Speaker: Kyle Wilkin

Abstract: The use of electrons for diffraction and microscopy has many advantages including short de Broglie wavelengths, high scattering ratios, and direct scattering from both the nucleus and electrons. Recent experiments have shown success following dynamics of nuclei on their natural time scale, femtoseconds. However, capturing the motion of electrons has not yet been possible as they move on the attosecond timescale. The desire to directly image this motion has led to the development of several methods to produce attosecond electron pulses. I will discuss these methods and how they could be used to design an experiment capable of imaging attosecond dynamics.