11th International Laser Physics Workshop
(Bratislava, July 12-16, 2002)

The eleventh annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'02) was held from to in the city of Bratislava, Slovak Republic, hosted by International Laser Center.

Bratislava

LPHYS'02.  Chairpersons:

LPHYS'02.  Deputy Chairpersons:

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    Dusan Chorvat


    International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
     
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    Pavel P Pashinin


    A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia

LPHYS'02.  Steering Committee:

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    Vanderlei S. Bagnato


    University of São Paulo, São Carlos, SP, Brazil
    Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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    Charles M. Bowden


    US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA
     
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    See Leang Chin


    Laval University, Québec City, QC, Canada
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    Joseph H. Eberly


    University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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    Mikhail V. Fedorov


    A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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    Sergey A. Gonchukov


    National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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    Štefan Luby


    Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
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    Pavel P Pashinin


    A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia
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    Guillaume Petite


    École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
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    Kirill A. Prokhorov


    A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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    Wolfgang Sandner


    ELI Delivery Consortium AISBL, Berlin, Germany
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    Wolfgang P. Schleich


    Institute for Quantum Physics, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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    Herbert Walther


    Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany
     
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    Valery M. Yermachenko


    National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
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    Igor V. Yevseyev


    Department of Theoretical Physics, National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow, Russia
     
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    Aleksey M. Zheltikov


    Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

LPHYS'02.    Plenary Speakers:

  1. Catastrophic Damage of Optical Fibers under CW Laser Radiation

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      Igor A. Bufetov


      Fiber Optics Research Center, RAS, Moscow, Russia

  2. Programmable Quantum Processors

  3. Crystalline Charged Particle Beams and High-Intensity Lasers

  4. Attosecond Metrology

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      Ferenc Krausz

      Nobel Prize Winner 
      Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, Garching, Germany
      Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany, Munich, Germany
      Center for Molecular Fingerprinting, Budapest, Hungary, Budapest, Hungary

  5. Multiple Ionization in Strong Laser Fields: 'Complete' Experiments and Their Results

  6. Fluctuations in the Bose Condensate: The Rich Interplay between Optical and Statistical Physics

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      Marlan O Scully


      Texas A&M University, Princeton, NJ, USA
      Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA

  7. Coherent Control of Currents and Spin Currents in Semiconductors

  8. Spatial Solitons

  9. Lasers in Medical Diagnostics - New Developments

  10. Exciton Polariton BEC

LPHYS'02.    Scientific Seminars:

  • Seminar 1:   Modern Trends in Laser Physics

    Co-chairs:

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      Kirill A. Prokhorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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      Vladimir M. Shalaev

      Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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      Evgeny A. Vinogradov

      Institute of Spectroscopy, RAS, Troitsk, Russia

  • Seminar 2:   Strong Field Phenomena

    Co-chairs:

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      Wilhelm Becker

      Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany
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      Mikhail V. Fedorov

      A.M. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 3:   Laser Methods in Medicine and Biology

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  • Seminar 4:   Physics of Lasers

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  • Seminar 5:   Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy

    Co-chairs:

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      Charles M. Bowden

      US Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA
       
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      Wolfgang Kiefer

      Institut fur Physikalische Chemie Universitat, Würzburg, Germany
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      Aleksey M. Zheltikov

      Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

  • Seminar 6:   Quantum Information

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  • Seminar 7:   Bose-Einstein Condensation of Trapped Atoms

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  • Seminar 8:   Laser Technologies and Optical Engineering

    Co-chairs:

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      Costas Fotakis

      Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Iraklio, Greece
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      Miroslav Jelínek

      Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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      Vyacheslav B. Morozov

      Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
    • František Uherek

      International Laser Center, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

LPHYS'02.  Proceedings:

Proceedings of the 11th International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'02, Bratislava, July 12-16, 2002) have been published in Laser Physics, vol. 13 (2003). To read all contributed papers please visit http://iopscience.iop.org/lp/.