Subject：Strong-field Physics at Australian Attosecond Science Facility

Speaker：Prof. Igor V. Litvinyuk

Emcee：Dr. Hui Li

Time：2:30pm, 18^th Apr, 2018

Place：Science Building A508

Abstract：

I will present a short overview of research conducted at Australian Attosecond Science Facility at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, emphasising our particular strengths in precision measurements on atomic and molecular hydrogen. Then will describe in more detail two of our recent experiments. Firstly, I will show how we observed electron localisation in a dissociating hydrogen molecular ion in real time and determined that electron becomes localised on one of the two protons in just 15 fs. Secondly, I will talk about our 'attoclock' experiments on atomic hydrogen and how by comparing our measurements with accurate theoretical simulation we put an upper limit of 2 attoseconds on the tunnelling time, thus resolving a long standing controversy.

About the Speaker:

Professional Employment

Since June 2009. Associate Professor in Physics, Centre for Quantum Dynamics & School of Biomolecular and Physical Sciences, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Jan 2004 – May 2009. Assistant Professor of Physics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

Jan 2001 – Dec 2003. Visiting Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jan 1998 – Dec 2000. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

Qualifications

Dec 1997 - Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Chemical Physics, Florida State University,

Tallahassee, Florida, USA

Jun 1989 - Master of Science (M.S.) in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation

Professional Memberships

Australian Institute of Physics (Director and Chair of Queensland Branch Committee)

American Physical Society Canadian Association of Physicists European Physical Society

Teaching

Electromagnetism and Optics (5 semesters), Advanced Dynamics (Graduate Level Analytical Mechanics, 4 semesters), Electromagnetic Field 1 (Advanced Undegraduate, 2 semesters), Electrodynamics 1 (Graduate Level, 2 semesters, Engineering Physics 1 (1 semester), Engineering Physics 2 (1 semester), General Physics 1 (1 semester), Descriptive Physics (1 semester)

Publications

65 articles in refereed journals, 2 book chapters. 2550 citations (Web of Science). H-index = 25 (Web of Science).