Plenary lectures

• Geerd H.F. DIERCKSEN (Germany):  "Challenges in studying spectra by computational methods"
• Graham FLEMING (USA): "Nonlinear spectroscopic studies of chemical and biological dynamics"
• Hiro-o HAMAGUCHI  (Japan): "Recent developments in ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy of electronically excited states"
• Michael KASHA  (USA): "From Jablonski to femtoseconds: the evolution of contemporary molecular excitation concepts"
• Robert S. KNOX (USA):  "Excited state equilibration and the fluorescence-absorption ratio"
• Shuji NAKAMURA  (Japan):  "Recent developments in InGaN-based blue LEDs and LDs"
• Arto NURMIKKO  (USA):  "Physics of stimulated emission in blue semiconductor lasers"
• Francois PIUZZI (France):  "Electron transfer in jet cooled molecular complexes"
• Jacek WALUK  (Poland): "Light-induced tautomerization  in porphyrin isomers"
• Andrzej WOJTOWICZ (Poland): "Some aspects of Solid State Radioluminescence"
• Otto S. WOLFBEIS (Germany): "Fluorescent biosensors"
• Iwao YAMAZAKI  (Japan): "Ultrafast and coherent transport of excitons in sequential molecular arrangements"
• Claudio ZANNONI  (Italy):  "Fluorescence depolarization and energy transfer in liquid crystals"

Panel Discussions:

• Chairman: Joshua JORTNER  (Israel): "Intramolecular, cluster, condensed phase and biophysical dynamics on the time scale of nuclear motion"
• Chairman: Joseph R. LAKOWICZ (USA): "Emerging topics in fluorescence spectroscopy: multi-photon excitation, long lifetime anisotropy probes and optical control of the excited state"
• Chairman: Georges BOULON (France): "Trends on the physics of inorganic crystalline lasers"

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