ESF FALS-Network Workshop.

Highlights the European Science Foundation Workshop on opportunities and challenges for atomic and molecular science at the new European VUV- and X-FEL sources in Berlin, Germany on December 8-9, 2003. Result of the rapid progress in the development of tabletop lasers; Presentation of study on the multiple ionization of xenon clusters; Sessions on ionization and dissociation processes in molecules and clusters.