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Dear Colleague, The 18th Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will take place on July 8 - 13, 2012 at Lausanne, Switzerland. Standing next to the northerly shores of the scenic Lake Geneva and close to the Jura mountain range, Lausanne is a renowned international tourist resort as well as an important place for cultural events and meetings. The Ultrafast Phenomena Conference series started in 1976 on a biannual basis. The 2012 edition will be the XVIIIth of the series and the fifth to be hosted in Europe. It will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers sharing a common interest in the generation, manipulation and use of ultra short pulses in the picosecond to the attosecond regimes and their applications to studies of ultrafast phenomena in physics, chemistry, materials science, electronics, biology, engineering, and medical applications. In addition, submissions involving real world applications of ultrafast technology will be encouraged. 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. Additionally, a tabletop exhibit featuring leading companies in lasers, optics and optoelectronics and instrumentation will be held in conjunction with the meeting. More information about the conference can be found at http://www.up2012.org/. The meeting is organized by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the European Physical Society (EPS) in cooperation with the Optical Society of America (OSA). Summary and Abstract Deadline: February 15, 2012. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Lausanne for an exciting scientific event! Majed Chergui, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Antoinette Taylor, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA General Chairs Steve Cundiff, JILA, NIST and University of Colorado, USA Kaoru Yamanouchi, University of Tokyo, Japan Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany Programme Chairs ===================== Professor Majed Chergui Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Laboratoire de Spectroscopie Ultrarapide ISIC, Faculté des Sciences de Base Station 6 CH - Lausanne, Switzerland http://lsu.epfl.ch/ To join or leave the molecular-dynamics-news email list, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/molecular-dynamics-news.html