Few-Atom Laser Interactions. - New Theoretical Tools for Single Atom Laser Spectroscopy. - The One-Atom Maser and Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics. - Rydberg Atoms and Radiation. - Laser Cooling and Magnetic Trapping of Neutral Atoms. - Cooling and Trapping of Atoms with Laser Light. - Time-Resolved Spectroscopy. - Investigation of Nonthermal Population Distributions with Femtosecond Optical Pulses. - Intra- and Intermolecular Energy Transfer of Large Molecules in Solution After Picosecond Excitation. - New Techniques of Time-Resolved Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy Using Ultrashort Laser Pulses. - Nonlinear Transient Spectroscopy with Ultrahigh Time-Resolution Using Light Sources With Controlled Coherence. - Picosecond Modulation Spectroscopy in Sodium Vapor. - Modulated Pumping in Cs With Picosecond Pulse Trains. - Polarization Selective Detection of Hyperfine Quantum Beats in Cs. - Observation of 517 GHz Fine Structure Quantum-Beats in Na. - Measurement of First-Order Free-induction-decay in Cs. - Dynamics of Geminate Recombination in Excited State Proton Transfer Reactions. - Optical Properties and Applications of Reverse Saturable Absorbers. - Extracavity Pulse Compressor and Intracavity Mode-Locking with Saturable and Reverse Saturable Absorbers. - Picosecond Photodynamics of the Excited States of Organic Compounds in Solution Using Time Resolved Spectroscopy. - Stable Lasers and High Resolution Spectroscopy. - Spectral Linewidth of Semiconductor Lasers. - Spectral and Dynamic Features of Quantum Well Semiconductor Lasers. - Programmable Secondary Frequency Standards Based Infrared Synthesizers for High Resolution Spectroscopy. - The Hydrogen Atom in a New Light. - Raman Heterodyne Spectroscopy of Hertzian Resonances. - Laser Frequency Division and Stabilization. - High Resolution Spectroscopy of Alkaline Earth Monohalides: Perturbation Analysis Hyperfine Structure and Stark Effect. - Pressure Broadening of Hyperfine Multiplets. - Nonlinear Optics and Coherent Phenomena. - Modified Optical Bloch Equations for Solids. - CARS Spectroscopy of Transient Species. - Engineering CARS for Combustion Diagnostic Applications. - Coherent Control of Direct and Resonant Unimolecular Reactions. - Stimulated Raman Scattering Phase Modulation and Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering From Single Micrometer-Size Liquid Droplets. - A Few Recent Experiments on Surface Studies by Second Harmonic Generation. - Spin-Spin Cross-Relaxation of Optically-Excited Rare-Earth Ions in Crystals. - Nonlinear Optics in Resonant Gas Media: Four-Wave Mixing and Higher-Order Processes. - Exact Semiclassical Solution for Four-Wave Mixing. - Stochastic Fluctuations Induced Extra Resonances. - Extra Resonances in Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing Induced by Sequential Decay. - The Extra resonant Origin of Gain Due to Stimulated Rayleigh Scattering. - Shapes and Widths of Stark Resonances in Sodium. - Off Resonant Laser Induced Ring Emission. - Laser Induced Coherent Blue-Shifted Emission Near D1 Transition of Sodium. - Laser Induced Stimulated Emission from Sodium Vapor. - CARS Studies of Nonadiabatic Collision Processes. - Optical Bistability of Molecular Systems. - Electromagnetic Field Interaction with Fast-Moving Dipoles. - Generation and Importance of Linked and Irreducible Moment Diagrams in the Recursive Residue Generation Method. - Laser-Molecule Interactions. - Laser Stimulation and Observation of Elementary Reactions in the Gas Phase. - UV Laser Ionization Spectroscopy and Ion Photochemistry. - Surface Effects in Vibrationally Excited Molecular Beam Scattering. - Perturbation Facilitated OODR Resolved FluorescenceSpectroscopy of the a3?u+ State of Li2 and Na2. - The Cs(7P)+H2 Photochemical Reaction. - Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Jet-Cooled Acetone. - Experimental Determination of the ClO2-Ã(2A2)(000) Predissociation Lifetime. - Laser Spectroscopy of Proton-Transfer in Microsolvent Clusters. - Giant Intensity IR-Active Vibrations Photoinduced in Conducting Polymers. - Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in Supersonic Jets. - Angular Momentum-Velocity Correlation of OCS Photodissociation Products. - Vibrational-Energy Redistribution in Highly Excited Molecules. - Recent Advances in Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer. - Time-Resolved Photofragment Fluorescence as a Probe of Laser-Pulse Molecular Dissociation. - Coverage Effect on the Work Function of a Metal Films Covered with Organized Organic Spacer. - Photoionization and Dissociation of the H2 Molecule near the Ionization Threshold. - Photodissociation Dynamics of Tert-Butyl-Nitrite. - Three Photon Spectroscopy of the Lowest Rydberg- and Valence States of the Chlorine Molecule. - Unexpected Results on NO2 and an Unconventional Explanation. - Participants. - Photograph. Language: English