Description:Content: Coherent optimal control: -- Controlling molecular motion: the molecule knows best / Herschel Rabitz -- Variations on the theme of stimulated raman adiabatic passage: control of chemical reactions / Suhail P. Shah, Vandana Kurkal, Stuart A. Rice -- Laser control of selective preparation of preoriented enantiomers from their racemate / K. Hoki, Y. Fujimura -- Experimental and theoretical studies of the channel phase in the coherent control of molecular processes / Richard Billotto ... [et al.] -- Four-wave mixing and coherent control / Vadim V. Lozovoy, Matthew Comstock, Marcos Dantus -- Control of chemical reactions by using chirped laser pulses / Junichi Shimamura, Kenji Mishima, Hiroki Nakamura -- Laser manipulation of differential autoionization yields: pump-dump control through coupled channels / R.R. Jones, S.N. Pisharody, R. van Leeuwen -- Optimal quantum control in dissipative environments: general formalism and perturbative limits / Seogjoo Jang, Jianshu Cao -- Manifestation of coherence on laser pulse propagation: propagation dynamics of phase-controlled lasers / Takashi Nakajima -- Double-pulse manipulation of vibrational wavepackets in HgAr van der Waal complex / Y. Sato ... [et al.] -- Real-time spectroscopy of molecular vibration using sub-5-fs pulses / Takayoshi Kobayashi, Akira Shirakawa, Takao Fuji -- Intense fields: -- Quantum control by adaptive femtosecond pulse shaping: application to CH₂ BrCl in the gas phase and [Ru(dpb)₃]²+ in the solution phase / Niels H. Damrauer, Gustav Gerber -- Mechanisms of strong-field control of chemical reactivity using tailored laser pulses / Noel P. Moore ... [et al.] -- Laser-phase control of dissociative ionization of molecules: exact non-born-Oppenheimer simulations for H₂+ / A.D. Bandrauk, J. Levesque, S. Chelkowski -- Molecular restructuring in intense IR laser fields / T. Tung Nguyen-Dang ... [et al.] -- Ultrafast dynamics of molecules in intense laser-light fields: new research directions / Kaoru Yamanouchi -- Intense-laser-induced electron transfer and structure deformation of molecules / Hirohiko Kono, Shiro Koseki -- Alignment and manipulation: -- Manipulating molecules via combined electrostatic and pulsed nonresonant laser fields / Long Cai, Bretislav Friedrich -- Prospects for all-optical alignment and quantum state control of nonpolar molecules / A.M. Lyyra ... [et al.] -- Alignment of neutral molecules by a strong nonresonant linearly polarized laser field / Hirofumi Sakai ... [et al.] -- Propensity of molecules to spatially align in linearly polarized, intense light fields / D. Mathur, S. Banerjee, G. Ravindra Kumar.