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Symposium on "Advanced Laser Applications" presented by F. Krausz and H. Walther, Dresden, May 23 to 25, 2005 in the framework of the "Science and Art in Europe" meeting of the Max Planck Society, Opening in Berlin on May 22, 2005 I. BERLIN See separate programm. Best Western Steglitz Hotel Albrechtstrasse 2, phone +49 +30 79 00 5-521 Bus transfers: Sunday, May 22, at 9:45 a.m. from hotel for Einstein Exhibition and at 15:30 from hotel for Opening at Harnack Haus, Ihnestrasse 16-20 Monday, May 23, at 8:30 departure by bus from hotel Dresden From Tegel Airport you get to Best Western Steglitz Hotel by taking bus X9 for Zoologischer Garten. There you change and take U9 direction Rathaus Steglitz which is the terminal. Right next to the terminal is the hotel! From Schönefeld Airport you take S45 for S-station Schönefeld, then S1 direction Wannsee after 3 stops you arrive at Steglitz. From railroad station Zoo you take U9 to Steglitz. From railroad station Ostbahnhof you take S3, 5,6,7,or 9 to Zoologischer Garten and from there U9 to Steglitz. II. DRESDEN Best Western Leonardo Hotel, Bamberger Strasse 14 phone +49 +351 46 600 Funktaxi +49 +351 211 211 contact: Mrs. Claudia Strohbach, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (CPFS), Nöthnitzer-Strasse 40 phone +49 +351 4646 4678 FINAL DRESDEN PROGRAMME MONDAY, MAY 23 11:30 Arrival in Dresden by bus, check-in at hotel 12:00 Departure from hotel for CPFS 12:30 p.m. Lunch at CPFS, seminar rooms 2 and 3, ground floor Please contact Herrn Zetzsche with UBS/memory stick and laptop for the presentation of your talk 2 13:50 - 14:00 Welcome - Opening of the Meeting, seminar room 1 14:00 - 14:45 Vladilen S. Lethokov, Institute of Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, Astrophysical Lasers 14:45 - 15:30 Goran Pichler, State Institute of Physics, Zagreb, Optics and spectroscopy with femtosecond laser in dense alkali vapor 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 - 16:45 Wojciech Gawlik, Physics Dept., Jagiellonian University Krakow, Cold atoms in Poland 16:45 - 17:30 Kazik Rzazewski, Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Warsaw, Recent advances in theoretical BEC work in Warsaw 17:30 - 18:15 Karel Jungwirth, PALS (Prague Asterix Laser System), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, High power plasma lasers, their present state and future perspectives and applications 19:00 - 21:30 Buffet Dinner followed by Poster Session with contributions by young scientists 21:30 Departure by bus for hotel TUESDAY, MAY 24 8:15 a.m. Departure by small busses for CPFS 8:30 - 9:15 Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Optical Systems 9:15- 10:00 Vladimir Buzek, Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Optimal manipulations with quantum information 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:15 Jozsef Janszky, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Optimal Quantum Communication Strategies 11:15 - 12:00 Gerd Leuchs, Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics, Max Planck Research Group, Erlangen, Generation and application of quantum engineered optical soliton pulses 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 13:45 Algis P. Piskarskas, Quantum Electronics Department and Laser Research Center, University of Vilnius, Progress in chirped pulse optical parametric amplifiers 13:45 - 14:30 Andrius Baltuska, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Intense few-cycle pulses by optical parametric amplification 3 14:30 - 15:15 Dejan Milosevic, Department of Physics, University of Sarajevo, Atomic processes in a strong laser field 15:15 Departure by bus for boat mooring 16:00 Departure by boat down the River Elbe to Pillnitz Castle 17:30 Arrival at Pillnitz Castle - guided tour with an English-speaking guide 19:00 Dinner at Pillnitz Castle Hotel 22:30 Return to hotel by bus WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 Check-out of hotel 8:30 Departure by bus for CPFS (with luggage) 9:00 - 9:45 Jan Michael Rost, Max Planck Institute of Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Interactions of clusters with intense laser light: from eV to keV photons 9:45 - 10:30 Joachim Ullrich, Max Planck Institute of Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Atoms and Molecules in Intense Fields: From Visible to Free-Electron X-Ray Lasers 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 11:45 Ivan P. Christov, Department of Quantum Electronics, Sofia University, X-ray photonics: generation and propagation of coherent X-ray pulses 11:45 - 12:30 Zsolt Bor, Dept. of Optics and Quantum Electronics, JATE University of Szeged, Eye surgery with femtosecond laser pulses 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 14:45 Stefan W. Hell, Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Nanoscale Spatial Resolution with Focused Visible Light 14:45 - 15:30 Thomas Udem, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Precision Optical Frequency Measurements 15:30 Closing of the Meeting 15:45 Departure by bus from CPFS for Berlin via Tegel Airport, Hauptbahnhof (main station), Ostbahnhof, Zoologischer Garten to Best Western Steglitz Hotel. Please inform the driver where you would like to leave the bus. ------------------------------------------------------------- .