Kaoru Yamanouchi , University of Tokyo, School of Science, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku,Tokyo, JP, 113-0033 | Robert J Levis | Andre D Bandrauk | Andre D Bandrauk | Andre D Bandrauk | Andre D Bandrauk | Andre D Bandrauk

Current advances in modern laser technology allow for the generation, synthesis and characterization of intense and/or ultrashort laser pulses from femtosecond (10-15 sec), the natural scale of nuclear motion, to attosecond (10-18 sec), the time scale of electron motion. As examples of this difference in time scales, proton vibrations occur with periods of 7-10 femtoseconds whereas the orbital period of the electron in the ground state of the hydrogen atom is 152 attoseconds. These new pulses offer new approaches for imaging ultrafast molecular motion via laser induced electron diffraction, LIED, ultrafast electron diffraction, UED, through laser created electron pulses. Attosecond laser pulses are a main "spin-off" of ultrafast intense laser science, UILS, where nonlinear nonperturbative laser-matter interactions lead to new nonlinear molecular effects occur, such as molecular high order harmonic generation, MHOHG, the main source of attosecond pulses. Such ultrashort pulses presage a new science, "Attosecond Science", based on the creation, control and manipulation of molecular electron wavepackets, MEWP's. The symposium on UILS, Ultrashort Intense Laser Science, will explore experimental and theoretical advances, developments, problems and issues in the use of the new ultrashort laser pulse technology in chemistry and chemical physics. The following research areas will be the main focus: Intense Laser Field-Matter Interactions; Attosecond Molecular Science; Laser Control of Reaction Dynamics; Short Wavelength Photochemistry; Ultrafast Electron and/or Energy Transfer; Pulse Propagation in Molecular and Condensed Media;
Future Directions.