Advances in Atomic and Molecular Physics.
Latvia, Ratnieki, June 16 - 18, 2008.

Registration and abstract submission for conference is open.

Laser Centre of the University of Latvia organises a conference on recent advances in atomic and molecular physics, the third conference in series since 2005.

Invited speakers and topics include:

Klaas Bergmann (Kaiserslautern)
Principles of optically driven adiabatic transfer processes

Harold Metcalf (Stony Brook)
Entropy exchange in laser cooling

Pierre Pillet (Orsay)
Ultracold ground state Cesium molecules

Matthias Weidemüller (Freiburg)
“Rydberg Matter”- Many-body phenomena in an ultracold gas of Rydberg atoms

Andrey Stolyarov (Moscow)
Analytical Mapping Procedure Based on a Reduced Variable Transformation of Radial Coordinate

Olivier Dulieu (Orsay)
Electronic structure of alkali dimers and trimers. Prospects for alignment and orientation effects

Elena Pazyuk (Moscow)
The oscillation theorem breakdown in fully mixed diatomic states

Horst Knöckel (Hannover)
Molecular spectroscopy aimed at collision properties of cold atoms

Igor Ryabtsev (Novosibirsk)
Detection statistics and interactions of a few Rydberg atoms

Malgorzata Głódź (Warsaw)
EIT in cold ⁸⁵Rb - beyond a three-level model

Leonid Yatsenko (Kiev)
Coherent population trapping resonances excited by an optical frequency comb

Dmitry Budker (Berkley)
Nonlinear Zeeman Effect and Magneto-Optical Rotation

Virgilijus Vaicaitis and Vygandas Jarutis (Vilnius)
Nonlinear optical processes in alkali metal vapours

Evgeny Alexandrov (St. Petersburg)
Super-narrow spectral lines in fundamental metrology: prospects and problems

Wolfgang Sandner (Berlin)
Atomic ionization dynamics in strong and ultra-strong laser fields

Oleg Vasyutinskii (St. Petersburg)
Angular momentum distribution of the products of chemical and photochemical reactions: determination of the scattering matrix amplitudes and phases

Vjačeslavs Kaščejevs (Riga)
Low-frequency excitation of  quantum dots: electron pumping in nanocircuits