COST Action MP0604 Domains MPNS- Materials,Physical and Nanosciences COST Training School “Optical Micro-Manipulation by Nonlinear Nanophotonics” Ischia (Naples) 2nd-5th September 2008 Director: Antonio Sasso Organizing Committee : Cornelia Denz Kishan Dholakia Mattias Goksör Pal Ormos Antonio Sasso Francesco Simoni Vincent Toal Preliminary list of lecturers: Robert H. Austin (Princeton, USA) Cornelia Denz (Münster, D) Kishan Dholakia (St Andrews, UK) Alberto Diaspro (Genoa, I) Mattias Goksör (Goteborg, S) Pal Ormos (Szeged, H) Miles Padgett (Glasgow, UK) Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop (Brisbane, AUS) René-Paul Salathè (Lausanne, CH) Francesco Simoni (Ancona, I) Pavel Zemanek (Brno, CZ) Joseph Zyss (Cachan, F) Aim of the School: The aim of the School is to introduce graduate, PhD, and Post-doc students and young researchers in advanced interdisciplinary fields concerning optical manipulation and related applications. Participation: Applications must be sent by e-mail to the director ([email protected]) by June 15th 2008. The number of students is limited to about 60. The School is free of fee. A limited number of grants (up to 30, max 600 € ) will be provided to students belonging to COST network. All the information (application form, hotel accommodation, grants, etc.) can be found in the COST Action web-page: www.photomat.it/cost/MP0604.html