Frontiers of Ultrafast Science UK
Scope
This seminar series aims to bring together physicists, chemists and information technology scientists working in the field of Ultafast Science. Participants are both theorists and experimentalists and work in different Universities and National Labs across the UK. The inaugural meeting was on January 18th, 2017 at University College London. Roughly three seminars will take place each year across different UK Universities and Istitutions. The goal is to strengthen the ties between UK scientists working in the field of Ultrafast Science as well as to identify and explore cutting-edge problems in this field.
Organising Committee
Dr. A. Emmanouilidou
Agapi Emmanouilidou has been a reader in Physics and Astronomy at University College London since 2015. Her main research interests are Attosecond-Strong field science and Free-Electron laser science. In the former case she and her group develop sophisticated 3D quasi- and semi-classical techniques to address attosecond phenomena in molecular systems driven by intense, ultra-short and infrared laser pulses. Regarding free-electron laser science, she and her group have been developing state-of-the-art quantum mechanical techniques to address the interplay of Auger and photoionization processes during the interaction of intense XUV laser pulses with atoms and molecules.
Prof. D. T. Reid
Prof. J. W. G. Tisch
John Tisch is a Professor of Laser Physics at the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London. His research interests are ultrafast laser physics and high-intensity laser-matter interactions, especially the generation and application of high-power femtosecond laser pulses to generate coherent x-ray pulses of attosecond (10-18 sec) duration and the use of attosecond pulses to study ultrafast dynamics in matter.
Tisch has carried out seminal experimental studies of the temporal, spatial and coherence properties of high harmonic radiation that has advanced the use of this unique short-wavelength light source in scientific and technological applications and helped elucidate the fundamental process of high harmonic generation in atoms, molecules and clusters. Tisch also conducted the first measurements of high energy electron and ion production through the interaction of intense laser pulses with large atomic-clusters.
Since 2003, he has played a leading role in the development of Attosecond Science in the United Kingdom. Some highlights of Tisch's research include the fastest ever measurement of structural rearrangement in a molecule, the first measurements of attosecond "half-cycle cutoffs", now widely used to extract ultrafast electronic and molecular dynamics, new insights in the role of coherence in photosynthesis, and the first attosecond-resolution measurement of photoemission from semiconductor and gold surfaces that paves the way for the study of attosecond dynamics in semiconductors and nanoplasmonic structures.
Tisch gained his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Tasmania and his PhD in Physics from Imperial College London. After an EPSRC Advanced Fellowship and a period working at the ETH Zurich, Tisch gained a lectureship position at Imperial College in 2003 and was promoted to professor in 2009. He serves on a number of international conference committees, including CLEO and Atto and was the General Chair for the Ultrafast Optics conference. He is a Founding Chair of the international conference series Ultrafast Dynamical Imaging of Matter. He is a member of the international Scientific Advisory Committee for ELI-ALPS, the attosecond pillar of the Extreme Light Infrastructure European project. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Optical Society of America.