Partial table of contents:; KEYNOTE LECTURE; Protein Dynamics from Time-Resolved Raman Spectroscopy: Hemoglobin (T. Spiro); PLENARY LECTURES; Raman Spectroscopy, The First Seventy Years (D. Long); UV Resonance Raman Studies of Protein Structure and Dynamics (S. Asher, et al.); Elastic Constants of Diamond and Ultra-Hard Substances (M. Grimsditch); RAMAN THEORY; High-Temperature Vapor-Phase Raman Spectra of Molecules with Low Volatility (J. Laane, et al.); Quantum Theory of Light Scattering on Acoustic Phonons in Dielectric Crystals (L. Ovander & N. Tyu); RESONANCE RAMAN; Two-Photon One-Color Threshold Photoelectron Spectra (2PIC-TPES) Mediated by a Dissociative Intermediate State (V. Bondebey, et al.); Ultraviolet Resonance Raman Spectroscopy Studies of Some Monolayer Dispersion Systems (B. Zhao, et al.); TIME-RESOLVED RAMAN SCATTERING; Dispersed Femtosecond Birefringence Studies of the Inhomogeneous Nature of Vibrational Motions of Liquids (L. Ziegler, et al.); Low-Frequency Vibrations and Nuclear Coherence in Photosynthetic Pigment-Proteins Studied by Ultrafast Spectroscopy (V. Sundstrvm); NON-LINEAR RAMAN SCATTERING; CO2 Thermometry and Simultaneous Temperature and Relative CO2/N2 Concentration Measurements using Single-Shot Dual Broadband Pure Rotational CARS (M. Schenk, et al.); Evidence of Strong S1-S2 Vibronic Coupling of the First Excited Singlet State of Diphenylhexatriene Obtained from Picosecond CARS Spectroscopy (W. Werncke, et al.); VIBRATIONAL ANALYSIS/MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; Raman Spectra, Conformational Stabilities, Vibrational Frequencies and Raman Intensities of the Fundamentals of Allylsilane and Allyltrifluorosilane (J. Durig, et al.); Raman Characterization of the Peptide Bond (K. Clou & H. Desseyn); Conformational Analysis of Biologically Relevant Diamines by Raman Spectroscopy and Ab Initio MO Calculations (L. Batista de Carvalho & M. Marques); MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; Short Time Reorientation Dynamics in Molecular Fluids (P. Markwick, et al.); MACROMOLECULES AND POLYMERS; Spectroscopy of Polyconjugated Materials: Prediction of Infrared Intensities from Raman Intensities in Systems with Polarized Electrons: A Contribution to Nonlinear Optics (M. Tommasini, et al.); BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; Fast Collective Modes in Liquid Amides and in Proteins: Raman Spectroscopic Studies by Use of Isotopic Substitution (O. Nielsen); SURFACE PHENOMENA; The Electrode/Electrolyte Interphase - SERS and Beyond (A. Brolo, et al.); Electrochemical In-Situ Raman Spectroscopy of p-Nitrothiolphenol Monolayer Adsorbed on Gold (T. Zhu, et al.); BAND SHAPES/BAND INTENSITIES; Estimation of Lorentzian Linewidth, Fractional Lorentzian Character and Spectral Slit Width Using a New Lineshape Parameter (P. Bhriguvansh, et al.); CARBON AND FULLERENES; Photoselective Resonance Raman Scattering from the Radial Breathing Mode of Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (H. Kuzmany, et al.N); DIAMONDS AND ULTRAHARD SUBSTANCES; Diamons and Ultra-Hard Substances (M. Cohen)...