LPHYS'2000

9th INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP
(Bordeaux, France, July 17-21, 2000)

ORGANIZERS:

• General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia
• The international journal Laser Physics
• Department de Recherche sur l'Etat Condense, les Atomes et les Molecules, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Saclay, France
• Laboratoire CELIA, Universite Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France

SPONSORS:

• Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (Direction des Sciences de la Matière, Direction du Cycle du Combustible and Direction des Applications Militaires), France
• Departement des Relations Internationales of the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, France
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Moscow, Russia
• Ministry of Industry, Science, and Technologies of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
• European Research Office of the United States Army
• United States European Office of Aerospace Research and Development
• Ecole Polytechnique, France
• Departement des Sciences Physiques et Mathématiques of the Centre National de la Recheche Scientifique, France
• Trans-Tour Company, Moscow, Russia

CHAIRMAN:

• Alexander M. Prokhorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN:

• Pavel P. Pashinin (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)

SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR:

• Guillaume Petite, Laboratoire des Solides Irradies, CEA, CNRS et Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

STEERING COMMITTEE:

• Charles M. Bowden, US Army Aviation and Missile Command Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, USA
• See Leang Chin, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
• Joseph H. Eberly, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
• Mikhail V. Fedorov, General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Alexander A. Kaminskii, Institute of Crystallography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Jamal T. Manassah, The City University of New York, New York, USA
• Arnold Migus, LULI/Ecole Polytechnique - CNRS - CEA - Univ. Paris VI, Palaiseau, France
• Pavel P. Pashinin, General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Guillaume Petite, CEA/DSM/DRECAM, Saclay, France
• Kirill A. Prokhorov, General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
• Francois Salin, CELIA, Universite Bordeaux I, Bordeaux, France
• Wolfgang Sandner, Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
• Wolfgang P. Schleich, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
• Herbert Walther, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
• Valery M. Yermachenko, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia
• Igor V. Yevseyev, Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

• Rafat R. Ansari (Cleveland, USA) "Monitoring Astronaut Health with Laser Light"
• Sergey N. Bagayev (Novosibirsk, Russia) "High-Precision Femtosecond Spectroscopy and Its Applications"
• Sandro De Silvestri (Milan, Italy) "Generation of Few Optical Cycle Pulses for Ultrafast Spectroscopy and Extreme Non-Linear Optics"
• Joseph H. Eberly (Rochester, USA) and Stanley J. Haan (Grand Rapids, USA) "Overview of Short-Pulse Double Photoionization at High Laser Intensity as Examined by Numerical Simulation"
• Peter L. Knight (London, UK) "Quantum Information Processing in a Dissipative Environment"
• Karl Kompa (Garching, Germany) "Quantum Mechanical Aspects of Photobiology"
• Vladilen S. Letokhov (Troitsk, Russia) "Atom and Light Nanooptics
• Gerhard Rempe (Garching, Germany) "Cavity QED with individual atoms"
• Linn D. Van Woerkom (Columbus, USA) "Above Threshold Ionization as a Probe of Multielectron Effects in Atoms"

SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS:

• Modern Trends in Laser Physics Co-Chairs: Charles M. Bowden (USA), Christos Flytzanis (France), and Kirill A. Prokhorov (Russia)
• Strong Field Phenomena Co-Chairs: Pierre Agostini (France), Mikhail V. Fedorov (Russia), and Alfred Maquet (France)
• Physics of Cold Atoms Co-Chairs: Christophe Salomon (France), Wolfgang P. Schleich (Germany), and Valery P. Yakovlev (Russia)
• Physics of Lasers Co-Chairs: Wolfgang Sandner (Germany), Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia), and Claude Rulliere (France)
• Laser Methods in Medicine and Biology Co-Chairs: Sergey A. Gonchukov (Russia) and Heinz P. Weber (Switzerland)

The Proceedings of the Workshop were published in vol. 11, # 1 and # 2 of the international journal Laser Physics, 2001.