LPHYS'98

7th INTERNATIONAL LASER PHYSICS WORKSHOP
(Berlin, July 6-10, 1998)

ORGANIZERS:

• General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Russia
• The international journal Laser Physics
• Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany

SPONSORS:

• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
• Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Heraeus- und Else Heraeus-Stiftung, Germany
• European Commission, Directorate-General XII
• European Research Office of the United State Army
• Ministry of Science and Technologies of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
• Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Moscow, Russia
• Trans-Tour Company, Moscow, Russia
• United States Air Force Office of Aerospace Research and Development
• WISTA, Wissenschafts- und Wirtschaftsstandort Berlin-Adlershof, Germany

CHAIRMAN:

• Alexander M. Prokhorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN:

• Pavel P. Pashinin (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)

STEERING COMMITTEE:

• Joseph H. Eberly (University of Rochester, Rochester, USA)
• Mikhail V. Fedorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• Sven R. Hartmann (Columbia University, New York, USA)
• Jamal T. Manassah (The City University of New York, New York, USA)
• Pavel P. Pashinin (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• Kirill A. Prokhorov (General Physics Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russia)
• Wolfgang Sandner (Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy, Berlin, Germany)
• Herbert Walther (Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany)
• Valery M. Yermachenko (Moscow State Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)
• Igor V. Yevseyev (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

• B.H.T. Chai, Orlando, USA "RGB Color Generation via Self-Frequency Doubling of Nd Doped Yttrium Oxyborate"
• P.B. Corkum, Ottawa, Canada "Observing Molecular Dynamics with Timed Coulomb Explosion Imaging"
• F. DeMartini, Rome, Italy "Quantum Optical Techniques for Quantum Information"
• W. Demtroeder , Kaiserslauten, Germany "Laser Spectroscopy of Small Molecules"
• P.L. Knight, London, UK "Strong-Field Manipulation of Atomic Wave Packets"
• W.H. Lowdermilk, Livermore, USA "Status of the US National Ignition Facility Project"
• D. Pritchard, Boston, USA "New Trends in Atom Interferometry"
• M. Raizen, Austin, USA "Tunneling with Cold Atoms"
• A. Stratonnikov, Moscow, Russia "Monitoring of Photodynamic Reactions in Vitro and in Vivo"
• E.A. Vinogradov, V.M. Farzdinov, S.A. Kovalenko, A.L. Dobryakov, Yu.E. Lozovik, Yu.A. Matveets, Moscow, Russia, Goetingen, Germany "Femtosecond Dynamics of A2B6 Metal Microcavity Polarritons"
• E. Wintner, Vienna, Austria "Diode Pumped Femtosecond Lasers: Limitations and Aplications"

SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS:

• Modern Trends in Laser Physics (including far IR, X-ray, and gamma lasers) Co-Chairs: Paul Leiderer (Germany), Jamal T. Manassah (USA), and Kirill A. Prokhorov (Russia)
• Strong Field Phenomena Co-Chairs: Wilhelm Becker (Germany), Joseph H. Eberly (USA), and Mikhail V. Fedorov (Russia)
• Laser Spectroscopy Co-Chairs: Sven R. Hartmann (USA), Herbert Walther (Germany), and Valery M. Yermachenko (Russia)
• Laser Cooling and Atom Optics  Co-Chairs: Jaques Baudon (France), Wolfgang Schleich (Germany), and Valery P. Yakovlev (Russia)
• Physics of Solid State Lasers Co-Chairs: Gunter Huber (Germany), Sadao Nakai (Japan), and Ivan A. Shcherbakov (Russia)
• Laser Methods in Medicine and Biology Co-Chairs: Sergey A. Gonchukov (Russia), Gerhard J. Mueller (Germany), and Rudolf Steiner (Germany)

he Proceedings of the Workshop were published in vol. 9, # 1 and # 2 of the international journal Laser Physics, 1999.