ch. 1. Vibrational echo chemical exchange spectroscopy / Michael D. Fayer -- ch. 2. Ultrafast vibrational dynamics of hydrogen-bonded dimers and base pairs / Thomas Elsaesser -- ch. 3. Water reorientation and ultrafast infrared spectroscopy / Damien Laage and James T. Hynes -- ch. 4. Femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy of aqueous systems / H.J. Bakker and M. Bonn -- ch. 5. Solvation dynamics of vibrational states in hydrogen-bonding solvents : vibrational frequency fluctuations studied by the three-pulse infrared photon echo method / Kaoru Ohta. [et al.] -- ch. 6. Polarization anisotropy effects for degenerate vibrational levels / Daniel G. Kuroda and Robin M. Hochstrasser -- ch. 7. Polarization-controlled chiroptical and 2D optical spectroscopy / Kyung-Won Kwak, Kwang-Hee Park, and Minhaeng Cho -- ch. 8. Ultrafast infrared probes of electronic processes in materials / John B. Asbury -- ch. 9. Vibrational energy and molecular thermometers in liquids : ultrafast IR-Raman spectroscopy / Brandt C. Pein and Dana D. Dlott -- ch. 10. Ultrafast processes at liquid interfaces investigated with time-resolved sum frequency generation / Yi Rao. [et al.] -- ch. 11. Energy transport in molecules studied by relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy / Igor V. Rubtsov -- ch. 12. An introduction to protein 2D IR spectroscopy / Carlos R. Baiz, Mike Reppert, and Andrei Tokmakoff -- ch. 13. Quasi-particle approach to 2D IR spectra of vibrational excitons in biomolecules : molecular dynamics versus stochastic simulation protocols / Cyril Falvo, Frantisek Sanda, and Shaul Mukamel -- ch. 14. Ultrafast infrared spectroscopy of amylin solution and fibrils / L. Wang. [et al.].