Invited lectures at international and major national scientific conferences
„Chemilumineszenz und Reaktionsdynamik“ Plenarvortrag auf der Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft Köln 1975
„Application of Laser Spectroscopy to Molecular Beam Experiments“ IV. General Conference of the European Physical Society York, Großbritannien 1978
„Laser Spectroscopy and Inelastic Collisions“ VII. International Symposium on Molecular Beams Riva del Garda, Italien 1979
„Laser Fluorescence Measurements of Differential Cross Sections for Rotational Transitions of Na2“ XI. International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions Kyoto, Japan 1979
„Auflösung von stoßinduzierten Rotationsübergängen mit Lasern“ Plenarvortrag auf der 44. Physikertagung Bielefeld 1980
„State-to-State Differential Cross Sections for Rotational Excitation in Na2-Rare Gas Collisions“ Gordon Research Conference Wolfeborough/NH, USA 1980
„Laser Studies of Rotational Energy Transfer“ 3rd European Study Conference on Low Energy Molecular Collisions Oxford, Großbritannien 1981
„Laser Studies of Rotational Energy Transfer in Molecular Beams“ 5th General Conference of the European Physical Society, „Trends in Physics“ Istanbul, Türkei 1981
„The Anisotropy of the Na2-Rare Gas Interaction Potential from State-to-State Scattering Experiments“ American Chemical Society Meeting Las Vegas/CA, USA 1982
„An Optically Pumped Na2-Supersonic Beam Laser“ Lasers and Applications International Conference (ICALS) Bukarest, Rumänien 1982
Inelastic Collisions and State Selection Using Lasers“ National Atomic and Molecular Physics Conference Manchester, Großbritannien 1983
„Recent Advance in Laser State Selection“ Symposium on the Application of Lasers to Molecular Dynamics, Satellite Meeting to MOLEC V Jerusalem, Israel 1984
„Optically Pumped Molecular Beam Lasers - Concept and Applications“ 14th Australian Spectroscopy Conference Canberra, Australien 1985
„Recent Advances in Vibrational-Rotational Energy Transfer Studies of Na2 Including mj-Selection“ Gordon Research Conference on Molecular Collision Dynamics Wolfeborough/NH, USA 1986
„Scattering Experiments with Aligned and Vibrationally Excited Molecules“ IV. National Workshop on Atomic and Molecular Physics, Varanasi, Indien 1986
„Rotational Rainbows in Electron-Molecule Collisions“ Dynamics of Molecular Collisions Wheeling/WV, USA 1987
„Optical Pathways to Vibrational Excitation in Molecular Beams“ ATMOL Symposium Durham, Großbritannien 1988
„The Effect of Vibrational Bond Stretching in Molecular Collisions“ 7th European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions (MOLEC VII) Assisi, Italien 1988
„Stöße von Atomen und Molekülen mit Laserfeldern“ Hauptvortrag, DPG-Frühjahrstagung, München 1990
„Population Transfer by Laser-Induced Adiabatic Following“ Hauptvortrag, National Meeting of the Israelian Physical Society Jerusalem, Israel 1990
„Collisions of Atoms and Molecules with Laser Fields: The STIRAP Method for Selective Population Transfer“ International Conference on Atompic Physics (ICAP 12) Ann Arbor/MI, USA 1990
„Collision Dynamics of Highly Vibrationally Excited Small Molecules: Recent Results and New Techniques“ XIII International Symposium on Molecular Beams El Escorial, Spanien 1991
„Population Transfer in Atoms and Molecules: A new Concept“ 1st International Symposium on Atomic and Molecular Dynamics Taipeh, Taiwan 1991
„Inherently Broad Band cw Laser: Emission Properties and Application for Laser Cooling“ VII Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference Monterey/CA, USA 1991
„Population Transfer by Stimulated Raman Scattering with Delayed Pulses: the Concept, some Problems, and Experimental Demonstration“ Symposium on Time and State Resolved Chemistry (SPIE-Conference) Los Angeles/CA, USA 01/92
„Manipulation von Atomen und Molekülen in Teilchenstrahlen durch neuartige Lasermethoden“ Plenarvortrag, DPG-Frühjahrstagung, Hannover 03/92
„Coherent Population Transfer between Atomic and Molecular Levels: the STIRAP Concept and Application“ Gordon Research Conference on „Atomic and Molecular Interactions“ New London/NH, USA 07/92
„Modelocking in Lasers with Internal Frequency Shifted Feedback“ SPIE Conference on „Laser Optics for Intracavity and Extracavity Applications“ Los Angeles/CA, USA 01/93
„Coherent Population Transfer in Atoms and Molecules“ German-Israel Foundation Workshop „The Dynamics of Chemical Reactions - Future Directions“ Jerusalem, Israel 03/93
„Coherent Population Transfer and Application in Collision Dynamic Studies“ Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP) Reno/NV, USA 05/93
„Coherent Population Transfer and Applications in Collision Dynamics“ European Quantum Electronics Conference ’93 Florenz, Italien 09/93
„Coherent Population Transfer: Application to Collision Dynamics and Spectroscopy“ Annual Meeting of the Molecular Beams and Dynamics Group, University of Warwick, Warwick, Großbritannien 04/94
„Coherent Population Transfer“ 7th International Symposium on Resonance Ionisation Spectroscopy and its Application (RIS-94) Bernkastel-Kues 07/94
„Manipulation von Atomen und Molekülen mit neuen Lasermethoden: kohärenter Besetzungs- und Impulstransfer mit Anwendungen“ Plenarvortrag auf der Jahrestagung der Österreichischen Physikalischen Gesellschaft Innsbruck, Österreich 09/94
„Coherent Preparation of Vibrational Levels with cw and Pulsed Lasers: Recent Progress and New Experiments“ Interdisciplinary Laser Science Conference Dallas/TX, USA 10/94
„Vibrational Dependence of Positive and Negative Ion Formation in Electron- Molecule Collisions“ James-Franck-Symposium Israelische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jerusalem, Israel 11/94
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems“ Symposium on „Manipulating Molecules with Fields“ American Chemistry Society National Conference Anaheim/CA, USA 04/95
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems“ 7th Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics Rochester/NY, USA 06/95
„High Resolution Studies of the Vibrational Dependence of Negative Ion Formation in Low Energy Electron - Molecule Collisions“ International Conference on the Physics of Electronic and Atomic Collisions Whistler/BC, Canada 07/95
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems“ European Quantum Electronics Conference Davos, Schweiz 09/
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems and the Role of Adiabatic Following“ Deutsch-Israelisches James-Franck Symposium „Interaction of Molecules with Coherent Light“ Garching 12/95
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems“ Bat-Sheva Workshop über „Coherent Control“ Neve-Ilan, Israel 03/96
„Coherent Multiphoton Excitation: Diabatic and Adiabatic Evolution“ Gordon Research Conference on Multiphoton Processes New London/NH, USA 06/96
„Coherent Population Transfer in Multilevel Systems and Application to Collision Dynamics“ European Conference on the Dynamics of Molecular Collisions Nyborg, DK (MOLEC XI) 09/96
„Coherent Population Transfer with Applications to Atom-Optics“ 26th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird/UT, USA 01/97
„Einfluß der Vibrationsanregung auf die Reaktionsdynamik kleiner Moleküle“ Hauptvortrag, Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Mainz 03/97
„Manipulation of Atomic and Molecular Level Population by Coherent Radiation Fields“ Winter College on Quantum Optics at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italien 03/97
„Coherent Population Transfer with Applications to Atom Optics“ 9th European Workshop in Molecular Spectroscopy and Photon Induced Processes (PHID9) Toulouse, France 11/97
„Laser induced Continuum Structure in He*“ International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) San Francisco/CA, USA 05/98
„Coherent Population Transfer and Related Topics“ International Symposium on Elementary Chemical Processes Perugia, Italien 06/98
„Dissociative Attachment to Selectively Vibrationally Excited Molecules“ International Symposium on Electron Correlation in Spectroscopy and Dynamics Kaiserslautern 12/98
„New Developments with the STIRAP Method“ 14th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy Innsbruck 06/99
„Quantum State Control in Multi-Level Systems by Tripod-STIRAP“ Gordon Research Conference on: „Quantum Control of Atomic and Molecular Motion Control“ Plymouth/NH, USA 08/99
„Robust Preparation and Detection of Coherent Superpositon States“ Quantum Control and Information Nof Gennossar, Israel 11/99
„Besetzungstransfer durch Stark-Verschiebung mit Nanosekunden Pulsen“ Hauptvortrag. Frühjahrstagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Bonn 04/00
„Manipulation of Atoms and Molecules by Coherent Radiation“ Laserphysics 2000 Ashtarak, Armenien 10/00
„Controlling Molecules by Stark Chirp Rapid Adiabatic Passage“ Annual Meeting of the Spectroscopy Group Institute of Physics London, UK 04/01
„Experiments on Coherent Excitation, Matter Wave Optics and More with Atomic and Molecular Beams“ XIX International Symposium on Molecular Beams Rome, Italy 06/01
„Quantum State Manipulation and Collision Dynamics of Vibrationally Excited Molecules“ Dyn. Mol. Collisions Copper Mountain, Colorado, USA 07/01
„Coherent Excitation, Adiabatic Passage and Lineshapes in Two Photon Processes” International Conference of the European Group of Atomic Spectroscopy (EGAS) Sofia, Bulgaria 07/02
„Stimulierte Ramanstreuung mit adiabatischer Passage: Neue Möglichkeiten bei der Manipulation von Atomen und Molekülen durch Laserstrahlung” Plenarvortrag als Robert-Wichard-Pohl Preisträger Jahrestagung der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, Hannover 02/03
“Control and characterization of superpositions of multiple degenerate states with cw lasers“ Gordon Research Conferende on “Quantum Control of Light and Matter” Waterville/Maine, USA, 31.07. - 05.08.2005
“STIRAP – a powerful population transfer scheme” Plenarvortrag, Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control II The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada 08/06
“Lasers with frequency-shifted feedback: a new concept for high accuracy ranging” Laser Physics-2006 Conference Ashtarak, Armenia 10/06
“Adiabatic passage processes in the gas phase: fundamental aspects and applications” International Heraeus Workshop on “Coherence, Quantum Information and Solid State Physics), Bad Honnef 6. - 10.08.2007
“Population transfer without loss: one wonder of dark states” Workshop, Gerardo Alzetta’s 85th birthday Pisa, S. Croce in Fossabanda, Italy 05/08
“Principles of optically driven adiabatic transfer processes” International Workshop on Advances in Atomic and Molecular Physics Riga, Lettland 15. - 19.06.2008
“Mentoring in den Naturwissenschaften – ein Erfahrungsbericht“ 56. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Anästhesiologie und Intensivmedizin Leipzig, 9. - 12. Mai 2009
“Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage: How in came about“ 5th International CAMEL-Workshop ("Control of Quantum Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Ensembles by Light") Nesebar/Bulgarien, June 22 - 28, 2009
“The role of coherence in laser ranging for industrial applications” Internationales Jahrestreffen des MC-RTN Netzwerkes EMALI Pisa, Italien 13. - 16.9.2009
“Optically driven adiabatic passage processes: Historical Perspective and some new results” Internationaler Abschlussworkshop des SFB 450: „Analyse und Steuerung Ultraschneller photoinduzierter Reaktionen“ Berlin 08. - 10.10.2009
“Mentoring in the natural sciences: an experiential account” Internationaler Workshop des MC-RT Netzwerks ENDOCYTE "Functional Imaging and Chemical Biology" Dortmund, 16. - 20.11.2009
“Mentoring - ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der Sicht eines Naturwissenschaftlers” Tagung: "Frauen in Naturwissenschaft und Technik" Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 31.5.2012
“Coherence and Control: a new concept for high accuracy or high speed laser ranging“ Tagung: „Coherence and quantum control: The legacy of Moshe Shapiro“ Vancouver, Canada, 12.-17.08.2014
“A new concept for high accuracy and high speed laser ranging based on a frequency shifted feedback laser for industrial applications” (Opening lecture) “Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP)” (Tutorial lecture) “How to write a good proposal” (Educational lecture) Quanta and Matter: Through Physics to Future Emerging Technologies (“Quantarm-2014”) Yerevan-Tsaghkadzor, Armenia, 22.-26.09.2014
“High accuracy or high speed laser ranging: a new concept” Control of Quantum Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Ensembles by Light Eleventh International Workshop (CAMEL XI) Nesebar, Bulgaria, 14.-19.06.2015
“STIRAP – was it found accidentally or planned?” (The status and future perspective 25 years after the introduction of STIRAP) Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Physics, Chemistry and Technology Kaiserslautern, Germany, 22.-25.09.2015
“Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP): A concept conquering new territory” Plenarvortrag: International AMOP Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society Hannover, Germany, 29.02. - 04.03.2016
"Controlling the internal energy of quantum systems" Humboldt-Kolleg, (Humboldians and the Scientific Progress in the Central and Eastern European Countries) Sofia 16.-18.11.2017
"STIRAP: some news and the historical perspective" Symposium Otto Stern's Molecular Beam Research and its Impact on Science Frankfurt, 01.-05.09.2019
"STIRAP: Some news and notes about its history" American Physical Society -DAMOP-2020. Davisson-Germer-Prize lecture. Live ZOOM video conference (500 participants) Plan: Portland/Oregon. 01.-05.06.2020
"From Berkeley to STIRAP and its role in chemistry" American Chemical Society : "Molecular Excitation Induced Dynamics in Chemical and Biological Systems - A Symposium Celebrating the Scientific Achievements of C. Bradley Moore" Live ZOOM video conference (100 participants) Plan: San Francisco. 17.-20.8.2020