LLC Joint Seminars

A series of joint LLC seminars is being arranged for all LLC members. The idea is to have broad seminars by well-known international scientists interlaced with overview lectures of LLC activities, mostly by senior LLC-scientists. 

Joint LLC seminars to be performed during 2010

Joint LLC Seminars already performed during the period 1995 - 2009

1995-11-22 
Prof. T.W Hänsch, MPQ, Garching, Germany, " Spectroscopy of Atomic Hydrogen"

1996-02-28
Doc. Katarina Svanberg, Oncology Dept., Lund University, Sweden, "Lasers in Medicine - Spectroscopic Aspects"

1996-05-20 
Prof. J. Jortner, Tel Aviv University, Israel, "Dynamics of Large Chemical and Biophysical Systems"

1996-09-18
Prof. Marcus Aldén, Combustion Physics Div., Lund University, Sweden, "Laser Applications in Combustion  Research"

1996-11-11
Dr. E.V. Browell, NASA Langley Research Centre, U.S.A., "Optical Remote Sensing for Global Ozone Monitoring"

1997-03-20
Dr. Agneta Troilius, Department of Determatology, Malmö University Hospital, Sweden "Lasers in Dermatology"

1997-05-13 
Prof. Sveneric Johansson, Atomic Spectroscopy Div., Lund University, Sweden, "A Spectroscopic View of the Universe: New Findings with the Hubble Space Telescope"

1997-09-18
Prof. Jürgen Wolfrum, University of Heidelberg, Germany, "Lasers in chemistry, Environment and Biology: from Diatomics to DNA"

1997-11-19
Doc. Claes-Göran Wahlström, Atomic Physics Department, Lund University, Sweden, "High-Power Lasers and Physics at Ultra-High Intensities"

1998-02-24 
Prof. Villy Sundström, Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "Femtochemistry - The Decisive  Moment  in Chemistry"

1998-05-19 
Prof. Theodor Hänsch, MPQ, Garching, Germany, "New Magnetic Traps for Laser Cooled Atoms"

1998-09-24 
Dr. Hans Edner, Atomic Physics Department, Lund University, Sweden, "Optical Remote Sensing for Environmental Studies"

1998-11-16
Prof. Richard Zare, Stanford University, U.S.A., "Advances in Laser-Based Techniques for Chemical Analysis  - From Martian Meteorites to Single Molecules"

1999-03-03 
Dr. Stefan Andersson-Engels, Atomic Physics Division, Lund Institute of Technology, "Laser-based Scattering Spectroscopy Applied to Medicine"

1999-05-20  
Prof. Robin Clark, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London, "Laser Raman Spectroscopy and Microscopy: Unique Techniques for Pigment Identification on Manuscrips, Paintings and Other Artefacts"

1999-09-23
Ass. Prof. Istvan Sarady, Division of Materials Processing, Lulea University of Technology, "Material Processing with Lasers"

1999-11-18 
Dr. Clemens Kaminski, Combustion Physics Division, Lund Institute of Technology, "High Speed Imaging of Chemical Reactions: A Spectroscopist's Idea of Fun with a Camera"

2000-03-01
Prof. Vladilen S. Letokhov, Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Science, Troitsk, Russia, "Lasers in Science and Technology"  

2000-04-26
Prof. Gérad A. Mourou, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., "Ultrahigh-Intensity Lasers: Physics of the Extreme On a Tabletop"

2000-05-03
Docent Eva Åkesson, Chemical Physics, Lund University, "Femtochemistry - Photodissociation of Small Molecules" 

2000-09-26
Prof. Ferenc Krausz, Photonics Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria, "Few-cycle-driven Ultrafast  Sources from T-rays to X-rays: A Tool for New Spectroscopies"

2000-11-15
Prof. Stefan Kröll, Atomic Physics Division, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, Fundamental  and Technological Applications using Photon Echoes"

2000-12-06
Prof. Orazio Svelto, Physics Department, Politechnico di Milano, Italy, "Intense Near-Single-Cycle Laser Pulses: New Physics on a Table Top"

2001-02-26
Prof. Ingolf Lindau, Synchrotron Radiation Research, Lund University, Sweden, "Novel Scientific Opportunities with Future Advanced Light Sources"

2001-05-28
Prof. Gustav Gerber, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Würzburg, Germany, "Optimal Control of Quantum Dynamics by Adaptive Femtosecond Pulse Shaping"

2001-09-27
Ass. Prof. Per-Erik Bengtsson, Department of  Combustion Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden, "Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS)"

2001-11-19
Prof. James Fujimoto, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A., "Biomedical Imaging using Optical Coherence Tomography"

2002-03-21
Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Atomic Physics Department, Lund University, Sweden, "Harmonic Generation in Strong Laser Fields - Application to Attosecond Pulses"

2002-04-25
Prof. Torben Andersen, Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden, "Euro50, a 50 m Optical Telescope with Adaptive Optics and Laser Guide Stars"

2002-09-04
Prof. Eugene Polzik, University of Aarhus, Denmark, "Quantum Communication Networks with Entangled atoms and light"

2002-11-28
Prof. Emile Biémont, Universites of Liège and Mons-Hainaut, Belgium, "Atomic Physics and Astrophysics in interplay - An interesting case, the lanthanides"

2003-02-26
Prof. Karsten Danzmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics, University of Hannover, "Laserinterferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors on the Ground and in Space"

2003-04-28
Prof. Ken W.D. Ledingham, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, "Laser Induced Nuclear, Particle Astrophysics and Applications - the Developing Dream"

2003-05-08
Prof. Mark Linne, Department of Combustion Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "Advances in  Laser Diagnostics for Combustion"

2003-10-02
Doc. Katarina Svanberg, Department of Oncology, Lund University Hospital, Sweden,"Laser techniques in the detection and treatment of malignant tumours"

2003-11-11
Anders Hagfeldt, Department of Physical Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden, "Dye-sensitized nanostructured solar cells"

2004-03-09
Prof. Sune Svanberg, Division of Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "Spectroscopy in scattering media  -  Basic aspects and practical applications"

2004-05-25
Prof. Rienk van Grondelle, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, "Early Events in Enzyme Reaction Dynamics"

2004-09-16
Prof. Jörgen Larsson, Division of Atomic Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "Time-Resolved X-Ray Science"

2004-10-27
Prof. Richard B. Miles, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, USA, "Imaging Flow Structure and Species with Atomic
and Molecular Filters"

2005-04-07
Prof. Thomas Elsaesser, Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany, "Ultrafast dynamics of hydrogen bonds in liquids: Nuclear motions, vibrational couplings and relaxation"

2005-05-12
Prof. Anton Zeilinger, Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Vienna, Austria and Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Austrian Academy of Sciences, "Photonic Quantum Computation and Quantum Teleportation"

2005-09-22
Prof. Wolfgang Kiefer, Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Würzburg, Germany, "Femtosecond Four-wave Mixing Spectroscopies and Applications"

2005-10-27
Prof. Dainis Dravins, Lund Observatory, Lund Sweden, "Future Optical Astronomy eith Quantum Optics"

2005-12-01
Rydberg Lecture
J. Rydberg 150 Year Memorial
With the support by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics, Annual Rydberg Lectures will be arranged in Lund. The first one in this series is arranged 150 years after the birth of Johannes Rydberg.

Prof. Daniel Kleppner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Mass.,Two Legacies of Johannes Rydberg -the Rydberg Constant and Rydberg Atoms”

2006-03-17
Prof. Peter E. Andersen, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark, "Biophotonics: Optical Coherence Tomography and New Light Sources"

2006-03-17
Prof. Jesper Glückstad, Risø National Laboratory, Denmark, "Real-time Interactive 3D Laser Manipulation of Particles Based on General Phase Contrast Methods"

2006-03-27
Rydberg Lecture
With the support by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics, Annual Rydberg Lectures will be arranged in Lund.

Prof. Theodor W. Hänsch, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany, "A Passion for Precision"

2006-04-24
Dr. Mike Dunne, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK, "Laser Driven Fusion - A Source of Energy for the Future?"

2006-09-19
Prof. Ronald K. Hanson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, USA, "Advances in Diode Laser Sensors for Combustion and Propulsion"

2006-11-20
Prof. Villy Sundström, Department of Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "The Ultrafast Time Scale in Chemistry and Biology"

2007-05-24
Prof. Hans Hertz, Biomedical & X-Ray Physics, KTH, Sweden, "Compact liquid-jet x-ray sources for microscopy and biomedical imaging"

2007-06-07
Dr. Zhongshan Li, Dept of Physics, LTH, Sweden, " Developing Novel Laser Techniques for Nonintrusive Combustion Diagnostics"

2007-09-14
Prof. Eric Mazur, Dept of Physics, Harvard University, USA, "Wrapping light around a hair"

2007-10-15
Prof. John Pendry, Dept of Physics, Imperial College, London, U.K. "Metamaterials: A New Design Paradigm for Electromagnetism"

2008-04-02
Rydberg Lecture
With the support by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences through its Nobel Institute for Physics, Annual Rydberg Lectures will be arranged in Lund.

Prof. Serge Haroche, ENS, Paris, France, "Trapping and counting photons without destroying them: a new way to look at light"

2008-04-23
Prof. Marcus Motzkus, Universität Marburg, Germany, "Coherent control and shaped femtosecond pulses: Playing with the light-matter interaction"

2008-05-19
Prof. Stefan Andersson-Engels, Atomic Physics Div., Lund University, Sweden, "Optical Spectroscopy to Control Medical Treatment"

2008-10-02
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley, USA, "Nanophotonics, from Photonic crystals to Plasmonics"

2008-11-27
Prof. Anne L'Huillier, Atomic Physics Div., Lund University, Sweden, "Attosecond Physics and High-Order Harmonic Generation"

2009-02-10
Prof. Marjatta Lyyra, Physics Department,Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, " Applications of Quantum Optics in  Molecular Systems"

2009-04-17
Prof. Mischa Bonn, FOM-Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF, Amsterdam, Netherlands, " Structure and dynamics of interfacial water"

2009-06-02
Prof. Lennart Lindegren, Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden, "Planet-hunting, quantum fluctuations in the early universe and picoradian astronomy: Exploring the universe from observatories in space"

2009-10-13
Docent Annika Enejder, Dep. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden, "Multi-photon microscopy - Biological applications of CARS, SHG and THG microscopy"

2009-11-18
Dr. Tönu Pullerits, Chemical Physics, Lund University, Sweden, "In footsteps of NMR – laser spectroscopy goes multidimensional"

• Print version