Sunday, June 20

16:00 – 20:00

Registration of Participants
Campus Center

18:00 – 20:00

Welcome Reception

Monday, June 21

08:00 – 08:30

Registration of Participants
Campus Center

08:30 – 08:40

Opening of Conference

Plenary Session I

Chairman: Arnulf Materny

08:40 – 09:20

Plenary Talk 1: H. Hamaguchi

Raman and CARS: which wins in living cell spectroscopy and imaging?

09:20 – 10:00

Plenary Talk 2: A. Zheltikov

Nonlinear-optical spectroscopy of fast-ionizing media:
From the nanosecond to attosecond time scale

10:00 – 10:20

Coffee Break

Topical Session I  -  Gas Phase / Combustion 1

Chairman: P.-E. Bengtsson

10:20 – 10:40

C1: D. Bermejo, J. L. Doménech, R. Z. Martínez

Determination of rotational state-to-state relaxation coefficients by stimulated Raman double resonance. Acetylene

10:40 – 11:00

C2: G. Knopp , T. Gerber, P. P. Radi

Investigation of the early time response from dispersed fs - DFWM measurements on di-alkyl peroxides

11:00 – 11:20

C3: K. A. Vereschagin, A. K. Vereschagin

DBB-CARS as the process changing the statistics of light:

application to a single-shot lineshape spectroscopy

11:20 – 11:40

C4: M. Marrocco

New developments in vibrational CARS Thermometry undergoing intra-molecular perturbation

11:40 – 12:00

C5: A. Bohlin, F. Vestin, P. Joubert, J. Bonamy, and P.-E. Bengtsson

Rotational CARS N₂ thermometry:
validation experiments for the influence of nitrogen spectral line-broadening by hydrogen

12:00 – 13:00 

Lunch

Plenary Session II

Chairman: A. Zheltikov

13:00 – 13:40

Plenary Talk 3:  S. Mukamel

Coherent ultrafast multidimensional spectroscopy of excitons; from NMR to X-rays

13:40 – 14:20

Plenary Talk 4: R. P. Lucht, D. R. Richardson, W. D. Kulatilaka, S. Roy, and J. R. Gord

Single-pulse measurements of temperature and concentrations using femtosecond coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering

14:20 – 15:00

Poster Session I + Coffee Break

Topical Session II  -  Microscopy 1

Chairwoman: M. Ritsch-Marte

15:00 – 15:30

Invited Talk 1: W. P. Beeker, C. J. Lee, P. Groß, C. Cleff, H. L. Offerhaus, C. Fallnich, J. L Herek, K. J. Bollner

A route to sub-diffraction-limited-resolution CARS microscopy

15:30 – 16:00

Invited Talk 2: A. Volkmer

Labelfree Imaging and Quantitative Analysis of Living Cells by Coherent Raman Scattering Microscopy

16:00 – 16:20

C6: A. C. W. v. Rhijn, A. Jafarpour, J. P. Korterik, J. L. Herek, H. L. Offerhaus

Phase shaping strategies for CARS

16:20 – 16:40

C7: M. Schmitt, B. Dietzek, D. Akimov, T. Meyer, N. Vogler, G. Bergner, C. Krafft, N. Bergner, C. Matthäus, and J. Popp

Biomedical imaging by means of linear and non-linear Raman microspectroscopy

16:40 – 17:00

C8: E. T. Garbacik, M. Jurna, J. P. Korterik, C. Otto, J. L. Herek, H. L. Offerhaus

The molecular rollercoaster through complex space

17:00 – 17:20

C9: P. Groß, L. Kleinschmidt, S. Beer, C. Cleff, and C. Fallnich

Single-laser-based light source for CARS microscopy using the soliton self-frequency shift in a microstructured fiber

17:20 – 17:40

Coffee Break

Topical Session III  -  Gas Phase / Combustion 2

Chairwoman: R. Fantoni

17:40 – 18:10

Invited Talk 3: Z. W. Sun, Z. S. Li and M. Aldén

Degenerate four-wave mixing probing molecular ro-vibrational transitions for spatially resolved nonintrusive measurements of molecular concentrations and temperatures at combustion environments

18:10 – 18:30

C10: P. Bornhauser, G. Knopp, T. Gerber, P. P. Radi

Deperturbation study of the d ³P_g electronic state of C₂ by degenerate and two-color resonant four-wave mixing

18:20 – 18:40

C11: V. G. Arakcheev, V. B. Morozov, A. N. Olenin, A. A. Valeev,

Critical an non-critical nature of compressed carbon dioxide spectral behaviour

18:40 – 19:00

C 12:  J. Kiefer, C. J. Kliewer, T. Seeger, Y. Gao, B. D. Patterson, and T. B. Settersten

Frequency-domain time resolved pico-second dual-broadband pure-rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering spectroscopy for flame diagnostics

19:00 – 20:00 

Dinner

Tuesday, June 22

Plenary Session III

Chairman: P. Radi

08:30 – 09:10

Plenary Talk 5: M. Scully, P. Cremer, P. Hemmer, R. Nevels, T. Phillips, S. Scully, T. Siebert, A. Sokolov, A. Traverso, G. R. Welch, K. Wang, X. Wang, H. Xia, and W. Yang

Real-time detection of bacterial spores and food contaminants using coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy

09:10 – 09:50

Plenary Talk 6: P. M. Danehy and A. D. Cutler

Advancements to CARS for temperature and species measurements in supersonic reacting flows

09:50 - 10:10

Coffee Break

Topical Session IV  -  Femtosecond Spectroscopy 1

Chairman: D. Bermejo

10:10 – 10:40

Invited Talk 4: T. Buckup, J. P. Kraack, M. S. Marek, and M. Motzkus

Multidimensional time-resolved spectroscopy of biomolecules

10:40 – 11:10

Invited Talk 5: A. A. Bakulin, J. C. Hummelen, P. H. M. van Loosdrecht, and M. S. Pshenichnikov

30-fs hole-transfer dynamics in polymer/PCBM bulk heterojunction

11:10 – 11:40

Invited Talk 6: A.Y.Lakshmanna, B.  Mallick and S.Umapathy

Ultrafast Raman loss spectroscopy: understanding resonance excitation effects in stimulated Raman

11:40 – 12:00

C13: B. Marx, E. Ploetz, P. Gilch

An oscillator based light source for femtosecond stimulated Raman microscopy

12:00 – 13:00 

Lunch

Topical Session V  -  Microscopy 2

Chairman: A. Volkmer

13:00 – 13:30

Invited Talk 7: G. Thalhammer, L. Machtoub, S. Bernet, M. Ritsch-Marte, N. Stefanova, W. Poewe, M. Jurna, H. Offerhaus, L. Hartsuiker, J. Herek, C. Otto

Towards discrimination of protein conformations in neurological samples with CARS microspectroscopy

13:30 – 14:00

Invited Talk 8: M. T. Cicerone, Y. J. Lee, S. Parekh, K. H. Aamer

Broadband CARS microscopy: noninvasive chemical and time-resolved imaging for biology and materials

14:00 – 14:20

C14: A. Downes, R. Mouras, A. Elfick

Non-linear optical microscopy and spectroscopy of stem cells and their derivatives

14:20 – 14:40

C15: G. Hehl, G. Y. Nikolaeva, S. Gomes da Costa, K. A. Prokhorov, A. Volkmer

Hyperspectral CARS imaging of polyolefine deformation

14:40 – 15:30

Poster Session II + Coffee Break

Social Program

Bremerhaven

15:30

Departure
Busses at Front Gate of University

16:15 – 22:00

Museums + Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 23

Plenary Session IV

Chairman: T. Seeger

08:30 – 09:10

Plenary Talk 7: J. D. Miller, M. N. Slipchenko, T. R. Meyer, H. U. Stauffer, and J. R. Gord

Single-shot hybrid femtosecond/picosecond CARS spectroscopy for high-repetition rate combustion thermometry

09:10 – 09:50

Plenary Talk 8: H. L. Offerhaus, M. Jurna, A.C. W. van Rhijn, A. Jafarpour, and J. L. Herek

Coherent control of vibrational transistions

09:50 – 10:10

Coffee Break

Topical Session VI  -  Femtosecond Spectroscopy 2

Chairman: M. Motzkus

10:10 – 10:40

Invited Talk 9: A. Eftekhari-Bafrooei, E. Borguet

The vibrational spectroscopy and ultrafast dynamics of water at a charged solid interface

10:40 – 11:00

C16: J. Megow, A. Kulesza, V. May

Mixed quantum classical computation of excitation energy transfer and optical properties of supramolecular complexes

11:00 – 11:20

C17: C. Olbrich, J. Liebers, and U. Kleinekathöfer

Simulation of spectra and exciton transfer in light-harvesting systems

11:20 – 11:40

C18: T. Kalas, J. Köhler, C. Sarpe-Tudoran, M. Wollenhaupt and T. Baumert

Combining femtosecond laser pulse tailoring and self-phase modulation for nonlinear microscopy

11:40 – 12:00

C19: A. A. Voronin and A. M. Zheltikov

Ionization penalty in nonlinear-optical bioimaging

12:00 – 13:00 

Lunch

Plenary Session V

Chairman: D. Kozlov

13:00 – 13:40

Plenary Talk 9: C. J. Kliewer, Y. Gao, T. Seeger, J. Kiefer, R. L. Farrow, B. D. Patterson, T. B. Settersten

Simplifying complex spectra and characterizing Raman linewidths with time-resolved picosecond rotational CARS

13:40 – 14:20

Plenary Talk 10: P. J. Wrzesinski, D. Pestov, V. V. Lozovoy, S. Roy, J. R. Gord, M. Dantus

Strategies for selective and multiplexed single beam CARS imaging

14:20 – 15:00

Poster Session III + Coffee Break

Topical Session VII  -  Nanostructures

Chairman: M. Schmitt

15:00 – 15:30

Invited Talk 10: T. Hanke, G. Krauss, D. Träutlein, A. Leitenstorfer, and R. Bratschitsch

Few-cycle nonlinear optics with single plasmonic nanoantennas

15:30 – 15:50

C20: M. Mascheck, S. Schmidt, M. Silies, D. Leipold, E. Runge, T. Yatsui, M. Ohstu, C. Lienau

Localizing light in random zinc oxide nanoeedle arrays

15:50 – 16:10

C21: H. Baida, C. Christofilos, A. Crut, P. Maioli, N. Del Fatti, and F. Vallée

Nonlinear optics with a single metal nanoparticle

16:10 – 16:30

C22: V. G. Arakcheev, V. N. Bagratashvili, V. B. Morozov, V. K. Popov, A. A. Valeev

Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Molecular Media Phase Behavior under Nanoporous Confinement

16:30 – 16:50

C23: S. M. Falke, D. Brida, G. Cerullo and C. Lienau

Probing electron transfer in polymer/fullerene blends using ultrahigh time resolution coherent vibrational spectroscopy

16:50 – 17:10

Coffee Break

Topical Session VIII  -  Techniques

Chairman: B. Lavorel

17:10 – 17:40

Invited Talk 11: K. F. Domke, M. H. F. Kox, J. P. R. Day, G. Rago, E. Stavitski, B. M. Weckhuysen, M. Bonn

CARS for catalysis research: 3D chemical maps of thiophenes adsorbed on zeolite crystals

17:40 – 18:00

C24: B. Burgoyne, A. Villeneuve, P. Martek, N. Richard and V. Mercier

Synchronized programmable picosecond fiber laser system

18:00 – 18:20

C25: A. D. Kudryavtseva, N. V. Tcherniega

Stimulated low-frequency Raman scattering in nanostructured materials as a new Source of biharmonic pumping

18:20 – 18:40

C26: A. A. Voronin, A. D. Savvin, A. A. Lanin, D. A. Sidorov-Biryukov, A. B. Fedotov, and A. M. Zheltikov

Soliton self-frequency shift for fiber-based CARS

18:40 – 19:00

C27: S. Ivanova

Formation and evolution of far-field patterns of laser beam passing through nonlinear crystal and Raman spectra

19:00 – 20:00

Concluding Remarks and Dinner

updated, June 9, 2010