Recent improvements in the performance of light sources led to ultrafast technology becoming a basic tool in a wide variety of scientific disciplines. These proceedings vividly reflect the present status of the field.

Inhalt
I Overview and General Prospects.- II Elementary Dynamics: Chemistry, Biology and Physics.- III Spectroscopy and Advances in Measurements.- IV Tools: Sources and Amplifiers.- V High Intensity and Nonlinear Effects.- VI Metals, Surfaces and Materials.- VII Semiconductors, Confinement and Opto-Electronics.- VIII Biology: Primary Dynamics, Electron and Energy Transfer.- IX Chemistry: Electron and Energy Transfer, and Solvation Dynamics.- Index of Contributors.