The 12th Ultrafast Surface Dynamics Conference (USD12 – http://www.benasque.org/2022usd/) will take place at the Science Center “Perdro Pascual”, Benasque – Spain between May 23th and 27th 2022. The conference will be held as an in-person event without the possibility for virtual participation.

We hope that the relatively short notice does not make it difficult for you to join USD12. As you may appreciate, the pandemic made scheduling the event very complicated and we had to wait for how the situation developed in many countries. You may be glad to hear that the pandemic situation in Spain has developed very well and travel is unrestricted from most countries. This has allowed us to finally announce the conference and we hope you will join us in beautiful Benasque.

USD12 is devoted to the field of Ultrafast Dynamics, and more precisely, ultrafast dynamical processes at surfaces and interfaces of solid materials. This includes electron, vibrational, and magnetic dynamics on attosecond to picosecond time scales. Some talks will report on exciting developments in related fields, which are relevant for further scientific interactions.

See http://www.benasque.org/2022usd/ for all details such as submission, registration, travel, and accommodation. The registration fee includes the bus transfer to Benasque from Barcelona and return, all coffee breaks, buffet lunch, and poster reception.

In case you wonder where the meeting is located: USD12 is held at the Science Center “Perdro Pascual”(http://benasque.org), a renowned place for Scientific Meetings. Benasque is a beautiful village (~2000 inhabitants) in the Aragonese Pyrenees, and absolutely worth the 3.5h drive from Barcelona. The scenery is stunning and the scientific meeting leaves ample opportunities for exchange with colleagues, to learn about new exciting developments, or to simply enjoy the breathtaking scenery of Benasque. The center itself is conveniently equipped with meeting and working rooms and excellent connectivity.

The registration portal for MUST2022, the International Conference on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology, organised by the NCCR MUST and the Swiss Society for Photon Science,  is open until April 30.

Please save the dates and join us for the conference in the Hotel Sunstar and the adjacent Congress Hall, from June 7 to June 10, 2022  in Grindelwald. 

Plenary Speakers: 

• Prof. Helen Fielding  – Liquid microjet photoelectron spectroscopy
• Prof. Ilme Schlichting  – Title TBA
• Prof. Herschel Rabitz  – A Retrospective Look at the Early Era of Laser-driven Chemistry ( 1960~1985) and a Selected Glimpse into the Modern Era of Quantum Control (~1985-present)

Invited Speakers: 

• Dr. Laura Cattaneo – An ultrafast twist on liquid crystals
• Prof. Basile Curchod – Driving new developments in excited-state molecular dynamics through challenging photochemical applications
• Prof. Sean Garrett Roe – 2D-IR of carbon dioxide in ionic liquids, gels, and the gas phase
• Prof. Jeremy Johnson – Two-Dimensional Terahertz Spectroscopy of Coupling Between Fundamental Excitations in Solids
• Prof. Tran Trung Luu – High-order harmonic generation from condensed matter: some emerging opportunities
• Prof. Giulia Mancini – Ultrafast ptychography: from tabletop HHG to Free Electron Lasers 
• Prof. Tom Penfold – Advancing the Analysis of X-ray Spectroscopy using Neural Networks

The 20th Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes will present forefront research featuring light-matter interaction in a variety of systems, ranging from atoms and molecules to clusters and solids. Photoinduced dynamics in these systems are central to many emerging fields of modern atomic, molecular, chemical, and optical physics. The meeting embraces the rapid technological and intellectual growth in both theory and experiment in the exciting new areas that have recently opened up. The sessions will focus on: attosecond dynamics, multidimensional imaging of chemical dynamics, solid-state dynamics, chirality, nonlinear XUV, and X-ray science, dynamics at conical intersections, and electronic and nuclear dynamics in complex systems (clusters, nanoparticles).

The conference will also focus on technological developments and new emerging techniques related to the study of these dynamics.

The scientific program is cross-disciplinary, including physicists, chemists, and optical engineers, in both theory and experiment. The speakers and discussion leaders are a mixture of well-established leaders in the field and young and upcoming researchers from around the world.

The Gordon Research Seminar on Multiphoton Processes is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting-edge ideas.

The focus of this first meeting is light-matter interaction in a variety of systems, ranging from atoms and molecules to clusters and solids. Photoinduced dynamics in these systems are central to many emerging fields of modern atomic, molecular, chemical, and optical physics. The meeting embraces the rapid technological and intellectual growth in both theory and experiment in the exciting new areas that have recently opened up. The scientific program is cross-disciplinary, including physicists, chemists, and optical engineers.

Check out the latest programs here:

https://www.grc.org/multiphoton-processes-conference/2022/#

https://www.grc.org/multiphoton-processes-grs-conference/2022/

Travel funding is available for students, and for increasing the participation of women and racial minorities from GRC/GRS, private sponsors, and the US Department of Energy

The 11th International Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics and Chemistry, will take place in Prague from 13th to 17th of June 2022.

The main focus of the meeting is to promote young researchers and interdisciplinarity.

Since its foundation, IMAMPC has been organized by young researchers for young researchers. Invited talks are given by researchers up to 10 years after finishing their PhD. Only 5 perspective talks will be given by senior researchers to provide a future vision of their respective fields, which are defining main topics of this year’s meeting:

Quantum Gases
Isolated Molecules
Biomolecules
Clusters
Nanostructures

You can find more information on the meeting website:

https://www.jh-inst.cas.cz/imampc22/

The second announcement with more details is planned for December 2022.

MPS (The International Conference on Many Particle Spectroscopy of Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Surfaces) is a biennial meeting of scientists to discuss the physics and chemistry related to the interaction of light and charged particles (ions and electrons) with various forms of matter, ranging from atoms to nanoparticles and surfaces. In particular the latest experiments, techniques and theoretical results involving multiple particles, their interaction (correlation, scattering, dynamics, multiphoton absorption etc.) and detection (such as coincident experiments) are presented.

The history of MPS and its predecessors goes back to the year 1986. The latest MPS Conference was held in Budapest, Hungary in 2018, preceded by the meeting in Moscow, Russia in 2016 and in Metz, France in 2014.

In 2020, it was the turn of Turku, Finland, to host the MPS conference. However, for the reasons known to all, it was not to be and the conference was cancelled. It was decided that the next conference, MPS-2022, will still take place in Turku.

You are cordially invited to participate at the 12^th Congress on Electronic Structure Principles and Applications (ESPA-2022) to be held in Vigo, Spain on 21^st-24^th June 2022

ESPA (Electronic Structure Principles and Applications) is a series of international conferences organized by the Spanish Community of Quantum Chemists. The ESPA conferences, initiated in 1998, have a two year periodicity and cover all major fields of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from method development to state-of-the-art applications across computational molecular science.

The previous ESPA editions were organized in Madrid (1998), San Sebastián (2000), Sevilla (2002), Valladolid (2004), Santiago de Compostela (2006), Palma de Mallorca (2008), Oviedo (2010), Barcelona (2012), Badajoz (2014) and Castellón (2016) and Toledo (2018).

These conferences were initially intended to bring together the Spanish Theoretical and Computational Chemistry community, however, they grew over time (both in national and international participation), thereby evolving into a key event with international reputation in the field.

The University of Vigo and the organizers of this conference are delighted and honored to host this ESPA conference in Vigo, during the summer of 2022.

Registration for the conference and abstract submission is now open through the ESPA2022 website at

https://espa2022.webs.uvigo.es/

List of confirmed plenary and invited speakers, tentative program, contact for travel/lodging, and other details can be checked in the website.

A special issue with scientific contributions presented in ESPA2022 will be launched in July by Springer in the journal Theoretical Chemistry Accounts. We encourage participants to submit their contributions to this special issue.