June 18-22, 2007 

PULSE Ultrafast X-ray Summer School June 18-22, 2007

Schedule

Location: Kavli Auditorium

Monday June 18, 2007
7:30 am Morning refreshments
Session Chair, John Galayda (LCLS/SLAC)
8:30 am Welcome, Jonathan Dorfan, SLAC director [video]
8:40 am Welcome, Keith Hodgson, Director of Photon Science (SLAC)
8:50 am Nora Berrah (WMU) Welcome, Goals of the Workshop [video]

Session 1, "Bolts and Nuts about FEL"
9:00 am-10:00 am Claudio Pelligrini (UCLA), "The physical properties of FELs"
[.pdf of talk (this talk does not open in Firefox but does download correctly. IE and Safari have no problems.)] [video]
10:00 am-11:00 am John Arthur (LCLS, SLAC), "The LCLS FEL" [video]
11:00 am-11:30 am
Break
11:30 am-12:30 pm Cecile Limborg-Deprey (LCLS/SLAC) "Production of a High Brightness Electron Beam in the LCLS". [video]
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch
Session Chair, Alfred Maquet (UPMC)

Session, 2, Strong Field Physics Fundamentals
1:30pm-2:30 pm Lou Dimauro (OSU) "Attosecond Physics" [video]
2:30pm-3:30 pm Pierre Agostini (OSU) "Characterization of XUV femto-and atto- second pulses" [video]
3:30pm-4:00 pm
Break
4:00pm-5:00 pm Ken Schafer, (LSU) "Attosecond pulses and strong field physics"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
5:30 pm-7:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Introduction: Dr. Artie Bienenstock, Special Assistant to the President for Federal Research Policy, Stanford Faculty, SSRL Director Emeritus

Tuesday June 19, 2007
8:30 am
Morning refreshments
Session Chair, Peter Lambropoulos (U. Crete)

Session 3, Recent VUV FEL Results
9:00 am-10:00 am Tom Möller (TU, Berlin, Germany) "Atomic and Cluster Physics using FLASH"
[.pdf of talk] [this talk is edited due to privileged content]
10:00 am 11:00 am Jan-Michael Rost (Max Planck Institute, Dresden, Germany) "Cluster Physics: Theory" [video]
11:00 am 11:30 am
Break
Session Chair, Linda Young (ANL)

Session 4, Novel VUV FELs
11:30- 12:30 Joseph Feldhaus, (DESY, Hamburg), "The FLASH facility and Status of Present Research"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-2:30 pm John Corlett (LBNL) "Vuv- FELs"
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2:30-3:30 pm Bob Schoenlein (LBNL), "Slicing Source and Experimental Results"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
3:30-4:00 pm
Break
Session Chair, TBD

Session 5, Future Research with LCLS
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Henry Chapman (LLNL) "Imaging Molecules at FLASH and X- FELs"

Wednesday June 20, 2007
8:30 am
Morning refreshments

Session 5 continued, Future Research with LCLS
9:00 am-10:00 am Richard London (LLNL), "Ultrafast X-Ray Matter Interaction"
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10:00 am-11:00 am Kelly Gaffney, (SLAC) "Pump-Probe Chemistry"
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11:00 am-11:30 am
Break
11:30 am-12:30 pm Roger Falcone (LBNL) "Time resolved Xray scattering from warm materials"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
12:30-1:30 pm
Lunch
Session Chair, Jo Stöhr (SSRL,SLAC)
1:30 pm-2:30 pm Phil Bucksbaum (PULSE, SLAC) "AMO physics with LCLS"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
2:30 pm-3:30 pm David Reis (UM), "Materials Science using X-FELs" [video]
3:30 pm-4:00 pm
Break
4:00 pm-5:00 pm Dick Lee (LLNL) " High Energy Density Science"
[.pdf of talk] [video]

Thursday June 21, 2007
8:30 am
Morning refreshments
Session Chair, Tamar Seideman (NWU)

Session 6, Ultrafast Science with lasers and FELs
9:00 am-10:00 am Margaret Murnane (UC)," Attosecond Nonlinear Optics"
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10:00 am-11:00 am André Bandrauk (U. Sherbrooke, Canada), "Ultrafast Science with Molecules"
[.pdf of talk] [video]
11:00 am-11:30 am
Break
11:30-12:30 David Villeneuve (NRC, Ottawa, Canada) "Imaging Molecular Structure"
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12:30pm-1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30-2:30 Robin Santra (ANL) "X-rays, lasers, and molecules"
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2:30-2:45
Break
2:45-3:45 Open Forum for Discussions and Questions
Moderator: Nora Berrah (WMU)
Panel: John Galayda (SLAC/LCLS, USA), David Fritz (SLAC/LUSI, USA), Peter Lambropoulos (U.Crete, Greece), Alfred Maquet (UPMC, France)
3:45-4:00
Break
4:00-5:00 Forum continues-
Moderator: Nora Berrah (WMU)
Panel: John Galayda (SLAC/LCLS, USA), David Fritz (SLAC/LUSI, USA), Peter Lambropoulos (U.Crete, Greece), Alfred Maquet (UPMC, France) [video]
5:00 - 5:10 Closing Remarks- Nora Berrah and Phil Bucksbaum
5:30 pm

Banquet/BBQ, onsite

Speaker: Dr. Eric Rohlfing, Director, DOE, Office of Science, BES, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division

Friday June 22, 2007, Tour of LCLS and SSRL facilities
8:30 am
Morning refreshments - Bldg 120/Beam Line 9 area
9:00 am Tour of SSRL, Aaron Lindenberg
11:00 am Tour of LCLS, John Bozek [Web cam]