Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids

Nonlinear Optics and Collective Excitations.- Fundamentals of Spectroscopy of Collective Excitations in Solids.- Light-Matter Interaction – Experimental Aspects.- Theoretical Description of Collective Excitations: Bloch Equations and Relaxation Mechanisms.- Linear and Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Spectral, Temporal and Spatial Resolution.- The Study of Collective Excitations in Solids by Inelastic Neutron Scattering.- Excitation Dynamics in Organic Molecules, Solids, Fullerenes and Polymers.- The IR Vibrational Properties of Composite Solids and Particles: The Lyddane-Sachs-Teller Relation Revisited.- Intrinsic Localized Modes in Anharmonic Lattices.- Collective Excitations in Magnetic Materials.- Plasmons and Surface Plasmons in Bulk Metals, Metallic Clusters, and Metallic Heterostructures.- Enlightenment on Luminescent Materials.- Techniques of Ultrafast Spectroscopy.- Interaction of Ultrashort Laser Pulses with Solids.- Collective Excitations in the Optical Spectroscopy of Magnetic Insulators.- Long Seminars.- Spectroscopy and Development of Solid State Lasers at Nasa.- New Developments of Laser Crystals.- Optical Excitation and Relaxation of Solids with Defects.- Newly Developed Solid State Lasers.- Energy Transfer and Migration of Excitation in Solids and Confined Structures.- Broad Band Centers Applied for Laser Materials: Example of Tetrahedrally Coordinated Centers.- Interdisciplinary Lectures.- Cosmology: The Universe in Evolution.- Unification of the Fundamental Interactions: Problems and Perspectives.- Short Seminars.- Determination of Two Dimensional Electron Gas Population Enhancement within Illuminated Semiconductor Heterostructures by Persistent Photoconductivity.- Excitons in J-Aggregates: Beyond the Heitler-London Approximation.- Photochemistry ofVibrationally Excited HCl in Rare Gas Matrices.- Nonlinear Wake in the Random-Phase Approximation.- Scanning Tunneling Optical Spectroscopy on Nanostructures.- Dynamics of Luminescence and Bleaching of Localized States in CdS1-xSex.- Intermolecular Interactions in Supramolecular Systems Based on Chlorophyll-Related Compounds.- High-Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy of Gaseous Samples.- Collisional Effects on the Lineshape of Ammonia Transitions.- Numerical and Analytical Calculations of the Superheating Field for a Superconducting Half-Space.- MBE Cleaved Edge Overgrowth of Quantum Wires.- Excitons in C60 Studied by Temperature Dependent Optical Second-Harmonic Generation.- The Simulation of Energy-Level Schemes of Selected Rare Earth Oxyfluorides.- Plasma Modes in Layered Metallic Systems.- Relaxations and Losses in a Photoacoustic Resonator.- Formation of Large Bipolarons.- Near-Infrared to Visible Upconversion in Cs2NaYX6: 10% Er3+ (X=C1, Br).- Structural Aspects of Energy Transfer in Cubic Crystals.- 300 V Cathodoluminescent Efficiency and Degradation.- Application of Spectral Hole-Burning in Combination with Holographic Recording Techniques.- Lanthanides Probes Spectroscopy at Araraquara — Brazil.- FROG- A Method for Ultrashort Pulse Measurement.- Absorption Edge Singularities for a Nonequilibrium Fermi Sea.- The Femtosecond Fifth-Order Nonlinear Response of Nuclear Motion in Liquids.- Laser Processes and Optical Nonlinearities in ZnSe-based Heterostructures.- Optical Properties of Er3+ Doped Disordered Melilite Laser Material.- Rate Equation Modeling of Tm ? Ho Energy Transfer in LiYF4.- Spectroscopy of Excited States in CdSe Quantum Dots.- Two-photon Spectroscopy of ZnSe under Uniaxial Stress.- Posters.- Nonlinear Quantum Hydrodynamic Model for the ElectronGas.- Optical Properties of InGaAs/GaAs Quantum Well Heterostructures: Excitation Energy Dependence.- LIBS Technique for Environmental Measurements.- Yb3+-Doped Nonlinear LiNbO3: Elaboration by Laser Heated Pedestal Growth and Optical Properties.- Investigation of Striae Patterns in Laser Crystals.- Spin Quantum Beats in GaAs.- Real-time Spectroscopy of Cage Relaxation Process Applied to NO Embedded in Rare Gas Crystal.- Application of the Shell Model for Cross Relaxation to the 4G5/2 State of Sm3+ in Cs2NaSmxGd1-xCl6.- A New Quantum Effect in the Dynamics of a Two-mode Field Coupled to a Two-level Atom by Two-photon Processes.- UV Emission in Natural Diamonds.- Influence of the Cross-Relaxation on ESA-Process in Tm3+ Doped Fluorophosphate Glass.- A Physical Characterization of the Ground State of the Spin-Boson Interaction.- Nanoscale Carbon Nanotubes Studied by Raman Spectroscopy.- Optical Studies on GaN Samples.- Ultra High Spectral Density Flat Continuum Light Source for Dynamic Spectroscopy.- Luminescence of ZnSe Films.- Summary of the School.- Picture of the Participants.- Participants.