This volume of Advances in Chemical Physics is dedicated by the contributors to Moshe Shapiro formerly Canada Research Chair in Quantum Control in the Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia and Jacques Mimran Professor of Chemical Physics at the Weizmann Institute who passed away on December 3 2013. It focuses primarily on the interaction of light with molecules one of Moshes longstanding scientific loves. However the wide range of topics covered in this volume constitutes