LPHYS'99

8th INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP
(Budapest, July 2-6, 1999)

ORGANIZERS:

• General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia
• The international journal Laser Physics
• Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
• Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HAS, Budapest, Hungary

SPONSORS:

• Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
• National Committee for Technological Development (OMFB), Budapest, Hungary
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Moscow, Russia
• Ministry of Science and Technologies of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
• European Research Office of the United State Army
• Trans-Tour Company, Moscow, Russia
• United States Air Force Office of Aerospace Research and Development
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA
• Roland Eotvos Physical Society, Hungary
• LASRAM Ltd., Hungary

CHAIRMEN:

• Norbert Kroo (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HAS, Budapest, Hungary)
• Alexander M. Prokhorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN:

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

STEERING COMMITTEE:

• Joseph H. Eberly (University of Rochester, Rochester, USA)
• Mikhail V. Fedorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• Jozsef Janszky (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HAS, Budapest, Hungary)
• Jamal T. Manassah (The City University of New York, New York, USA)
• Pavel P. Pashinin (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• Kirill A. Prokhorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• 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:

• Bruce H.T. Chai, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA "Self frequency doubling in the Nd and Yb doped yttrium calcium oxyborate crystals"
• Louis DiMauro, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, USA "Strong-Field Interactions in the Tunneling Regime"
• D. DiVincenzo, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA "Prospects for Quantum Computing"
• W. Hogervorst, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "XUV Laser Spectroscopy of Atoms and Molecules"
• W. Howard Lowdermilk, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, USA "NIF and the Path to Inertial Fusion Energy"
• Harm G. Muller, FOM-Institute, Atoms in Strong Field, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Resonance Enhancement of Recollision Processes in Strong-Field Photoionization as Revealed by Accurate Numerical Simulation"
• Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University, USA "Advances in Quantum Optics and Laser Physics via Quantum Coherence"
• Sune Svanberg, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden "Medical Diagnostics Using Laser Techniques"
• Herbert Walther, Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany "The Generation of Fock-States in the One-Atom Maser"

SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS:

• Modern Trends in Laser Physics Co-Chairs: Charles M. Bowden (USA), Kirill A. Prokhorov (Russia), and Wolfgang Sandner (Germany)
• Strong Field Phenomena Co-Chairs: Wilhelm Becker (Germany), See Leang Chin (Canada), Gyozo Farkas (Hungary), and Mikhail V. Fedorov (Russia)
• Laser Spectroscopy Co-Chairs: Frank K. Tittel (USA), Wilhelmus Witteman (The Netherlands), and Valery M. Yermachenko (Russia)
• Solid State Lasers and Nonlinear Optics Co-Chairs: Gunter Huber (Germany), Takatomo Sasaki (Japan), and Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia)
• Laser Methods in Medicine Co-Chairs: Sergey A. Gonchukov (Russia), Gerhard J. Mueller (Germany), and Rudolf Steiner (Germany)

SYMPOSIUM:

• Status and Future Directions of High-Power Laser Installations Co-Chairs: See Leang Chin (Canada), Wolfgang Sandner (Germany), and Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia)

The Proceedings of the Workshop were published in vol. 10, # 1 and # 2 of the international journal Laser Physics, 2000.