Name: Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar #702: Otto Stern's Molecular Beam Research and its Impact on Science
Start: 2019-09-01T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2019-09-05T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Frankfurt

Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar #702: Otto Stern's Molecular Beam Research and its Impact on Science

from Sunday, 1 September 2019 (10:00) to Thursday, 5 September 2019 (18:30)

Monday, 26 August 2019
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Thursday, 29 August 2019
Friday, 30 August 2019
Saturday, 31 August 2019
Sunday, 1 September 2019

16:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
16:00 - 20:00

Monday, 2 September 2019
09:00 Welcome: An homage to Otto Stern - Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University)
Welcome: An homage to Otto Stern
- Dudley Herschbach (Harvard University)
09:00 - 09:30
09:30 My uncle Otto Stern - Alan Tempelton (Berkeley)
My uncle Otto Stern
- Alan Tempelton (Berkeley)
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 13:00
Contributions

10:30 Keynote: Otto Stern’s trajectory - Tilman Sauer (Universität Mainz)

11:20 From theory to experiment (and back to theory)? On Otto Stern, Max Born and other physicists in the 1920s - Arne Schirrmacher (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)

12:10 Otto Sackur, Otto Stern, and the Beginning of the Quantum Theory of Gases - Massimiliano Badino (Universita di Verona)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Contributions

14:00 Keynote: From Stern’s beam experiments to modern biomolecular NMR spectroscopy - Christian Griesinger

14:45 Economic aspects of NMR: Analytic devices and medical imagers - Hermann Rquardt

15:15 Protons, Electrons - how they spin and interact to discover major aspects of Chemistry and Biomedicine - Harald Schwalbe (Universität Frankfurt)
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 19:00
Contributions

16:15 Keynote: Quantum or classical perception: The Imaging Theorem and the Ensemble Picture - John Briggs (Universität Freiburg)

17:00 Reduction of the atomic wave function in the Stern-Gerlach magnetic field - Michael Devereux (Los Alamos)

17:30 At the interface of gravity and quantum mechanics - Wolfgang Schleich (Universität Ulm)

18:00 Stern-Gerlach Interferometry on the Atom Chip - Ron Folman (Ben Gurion University)

18:30 Prospects for testing quantum mechanics with levitated optomechanics - Hendrik Ulbricht (University of Southhampton)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
20:00
20:00 - 20:30
Contributions

20:00 What do Qunatum Measurements Measure? - Bob Griffith (Carnegie-Mellon University)
20:30 Poster Session with Wine+Beer+Bretzel
Poster Session with Wine+Beer+Bretzel
20:30 - 21:30
Tuesday, 3 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: Precision experiments for the revised SI - and the future of time - Joachim Ullrich (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

09:45 Precision Physics in Penning Traps Using the Continuous Stern-Gerlach-Effect - Klaus Blaum (MPI für Kernforschung Heidelberg)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Keynote: Using light to control electrons that, in turn, create new light sources - Paul Corkum (Univesity of Ottawa)

11:45 Synthetic Chiral Light for Efficient Chiral Light-Matter Interaction - Olga Smirnova (Max-Born-Institut Berlin)

12:10 Ultrafast molecular and electronic dynamics probed by free-electron lasers - Kiyoshi Ueda (Tohoku University)

12:35 Attoclock revisited - Ursula Keller (ETH Zürich)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Remarks - Dieter Meschede (Universität Bonn; President der DPG)

14:12 Remarks - Petra Rudolf (University of Groningen; Presidet of the EPS)

14:24 Reamrks - Peter Feldmann (Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Frankfurt am Main)

14:36 Remarks - Birgitta Wolf (Präsidentin der Goethe-Universität Franfurt)

14:48 Remarks - Wolfgang Grünbein (Präsident Physikalischer Verein Frankfurt)

15:00 Remarks - Andreas Mulch (Universität Frankfurt; Direktor of the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt)

15:12 Keynote: Frankfurt Physicists - Michael Eckert (Forschungsinstitut, Deutsches Museum)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:45
Contributions

16:30 Keynote: Our Patrimony from Otto Stern and My Memories of Otto Frisch - Dan Kleppner (MIT)

17:15 Ultracold Chemical reactions with molecules in slow motion - Kang-Kuen Ni (Harvard University)

17:45 Choreographing Quantum Spin Dynamics with Light - Monika Schleier-Smith (Stanford University)

18:15 STIRAP: Notes about its history and some news - Klaas Bergmann (Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)
19:00
19:00 - 22:00
Contributions

20:30 Physical Amusements - Ludger Wöste (Freie Universität Berlin)
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Keynote: Manipulation and control of molecular beams - Gerard Meijer (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Berlin)

09:40 Time delays in photoionization - Eva Lindroth (Stockholm University)

10:05 Quantum effects in cold and controlled molecular dynamics - Christiane Koch (Universität Kassel)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Keynote: Otto Stern and Wave-Particle Duality - Peter Toennies (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation)

11:40 Macromolecular Matter Wave Interferometry and Talbot-Lau Deflectometry - Markus Arndt (Universität Wien)

12:10 Grating Diffraction of Molecular Beams: Present Day Implementations of Otto Stern’s Concept - Wieland Schöllkopf (Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin)

12:35 Rotating rotationless: nonadiabatic alignment of the helium dimer and trimer - Maksim Kunitski (Universität Frankfurt)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Keynote: Magneto-Optical Trap: Origins and Applications - David Pritchard (MIT)

14:45 Interaction effects in ultra cold atom systems - Dörte Blume (Washington State University)

15:10 Engineering spin squeezing in a 3D optical lattice with interacting spin-orbit-coupled fermions - Ana Maria Rey (NIST Boulder)

15:35 Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of molecules - Mike Tarbutt (Imperial College London)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:50
Contributions

16:30 Keynote: Microdroplet Chemistry - Richard Zare (Stanford University)

17:10 Liquid micro jet studies of the free vacuum surface of water and of chemical solutions by soft X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy - Manfred Faubel (MPI für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation)

17:35 From Liquid Rays to Gas Rays: The Non-Maxwellian Evaporation of Helium from Water Microjets - Gil Nathanson (University of Wisconsin at Madison)

18:00 Laser-induced rotation and alignment of molecules in helium nanodroplets - Henrik Stapelfeldt (University of Aarhus)

18:25 Far-from-equilibrium dynamics of molecules in helium nanodroplets - Mikhail Lemeshko (IST Austria)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:00
20:00
20:00 - 20:30
Contributions

20:00 Stern’s friendship with Pauli - Karl von Meyen (Universität Ulm)

20:15 Stern’s relation to Gerlach - Horst Schmidt-Böcking (Universität Frankfurt)
20:30 Poster Session with Wine+Beer+Bretzel
Poster Session with Wine+Beer+Bretzel
20:30 - 22:00
Thursday, 5 September 2019

08:30

08:30 - 18:30