edited by W Becker (Max-Born-Institute, Berlin, Germany) & M V Fedorov (A M Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia)

This festschrift collects contributions from renowned experts in atomic and molecular physics, chemistry, and related fields dedicated to Professor Dr Naseem K Rahman on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The book includes topics at the forefront of research in these fields and captures insights of experts rarely found in other publications. Most of all, it reflects Rahman's wide interests in physics, chemistry and the life sciences.

This book has been selected for coverage in:

• CC / Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences

• Index to Scientific Book Contents® (ISBC)

• The Simple Rahman's Theory (P Agostini)
• Supersymmetry in Molecular Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics (A D Bandrauk)
• Atomic Dynamics with Chirped Ultra-Short Intense Laser Pulses (K Batra et al.)
• Wormhole Core, Extra Dimensions, and Physical Universe (A L Choudhury)
• The Maximum Entropy Principle in the Treatment of Structural Data from Liquid Crystal NMR Spectroscopy (G Cinacchi & C A Veracini)
• Cause-Effect Relationships Concerning Period-Doubling Bifurcations: Step-by-Step Analysis of a Complex System (C Dejak)
• Harmonic Generation by a Simple Degenerate Three-Level Atom (E Fiordilino et al.)
• Laser Physics and the Brain: Are There Analogies? (H Haken)
• Laser Control of Molecular Processes by Weak Fields (A Lami & F Santoro)
• Confined Electron Assemblies in Intense Electric and Magnetic Fields and a Generalization Emden's Equation (N H March)
• The Complex Picture of Statistics, Relativity, and Geometrical Scaling Suggested by Polymers and Polymer Solutions (S A Mezzasalma)
• The Role of the Zwitterionic Chromophore in the Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Proteins (R Nifosi et al.)
• Quantum Effects in the Collective Light Scattering from a Bose-Einstein Condensate (N Piovella)
• Facts and Fallacies in Strong-Field Physics (H R Reiss)