Workshop "Interaction of Free-Electron-Laser Radiation with Matter: Recent Experimental Achievements, Challenges for Theory"

8 Oct 2008, 08:00 → 10 Oct 2008, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Auditorium, entrance bldg. 6 (HASYLAB at DESY Hamburg)

H. Chapman, E. Weckert, B. Ziaja

This workshop is devoted to the recent experimental and theoretical achievements obtained from studies on the interaction of intense VUV and soft X-ray FEL radiation with matter. The aim is to present the experimental results that could stimulate novel theoretical research, define problems important for planning future experiments, where theoretical input would be required, and initiate collaborations between experimental and theoretical groups. A special session is planned for discussions of experimental and theoretical methods for studying the laser-matter interaction.

We invite all interested colleagues to participate in this workshop. We offer three days for talks, poster presentations and discussions.

We invite you to submit abstracts for poster contributions to the workshop. Posters should be in DIN A0 format (0,90 m x 1,20 m (width and height).

The conference language will be English.

The workshop fee for all participants including speakers will be 30€ (it covers the workshop dinner on October 9, 2008) and is to be paid in cash at the workshop registration desk.



Deadline for Abstract Submissions: 30 June 2008

Extended Deadline for Registration: 30 September 2008.

Wednesday 8 October

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 10:30 (I) Welcome

09:00 Photon Science at DESY

Speaker: Edgar Weckert, DESY

09:30 VUV FEL Facility FLASH at DESY

Speaker: Elke Plönjes, DESY

10:00 European XFEL Project

Speaker: Massimo Altarelli, European XFEL

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 (II) Status and Perspectives for XFELs and FLASH

11:00 Status and recent results from the Japanese XFEL Project

Speaker: T. Shintake, RIKEN Harima Institute, Japan

11:45 Possibilities for time resolved studies at FLASH

Speaker: S. Düsterer, DESY

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 18:00 (III) Atoms and Molecules

15:30 Multiphoton ionization of He and Ne

Speaker: J. Ullrich, MPI-K, Heidelberg, Germany

16:15 X-ray probe of laser-aligned molecules

Speaker: L. Young, ANL, Argonne, USA

17:00 Experiments on trapped ion fragmentation at FLASH

Speaker: H.B. Pedersen, Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark

17:30 High charge states of Xenon

Speaker: M. Richter, PTB, Berlin, Germany

Thursday 9 October

09:00 → 10:15 (IV) Clusters

09:00 Scattering on individual nanoclusters. Ultrafast processes.

Speaker: T. Möller, Techn. Univ. Berlin, Germany

09:45 Evolution of Xenon clusters irradiated with intense VUV pulses

Speaker: B. Ziaja, DESY

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 → 12:00 (V) Non-linear Processes

10:45 Multiphoton processes: theory review

Speaker: R. Santra, ANL, Argonne, USA

11:30 Laser spectroscopy on highly charged ions

Speaker: J.R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, MPI, Heidelberg, Germany

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:15 (VI) Dynamics of Irradiated Samples

13:00 Interaction of VUV and soft X-ray radiation with matter: theory review

Speaker: J.-M. Rost, MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany

13:45 Interaction of hard X-ray radiation with matter: theory review

Speaker: G. Faigel, SZFKI, Budapest, Hungary

14:15 Mechanisms of slowing down the explosion of irradiated samples

Speaker: S. Hau-Riege, LLNL, Livermore, USA

14:45 Femtosecond time resolved holography

Speaker: H. Chapman, CFEL at DESY, Hamburg

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 17:30 (VII) Solids and Surfaces

15:45 Ultra fast dynamics in solids probed and induced by FLASH

Speaker: A. Föhlisch, Univ. of Hamburg

16:30 Photo induced transitions in correlated electronic materials probed by EUV laser radiation

Speaker: K. Rossnagel, Univ. of Kiel

17:00 Absorption spectroscopy with a FEL: A path to study ultra fast electron dynamics

Speaker: Y. Acremann, SSRL-PULSE, SLAC

17:30 → 18:45 Poster Session

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Friday 10 October

09:00 → 11:00 (VIII) Plasma and Warm Dense Matter

09:00 Warm dense matter

Speaker: R.W. Lee, LLNL, Livermore, USA

09:45 Plasma experiments at FLASH

Speaker: S. Toleikis, DESY

10:15 Plasma experiments: theory review

Speaker: R. Redmer, University Rostock, Germany

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:45 (IX) Radiation Damage to Optical Elements

11:30 Damage threshold of inorganic solids

Speaker: R. London, LLNL, Livermore, USA

12:15 An overview of experiments on interaction of intense

Speaker: L. Juha, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:45 (X) Coherent Diffractive Imaging: Status and Perspectives

14:00 Imaging of biological samples at FLASH

Speaker: J. Hajdu, University Uppsala, Sweden and SLAC, Stanford, USA

14:45 Single-shot images of ablating foils

Speaker: A. Barty, LLNL, Livermore, USA

15:15 Coherent diffraction imaging at FEL sources

Speaker: I. Vartanyants, DESY

15:45 Time resolved studies on proteins

Speaker: R. Neutze, University Gothenburg, Sweden

16:15 Interaction of intense coherent x-ray fields with molecules

Speaker: H. Quiney, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia

16:45 → 17:00 Coffee / END OF THE MEETING