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In June 2022, Paul Corkum, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier received the Wolf Prize in physics (the 2^nd most prestigious award in physics and chemistry after the Nobel Prize) for their seminal work on Attosecond Physics. In 2023, the Physics Nobel prize for experimental methods to generate attosecond pulses was awarded to Anne L’Huillier, Ferenc Krauss, and Pierre Agostini. This course, taught by some of the pioneers of this field, will combine theoretical foundations with experimental outlook and cover key topics in Attosecond Physics and its foundation, the interaction of intense laser fields with matter.

• Fundamentals of electronic Response to strong Laser Fields, One- and Multi Photon Processes, Optical Tunnelling

• Electron Motion after Strong-Field Ionization and its Consequences: High Harmonic Generation (HHG), Attosecond Laser-induced Electron Diffraction and Holography and Attosecond Dynamics of correlated Multi-Electron Processes

• Generation of Attosecond Spin-polarized Electron Pulses

• Attoclock and the Tunnelling Time Problem

• High Harmonic Spectroscopy in Atoms and Molecules

• Generation and Characterization of Attosecond Pulses and Attosecond Pulse Trains

• Time-resolved Spectroscopy of Electron Dynamics using Attosecond Pulses

• [BONUS] Ultrafast Chirality: inducing and detecting Electron Currents in chiral Molecules, extremely efficient chiral Discrimination of Molecules

• [BONUS] Evolution of Attosecond Spectroscopy from Atoms and Molecules to Solids: towards all-optical Imaging of topological Properties and Phase Transitions