Workshop on Mathematical Methods and Models in Laser Filamentation

March 10-14, 2014

Program
 

Monday, March 10, 2014
08:30 - 09:45
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:45 - 10:00
Opening remarks
10:00 - 10:45
Catherine Sulem
(University of Toronto)
Lower bound for the rate of blow-up of singular solutions for the three dimensional Zakharov system
Abstract
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:00
Jerome V. Moloney
(University of Arizona)
Singular structures and many-body effects in extreme nonlinear optics
Abstract
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Alexander L. Gaeta
(Cornell University)
Self-focusing and Filamentation in Optical Waveguides
Abstract
14:45 - 15:30
Arnaud Couairon
(École Polytechnique)
Filamentation, third harmonic and supercontinuum generation, conical emission in the anomalous dispersion region of transparent solids
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Thomas Brabec
(University of Ottawa)
Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic scales of light matter interaction
Abstract

 

Tuesday, March 11, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Paul B. Corkum
(University of Ottawa & NRC)
Ionization, currents and lasing in filaments
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Dmitri Pelinovsky
(McMaster University)
Broad band solitons in a periodic and nonlinear Maxwell system
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Jae-Hun Jung
(University at Buffalo, SUNY)
Spectral methods for solving nonlinear Schrödinger equations with singular defect terms
Abstract
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Jean-Claude Diels
(University of New Mexico)
Experimental characterization of single filaments; providing realistic parameters for numerical simulations
Abstract
14:45 - 15:30
Daniel Houde
(Université de Sherbrooke)
Filamentation of femtosecond laser pulses in solutions of biological interest : low density plasma has a new pattern of ionizing radiation for radiobiology and radiotherapy
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Jean-Claude Kieffer
(INRS Énergie, Matériaux et Télécom.)
Overview of the INRS program on filamentation and perspectives with high peak power laser
Abstract
16:45 - 17:00
Szczepan Chelkowski
(Université de Sherbrooke)
The photon momentum sharing in photoionization
Abstract

 

Wednesday, March 12, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Stefan Skupin
(Université Bordeaux 1)
High-intensity laser matter interaction
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Luc Bergé
(CEA)
THz emissions induced by laser-gas interaction
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
See Leang Chin
(Université Laval)
Filament induced precipitation in a sub-saturated zone in a cloud chamber
Abstract
11:45 - 12:00
Christiane Rousseau
(Université de Montréal)
Mathematics of Planet Earth
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Room(s) 6245
14:00 - 16:00
Poster Session
Room(s) 6245

 

Thursday, March 13, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Walter Craig
(McMaster University)
Near parallel vortex filament interactions
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
David Lannes
(École Normale Supérieure)
Various NLS models for laser filamentations
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Alan C. Newell
(The University of Arizona)
The canonical equation for ultra short pulse propagation
Abstract
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:45
Alejandro B. Aceves
(Southern Methodist University)
Modeling and simulations of multi-colored filaments
Abstract
14:45 - 15:30
Brigitte Bidégaray-Fesquet
(Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann)
Quantum models for laser-matter interaction
Abstract
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Miroslav Kolesik
(The University of Arizona)
Non-perturbative light-matter interactions in extreme nonlinear optics
Abstract
16:45 - 17:00
Paris Panagiotopoulos
(The University of Arizona)
Nonlinear Airy and Airy-like wavepackets
Abstract

 

Friday, March 14, 2014
08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Peng Liu
(Shanghai Inst. of Optics & Fine Mechanics)
Elliptically polarized THz radiation from laser plasma driven by few-cycle laser pulses
Abstract
09:45 - 10:30
Olga Kosareva
(Lomonosov Moscow State University)
Divergent and confined low-frequency radiation from femtosecond filaments in gases
Abstract
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Emmanuel Lorin de la Grandmaison
(Carleton University)
Domain decomposition method derived from high order absorbing boundary conditions for the Schroedinger equation
Abstract
11:45 - 12:15
Ladan Arissian
(University of New Mexico)
Anisotropy of pulse and plasma dynamics in filament propagation
Abstract
12:15 - 12:30
Final words

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