Dirk Sutter, TRUMPF Laser GmbH + Co, Schramberg, Germany

Industrial Ultrafast Disk Lasers

Dr. Spiros Skourtis, University of Cyprus and University of Freiburg, Germany

Electron transfer processes from the molecular to the cellular length scales

Dr. Eduard Prat Costa, PSI

SwissFEL Meeting: Simple method to generate terawatt-attosecond X-ray free-electron-laser pulses

Dr. Marco Cammarata, University of Rennes 1, France

Watching matter in real time with X-ray Free Electron Lasers

Jos Kohn, Université de Fribourg and Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Dispersion measurements of fibres

Prof. Sylvie Roke, Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, EPFL

Is water responding symmetrically to charge?

Prof. Angel Rubio, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg and NanoBio Spectroscopy Group and ETSF Scientific Development Centre, Universidad del País Vasco, UPV/EHU San Sebastián, Spain

Simulation of Optoelectronic and Photovoltaic processes within a TDDFT formalism

Dr. Thilo Stöferle, IBM Research GmbH, Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon

Exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensation with a polymer at room temperature

Manfred Lein, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Two-colour strong-field ionization

Prof. Markus Pollnau, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Kista/Stockholm, Sweden

The Laser Linewidth

Prof. Christian Eggeling, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Lipid membrane bioactivity – novel insights from optical super-resolution (STED-FCS) microscopy

Prof. Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Berlin, Germany

Fundamentals and Applications of Plasma Filaments

Prof. Eric Vauthey, University of Geneva

Ultrafast Photoinduced Processes at Liquid Interfaces: what is different from bulk solutions?

Dr. Erwin Bente, Department of Electrical Engineering, COBRA Research Institute, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands

Integrated Indium Phosphide based modelocked lasers

Dr. Pavle Juranic, Paul Scherrer Institut PSI, Villigen

Temporal Diagnostics Measurements with the Pulse Arrival and Length Monitor (PALM) at SACLA

Prof. Johan Hofkens, Laboratory for Photochemistry and Spectroscopy, University of Leuven, Belgium

The power of one: what can we learn from singe molecule fluorescence microscopy measurements?

Dr. Hans Peter Herzig, Optics & Photonics Technology Laboratory (OPT), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Neuchâtel

Bloch surface waves, a 2D platform for planar optical integration

Bradley J. Siwick, Center for the Physics of Materials, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes

B. Siwick, Mc Gill Uni, Canada

SwissFEL Seminar: Structure and Dynamics with Ultrafast Electron Microscopes

Dr. Cristina Consani, Universität Würzburg, Germany

Coherent two-dimensional spectroscopy: from photochemistry to exciton dynamics

Dr. Antonino La Magna, CNR IMM, Istituto per la Microelettronica e Microsistemi, Catania, Italy

Electron transport theories from the quantum to the ultra high field regimes

Prof. Hui Cao, Departement of Applied Physics, Yale University, USA

Random Lasers

Dr. Predrag Ranitovic, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, USA

Control of atomic and molecular XUV absorption processes using intense IR fields and prosepcts of using ELI-ALPS user facility

Dr. Ulrich Lorenz, CALTECH, USA

Mechanics of DNA Structures and Liquid Flow in Nanotubes: Observing Nanoscale Dynamics by 4D Electron Microscopy

T. Südmeyer, Univ. Neuchatel

Recent Trends in Ultrafast Lasers and Optical Frequency Combs

Prof. Wolfgang Sandner, Director General and CEO, ELI-DC International Association AISBL, Berlin, Germany

The Extreme Light Infrastructure ELI: Europe on its way to build the world’s first international laser user facility

Prof. Elisabeth Giacobino, Equipe Optique Quantique, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Paris

A quantum memory for twisted photons

Dr. Fabrizio Messina, Laboratory of Advanced Materials Physics (LAMP), Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Università degli Studi di Palermo (Italy)

Optical and structural properties of Carbon nanodots and Metal-Organic Frameworks

Prof. Dr. Peter Mulser, Institute of Applied Physics Darmstadt University of Technology and Dr. Ernst Fill, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Attosecond Physics Garching

Scientific workshop marking the retirement of Prof. Dr. Jürg Balmer

Prof. Nikolaus Ernsting, Institut für Chemie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Allemagne)

Observing the Hydration Layer of Biomolecules with a Linked Molecular THz Probe

Prof. Dr. David Tilley, University of Zurich, CH

Solar Water Splitting with Metal Oxide Semiconductors

Prof. Tobias Kippenberg, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), K-Lab, Lausanne

The Science of Optical Microresonators: Chipscale Optical Frequency Combs

Dr. Paul Beaud, FEMTO Group, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen

Ultrafast structural dynamics in solid matter studied by x-ray diffraction

Dr. Nora Kling, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching

Phase tagging for exploring the carrier-envelope phase control of ionization and dissociation

Frank Schlawin, Institute of Physics, Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Nonlinear spectroscopy with quantum light

Dr. Adriana Palffy, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg

Nuclear and atomic quantum dynamics with strong optical, x-ray and gamma-ray fields

Shunsuke A. Sato, Departement of Physics, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Microscopic simulation for laser-induced electron dynamics in solids

Dr. Johannes Haase, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen

Ultrafast biexcitonic signatures in single quantum dot pump-probe spectroscopy

Dr. Georg Achazi, Institute for Experimental Physics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Transmission of parametrically polarization shaped pulses through a hollow core photonic crystal fiber

Prof. Paolo Favaro, Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern

The Light Field Camera: Extended Depth of Field, Aliasing and Superresolution

Prof. Tõnu Pullerits, Lund University, Sweden

Photocurrent detected 2D spectroscopy reveals details of multiple exciton generation in colloidal quantum dots

Prof. S. Mukamel, University of California

Coherent Multidimensional Raman Spectroscopy of Molecules

Dr. Jason Greenwood

Ultrafast Charge Migration in Biological Building Blocks

André Stefanov

Broadband energy-entangled photons for light-matter interaction and quantum information

Nirit Dudovich

Recollision processes – from measurement to control

Nirit Dudovich

Looking into the optical cycle via high harmonics spectroscopy

Dr. Oriol Vendrell Center for Free-­‐Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Nuclear and electronic dynamics after photo-­‐ionization

Uwe Thumm, Professor of Physics, James R. Macdonald Laboratory and Department of Physics, Kansas State University

Attosecond physics: Time-resolved coherent excitation and photoelectron emission from atoms nanoparticles and solid surfaces

Uwe Thumm, Professor of Physics, James R. Macdonald Laboratory and Department of Physics, Kansas State University

Femtosecond physics: Imaging intramolecular forces and nuclear wave functions in small molecules with ultrashort laser and XUV pulses

Prof. Dr. Mauro Nisoli, Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica

Charge migration in molecules

Toshinori Suzuki, Kyoto University, Departement of Chemistry, Kyoto, Japan

Ultrafast photoelectron spectroscopy of gases and liquids

Dr. Egmont Rohwer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Ultrafast electron transfer reactions of ZnO solar cells sensitized with indoline dyes

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Lerici Sea Side Seminars 2014

Dr. Hirofumi Yanagisawa, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich

Laser-induced field emission from a tungsten tip in weak and strong optical fields

Prof. Dr. Fernando Martin, Departamento de Quimica, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Electron and nuclear dynamics in the photoionization of molecules

Michela Gazzetto, Laboratory of Quantum Electronics and Nonlinear Optics, Electronics Department, University of Pavia, Italy

Simulation and production of reconfigurable opto-electronic traps on iron doped Lithium Niobate substrate

Ludger Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Experimentalphysik

Fundamentals and Applications of Plasma Filaments

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Cederbaum, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Germany

Interatomic Coulombic Decay and its exploration by short, intense and coherent light pulses

Prof. Shaul Mukamel, Department of Chemistry, University of California - Irvine, USA

Multidimensional Spectroscopy of Molecules with Classical and Quantum Light; From NMR to X-Rays

Prof. André Bandrauk, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry - Canada Research Chair / Computational Chemistry & Photonics

Molecules in intense laser fields: II - Linear to Circular Polarization “Attosecond” Pulses-Generation and Applications

Yannik Waeber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Comsol simulation of high field THz focusing

Prof. André Bandrauk, Professor of Theoretical Chemistry - Canada Research Chair / Computational Chemistry & Photonics

Molecules in intense laser fields: I - from Schroedinger to Dirac to Maxwell

Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Ptychography

Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith, Laserspektroskopie & Biophotonik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, DE

It is water which matters: Observing the rattling modes of ions in the THz Range

Prof. Martina Havenith, Ruhr-University Bochum

THz sources and THz applications

Dr. Luigi Bonacina, GAP Biophotonics, University of Geneva

Harmonic nanoparticles for nonlinear imaging and DNA photo-interaction

Prof. Dr. Thomas Konrad, School of Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, ZA

Quantum Information Processing with light carrying Orbital Angular Momentum

Meike Stöhr, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Characterization and modification of structural and electronic surface properties

Prof. Dr. Jamie L. Manson, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, USA

Low-dimensional quantum magnets composed of strong hydrogen bonds

Yuseff Rodriguez, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

2D-VIS spectroscopy

Dr. Janne Savolainen, Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich

Non-linear THz spectroscopy on water

Dr. Alexander Heidt, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, UK

2 Micron and beyond – new fibers, sources and applications for the mid-IR

Eberhard Riedle, Professor of Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Münich

Workshop on UV-Supercontinuum and compression

Prof. Dr. Ruth Signorell, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zürich, and, Dept. of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Physical Chemistry Spectroscopy of weakly-bound nanosized aerosol particles (joint IAP and DCB seminar)

Tomas Zimmermann, Laboratory of theoretical physical chemistry, EPFL

“On the fly” semiclassical calculation of nonadiabatic spectra of pyrazine

Richard Taieb, Université Sorbonne, Paris, France

Ab initio quantum study of the dynamics of excited SO2 molecule

Christoph Heyl, Lund University, Sweden

Noncollinear Optical Gating

Thomas Wolf, PULSE Institute, Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, USA

Studying ultrafast processes in organic molecules: From UV to XUV and combining experiment with theory

Prof. Anatoly Faenov, Joint institute for High Temperature, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia and, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan

High – performance LiF crystal and film quantum beam detectors for high-resolution imaging

Dereje Etissa, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Progress on rare earth doped optical fiber fabrication by Sol-Gel and granulates silica method

Prof. Dr. Harald Weinfurter, Fakultät für Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany and Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany

Heralded entanglement between distant atoms. Towards a loophole free test of Bell's inequality ?

Dr. Frank van Mourik, Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, Laboratory of Ultrafast Spectroscopy, EPFL Lausanne

Time resolved Stark effect of proteins some attempts from the past, what is possible now?

Prof. Manfred Lein, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Science with strong laser fields: the Keldysh tunneling time and the photoelectron circular dichroism

Manfred Lein, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Tutorial: Retrieval of the ionization and return times from two-color high-harmonic generation

Michael Siegrist, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Self-photopumped Ne-like and Ni-like X-ray laser

Dr. Fabian Brunner, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Distortion-free enhancement of THz signals measured by electro-optic sampling

Stefan Lerch, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Toward experimental two-photon absorption with entangled photons

Fei Jia, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

7.36 nm Ni-like Sm Soft-x-ray Laser

Dr. Michael Brügmann, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Theory and Simulation of Laser Cutting of metals

Giovanni Longo, Laboratory of the Physics of Living Matter LPMV, EPFL, Lausanne

A mechanical sensor to study movement at the nanoscale

Prof. Dr. Robin Santra, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany

X-ray multiphoton ionization and the phase problem in coherent diffractive imaging

Salvatore Bagiante, PSI Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen

Generation of high field enhancement of THz light using Nano-antennas

Ingo Barth, Max-Born Institut, Berlin

Spin polarization and rotating hole dynamics induced by nonadiabatic tunneling in circularly polarized laser fields

Bill Pedrini, PSI

Cross-correlations in X-ray structure determination and other experimental methods

Prof. Eberhard Riedle, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, BioMolekulare Optik, Munich, Germany

From vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field and continuum generation to versatile tunable femtosecond sources

Abraham Nitzan, School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Optical and magnetic phenomena at molecules-metal interfaces

Dr. Grzegorz Milczarek, Institute of Chemistry and Technical Electrochemistry, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

Lignosulfonate-Stabilized Nanoparticles: Properties and Applications

Justyna Fabianska, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

THz-driven streak camera based on giant field enhancement in split-ring resonators

Bhargava Ram, LaserLab, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Probing molecular chirality with a femtosecond reaction microscope

Alfred Maquet, Laboratoire de Chimie Physique-Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris Cedex, France

Attosecond delays in photoionization

Dr. Ariana Rondi, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Single shot detection and noise analysis

Thomas Schultz, Max-Born Institut, Berlin

Combining High-Resolution and Ultrafast Measurements

Fabrizio Carbone, EPFL

The interplay between structural and electronic degrees of freedom in the fs-dynamics of strongly correlated electron systems

Dr. Rob Thew, Quantum Photonics and Quantum Communication Group, University of Geneva

Engineering quantum photonic systems

Ursula Keller, Ultrafast Laser Physics, IQE, ETH

High average power ultrafast lasers

Mabel Ruiz Lopez, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Critical aspects for nano-imaging in XUV Lab-scale Laser

Bill Pedrini Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen PSI

Cross-correlations in X-ray structure determination and other experimental methods

Dr. Marek Gusowski, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Inter- and Intraconfigurational luminescence in hexafluorocryolite-type K3YF6 lattice

Johan Mauritsson, Department of Physics, Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden

High-harmonic generation using multi-color light fields

Dr. Christof Affolderbach, Université de Neuchâtel, Institut de physique, Laboratoire temps-fréquence, Neuchâtel

High-performance and miniaturized atomic clocks based on laser-microwave double-resonance

Leili Masoudnia, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Hohlraum Target for Overcoming Refractive Losses in Plasma X-ray Lasers

Prof. Robin Santra, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Theory of interacting electrons in electromagnetic fields

Prof. Dr. Mischa Bonn, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Mainz, Deutschland

joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry Quantitative, Label-free vibrational microscopy for catalysis

Jon Marangos, Imperial College London

Controlling recollisions to extract attosecond molecular dynamics & ionization dynamics in CO2

Dr. Jérémie Léonard, Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux, IPCMS-DON, Université de Strasbourg - CNRS, France

Ultrafast coherent photoisomerization in biomimetic photoswitches

Paul Beaud + Christoph Hauri, PSI, Workshop Organizer

SwissFEL - Pump Laser Workshop

Dr. Igor A. Artyukov, P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow, Russia

Multilayer optics for X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet applications

Dr. Jürgen Hauer, Multidimensional Molecular Spectroscopy Group, Photonics Institute, Vienna Technical University

Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy- Basics and Applications to Bio-Systems

Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, NY

Understanding light polarization a bit better

Joseph Eberly, University of Rochester, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester, NY

What is the SENE approach to high-field atomic effects

Dr. Urs Dürig, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rüschlikon

joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry Ultra-fast thermo mechanical nano-lithography using thermo-dynamically unstable polymers

Prof. Dr. Peter Hamm, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Uni Zurich

The Quest of the Structure of Water

Anders Nilsson, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA USA

X-ray and electron spectroscopy

Prof. Dr. Fabrizio Carbone , Laboratory for ultrafast microscopy and electron scattering (LUMES), Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL Lausanne

Dynamical investigation of strongly correlated electron systems

Prof. Dr. A. Vlcek, Jr., School of Biological and Chemical Sciences Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Phototriggering Electron Flow in Azurins with a Re(CO)3(diimine)-Tryptophan Unit

Prof. Andrea Cannizzo, Institut für Angewandte Physik (IAP) Universität Bern

Electronic and Vibrational Relaxation Dynamics

Dr. Martin Berninger, Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Efimov physics and beyond: Universal few-body phenomena in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms

Prof. Dr. Thomas Feurer, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry NCCR MUST - Methodologies, Strategy, and Goals

Prof. Dr. Jürg Osterwalder, Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich

Molecular monolayers on well defined surfaces: structure, bonding and dynamics (joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry)

Albert Stolow, ETH-Fast Fellow, National Research Council Canada

Dynamics of polyatomic molecules using laser fields

Dr. Howard Scott, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

Non-LTE Modeling for Laser-Driven Systems

Chii-Dong Lin, ETH-Fast Fellow, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

Strong-field Physics + Attosecond Science

Leili Masoudnia (1), Mabel Ruiz Lopez (2), Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Dry run of SWISS summer school talks: (1) Plasma Homogenization for Overcoming Refractive Losses in X-ray Lasers (2) Critical aspects for a XUV microscope

Dr. József A. Fülöp, University of Pécs, Hungary

Prospects of THz Pulse Generation with mJ-Level Energy and 100 MV/cm Electric Field

Prof. Jorge Ripoll Lorenzo, Physics Department, University of Fribourg

Light Sheet and Projection Tomography Techniques for in-vivo time-lapse imaging

Steve Lecomte, PhD, Section Head, Time & Frequency Systems Division, CSEM Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique SA, Neuchâtel

Time & frequency activities at CSEM : from atomic clocks to stabilized lasers

Prof. Dr. Gerd Meyer, Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität zu Köln, Germany

joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry Rare-Earth Metal Cluster Complexes with Endohedral Atoms

Prof. Dr. Henry Chapman

Femtosecond protein nanocrystallography with an X-ray laser

Dr. Manuel Ryser, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Multi-stage ytterbium fiber-amplifier for weak picosecond laser pulses generated by a gain-switched laser-diode

John C.H.Spence, ASU Physics and LBNL, USA

Fast bioimaging with an X‐ray laser

Amelle Zaïr, Imperial College London

Probing molecular dynamics using trajectories

Prof. Massimo Olivucci, Laboratory for Computational Photochemistry & Photobiology, Bowling Green State University, OH, USA

joint IAP and DCB seminar on Physical Chemistry From Computational Photobiology to the Development of Biomimetic Molecular Devices

Dr. Darko Dimitrovski, Aarhus University, Denmark

Models for ultrafast experiments

Edoardo Baldini, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy

Nonlinear Optical Effects in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Wire Waveguides

H. R. Reiss, Max-Born-Institut and American University

Hot Topics in Strong-Field Physics

Prof. André Stefanov, Quantum Optics Lab, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

What are leap seconds? The atomic time and its relation to astronomical time scales

Prof. Dr. Eric Mazur, Harvard University Department of Physics, Cambridge, USA

Subcellular surgery and nanosurgery

Philippe Zeitoun, ENSTA-Paris Tech, Palaiseau cedex, France

The brightest issues of 10 years of seeding soft X-ray lasers

Florian Garo, Häner group, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern

DNA as a framework for the assembly of aromatic chromophores: on the application for light harvesting systems

Dr. Brian J. Smith, University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow, Department of Physics and Keble College, University of Oxford

Ultrafast Photonic Quantum Technologies: Photon Sources and Detectors

Prof. Dr. Armin Scrinzi, LMU, München

Photo-ionization by strong IR fields

Dr. Salvatore Bagiante, Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology, PSI, Villigen

Carbon nanotubes: Synthesis, Characterization and Integration

Dr. Lukas Gallmann, Ultrafast Laser Physics, IQE, ETHZ

Measuring in the attosecond domain - techniques and applications

Prof. Dr. Giulio Cerullo, Physics Department, Politecnico di Milano

Photoinduced processes in biomolecules

Prof. Dr. Karsten Buse, Fraunhofer Institute of Physical Measurement Techniques, Freiburg, and, Institute of Microsystem Technology (IMTEK), University Freiburg, Germany

Advanced Nonlinear Optics with Lithium Niobate Crystals

Prof. Francesco Piazza, Université d'Orléans, Département de Physique, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, Orléans, France

Dissecting the mechanistic bases of allosteric transduction in proteins: a coarse-grained approach

Henry Chapman, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY Hamburg, Germany

Imaging Proteins with X-ray Free-Electron Laser Pulses

Dr. Ariana Rondi, GAP-Biophotonics, University of Geneva

Coherent Discrimination of Biomolecules in the Deep UV

Dr. Mirjam van Daalen Science Officer SwissFEL, PSI

Scattering and diffraction experiments

Dr. Mirjam van Daalen Science Officer SwissFEL, PSI

Spectroscopic experiments

Prof H. Rabitz from Princeton, Department of Chemistry

A Perspective on the Quantum Control Road Ahead

Prof. Dr. Hans Jakob Wörner, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETHZ

Probing chemical dynamics by high-harmonic spectroscopy

Dominik Leuenberger, Universität Zürich, Surface Physics Group

Disentanglement of electron dynamics and space-charge effects in time-resolved photoemission from h-BN/Ni(111)

Prof. Dr. Kishan Dholakia, FRSE, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, North Haugh, St Andrews, Scotland

Shaping the future of biophotonics: applying novel light fields

Prof. Antonín Vlcek, Jr., School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, United Kingdom., J. Heyrovský Inst. of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Dolejškova 3, CZ-18

Ultrafast Excited-State Processes of Re Carbonyl-Diimine Complexes: from Excitation to Photochemistry

Peter Hamm, Uni ZH, Switzerland - Local Organiser

Timeresolved Vibrational Spectroscopy XV

Prof. Ton G. van Leeuwen, Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Biomedical Photonic Imaging Group, MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente

Measuring tissue scattering by Optical Coherence Tomography

Peter Moulton, Vice-President and Chief Technology Officer, Q-Peak, Bedford, MA

Tm:fiber lasers: Recent developments and applications

Prof. Tony Heinz, Columbia University, NY

Spectroscopy of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene

Prof. Dr. Andreas Zumbusch, Department Chemie, Universität Konstanz, 78457 Konstanz

Non-linear vibrational microscopy

Prof. Dr. Thomas Wihler, Mathematical Institute, University of Bern

hp-Adaptivity

Jan Locher, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Trapping of metallic Mie particles using a radially polarized laser beam

Prof. Dr. Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, ETHZ and PSI

Shining light on Catalysts

Prof. Dr. Albert Stolow, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada

Multi-modal CARS Microscopy Using a Simple Femtosecond Source

Albert Stolow, NRC, Ottawa, Canada

Polyatomic Molecules in Laser Fields: Dynamics, Control, Strong Fields

Prof. Dr. Mathias Kläui, Laboratory of Nanomagnetism and Spin Dynamics, SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut & Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Ultrafast Spin Dynamics and Spin Manipulation

Gadi Eisenstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel

Dynamics and noise properties of quantum dot lasers and amplifiers

Ian Walmsley, University of Oxford

Elements of a photonic quantum network