The first AttoChem school will be intended to train young Action researchers on novel attosecond technologies for the study of electron dynamics in molecules. The school will be organized online over 4 days (9 am to 5.30 pm) from March 8th to 11th, 2021.

The topics covered will range from novel laser sources, to advanced experimental attosecond spectroscopy techniques, with the main purpose of providing PhD students and young researchers with the skills needed to tackle the Action challenges. Lectures on lasers, attosecond technologies and spectroscopy methods will be combined with round tables. It will also include 3 practical sessions (virtual labs) about these tentative topics: the hollow-core fibre technique, pump-probe signal analysis and photoelectron spectroscopy. The programme will allow early-stage researchers to learn the fundamentals of attosecond spectroscopy and acquire a basic know-how on experimental data analysis.
The main organiser of the activity is the WG1 Leader Dr. Caterina Vozzi who is also the coordinator of the ITN SMART-X. The organization committee will be composed by Dr. Lou Barreau (Université Paris-Saclay, France; WG1 and WG3 member), Dr. Rocio Borrego-Varillas (CNR-IFN, Italia; WG1 and WG3 member) and Dr. Andrea Trabattoni (DESY, Germany; WG1 and WG3 member), all of them action participants.

Possible invited speakers and their relevant expertise: The following Action participants will participate as trainers in the AttoChem school: Caterina Vozzi (WG1 Leader), Rocío Borrego (WG1 and WG3 member), Jens Biegert (WG1 and WG3 member), Pascal Salieres (WG1 and WG3 member), Matteo Lucchini (WG1 member), Yann Mairesse (WG1 member), Ruth Signorell (WG1member), Mattea Castrovilli (WG1 member). We are currently contacting other possible lecturer and inviting them to join the action, since their activity fits extremely well within WG1.

Key dates:
Registration opens – 1 February 2021
Registration closes – 23:59 CET, 19 February 2021
Abstract submission deadline – 23:59 CET, 19 February 2021
Abstract notification – by 23:59 22 February 2021

Organising Committee:
Chair: Caterina Vozzi, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)
Committee: 
Lou Barreau, Université Paris-Saclay (France)
Rocio Borrego Varillas, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) 
Andrea Trabattoni, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY (Germany)
Egle Molotokaite, SMART-X Project Manager, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy)

More information: https://brightelm.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/attochem1146/eventinfo

Registration to the ZCAM-COST AttoChem school on “New Computational Methods for Attosecond Molecular Processes” that will take place from 22 to 26 March 2021 is now open at https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1058. Registration is free and should be done by 28 February 2021. Due to the pandemic, the school will be entirely online. Please notice that we can only accept a limited number of participants for the training session, so reserve your place as soon as possible. To register, please, follow the link https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/1058 and click on the “ Participate” tab.

The purpose of this school is to introduce state-of-the-art ab-initio, hybrid and TDDFT numerical methods that can cope with ultra-fast dynamics in the electronic continuum of molecules, with an emphasis on unbound states in strong-fields and on the need to go beyond single-active-electron models to properly account for electron correlation. The course is directed to advanced master students, PhD students and young post-doctoral researchers in theoretical atomic and molecular physics, theoretical chemistry, quantum optics and applied mathematics, with an interest in using and developing new computational tools for the description of attosecond electron dynamics in systems of chemical interest.

The school will be organized in 5 theoretical sessions and 5 practical sessions. The teachers participating in this training will be: Alberto Castro (BIFI, Zaragoza), Jesús González-Vázquez (Autonomous University of Madrid), Mikhail Ivanov (Max Born Institute, Berlin), Fernando Martín (Autonomous University of Madrid), Felipe Morales (Max Born Institute, Berlin), Alicia Palacios (Autonomous University of Madrid), Serguei Patchkovskii (Max Born Institute, Berlin), Armin Scrinzi (Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich), and Olga Smirnova (Max Born Institute, Berlin). The detailed program can be found here https://attochem.qui.uam.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/schedule.pdf

The school is co-organised by the AttoChem COST Action. COST is supported by the EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020. More information at https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA18222.

Since 2000, the Femto-UP CNRS School has been organized every third or fourth year in France, by members of the French scientific community belonging to the Réseau FEMTO and the Groupement de Recherche (GDR) “UP”. The School is intended to train newcomers and give insights on the latest developments in the field of “ultrafast laser technologies and applications”. It targets a multidisciplinary public of scientists at any level of their research carrier (from starting master or PhD students to confirmed engineers and researchers) with a series of lectures covering (i) basic concepts of ultrafast laser technologies (laser pulse generation, propagation, characterization, amplification) as well as (ii) a selection of more specialized topics and applications of these technologies.

The “2020 edition” will be an online event taking place in March 2021 (see Program). It is organized by the Department of ultrafast Optics and Nanophotonics (DON) of the Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg (CNRS & Université de Strasbourg). This year, in addition to lectures by outstanding international experts, we organize sessions of numerical practicals to illustrate some of the fundamental concepts of ultrashort light pulse propagation and characterization. We will use the Python programming language. No prerequisite is required. A preliminary “Python survival kit” session will be organized in the week preceding the first Lectures. Registration is compulsory in order to receive all information and practical details in due time. A chat will be maintained over the duration of the School to enable/boost the interactions between participants and lecturers, and serve as “hotline” for the numerical sessions (home work, debugging, etc…)

All requests for information should be sent to the following address: femto-up2020@sciencesconf.org

This meeting is one of the activities proposed in the frame of working group 1 and working group 2 of the MD-GAS COST Action (CA18212), and it will focus on:
New high-performance instrumentation and experimental methods (WG1) and Survival and destruction of molecules following energetic processing (WG2)

The topic of the conference is quite broad covering the development of high-performance instrumentation, as well as the gas phase molecular dynamics induced by interactions between molecules/clusters and photons, electrons, or heavy particles, and their applications in e.g. astrochemical and atmospheric sciences, and molecular radiation damage.

• Workshop website
• Registration website

Confirmed invited speakers

Plenary Lectures:

• Evan Bieske, University of Melbourne – Isomer selective studies of molecular ions
• Valerie Blanchet, CELIA, Université de Bordeaux – Molecular chirality on a short time-scale
• Daniel Strasser, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Making and Breaking Chemical Bonds
• Henrik Svensmark, Technical University of Denmark – Connection between cosmic rays, clouds and climate

Progress Reports:

• Camilla Calabrese, University of the Basque Country – Rotational spectroscopy of molecules and molecular complexes of astrophysical interests
• Basile Curchod, Durham University – Sunlight-Induced Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Atmospheric Molecules
• Rebecca Ingle, University College London – TBA
• Stanka Jerosimic, University of Belgrade – Ab initio QM treatment of open-shell systems relevant for ISM
• Bastian Manschwetus, FLASH free electron laser facility, DESY, Hamburg – TBA
• Serge Duarte Pinto, Photonis – TBA
• Jingming Long, Amsterdam Scientific Instruments – Ultrafast and powerful time-stamping camera for investigating molecular dynamics
• Konstantinas Zakalskis, EKSPLA – Inventing a new tunable UV light source
• Mikael Ehm, University of Helsinki – Forming large low-volatile organic molecules in the atmosphere
• Sandra Brücken, FELIX/Radboud University – Low temperature kinetics of interstellar ions unraveled by infrared action spectroscopy
• Paweł Możejko, Gdansk University of Technology – TBA
• Glen Jackson, West Virginia University – keV ion activation in mass spectrometry

Special Reports:

• Laura Carlini, CNR-ISM – Temperature induced cyclisation mechanisms in linear dipeptides
• Wen Li, University of Groningen – Soft X-ray induced formation of cationic fragments from anionic gas-phase oligonucleotides
• João Pereira da Silva, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – Electron interactions with R134a (CF3CH2F) refrigerant gas
• Kaja Schubert, DESY Hamburg – Unravelling the electronic structure of isolated metalloporphyrins with metal L-edge spectroscopy
• Prince Tiwari, ETH Zürich – Ultra-short distance probes for gaseous biomolecules

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