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Since its first edition in 1992 in Arc-et-Senans (France) the NFO series of conferences has provided a well focused forum for discussing near-field optics, from
its fundamental principles to its numerous applications in physics, chemistry, life science, information technology, environmental and material sciences. Each edition
of the conference has seen new facets of this field of research emerge and develop; the 2006 edition will certainly not disappoint us.
After extremely successful 7th and 8th editions in Rochester (U.S.A.) and Seoul (Korea), the conference comes to the heart of Europe: Lausanne (Switzerland), where it
will be held from September 10 to 15, 2006.
The conference is organized by the Nanophotonics & Metrology Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). Situated in the French part of
Switzerland, not far from Geneva, EPFL is an extremely dynamic polytechnic university which brings together on its campus almost 10'000 people from 107 different
nationalities.
Away from mega-events that touch on too many topics with zillions of parallel sessions, NFO-9 will provide a well focused conference on near-field optics, nanophotonics
and plasmonics. With a relaxed - although very professional - atmosphere it will bring together key scientists from all around the world to exchange ideas and discuss
their most recent results.
This conference is kindly supported by the Plasmo-Nano-Device Network.
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