15th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena
July 31-August 4, 2006
Pacific Grove, California, USA
The 2006 Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will be the fifteenth in a series on advances in research on ultrafast science and technology. This meeting is widely recognized as the major international forum for the discussion of new work in this rapidly moving field.
The 2006 conference will bring together a multidisciplinary group sharing a common interest in the generation of ultrashort pulses in the picosecond, femtosecond, and attosecond regimes and their applications to studies of ultrafast phenomena in physics, chemistry, material science, electronics, biology, engineering, and medical applications. In addition, submissions involving real world applications of ultrafast technology are encouraged. A tabletop exhibit featuring leading companies will be held in conjunction with the meeting.
Meeting Topics
Generation and Measurement
New sources, new wavelength regimes, nonlinear frequency conversion techniques, amplifiers, attosecond pulse generation, pulse shaping, pulse diagnostics and measurement techniques, and frequency standards.
Physics
Ultrafast nonlinear optical processes, kinetics of nonequilibrium processes, quantum confinement, coherent transients, nonlinear pulse propagation, novel ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, high intensity physics, X-ray and plasma physics.
Chemistry
Vibrational and conformational dynamics, energy transfer, kinetics of laser-induced chemistry, proton and electron transfer, solvation dynamics, wavepacket motion and coherent control of reactions.
Biology
Ultrafast processes in photosynthesis, vision, heme proteins, photoisomerization in chromoproteins, wavepacket motion and medical applications.
Electronics & Optoelectronics
Photoconductivity, generation, propagation and detection of ultrafast electrical signals, terahertz radiation, electro-optical sampling and detectors.
Applications
Real world applications of ultrafast technology, including ultrafast near-field, nonlinear, and confocal microscopes, high speed communication, micromachining and more.
General Chairs:
R.J. Dwayne Miller, Univ. of Toronto, Canada
Andrew M. Weiner, Purdue Univ., USA
Program Chairs:
Paul Corkum, Steacie Inst. for Molecular Science, Canada
David M. Jonas, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Conference Webpage
http://www.osa.org/meetings/topicals/UP/