Ad 1.
We will introduce and review the concept of localization of light. Ideas will be illustrated using some new experimental results. Experiments that will be discussed are transmission and enhanced backscattering. We will show that a recently introduced interferometric technique allows us to obtain phase information as well as to perform measurements with very short time scales.
Ad 2.
Disordered systems that can both scatter and amplify light have emerged as an exciting field. We will discuss in some detail the threshold behaviour while presenting some new experimental and theoretical results.
All our papers are availabale on line. This collection includes review papers, tutorials, and a collection of hight-quality Dutch theses on multiple scattering, localization, and random lasers:
http://www.science.uva.nl/research/scm/index.html