Program

December 11th (Sun.)

 

Arrival and Registration

18:00 -

Welcome reception

December 12th (Mon.)

8:30 - 9:00

Opening Session

Tribute to the Honorary Chair

9:00 - 11:00

Session I: Polyatomic molecules in intense laser fields

Chair: Louis DiMauro

Tomoya Okino (RIKEN)
“Development of multifragment 3D ion momentum imaging methods for investigating ultrafast dynamics of polyatomic molecules”

Taro Sekikawa (Hokkaido University)
“Thermal ring-opening dynamics of 1,3-cyclohexadiene investigated using high harmonic generation”

Satoshi Ashihara (The University of Tokyo)
“Control of multi-quantum vibrational excitations with intense mid-infrared fields”

Kaoru Yamanouchi (The University of Tokyo)
“Ultrafast molecular dynamics and ultrahigh resolution spectroscopy using ultrashort intense laser pulses”

11:00 - 11:15

Group photo

11:30 - 12:00

Short presentations of poster papers
List of poster presentations

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Session II: Coherence and entanglement

Chair: Hirokazu Hasegawa

Kazutaka Nakamura (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
“Quantum coherence in electron-phonon coupled states in solids”

Kunio Ishida (Utsunomiya University)
“Theoretical study of the dynamics of photoinduced entanglement in electron-phonon systems”

14:30 - 16:00

Poster Session I

16:00 - 18:00

Session III: HHG, photonics, and materials

Chair: Philippe Martin

Kunie Ishioka (NIMS)
“Carrier and phonon dynamics at buried interfaces probed with linear optical spectroscopy”

Gerhard Paulus (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena)
“Imaging, identification, and spectroscopy of buried nanoscale structures using high- harmonic radiation”

Crina Cojocaru (Catalonia Polytechnic University)
“Harmonic generation at nanoscale in femtosecond regime”

Katsuya Oguri (NTT Basic Research Laboratory)
“Dynamical band mapping for 2D semiconductor based on sub-5-fs high harmonic source”

18:00 -

Dinner

December 13th (Tue.)

8:30 - 10:00

Session IV: Single and few cycle laser pulses

Chair: Wendell Hill, III

Matthias Kling (Stanford University/SLAC)
“Generation of few-cycle pulses from high average-power Yb systems and applications”

Eiji Takahashi (RIKEN)
“Intense single-cycle pulses via serial waveform synthesis”

Hiroaki Minamide (RIKEN)
“Backward terahertz-wave parametric oscillation and its future advancement and prospective”

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Sponsors’ Session

1. Light Conversion UAB (for Phototechnica Corp.)
“Recent advances in OPCPA technology at Light Conversion”
Valdas Maslinskas

2. Amplitude
“State-of-the-art high energy ultrafast lasers: Towards real-world applications”
Catalin C. Neacsu

3. Japan Laser Corporation
“Latest developments on nonlinear compression using high power industrial Ytterbium lasers”
Jun Sasaki

4. Thales LAS
“High average power Ti:Sa amplifier for 100Hz laser plasma accelerator” (video message)

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Poster Session II

14:30 -

Free discussion

December 14th (Wed.)

8:30 -10:00

Session V: Excitation processes in intense laser fields

Chair: Yuji Fukuda

Hirokazu Hasegawa (The University of Tokyo)
“Rotational excitation and dynamics of H₂O induced by an intense laser field”

Takanori Nishi (The University of Tokyo)
“Quantum computing of time-dependent wave functions: applications to spin chain dynamics and strong-field excitation of N₂⁺”

Kenichi Ishikawa (The University of Tokyo)
“Time-dependent multiconfiguration theories for atoms and molecules in intense laser pulses”

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Session VI: Petawatt laser and applications

Chair: Eiji Takahashi

Chang Hee Nam (GIST and IBS)
“All optical nonlinear Compton scattering performed with a multi-PW laser”

David Reis (Stanford University)
“Strong-field QED in ultraintense laser-electron collisions”

Yuji Fukuda (QST)
“Quasimonoenergetic proton acceleration via interaction of micron-scale hydrogen cluster targets with PW-class laser pulses”

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 -

Free Discussion

December 15th (Thu.)

9:00 - 10:00

Session VII: Ionization of atoms and molecules in intense laser fields

Chair: Jiro Itatani

Kenneth Schafer (Louisiana State University)
“A strong field quantum trajectory simulator”

Akiyoshi Hishikawa (Nagoya University)
“Laser tunneling imaging of O₂ with auxiliary dissociation laser pulses”

Shinichi Fukahori (The University of Tokyo)
“Dissociative ionization and post-ionization alignment of O₂ induced by an intense femtosecond laser field”

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

Session VIII: Attosecond dynamics in atoms and molecules

Chair: Dimitris Charalambidis

Hideki Ohmura (AIST)
“Sub-optical cycle attosecond control of molecular ionization by using multicolor phase-controlled laser fields”

Takuya Matsubara (The University of Tokyo)
“Attosecond optical and Ramsey-type interferometry by post-generation splitting of high-order harmonic pulses”

Alexandra Landsman (Ohio State University)
“Strong field ionization of diatomic molecules”

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Session IX: Attosecond pulses and applications

Chair: Kenichi Ishikawa

Marcel Ngoko Dijokap (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
“Production and control of reversible electron spirals by atomic photoionization using chirped attopulses”

Philippe Martin (CEA)
“Spatio-temporal measurements of relativistic attosecond pulses”

Jiro Itatani (The University of Tokyo)
“Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy of diatomic and triatomic molecules at 400 eV”

14:30 - 15:30

Poster Session III

15:30 - 17:00

Session X: HHG and XFEL

Chair: Chang Hee Nam

Dimitris Charalambidis (Univ. of Crete/FORTH, IELS/ELI-ALPS)
“Nonlinear EUV applications with attosecond pulses”

Shigeki Owada (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute/RIKEN Spring-8Center)
“Recent developments of experimental platforms to observe the ultrafast phenomena at SACLA”

Agostino Marinelli (SLAC)
“Attosecond X-ray free-electron lasers: physics and applications”

18:00 -

Banquet

December 16th (Fri.)

Departure