Craftshops for light and atoms

Korea Physical Society Fall Meeting (October 22-24 at Gwangju)

Pioneering Symposium : Craftshops for light and atoms (빛과 원자를 위한 공방 工房)

Recent advances in ultrafast laser and related techniques have brought the use of designer‘s light in optical frequency for the manipulation of atoms and molecules. This pioneering symposium brings together frontier optical science and technology for shaping and controlling the light and atoms in physics, chemistry, and engineering.

Topics to be presented by international and domestic experts are:

 Optical waveform measurement : the invention of frequency-resolved optical gating and visualization of ultrafast laser fields.

 Femto-physics and femto-chemistry : the use of designer’s photons for the manipulation and observation of atomic and molecular motions.

 New lasers and control methods : World-wide ultimate challenge of making the most quite lasers.

Invited speakers:

1. Thomas Baumert (Universitaet Kassel), Designer photons for designed bound and free electron wave-packets

2. Rick Trebino (Georgia Tech.), Recent surprises in ultrashort-laser-pulse measurement

3. Jungwon Kim (KAIST), Generation of the quietest bursts of light

4. Thomas Schultz (UNIST), Weak and strong measurement of molecular rotation and mass

5. Jaewook Ahn (KAIST), Phase-coded lights for atomic transitions