Recent developments of ultrashort intense light sources operating in the XUV and X-ray spectral regions promise to revolutionize chemistry, as they will give access to dynamical processes occurring in the attosecond time scale (1 asec = 10-18 s), the natural time scale for electronic motion in atoms and molecules. Thus, such light sources will allow to address new fundamental questions about the role and possible control of electron dynamics in chemical reactivity, to investigate photoinduced charge migration in relevant molecular systems, and to image, with asec resolution, fast structural changes in molecules during proton transfer, isomerization, or motion through conical intersections. Large-scale facilities are currently being developed all over Europe for this purpose (ELI-ALPS, EuXFEL, FERMI, SwissFEL, etc), accompanied by an increasing demand of accurate theoretical support for an optimal use of these resources.

The AttoChem network will coordinate experimental and theoretical efforts to exploit the large potential of attosecond techniques in chemistry, with the aim of designing new strategies for the control of charge migration in molecules by directly acting on the attosecond time scale. This ability will be used to selectively break and form chemical bonds, thus opening new avenues for the control of chemical reactions. The results of the Action are expected to have a significant impact in several areas of chemistry, such as photovoltaics, radiation damage, catalysis, photochemistry, or structural determination. AttoChem will also act as a liaison with the relevant stakeholders to bridge the gap to industrial applications.
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23mayAll Day27USD1212th Ultrafast Surface Dynamics Conference
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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.
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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.
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may 23 (Monday) - 27 (Friday)
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Jens Biegert
june 2022
07junAll Day10MUST2022 International Conference on Molecular Ultrafast Science and Technology

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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.
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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
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june 7 (Tuesday) - 10 (Friday)
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Hotel Sunstar Grindelwald
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10junAll Day17GRC&GRS202220th Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes
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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
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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
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june 10 (Friday) - 17 (Friday)
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Bryant University
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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
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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.
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13 (Monday) 09:00 - 17 (Friday) 18:00
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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
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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.
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june 15 (Wednesday) - 17 (Friday)
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Edwin KukkTurku University
21junAll Day24ESPA202212th CONGRESS ON ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS

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You are cordially invited to participate at the 12th Congress on Electronic Structure Principles and Applications (ESPA-2022) to be held in Vigo, Spain on 21st-24th June 2022
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You are cordially invited to participate at the 12th Congress on Electronic Structure Principles and Applications (ESPA-2022) to be held in Vigo, Spain on 21st-24th 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.
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june 21 (Tuesday) - 24 (Friday)
27jun(jun 27)08:2530(jun 30)08:25Atto-FEL 2022international conference
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Atto-FEL 2022 that will take place at UCL from June 27 to June 30 2022. The registration page is now live. The registration deadline is end of February
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Atto-FEL 2022 that will take place at UCL from June 27 to June 30 2022. The registration page is now live. The registration deadline is end of February 2022. The registration fee is 200 pounds. If you don’t want to pay the registration fee at the time you register, please select “payment” and then chose the “offline payment” option. Please note however that the registration fee has to be paid by the end of February 2022. The webpage for registration is https://cvent.me/xw8Mzr and is maintained by STFC UKRI, which is the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK. If you have any questions please address them to Prof. Agapi Emmanouilidou at ucapaem@ucl.ac.uk.
The speakers at Atto-FEL 2022 are :
Paul Corkum University of Ottawa, Canada
Mauro Nisoli Politechnico of Milano, Italy
Linda Reichl University of Texas at Austin, USA
Thomas Pfeifer Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Ravi Bhardwaj University of Ottawa, Canada
Simon Hooker University of Oxford, UK
Giulio Vampa National Research Council, Ottawa, Canada
Caterina Vozzi Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies of the NRC of Italy
Marc Vrakking Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany
Eva Lindroth Stockholm University, Sweden
Martin Schultze Graz University of Technology, Austria
Thomas Brabec University of Ottawa, Canada
Agniesca Jaron University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Olga Smirnova Max Born Institute, Berlin, Germany
Stephen Hogan University College London, UK
Dimitris Charalambidis University of Crete, Greece
Chunmai Zhang University of Ottawa, Canada
Itzik Ben-Itzhak Kansas State University, USA
Amelle Zair King’s College London, UK
Hugo Van Der Haart Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Vinay Majety Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India
Nimrod Moysev Technion University, Israel
Lenz Cederbaum University of Heidelberg, Germany
Boris Bergues Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Germany
Eleftherios Goulielmakis University of Rostock, Germany
Jan Michael Rost Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Gilad Markus Hebrew University of Jerulasem, Israel
James Cryan Stanford University, USA
Mines Russell University of Southampton, UK
John Tisch Imperial College London, UK
Peter Lambropoulos University of Crete, Greece
Robert Moshammer Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
Gilles Doumy Argonne National Laboratory
The deadline for registration is end of February 2022. The registration fee is 200 pounds. The abstract length is maximum one page. We encourage early career researchers to submit abstracts since several will be selected for oral presentations. Abstracts submitted will be presented at the poster session.
In addition, we will have an open to the public talk to be delivered by Prof. Paul Corkum.
If you have any questions please address them to Prof. Agapi Emmanouilidou at ucapaem@ucl.ac.uk.
The organizing committee for Atto-FEL 2022 is:
Paul Corkum
Eleftherios Goulielmakis
Boris Bergues
Agapi Emmanouilidou.
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27 (Monday) 08:25 - 30 (Thursday) 08:25
27junAll Day01julECAMP1414th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons

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The 14th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP14) will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 27- July 1, 2022. The conference will start with on-site registration
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The 14th European Conference on Atoms Molecules and Photons (ECAMP14) will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, June 27- July 1, 2022. The conference will start with on-site registration and a welcome reception on Sunday evening, June 26, 2022. The scientific program will be opened on Monday morning, June 27, 2022, and will finish with a closing session on Friday afternoon, July 1, 2022.
At this moment ECAMP14 is planned as a fully on-site conference. This will facilitate further scientific and interpersonal exchange after a long pandemic related interruption. Therefore we have currently no plans to implement an online or hybrid format. The experience of the years 2020 and 2021 suggests seasonal fluctuations of the pandemic in Europe, the time of our conference at the beginning of the Summer being the most favourable time of the year. We do hope the pandemic situation will allow us to realize our ambitious goal of a truly in-person meeting in June-July 2022.
ECAMP is a tri-annual conference series; it is the official conference organized by the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS). It started in 1982 and recent editions took place in Salamanca, Spain 2010, Aarhus, Denmark 2013, Frankfurt, Germany 2016, and Florence, Italy 2019. The International Scientific Programme Committee consists of the board of the Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Division (AMOPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS). ECAMP typically attracts 400 -700 participants.
ECAMP14 will take place at the hotel Radisson Blu Lietuva situated in downtown of Vilnius, Lithuania. Vilnius is the Capital of Lithuania known for its Baroque architecture, seen especially in its medieval Old Town which is included to the World Heritage List of UNESCO. The Vilnius University, one of the oldest and most famous institutions of higher education in Eastern and Central Europe, was founded in 1579. Vilnius is known for its cutting edge research in the field of atomic, molecular and laser physics carried out at the Vilnius University and a number of other institutions, thus offering an ideal scientific environment for a major conference in the AMO field such as ECAMP.
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June 27 (Monday) - July 1 (Friday)
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See Local Organising Committee: https://www.ecamp14.org/organisers/Gediminas Juzeliūnas, Vilnius University (Chair) Darius Abramačius, Vilnius University (Vice-Chair) Gediminas Gaigalas, Vilnius University (Vice-Chair)https://www.ecamp14.org/contact/ Vilnius, Lithuania
27jun(jun 27)09:0029(jun 29)17:00Atto-FEL 2022
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The international conference Atto-FEL 2022 will take place at UCL from June 27-29. This is the third edition of the Atto-FEL conference which takes place every 4 years,
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The international conference Atto-FEL 2022 will take place at UCL from June 27-29. This is the third edition of the Atto-FEL conference which takes place every 4 years, Atto-FEL 2014, Atto-FEL 2018.
Looking forward to welcoming you at UCL in summer of 2022.
The organizing committee Prof. A. Emmanouilidou, Prof. P. Corkum, Prof. E. Goulielmakis, Dr. B. Bergues.
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27 (Monday) 09:00 - 29 (Wednesday) 17:00
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Agapi EmmanouilidouUniversity Cllege London (UK)