Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy

1. Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy
B. Bartolo

2. Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale
C. A. D. Roeser, E. Mazur

3. Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers
Ralph Baltz

4. Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics
Martin Wegener

5. Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics, Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions
Tomáš Polívka, Villy Sundström

6. Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices
Claus Klingshirn

7. Lasers for Frontier Spectroscopy
Giuseppe Baldacchini

8. Coherent Spectroscopy of Stratified Semiconductor Micro- and Nanostructures
V.G. Lyssenko

9. Consequences of Extreme Photon Confinement in Micro- Cavities: I. Ultra-Sensitive Dedection of Perturbations by Bio-Molecules
Stephen Arnold, Mayumi Noto, Frank Vollmer

10. Luminescence Properties of Very Small Semiconductor Particles
Cees Ronda

11. An Introduction to the Physics of Ultracold Atomic Gases
C. J. Pethick, H. Smith

12. Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms to Ultralow Temperatures
Kristian Helmerson

13. Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in the Condensed Phase
Majed Chergui

14. Lanthanide Series Spectroscopy Under Extreme Condition
N.P. Barnes

15. Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation versus Electron-Hole Plasma Formation
Claus Klingshirn

16. Dynamics of Solid-State Coherent Light Sources
M. Pollnau

17. Some Novel Aspects of Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer Processes
Shammai Speiser

18. Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopy of Frontier Nonlinear-Laser Materials: Organic Crystals and Nanocrystalline Ceramics
A. A. Kaminskii

19. Strange Properties of Quantum Systems and Possible Interpretations
Giovanni Costa

20. Modulation Spectroscopy Revisited
George J. Goldsmith

21. Advances in Solid State Lasers at NASA Langley Research Center
James Barnes

22. Combinatorial Chemistry to Grow Single Crystals and Analysis of Concentration Quenching Processes: Application To Yb3+-Doped Laser Crystals
G. Boulon

23. Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers and Their Applications
Giuseppe Tomassetti

24. Rare Earth Ion Doped Ceramic Laser Materials
Xuesheng Chen

25. Short Seminars

26. Posters

Keywords: Physics, Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas, Quantum Computing, Information and Physics, Condensed Matter, Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Optical Devices