Ultrafast Dynamics of Quantum Systems : Physical Processes and Spectroscopic Techniques Linear and Nonlinear Propagation of Short Light Pulses Linear and Nonlinear Propagation of Short Light Pulses Time Resolved Molecular Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Femtosecond Dynamics of Molecular Reactions at Metal Surfaces Some Selected Aspects of Light Matter Interaction in Solids Femtosecond Pulse Generation: Principles and Fiber Applications Laser Sources for Ultrafast Spectroscopy Phonons Electrons and Electron Phonon Interaction: Semiconductors and High Tc Superconductors Surface Phonons and their Role in Ultrafast Phenomena Dielectric Description of Semiconductors: From Maxwell— to Semiconductor Bloch—Equations Coherent Dynamics in Semiconductors Quasiparticles and Quasimomentum On the Equivalence of Coupled Pendula and Quantum Mechanical Non Crossing Rule Ultrafast Optical Spectroscopy and Optical Control Long Seminars Solitions in Optical Fibers and Application to High Bit Rate Transmission Hot Luminescence and Fast Relaxation of Optical Centers in Solids Jahn Teller Driven Movements of Excited Ions in Solids Recent Results in Multiphonon Non Radiative Processes and in Novel Materials for Lasers and Amplifiers NASA’s Dial and Lidar Laser Technology Development Program Applications of Ultrafast Spectroscopy to Solid State Laser Materials Ultrafast Electron Lattice Relaxation of Optically Excited Centers in Crystals Laser Crystal Emitting from Ultraviolet to Infrared and the Impact of Nonlinear Optics Non — Perturbative Up — Conversion Techniques: Ultrafast Meets X—Rays Nonlinear Interactions in Insulating Laser Crystals Under Femto and Picosecond Excitation Interdisciplinary Lecture Unification in Particle Physics: Symmetries and Hidden Dimensions Short Seminars Measurements with an Optically Gated Scanning Tunneling Microscope Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Deep Emissions from Large Band Gap Semiconductors Chemical Dynamics of Uni and Bimolecular Reactions Studied with Nonlinear Optical Techniques in the Femtosecond Time Domain Optical Spectroscopy on Single Molecules in Solids Nanoscopic Interactions Probed by Single Molecule Spectroscopy Fluorescence Intensity and Anisotropy Decays Measurements in the Frequency Domain Non Destructive Optical Characterization of InxGa1 xAs Epitaxial Layer Composition Thickness and Optical Quality Optical Homogeneous Linewidth in Amorphous Solids in the Framework of the Soft Potential Model Raman Shifted Laser Crystals with X(3) Non Linearity: Tungstate and Molybdate Crystals Families Luminescence Quantum Efficiency in CDSSE Mixed Crystals Luminescence and Afterglow in CSI:TL Position Sensitive Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry of Molecules Probing Exciton Distributions in Semiconductor Quantum Layers Light Induced Molecular Structure in H2+ Posters Time Resolved Spin Relaxation in III V Semiconductor Quantum Wells Analysis of the 4FN Energy Level Structure of the RE3+ Ions in RE Oxyhalides Temperature Dependence of Near Infrared to Visible Upconversion Luminescence of ER3+ in YSGG Quantum Confinement in Porous Silicon in the Effective Mass Limit Ultrashort Laser Pulses Measurements by Means of Self Diffraction in Polydispersed Liquid Crystals Optical Near Field Measurements on a Single Gold Nanoparticle Single Atom Conditional Manipulation of Confined Quantized Electromagnetic Field Iterative Nonideal Conditional Generation of Nonclassical Cavity Field Multiple Branching of Vectorial Spatial Solitary Waves in Nonlinear Quadratic Media Relaxation Dynamics of Localized Excitons in ZnSe ZnSSe Strained Layer Superlattices Identification of Several Energy Transfer Pathways in the Light Harvesting Complex II of Green Plants Using Current Structural and Spectroscopic Information Transient and Persistent Spectral Hole Burning in CuBr Semiconductor Quantum Dots Multiphoton Excitation of GaN Using Picosecond Pulses 0.94 m Spectroscopy and Laser Development Spectral Lineshapes of Ammonia Transitions of the v2 Band Versus Pressure and Temperature Multiphoton Excited Luminescence of Porous Silicon First Roundtable Discussion Second Roundtable Discussion Summary. Based on a NATO Advanced Summer Institute this volume discusses physical models mathematical formalisms experimental techniques and applications for ultrafast dynamics of quantum systems. These systems are used in laser optics spectroscopy and utilize monochromaticity spectral brightness coherence power density and tunability of laser sources.