Photon Science Seminar: Dr. Ruaridh Forbes, UC Davis, "Making Molecular Movies with Inner Shell Ionization"

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

SLAC, B53-3036 Mammoth Conference Room 

Pizza will be in B57- Breakroom 2nd Fl

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Speaker: Dr. Ruaridh Forbes

Program Description
Abstract

The invention of free-electron lasers capable of producing intense pulses of short wavelength light has enabled new time-resolved studies into photodynamics in a site-selective manner. By choosing a suitable photon energy, photoabsorption can be highly localized at an individual atomic orbital within a molecule. My talk will focus on a series of investigations into ultrafast processes using site-selective soft x-ray ionization and how these novel techniques offer unique information of phenomena like charge transfer and non-adiabatic coupling in polyatomic molecules. The talk will conclude with new opportunities to extend these techniques to understand the evolving molecular structures via correlation analysis. 

*This event is a Pulse Pizza Photon Science Seminar Series. Pizza will be available before the seminar at 1:30pm in B57- 2nd Fl Breakroom

 

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