Program
| Mon June 15, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM | Registration | |
| 8:30 AM - 8:40 AM | Welcome and introduction | David Reis/Hamed Merdji |
| 8:40 AM - 9:10 AM | Status of LCLS | John Galayda, Stanford and SLAC |
| 9:10 AM - 10:40 AM | Concepts in X-ray Physics |
Robin Santra, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago |
| 10:40 AM - 11:00 AM | Coffee | |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | X-ray Diffraction in the Age of LCLS |
Steve Durbin, Purdue University |
| 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:40 PM - 3:10 PM | Physics and Applications of Ultrafast high-harmonic-based light sources |
Henry Kapteyn, JILA and University of Colorado |
| 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM | Coffee | |
| 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | X-ray FELS: Basic physics and properties, present status, future developments |
Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA |
| 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | Reception, Stanford Guest House Patio | |
| Tue June 16, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics with X-rays |
Steve Leone, University of California, Berkeley and LBNL |
| 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM | Coffee | |
| 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM | Generating Coherent Phonons and Spin Excitations with Ultrafast Light Pulses |
Roberto Merlin, University of Michigan |
| 11:50 AM - 12:45 PM | Lunch | |
| 12:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Excursion to CAS | |
| Wed June 17, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | First Principles Electronic Structure Theory - Understanding Ultrafast Electronic and Atomic Dynamics |
Stephen Fahy, University College Cork |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Coffee | |
| 10:50 AM - 12:20 PM | Conical Intersections and Excited State Dynamics |
Todd Martinez, Stanford and SLAC |
| 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM | 35 years of Photon Science at SLAC - How parasites consumed the Host. | Herman Winick, Stanford and SLAC |
| 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM | Work on Posters I, ROB | |
| 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | SSRL/LCLS Tours | |
| 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM | BBQ, SLAC Cafeteria Patio | |
| Thu June 18, 2009 | ||
| 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Fundamentals of Diffractive Imaging |
Veit Elser, Cornell University |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Coffee | |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM | Intense Laser-Atom Physics in the Long Wavelength Limit |
Lou DiMauro, Ohio State University |
| 11:20 AM - 11:50 AM | Two Color and Two Photon Ionization Processes in Intense EUV and Optical Fields at FLASH |
John Costello, Dublin City University |
| 11:50 PM - 12:20 PM | Femtosecond X-ray Diffraction in solids: coherent and incoherent atomic dynamics far from equilibrium |
Steven Johnson, Swiss Light Source |
| 12:20 PM - 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:40 PM - 2:10 PM | Ultrafast Dynamics of molecular systems in liquids studied by optical and X-ray spectroscopies |
Majed Chergui, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
| 2:10 PM - 2:40 PM | Ultrafast Imaging using X-ray free electron lasers |
Anton Barty, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 2:40 PM - 3:00 PM | Coffee Break | |
| 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Work on Posters II, ROB | |
| 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM | Poster session, Panofsky | Wine and Cheese |
| Fri June 19, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | X-ray FELs on the horizon: ideas and goals | Alexander Zholents, LBNL |
| 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Prospects in future ultrashort coherent X-ray light sources | Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA |
| 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM | Coffee | |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM | PEP-X and ring based X-ray sources | Bob Hettel, SLAC |
| 11:20 AM - 11:40 AM | Poster award | |
| 11:40 AM - 12:00 PM | Conclusions | |