Lectures. - Investigating Physical Systems with Optical Spectroscopy. - Light-Matter Interactions on the Femtosecond Time Scale. - Photons and Photon Statistics: From Incandescent Light to Lasers. - Carrier-Wave Nonlinear Optics. - Carotenoid Excited States-Photophysics Ultrafast Dynamics and Photosynthetic Functions. - Spectroscopy of Quantum Wells and Superlattices. - Lasers for Frontier Spectroscopy. - Coherent Spectroscopy of Stratified Semiconductor Micro- and Nanostructures. - Consequences of Extreme Photon Confinement in Micro- Cavities: I. Ultra-Sensitive Dedection of Perturbations by Bio-Molecules. - Luminescence Properties of Very Small Semiconductor Particles. - An Introduction to the Physics of Ultracold Atomic Gases. - Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Atoms to Ultralow Temperatures. - Ultrafast Structural Dynamics in the Condensed Phase. - Lanthanide Series Spectroscopy Under Extreme Condition. - Excitonic Bose-Einstein Condensation versus Electron-Hole Plasma Formation. - Dynamics of Solid-State Coherent Light Sources. - Some Novel Aspects of Intramolecular Electronic Energy Transfer Processes. - Stimulated Raman Scattering Spectroscopy of Frontier Nonlinear-Laser Materials: Organic Crystals and Nanocrystalline Ceramics. - Interdisciplinary Lecture. - Strange Properties of Quantum Systems and Possible Interpretations. - Long Seminars. - Modulation Spectroscopy Revisited. - Advances in Solid State Lasers at NASA Langley Research Center. - Combinatorial Chemistry to Grow Single Crystals and Analysis of Concentration Quenching Processes: Application To Yb3+-Doped Laser Crystals. - Table-Top Soft X-Ray Lasers and Their Applications. - Rare Earth Ion Doped Ceramic Laser Materials. - Short Seminars. - Posters. Language: English