Venue:
Botanical garden, Palermo
Preliminary program
December 4
9:00 – 12:30 Arrival
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:00 Opening
14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk: Massimo Altarelli “X-ray Free-Electron Lasers and Electronic Properties of Materials”
15:00 – 15:30 Invited talk: Andrei Beneditkovich “Modification of x-ray absorption and scattering by transient changes of electronic populations”
15:30 – 16:00 ESR: Ettore Paltanin “Ultrafast electronic and lattice dynamics in Al/Fe2O3composite probed with the FERMI free electron laser”
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Invited talk: Sangeeta Sharma “Ultrafast light dressed exciton dynamics”
17:30 – 18:00 Contributed talk: Sam Shallcross “Light control over valley polarization of charge and current”
December 5
9:30 – 10:30 Invited talk: Giacomo Ghiringhelli “The charge transfer photoexcitations of NiO studied by high-resolution pp-RIXS at the European XFEL”
10:30 – 11:00 Contributed talk: Manuel Izquierdo “Femtosecond time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy on solids at FELs”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Invited talk: Matteo Lucchini “Attosecond virtual inter-band transitions in crystalline diamond”
12:00 – 12:30 ESR: Lorenzo Restaino “Ultrafast nonadiabatic dynamics of NO2 probed by time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy at N K-edge”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Invited talk: Angel Rubio “Quantum materials engineering with high: a theoretical perspective”
15:00 – 15:30 Contributed talk: Chongxiao Fan “Exciton Condensation in Strong Light-matter Coupling Regime”
15:30 – 16:00 Contributed talk: Benshu Fan “Floquet engineering on black phosphorus “
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 ESR: Igor Tyulnev “Strong-field Valleytronics in bulk MoS2”
17:00 – 17:30 ESR: Masoud Lazemi
17:30 – 18:00 Contributed talk: Emanuele Coccia “Role of inner molecular orbitals in high-harmonic generation spectroscopy”
19:30 Social dinner
December 6
9:30 – 10:30 Invited talk: Ian Wilkinson “Steady-State & fs-Time-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy in the Aqueous Phase”
10:30 – 11:00 Invited talk: Andrea Trabatoni “Quantum control of photo-induced electron dynamics in complex”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Contributed talk: Kamal Abedin “Advanced microfluid platforms for soft X-ray integrated photonics “
12:00 – 12:30 Contributed talk: Yann Amouroux “Lighting our Future – The Impact of Optics and Photonics on a Global Economy”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 “How to Successfully Apply for Scientific Funding” Alice Valkárová and Hannes Huebener
16:00 – 19:00 A special celebration honoring our Ph.D graduates
