Atoms in Unusual Situations

Abstract

Introductory lectures.- Production of the heaviest elements 107 to 109, limitations and prospects to go beyond.- Atomic Physics through Astrophysics.- Study of isotopes far from the stability line.- I: Rydberg atoms.- An introduction to Rydberg atoms.- Rydberg atoms radiating in free-space or in cavities: new systems to test electrodynamics and quantum optics at an unusual scale.- The structure of Rydberg atoms in strong static fields.- II: Atoms or ions in dense plasmas or strong fields.- Atoms in dense plasmas.- Atoms and ions in very high fields.- Atomic processes in high intensity, high frequency laser fields.- Multiple ionisation of atoms in intense laser fields.- III: QED and relativity in elementary systems or highly stripped very heavy ions.- QED and relativity in Atomic Physics.- Relativistic and QED calculations for many-electron and few-electron atoms.- Summary of a poster session.- Superheavy atoms - Electrons in strong fields.- Exotic phenomena in collisions of very heavy atoms.- On low energy experiments in QED for detecting effects specifically due to vacuum polarization.- IV: Many electron systems.- State of an atomic electron pair.- Non relativistic many-body perturbation theory.- Many body QED.- Participants.