A printer-friendly program is available here

Click here for the Timetable with speakers and chairs

Please find the Book of Abstracts for the talks here

Please find the poster abstracts here and the list of posters here

The program below was updated on August 16th.

All times are in the Central European Summer Time zone (CEST, UTC+0200).

Sunday 21 August
18:00 – 20:00	Welcome reception and registration
Monday 22 August
8:15 – 8:30	Introduction
Molecular collisions and reactions
Chair	Jochen Küpper
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote	Bas van de Meerakker: Cold and controlled collisions using tamed molecular beams
9:15 – 9:45 Invited	Robert Continetti: Probing entrance and exit channel dynamics in Hydroxyl radical reactions by photo detachment
9:45 – 10:15 Invited	Jolijn Onvlee: Towards controlled reactive collisions
10:15 – 10:40	Coffee break
Chair	Marc Brouard
10:40 – 11:10 Invited	Lola González-Sanchez: Study of gas-phase reactions of small systems with relevance in astrochemistry
11:10 – 11:30 Hot Topic	Jutta Toscano: Conformationally-selected ions for reactions with conformationally-selected molecules
11:30 – 11:50 Hot Topic	Tim Michaelsen: Disentangling the competition of elimination and nucleophilic substitution dynamics
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:00	Poster session
Mixed Hot Topic Session
Chair	Vincent Wanie
15:00 – 15:20 Hot Topic	Sebastian Jackson: Time-resolved photoelectron imaging with a vacuum-integrated hollow capillary fiber light source
15:20 – 15:40 Hot Topic	Md Sabbir Ahsan: Excited state electronic structure and ultrafast relaxation dynamics in aqueous pyrazine probed using liquid-jet time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy
15:40 – 16:00 Hot Topic	Marcos Dantus: Unusual chemistry involving rearrangement and roaming following strong-field ionization of CH3NCS
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
Astrophysics and Astrochemistry
Chair	Andrey Yachmenev
16:30 – 17:00 Invited	Ewine van Dishock: Molecular processes between the stars
17:00 – 17:30 Invited	Wolf Geppert: Ion processes in space and planetary atmospheres
17:30 – 17:50 Hot Topic	Sándor Demes: State-to-state cross sections and rate coefficients for the rotational excitation of polyatomic hydrides in astrophysical environments
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
20:00 – 21:00	Poster session & refreshments
Tuesday 23 August
Chirality
Chair	Maria Elena Castellani
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote	Olga Smirnova: Ultrafast chirality: twisting light to twist electrons on ultrafast time scale
9:15 – 9:45 Invited	Valérie Blanchet: Photoelectron elliptical dichroism spectroscopy of resonanceenhanced multiphoton ionization
9:45 – 10:15 Invited	Thomas Baumert: New avenues in laser-based photoelectron circular dichroism
10:15 – 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 – 11:10 Invited	Laurent Nahon: Conformational landscape in floppy chiral systems explored by one-photon Photoelectron Circular Dichroism (PECD)
11:10 – 11:30 Hot Topic	Vincent Wanie: Probing electronic coherences in chiral molecules
11:30 – 11:50 Hot Topic	Malte Oppermann: Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch + MOLEC board meeting and European Physical Society (EPS) meeting
13:30 – 15:00	Poster session
Clusters and Droplets
Chair	Andrea Trabattoni
15:00 – 15:20 Hot Topic	Jan Krohn: How heteromolecular clusters promote the condensation of volatile components in multicomponent vapors
15:20 – 15:40 Hot Topic	Tadas Balciunas: Ultrafast proton transfer in aqueous urea dimers probed by -ray absorption spectroscopy
15:40 – 16:00 Hot Topic	Connor Clarke: Identification of the low-energy shape resonances of a nucleobase in water
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 – 17:00 Invited	Tais Gorkhover: X-ray imaging at the nanoscale with atto-second time resolution
17:00 – 17:30 Invited	Henrik Stapelfeldt: The primary steps of ion solvation
17:30 – 18:00 Invited	María Pilar de Lara-Castells: Towards a molecular-level understanding of fluxional metal atomic clusters. Recent case studies
18:30 – 20:00	Dinner
20:00 – 21:00	Poster session & refreshments
Wednesday 24 August
Structural Dynamics
Chair	Marcos Dantus
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote	Majed Chergui: Molecular photophysics and photochemistry probed by ultrafast X-ray spectroscopies
9:15 – 9:45 Invited	Markus Gühr: X-ray probing of nucleobase dynamics – comparing different X-ray observables
9:45 – 10:15 Invited	Stefanie Gräfe: Plasmonic hybrid systems in external light fields: from highresolution sensing to plasmonic catalysis
10:15 – 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 – 11:10 Invited	Luis Bañares: Imaging the photodissociation dynamics of small hydrocarbon radicals
11:10 – 11:30 Hot Topic	Rebecca Boll: X-ray induced Coulomb explosion imaging of complex molecules
11:30 – 11:50 Hot Topic	Andrey Yachmenev: Quantum flows neural network for variational solutions of the Schrödinger equation
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 15:30	Facility tour
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee break
Ultrafast Surface Chemistry and Collisions
Chair	Sebastian Trippel
16:00 – 16:30 Invited	Arianna Marchioro: Aqueous Nanoscale Systems
16:30 – 17:00 Invited	Geert-Jan Kroes: Towards a chemically accurate description of reactions of molecules with transition metal surfaces
17:00 – 17:20 Hot Topic	Ofer Neufeld: The mechanism of high harmonic generation in liquids and its application for electron scattering spectroscopy
17:20 – 17:40 Hot Topic	Helen Chadwick: Stopping molecular rotation using coherent ultra-low-energy magnetic manipulations
17:40 – 18:00 Hot Topic	Andrea Trabattoni: Realtime tracking of plasmon dephasing in a sub-nm system
18:00 – 18:30	Break
18:30 – 19:00	Zdenek Herman MOLEC Young Scientist Prize Winner Presentation
19:00 – 19:30	MOLEC Senior Prize Winner Presentation
19:30 – 21:30	Dinner
Thursday 25 August
Ultrafast Electron Dynamics
Chair	Alicia Palacios
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote	Angel Rubio: Strong light matter phenomena in molecules and low dimensional systems: from first principles
9:15 – 9:45 Invited	Nirit Dudovich: Attosecond interferometry
9:45 – 10:15 Invited	Françoise Remacle: Exploiting electronic entanglement for steering bond dynamics in molecules pumped by ultrashort optical pulses
10:15 – 10:40	Coffee break
10:40 – 11:10 Invited	Michael Robb: Controlling the electrons in excited state chemistry. Some explorations with the Quantum Ehrenfest method (QuEh)
11:10 – 11:30 Hot Topic	Mikhail Osolodkov: Attosecond dynamics measured in the C state of molecular nitrogen
11:30 – 11:50 Hot Topic	Mats Simmermacher: Probing Electron Dynamics with Ultrafast X-Ray Scattering
12:00 – 18:00	Lunch and Social event
18:30 – 21:00	Conference dinner
Friday 26 August
Ultracold Chemistry
Chair	Bas van de Meerakker
8:30 – 9:15 Keynote	Goulven Quéméner: State-to-state chemistry of ultracold molecules
9:15 – 9:45 Invited	Astrid Bergeat: Water molecules in space: near-thresholds inelastic collisions of water isotopes.
9:45 – 10:15 Invited	Manfred Mark: Few- and many-body physics with ultracold dipolar quantum gases
10:15 – 10:45 Invited	Katrin Dulitz: Study and control of chemi-ionization reactions
10:45 – 11:10	Coffee break
Mixed Hot Topic Session
Chair	Francesca Calegari
11:10 – 11:30 Hot Topic	Margarita Khokhlova: Chiral steering of free-induction decay
11:30 – 11:50 Hot Topic	Davide Faccialà: Time-resolved chiral X-Ray photoelectron spectroscopy of fenchone with transiently enhanced atomic site-selectivity
11:50 – 12:00	Closing remarks