Confirmed Speakers

The Atto Fridays Seminars take place at 3pm London time. Find out what time this is in your timezone here.

Zoom registration links open up periodically. These registrations are manually approved by us, so please do not worry if your approval email does not come immediately. However, do contact us if you have not received your zoom credentials one hour before the seminar.

Seasons

Jump to the program for each season:
2023 Spring Semester
​2022 Fall Semester
2022 Spring Semester
2021 Fall Semester
​2021 Spring Semester

We are looking forward to these upcoming speakers:

More dates and speakers will be announced here as we confirm them.

---

 

2023 Spring Semester

Date	Speaker	Title	Sign up
01 February 2023	​​Donna Strickland (The University of Waterloo)	Nobel Lecture: Generating High-Intensity, Ultrashort Optical Pulses	Register

Previous Seasons:

 

2022 Fall Semester

Date	Speaker	Title	Sign up
07 October 2022	​​HOT TOPICS session	Héloise Chomet (University College London): Controlling enhanced ionisation with machine learning Carl Michael Ziems (University Jena): Correlation effects and their imprint in XUV ionisation assessed by a quantum model system	Watch Watch
21 October 2022	​​Morgane Vacher (Nantes Université)	Simulations of photo-induced reaction dynamics in molecules and X-ray spectroscopy probe	Watch
28 October 2022	​​Mohammed Th. Hassan (The University of Arizona)	Attomicroscopy: imaging and controlling electron motion in action	Watch
04 November 2022	​​Eleftherios Goulielmakis (University of Rostock)	Attosecond Physics with Synthesized Light Transients	Watch
18 November 2022	​​Hamed Merdji (Ecole Polytechnique)	High harmonic generation: from classical to quantum diffractive imaging	Watch
02 December 2022	​​Eva Lindroth (Stockholm University)	Photoionization delay in heavy atoms: spin dynamics and angular dependence	Watch
09 December 2022	​​HOT TOPICS session	Xinyao Liu (The Institute of Photonic Sciences) Atomic imaging of complex and chiral molecular structure with laser-induced electron diffraction and machine learning Antonia Freibert (University of Hamburg) Simulating time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy of pyrazine at the nitrogen K-edge with a full time-domain approach Simon Brennecke (Leibniz University Hannover) The Coulomb lense in strong-field ionization	Watch Watch Watch

 

2022 Spring Semester

Date	Speaker	Title	Sign up
4 February 2022	​​Andrew Maxwell (Aarhus University)	Twisted electrons in attosecond physics: Unravelling photoelectron orbital angular momentum in interference spirals, entanglement and chirality	Watch
18 February 2022	​​Giuseppe Sansone (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)	Attosecond metrology at Free Electron Lasers	Watch
11 March 2022	​​Himadry Chakraborty (Northwest Missouri State University)	Femto-to Attosecond Dynamics in Fullerene Molecules Driven by Light	Watch
25 March 2022	​​Christian Ott (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)	All-XUV-optical nonlinear light-matter interaction with free-electron lasers	Watch
08 April 2022	​​HOT TOPICS session	Alba de las Heras Munoz (University of Salamanca): Phase and Polarization Singularities in Extreme Ultraviolet Vector-Vortex Beams Emil Zak (CFEL/DESY, Hamburg): Controlling Rotation in the Molecular Frame with an Optical Centrifuge	Watch Watch
22 April 2022	​​Matteo Lucchini (Politecnico di Milano,Italy)	Attosecond transient reflectivity spectroscopy for the study of exciton dynamics in solids	Watch
06 May 2022	​​Laura Cattaneo (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)	Liquid crystals meet THz spectroscopy and more...	Watch
20 May 2022	​​Kathryn Hamilton (Drake University)	Attosecond Photoionization Delays in Noble-Gas Atoms	Watch
03 June 2022	​​Balazs Major (ELI ALPS/University of Szeged)	Development of attosecond beamlines driven by cutting-edge lasers	Watch
10 June 2022	​​Marzena H. Szymanska (University College London)	Novel Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Quantum Fluids of Light	Watch

 

2021 Fall Semester

Date	Speaker	Title	Sign up
10 September 2021	​​Francesca Calegari (DESY)	Coherent electron dynamics and control in complex molecules	Watch
24 September 2021	​​Camilo Ruiz Mendez (Universidad de Salamanca)	​​Extracting the phase from an electron wavepacket	​Watch
08 October 2021	Misha Ivanov (Max Born Institute)	​​Lasing during laser filamentation in the air: how does it work?	​Watch
22 October 2021	Philip Bucksbaum (Stanford University)	​​​Measuring strong-field ionization electron holograms	​Watch
12 November 2021	Nirit Dudovich (Weizmann Institute of Science)	​​​Attosecond Interferometry	Watch
19 November 2021	Olga Smirnova (Max Born Institute)	​​Ultrafast chirality: twisting light to twist electrons	​Watch
03 December 2021	Rebecca Ingle (University College London)	​​​Soft X-rays for Chemical Dynamics and Structure	​Watch

 

2021 Spring Semester

Date	Speaker	Title	Recording
19 March 2021	Francoise Remacle (University of Liege)	​Exploiting electronic coherences for steering selective bond formation in molecules	​Watch
09 April 2021	Alicia Palacios (​Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)	​Attosecond time-resolved XUV-induced electron dynamics	​Watch
​16 April 2021	Dejan Milosevic (​University of Sarajevo)	​Strong-field induced processes in complex laser fields	​Watch
23 April 2021	​Marcelo Ciappina (​Guangdong Technion Israel Institute of Technology)	​​​​Calibrating ultrahigh laser intensities using ionization	Watch
30 April 2021	Mette Gaarde (Louisiana State University)	​Real-space picture of high harmonic generation in solids, and the role of imperfect recollisions	Watch
07 May 2021	Maciej Lewenstein (ICFO)	​​Quantum electrodynamics of strongly laser driven atoms	​Watch
14 May 2021	Sangeeta Sharma (Max-Born Institute)	​​​Ultrafast spin, charge and nuclear dynamics: ab-initio description​	​Watch
21 May 2021	​​Shambhu Ghimire (Stanford PULSE Institute)	​​High-harmonic Spectroscopy of Quantum Materials	​Watch
28 May 2021	​​Fernando Martin (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)	​​Imaging attosecond and few-fs electron dynamics in molecules	​Watch
04 June 2021	​​Anne L'Huillier (Lund University)	Ultrafast electron dynamics in atomic photoionization​	Watch
11 June 2021	David Ayuso (Max Born Institute)	Ultrafast, all-optical, and highly enantio-sensitive imaging of molecular chirality​	​Watch
18 June 2021	Yann Mairesse (CNRS - CELIA Bordeaux)	Influence of molecular chirality on tunnel-ionization dynamics​	​Watch
25 June 2021	Boris Bergues (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)	​​Novel User-Friendly Optical Field-Sampling Approaches	Watch
02 July 2021	Jens Biegert (ICFO)	​​Energy Conversion Pathways in solids from Attosecond Soft X-ray Spectroscopy	​Watch
09 July 2021​	Alexandra Landsman (Ohio State University)	​​Photoemission delays in molecules	​Watch
16 July 2021	Russell S Minns (​University of Southampton)	​Combining Scattering and Spectroscopic Probes of Dynamic Electronic and Geometric Structure	​Watch
23 July 2021	Adam Kirrander (University of Edinburgh)	Ultrafast coherence in X-ray scattering​	​Watch
30 July 2021	​​Gopal Dixit (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)	​High-harmonic spectroscopy of different symmetry-breaking in solids	​Watch