Modern technology increasingly relies on miniaturization and microfabrication to improve the performance of a wide variety of devices and systems. Lasers and laser processing are uniquely suited to a wide variety of microfabrication applications in both production and research environments,making these topics of significant interest to researchers in both industry and academia. The annual International Symposium on Laser Precision Microfabrication(LPM) is unique in that it allows researchers from a wide variety of fields to exchange ideas and techniques, and fosters dicussion on the latest research and technological development in laser micro- and nanofabrication.

The Nonlinear Photonics meeting is a venue for researchers interested in nonlinear optical processes in structures, devices and systems. The meeting covers all aspects of nonlinear photonics and is devoted to both temporal and spatial nonlinear effects. It covers computational as well as experimental aspects and discusses nonlinear material aspects as well as nonlinear systems.

This meeting is the third edition of the “Workshop on Laser-Matter Interaction” after the first two editions held at Luminy (France) in October 2008 and at Porquerolles (France) in September 2010. Its primary purpose is to review recent progress, both theoretical and experimental, in the study of extreme nonlinear optics, ultrashort pulse propagation, ionization physics, parametric instabilities in laser-created plasmas, relativistic plasmas at ultra-high intensity, as well as warm dense matter regimes.

The 2012 Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will be the eighteenth in a series of conferences on advances in ultrafast science and technology. This meeting is widely recognized as the main international forum for gathering the community of scientists and engineers working in research and technology related to ultrafast phenomena. It is indeed a unique opportunity to bring together atomic, molecular and condensed matter physicists, physical chemists, biophysicists and scientists developing new tools, methodologies and techniques, all working on the science of ultrafast phenomena. These phenomena cover the time scales ranging from picoseconds to hundreds of attoseconds

The twenty first annual International Laser Physics Workshop (LPHYS'12) will be held from July 23 to July 27, 2012, in the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. LPHYS'12 continues a series of Workshops held in Dubna 1992, Dubna/Volga river tour 1993, New York 1994, Moscow/Volga river tour (jointly with NATO SILAP Workshop) 1995, Moscow 1996, Prague 1997, Berlin 1998, Budapest 1999, Bordeaux 2000, Moscow 2001, Bratislava 2002, Hamburg 2003, Trieste 2004, Kyoto 2005, Lausanne 2006, León 2007, Trondheim 2008, Barcelona 2009, Foz do Iguaçu 2010, and Sarajevo 2011. The total number of participants is expected to be about 400. In the past, participation was typically from over 30 countries.

The COFIL 2012 is the fourth of a very successful series of conferences organized every 2 years. The previous editions took place in Quebec (Canada) in 2006, Paris (France) in 2008 and Crete (Greece) in 2010. This Symposium is addressed to scientists who lead fundamental and applied research in femtosecond laser filamentation in transparent optical media and applications, as well as scientists from other fields interested in this field of research. The goal is to gather the majority of scientists working in this field and discuss present status and future perspectives.