edited by Steven Chu (Stanford University, USA) , Vladan Vuletic (Stanford University, USA) , Andrew J Kerman (Stanford University, USA) , & Cheng Chin (Stanford University, USA)

The XV International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy brought together spectroscopists from all over the world working in the very diverse and still growing field of laser spectroscopy. It addressed a large number of modern scientific issues at the highest level.

• Bose-Einstein Condensation of Metastable Helium: Some Experimental Aspects (C I Westbrook et al.)
• Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas (S Kokkelmans et al.)
• Measuring the Frequency of Light with Ultra Short Pulses (T W Hänsch et al.)
• Atomic Clocks and Cold Atom Scattering (K Gibble et al.)
• Cavity QED with Cold Atoms (H J Kimble and J McKeever)
• Advantages and Limits to Laser Cooling in Optical Lattices (D S Weiss)
• New Advances in Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy (J-X Cheng et al.)
• Speedy BEC in a Tiny Trap: Cohernet Matter Waves on a Microchip (J Reichel et al.)
• Merging Two Independent Femtosecond Lasers into One (L-S Ma et al.)
• Deterministic Delivery of a Single Atom (S Kuhr et al.)
• and other papers