Scientific Program

	Sunday, May 24
18:00 - 20:00	Registration
19:00 -	Reception with food and beverages

	Monday, May 25
08:45 - 09:00	Opening by Jan-Michael Rost (Director MPIPKS) and the Organizers
	Spectroscopy I
09:00 - 09:45	Wolfgang Ernst
	High-Spin aggregates on helium nanodroplets: Formation, optical pumping
	and electron spin resonance
09:45 - 10:30	Franco A. Gianturco
	Modelling dopant microsolvation in 4He droplets: From snowballs to bubbles
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Structure & Energetics
11:00 - 11:45	Manuel Barranco
	Absorption spectrum of mixed 3He - 4He drops doped with Ca atoms
11:45 - 12:30	Kevin Lehmann
	Excitations in pure and doped helium droplets
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Theory I/ Hydrogen I
14:15 - 14:45	Nadine Halberstadt
	Dynamics simulation in helium nanodroplets
14:45 - 15:15	Markku Leino
	Electronically excited rubidium atom in a helium cluster or film
15:15 - 16:00	Andrey Vilesov
	Observation of liquid hydrogen clusters at low temperature
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30	QFC09-Colloquium
	Joshua Jortner
	Adventures in the ultracold world
18:00	Supper
19:00	Poster Session

	Tuesday, May 26
	Intense Laser Fields
09:00 - 09:45	Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer
	Embedded metal clusters in strong laser fields
09:45 - 10:30	Ulf Saalmann
	Ultra-fast nano-plasma formation in doped helium droplets
10:30 - 11:00	Group photo (to be published on the workshop's web page) & Coffee break
	Hydrogen II
11:00 - 11:45	Takamasa Momose
	Spectroscopy of large hydrogen clusters at low temperatures
11:45 - 12:30	Massimo Boninsegni
	Classical and quantum physics of hydrogen clusters
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Microwaves
14:00 - 14:45	Wolfgang Jäger
	Rotational spectra of quantum solvated HeN- and (H2)n-molecule clusters
14:45 - 15:15	Leonid Surin
	Rotational study of carbon monoxide solvated with helium atoms
15:15 - 15:45	Markus Koch
	Electron-spin resonance and Rabi Oscillations on helium nanodroplets
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee break
	Theory II
16:15 - 16:45	Vladimir Mandelshtam
	Quantum disordering versus melting in Lennard-Jones clusters
16:45 - 17:15	Robert Zillich
	Search for metastable dimer states of alkaline earth metals in helium-4
17:15 - 17:45	Robert Hinde
	Impurity solvation in helium nanodroplets: Benchmarking helium density functionals with quantum Monte Carlo calculations
17:45 - 18:15	Marius Lewerenz
	Metal atoms and ions in helium clusters
18:30	Supper
20:00	General discussion

	Wednesday, May 27
	Dynamics
09:00 - 09:45	Marcel Mudrich
	Femtosecond spectroscopy of alkali-doped helium nanodroplets
09:45 - 10:30	Oleg Kornilov
	Femtosecond dynamics of photoelectrons in He droplets studied by VUV high-harmonic radiation
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
	Bio
11:00 - 11:45	Martina Havenith
	Microsolvation of acids as observed by IR spectroscopy in superfluid helim nanodroplets
11:45 - 12:30	Paul Scheier
	Free electron collisions with doped He droplets - cation and anion formation
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
	Spectroscopy II
14:00 - 14:45	Andrew Ellis
	Characterization of a pulsed helium droplet source
14:45 - 15:30	Marcel Drabbels
	Photodymanics of Doped Helium nanodroplets
15:30 - 16:00	Anthony Stace
	Metastable metal atoms trapped in helium nanodroplets
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
	Hydrogen III
16:30 - 17:00	Eran Rabani
	Quantum mode coupling theory: Application to normal and supercooled liquids
17:00 - 17:30	Jesús Navarro
	Excitation levels and magic numbers of small para-Hydrogen clusters
17:30 - 18:15	Jan Peter Toennies
	Are superfluid hydrogen clusters solid, liquid or both?
19:00	Conference Dinner

Last updated: April 2009