Ultrafax X-ray Summer School

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 .mov
8:40 AM - 9:10 AM Status of LCLS John Galayda, Stanford and SLAC .mov
9:10 AM - 10:40 AM Concepts in X-ray Physics Robin Santra,
Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee  
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM  Excited State Dynamics and Conical Intersections Todd Martinez,
Stanford and SLAC
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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 .mov
  LCLS Instruments Overview Sebastien Boutet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .mov
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2:10 PM - 2:40 PM Ultrafast Imaging using X-ray free electron lasers Anton Barty,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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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 .mov
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Workshop on X-ray Science at the Femtosecond and Attosecond Frontier Claudio Pellegrini, UCLA .mov
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee  
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM PEP-X and ring based X-ray sources Bob Hettel, SLAC .mov
11:20 AM - 11:40 AM Poster award .mov
11:40 AM - 12:00 PM Conclusions