FEL Workshop Program (October 18-19)

This page was last updated on October 10, 2006

The workshop program is now available (updated October 9, 2006)
A list of abstracts in order of Author is also available.

Plenary Session

  • Visions of Science with Soft X-Ray Free Electron Lasers: The European Roadmap for a New Generation of Light Sources
    Hermann Dürr, BESSY G.m.b.H Berlin Germany
  • Wisconsin FEL Performance Estimates
    William Graves, MIT Cambridge

Workshop Sessions

1. Femtochemistry
Coordinator: John Wright, UW-Madison

  1. 4D Molecular Scale Imaging
    Dwayne Miller, University of Toronto, Canada.
  2. Coherent Control of Quantum Phenomena Using Shaped UV Pulses
    Marcus Motzkus, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany.
  3. Probing Directly Non-equilibrium Solvent Dynamics During Fundamental Chemical Event
    David Blank, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
  4. Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy and Fast Electronic Processes
    David Jonas, University of Colorado at Bolder.

2. Atmospheric and Intergalactic Gases
Coordinator: Nora Berrah, Western Michigan University

  1. X-ray Spectra from Photoionized Gas in Active Galaxies
    Tim Kallman, NASA, Greenbelt MD.
  2. New Frontiers in Atomic Molecular Optical Physics with a Soft X-Ray FEL
    Joachim Ullrich, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik (Germany).
  3. Multiphoton Physics at Short Wavelengths
    Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory.
  4. Studies of Negative Ions using a FEL
    Rene C. Bilodeau, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
  5. Analysis of Composition, Growth and Fate of Aerosols Using a Soft X-ray FEL
    Frank Keutsch, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

3. Pump-Probe Experiments
Coordinator: David Reis, University of Michigan

  1. Ultrafast Science Directions of the Argonne Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Group
    Bertold Kraessig, Argonne National Lab.
  2. Spin and Orbital Moment Dynamics in Magnetic Materials
    Andreas Scholl, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
  3. Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction Using Random Sampling
    David Reis, University of Michigan.
  4. Ultrafast X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
    Christian Bressler, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

4. Biological Systems
Coordinator: Robert Austin, Princeton University

5. Exotic Materials, Clusters and Nanostructures
Coordinator: Paul Evans, UW Madison

  1. When Structural Noise is Signal: Fluctuations, Correlations, and Coherence
    Paul Voyles, UW Madison.
  2. Surface Growth and Processing under highly non-equilibrium Conditions.
    Joel Brock, Cornell University.
  3. Graphene Present and Future.
    Yuanbo Zhang, Berkeley.
  4. Dynamics in Quantum Magnets.
    Oleg Shpyrko, Argonne National Laboratory.
  5. Patterning and Metrology with FEL Light.
    Marty Peckerar, University of Maryland.

6. Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Coordinator: Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois

  • Some Ideas for Resonant Soft X-ray Elastic and Inelastic Scattering
    George Sawatzky, UBC Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Resonant and Time-resolved Two-color Inelastic Light Scattering in the NIR to soft X-ray Spectral Range - Recent Progress and Outlook
    Michael Ruebhausen, University of Hamburg.
  • RIXS and Other Resonant Spectroscopies at a FEL Source
    Giacomo Ghiringhelli, Politecnico di Milano.
  • Inelastic X-ray Scattering Via Quantum Noise Analysis.
    Peter Abbamonte, University of Illinois.

7. Time Resolved Imaging and Coherent Scattering
Coordinator: Steve Kevan, University of Oregon

  1. Imaging Nanostructures by X-ray Holography: From Synchrotrons to Free Electron Lasers
    Stefan Eisebitt, BESSY.
  2. Ultrafast Diffractive Imaging with Coherent X-rays
    Stefano Marchesini, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.
  3. Magnetic Fluctuations Measured with X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy
    Jeroen Goedkoop, University of Amsterdam.
  4. Coherence, Correlations, and Complexity
    Steve Kevan, University of Oregon