This book collects the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Atoms in Strong Fields," which took place on the island of Kos, Greece, during the two weeks of October 9-21,1988. The designation "strong field" applies here to an external electromagnetic field that is sufficiently strong to cause highly nonlinear alterations in atomic or molecular struc- ture and dynamics. The specific topics treated in this volume fall into two general cater- gories, which are those for which strong field effects can be studied in detail in terrestrial laboratories: the dynamics of excited...