News and Announcements
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1. Financial support for US students and postdocs is available
from Basic Eneregy Scieces the US Department of Energy.
See details in the Acknowledgement Section.
Financial support for Canadian students and post-docs is available from CIPI. Interested parties should contact Paul Corkum. Please indicate your professional status (eg. student or post-doc), speaker or poster presenter and affiliation.
2. The European 6th framework Marie Curie Research Training Network “XTRA” (XUV for Time-Resolved and Non-Linear Applications) will hold its network meeting as a part of ICOMP.
3. The advanced laser light source (ALLS) will celebrate its official opening during ICOMP. ALLS aims to image fast molecular dynamics in chemical and biological media. ALLS will be a unique $20,000,000 research facility for imaging molecular dynamics. Please see, for example:
J. Itatani, J. Levesque, D. Zeidler, H. Niikura, H. Pepin, J. C. Kieffer, P. B. Corkum and D. M. Villeneuve, “Tomographic Imaging of Molecular Orbitals," Nature 432, 867 (2004).
B. J. Siwick, J. R. Dwyer, R. E. Jordan, and R. J. D. Miller, “An Atomic-Level View of Melting Using Femtosecond Electron Diffraction,” Science 302, 1382 (2003).
Ottawa Citizen, December 16, 2004
Die Zeit, December 30, 2004.
