Scientific Program

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Saturday August 12, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

11:00-14:30

Arrival and conference registration

14:30-14:40 Welcome to Zewail Alumni Symposium

14:40-15:15 M. Dantus Something old and something new,

15:15-15:30 J. Peon Femtochemistry at UNAM,

15:30-15:45 S. Baskin Working in Zewail’s Group,

15:45-16:00 C-Y. Ruan Reminiscences,

16:00-16:15 D. Zhong Reminiscences,

16:15-16:35 Coffee Break

16:35-16:50 S. Mukamel Zewail the graduate student,

16:50-17:25 I. Madan*, G. M. Vanacore, G. Berruto, E. Pomarico, Y. Murooka, and F.

Carbone

Unraveling the ultrafast real-space dynamics of near-fields in

low-dimensional nanosystems

17:25-18:00 M. Th. Hassan, J. S. Baskin*, B. Liao, and A. H. Zewail

Attomicroscopy: Towards imaging the electron motion by 4D Electron

Microscopy

18:00-18:35 T. I. Sølling*

Dynamics driven processes in organic photochemistry and photophysics

18:35 Adjourn

19:00 Zewail Alumni Dinner self-pay

Sunday August 13, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

8:25-8:30 Welcoming remarks J. Peon and M. Dantus

8:30-8:45 Introduction to Electron Dynamics

Albert Stolow

8:45-9:20 A. Stolow*

Ultrafast Electronic-Structural Dynamics in the Smallest Polyene: 1,3-butadiene

9:20-9:55 J. Cryan*

Attosecond Delays in Molecular Photoionization: The Effect of the Molecular Potential

9:55-10:30 D. Neumark*

Transient absorption and nonlinear spectroscopy with attosecond light pulses

10:30-11:05 B. Wolter, M. G. Pullen, A.-T. Le, M. Baudisch, K. Doblhoff-Dier, A. Senftleben, M. Hem-mer, C. D.

Schröter, J. Ullrich, Thomas Pfeifer, R. Moshammer, S. Gräfe, O. Vendrell, C.D. Lin, J. Biegert*

Imaging molecular bond breaking with one electron

11:05-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-11:55 F. V. A. Camargo*, F. Branchi, C. Manzoni, G. Cerullo

New organic photovoltaic materials studied with pump probe and two-dimensional electronic

spectroscopy

11:55-12:30 T. Ghosh, I. Gdor, S. Ruhman*

Femtosecond spectroscopy of advanced photovoltaics: nanocrystals and perovskites

12:30-12:50 A.D. Smith, E. Warne, D. A. Horke, D. Bellshaw, C.M. Cacho, A.J.H. Jones, E. Springate*, A.

Kirrander, R. T. Chapman, R.S. Minns

Windowless Observation of the Photodissociation Dynamics of CS2

12:50-13:10 R. Cabrera-Trujillo*

Effects of a fast, short, and intense laser pulse on the electron charge transfer in atomic

collisions

13:10-13:30 B. Abraham, J. Nieto-Pescador, L. Gundlach*

Electron Transfer Induced Vibrational Excitation

13:30-14:40 Lunch

14:40-14:55 Introduction to Structural Dynamics

Thomas Pfeifer

14:55-15:30 T. Pfeifer

Attosecond XUV Spectroscopy and Femtosecond X-Ray Imaging of Atoms and Molecules in Strong

Laser Fields

15:30-16:05 F. Zhou, J. Williams, C.-Y. Ruan*

Visualization of photoinduced phase transitions: From molecular systems to many-body problems

16:05-16:40 R. Santra*

Electronic structure at high x-ray intensity

16:40-17:00 J. Yang*, M. Centurion, X. Zhu, Z. Li, T. J. A. Wolf, X. Shen, J. P. F. Nunes, R. Coffee, J. Cryan, M. Gühr,

K. Hegazy, T. Heinz, R. K. Li, T. Martinez, T. Veccione, S. Weathersby, K. Wilkin, Q. Zheng, X. J.Wang

Imaging the Cleavage of a Covalent Bond and the Subsequent Intramolecular Vibration in Gas

Phase CF3I with Femtosecond Electron Diffraction

17:00-17:15 Coffee Break

17:15-17:35 G. Mancini*, R. Karl Jr., D. Gardner, E. Shanblatt, J. Knobloch, T. Frazer, J. N. Hernandez-Charpak, B.

Abad Mayor, M. Tanksalvala, C. Porter, C. Bevis, D. Adams, H. Kapteyn and M. Murnane

Ultrafast Coherent Diffractive Imaging of Acoustic Waves in Nanostructures

17:35-17:55 E. Biasin*

Photoinduced structural dynamics of solvated molecules with X- ray scattering

17:55-18:00 Small Break

18:00-19:00 Dr. Lynneth Lowe

Ancient Civilizations of Mesoamerica

(guests are welcome)

19:30 FEMTO 13 Reception ALL WELCOME

Monday August 14, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

8:30-8:45 Introduction to Strong Field Phenomena

Margaret Murnane

8:45-9:20 M. Murnane*

Capturing the Fastest Charge and Spin Dynamics in Nanosystems using

High Harmonic Beams

9:20-9:55 T. Buckup, E. Brühl, L. Brückner, and M. Motzkus*

Coherent Control of Molecules: Technical Challenges, Fundamental Aspects

and New Applications

9:55-10:30 N. Ekanayake, M. Nairat, P. D. Pawlaczyk, B. Kaderiya, P. Feizollah, B. Jochim, T.

Severt, B. Berry, K. Raju P., K.D. Carnes, S. Pathak, D. Rolles, A. Rudenko, I. Ben-

Itzhak*, C.A. Mancuso, B.S. Fales, J.E. Jackson, B.G. Levine, and M. Dantus

Trihydrogen cation (H3+) formation from organic molecules in strong laser

fields

10:30-10:50 S. Cesnik, P. Heim, S. Ranftl, B. Thaler, W.E. Ernst, M. Koch*

Acetone Non-Adiabatic Rydberg State Dynamics: Relaxation and

Fragmentation Studied by Femtosecond Photoelectron-Photoion

Coincidence Spectroscopy

10:50-11:10 F. Mauger*, P.M. Abanador, A.S. Bruner, T. Gorman, S. Khatri, A. Sissay, S.

Hernandez, P. Sándor, T. Scarborough, P. Agostini, L.F. DiMauro, M.B.

Gaarde, R.R. Jones, K. Lopata, K.J. Schafer

Time-resolving electron dynamics in molecules using strong laser fields

11:10-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-11:45 Introduction to Solvation Dynamics

Peter Hamm

11:45-12:20 M. Bonn*

Specific Coherent Phonon Strongly Modulates the Band Gap of Perovskites

12:20-12:55 B. P. Fingerhut*, F. Dahms, E. T. J. Nibbering, E. Pines, T. Elsaesser

The Hydrated Excess Proton - Ultrafast Vibrational Dynamics of the Zundel

Cation H5O2+

12:55-13:30 E. Pines*

Proton Transfer in Acid-Base Reactions in Aqueous Solutions: From Early

Events to Macroscopic Proton Transport

13:30-15:00 Lunch

15:00-15:35 J. T. Hynes*, S. Daschakraborty , P. M. Kiefer, D. Pines, E. Pines

Proton Transfer by Carbonic Acid: Charge Transfer and Proton Relay

15:35-16:10 A.J. Orr-Ewing*, D. Koyama, H.J.A. Dale, H.J.B. Marroux

Ultrafast spectroscopy of photocatalysed radical reactions and spin-

changing dynamics

16:10-16:45 T. D. Crawford*

The Mysteries of Chirality, Solvation, and Optical Activity

16:45-17:05 Sponsor presentations

17:05-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-19:15 POSTER SESSION 1

Tuesday August 15, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

8:30-8:45 Primary processes in photobiology and photon energy capture

Villy Sundstrom

8:45-9:20 S. Mukamel*, M. Kowalewski, K. Bennett

Detecting and Manipulating Conical Intersections by Ultrafast X-ray Pulses

and in Optical Micro-cavities

9:20-9:55 M. Khalil*

Probing Ultrafast Electron Delocalization Dynamics on Molecular Excited

States in Solution

9:55-10:30 D. Zigmantas*

Revealing the lowest states in photosynthetic reaction centers

10:30-11:05 G. Scholes*

Vibronic Coherence in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting and Chemistry

11:05-11:20 Coffee Break

11:20-11:40 S. Megow, J. Bahrenburg, H. Böhnke, M. Bohnsack, M. Dittner, D. Bank, M.

Dommaschk, C. Schütt, R. Herges, F. Temps*

Ultrafast Photochemical Dynamics of a Magnetically Bi-stable Azo-

functionalized Ni-Porphyrin Spin Switch

11:40-12:00 D. Kim*

Ultrafast Coherent Exciton Dynamics in a Series of Cofacially Stacked

Perylene Bisimides

12:00-19:00

Conference Excursion to Tulum

Remember to register and purchase a lunch box

(Wear sun protection!)

Wednesday August 16, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

8:30-8:45 Introduction to Zewail Prize Symposium

Robert Van Daalen, Elsevier

8:45-9:45 M. Grätzel*

The Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences

9:45-10:25 J-E. Moser*

Dynamics of Charge Separation in Donor-Acceptor Heterojunction

Photovoltaic Systems

10:25-11:05 V. Sundström*

Solar Energy Conversion – How it all begins

11:05-11:25 Coffee Break

11:25-12:05 E. Diau*

Femtosecond Relaxation Dynamics and Charge Transfer Mechanism:

From Porphyrin-sensitized to Perovskite Solar Cells

12:05-12:45 T-C. Sum*

The Novel Photophysical Properties of Halide Perovskites. Continued: Primary processes in photobiology and photon energy capture

Villy Sundstrom

12:45-13:20 V.G. Stavros*, N. Das Neves Rodrigues, J. Woolley, L.A. Baker, N.C. Cole-

Filipiak, M.D. Horbury and M. Staniforth

Better chemical filters for better life

13:20-14:40 Lunch

14:40-15:15 J. McCusker*

Using Vibronic Coherence to Probe Reaction Coordinates for Ultrafast

Excited-state Evolution in Transition Metal-based Chromophores

15:15-15:30 Dynamics in proteins, DNA, Polymers and Macromolecules

Dongping Zhong

15:30-16:05 D. Zhong*

A Unified Electron-Transfer Mechanism for DNA Repair by Photolyases

16:05-16:40 T. Kobayashi*

Ultrafast dynamics of uracil, thymine, and cytosine studied with a sub-10-fs

deep ultraviolet laser

16:40-17:00 L. González*, J. J. Nogueira, F. Plasser

How delocalized is photoexcitation in DNA?

17:00-17:15 Sponsor presentations

17:15-17:30 Coffee Break

17:30-19:15 POSTER SESSION 2

19:30- late CONFERENCE DINNER

Thursday August 17, 2017

Time Title & Author(s)

8:30-8:35 Continuation: Dynamics in proteins, DNA, Polymers and Macromolecules

Dongping Zhong

8:35-9:10 B. Kohler*

Ultrafast Excited State Dynamics of DNA Strands

9:10-9:45 S. Matsika*

Theoretical insight into the photophysics and photochemistry related to

DNA damage and repair

9:45-10:20 S. Corcelli*

DNA Hydration: A Perspective from MD Simulations of Solvation Dynamics

and Vibrational Spectroscopy

10:20-10:55 D. Keefer, S. Reiter, S. Thallmair, R. de Vivie-Riedle*

Photostability of uracil affected by RNA environment and controlled with

shaped light fields

10:55-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:30 Chemical dynamics at surfaces, interfaces, and nanostructures

Tobias Brixner

11:30-12:05 T. Brixner*

MULTISCOPE: Multidimensional Ultrafast Time-Interferometric

Spectroscopy of Coherent Phenomena in all Environments

12:05-12:40 T. M. Bernhardt*

Graphene-supported metal clusters: A fs two photon photoemission and

scanning tunneling microscopy study

12:40-13:15 J. P. Kraack, P. Hamm*

Couplings of Molecules Immobilized at Surfaces by 2D-ATR-IR Spectroscopy

13:20-14:40 Lunch

14:40-15:15 E. Harel*

Four-Dimensional Electronic-Raman Coherent Spectroscopy on CdSe

Quantum Dots

15:15-15:50 T. Lian*

Efficient Hot Electron Transfer by Plasmon Induced Interfacial Charge

Transfer Transition

15:50-16:10 C. W. West*, J. Nishitani, C. Higashimura, T. Suzuki

Time- and Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy of Liquid Water and

Gaseous Polyatomic Molecules using Single- Order High Harmonic

16:10-16:35 Coffee Break

16:35-17:10 M.A. Allodi*, R.J. Mazuski, J. P. Otto, G.S. Engel

Optical Resonance Imaging: Sub-diffraction-limited Imaging of Exciton

Dynamics at Interfaces

17:10-17:45 C. Crespo-Hernandez*

Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Organic Molecules without Metals

17:45-18:00 Concluding Remarks and Presentation of FEMTO 14