Preface

Part I. Control of Wave Packets

Time-Shifting the Dynamics of Li2 Multistate Rovibrational Wave Packets by State Selective Coherent Phase Control

Zohar Amitay

Radoslaw Uberna

Stephen R. Leone

Strong Field Ultrafast Quantum Control with Learning Algorithms

Philip H. Bucksbaum

Quantum Control of Isomerization and Enantiomer Preparation

Y. Fujimura

L. Gonzalez

K. Hoki

J. Manz

Y. Ohtsuki

H. Umeda

Nonexponential Dephasing and Control of Molecular Quantum Systems

Martin Gruebele

Vance Wong

What Role Can Four-Wave Mixing Techniques Play in Coherent Control?

Vadim V. Lozovoy

Emily J. Brown

Igor Pastirk

Bruna I. Grimberg

Marcos Dantus

Using Optical Collision to Control the Transition-Region Dynamics

Kenji Ohmori

Part II. Coherent Phase Control

What Have We Learned from the Phase Lag in Coherent Control Experiments?

Robert J. Gordon

Jeanette A. Fiss

Ani Khachatrian

Kaspars Truhins

Langchi Zhu

Tamar Seideman

Phase-Sensitive Photoionization of Atoms and its Application

Takashi Nakajima

Coherent Control, Fano Interference, and Non-Hermitian Interactions

Marlan O. Scully

Part III. Alignment

Alignment of Neutral Molecules by a Strong Nonresonant Laser Field

Hirofumi Sakai

Jakob Juul Larsen

C. P. Safvan

Ida Wendt-Larsen

Karen Marie Hilligsoe

Kasper Hald

Henrik Stapelfeldt

Effect of IR Laser Pulses on the UV Photodissociation of CH3I and OCS

A. Sugita

M. Mashino

M. Kawasaki

Y. Matsumi

Part IV. Intense Fields

Electronic Dynamics and Structure of Molecules in Intense Laser Fields

Hirohiko Kono

Isao Kawata

Light-Dressed States of H2O in Intense Laser Fields

Shilin Liu

Akiyoshi Hishikawa

Atsushi Iwamae

Kaoru Yamanouchi

Atomic Dynamics at Long Wavelengths

B. Sheehy

J. D. D. Martin

T. Clatterbuck

Dalwoo Kim

L. F. diMauro

K. J. Schafer

M. B. Gaarde

K. C. Kulander

New Way of Controlling Molecular Processes by Lasers

Yoshiaki Teranishi

Kuninobu Nagaya

Hiroki Nakamura

Part V. Condensed Phases

Coherent Control of Molecular Excitations in the Condensed Phase Using Optical Heterodyne Detected Raman Induced Kerr Effect Spectroscopy

Valeria D. Kleiman

Dale McMorrow

Joseph S. Melinger

Dynamical Intensity Borrowing in Porphyrin J-Aggregates Revealed by Sub-5-fs Spectroscopy

Takayoshi Kobayashi

Hideaki Kano

Takashi Saito

Sub-5fs Real-Time Spectroscopy of Geometrical Relaxation Processes in Polydiacetylenes

Takayoshi Kobayashi

Akira Shirakawa

Localization in Dissipative Tunneling Systems Driven by Monochromatic Light

Nancy Makri

Excited- and Ground-State Wave Packet Dynamics in Organic Materials Induced by Femtosecond Chirped Pulses

Kazuhiko Misawa

Takayoshi Kobayashi

Optical and Structural Control of Quantum Interference in Semiconductors

W. Potz

T. Krivosheev

Spectroscopic Application of THz Radiation Generated by Ultrashort Pulses: Static Far Infrared Absorption Measurements in Condensed Phases