Program Outline	Important Dates	International Advisory and Program Committee	Local Organizing Commitee
	General Information	Conference Proceedings	Further Information	Pre-registration form/ call for papers

The Conference is organized under the auspices of the Société Française d’Optique (SFO), the French branch of the European Optical Society (EOS).

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Program Outline

The origin of the Conference can be traced back to the discovery of zero-phonon lines in organic solids and of persistent spectral hole burning in such materials (1972). Since the first seminal meeting in Estonia (1987), the Conference was held in California, Switzerland, Japan, Minnesota, France, Taiwan and Montana.

The Conference has brought together participants from all over the world to discuss the latest developments in fundamental science and applications of site-selective spectroscopy and related topics.

The 9th meeting will be held in Aussois, in the French Alps. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers. Special attention will be paid to posters that will be displayed continuously during the whole meeting.

This ninth edition will draw increased attention to novel microscopies and nanophotonics, particularly applied to biological systems, microwave photonics and quantum information processing applications, laser technology and new functionalized optical materials. The 9th HBSM Conference will be a privileged meeting opportunity for molecular and atomic physicists, bio-physicists, material specialists, laser and optical scientists.

A one-day tour of “Parc National de la Vanoise” and other family activities will be included.

Please see the conference WEB site http://www.lac.u-psud.fr/hbsm2006/hbsm06.htm for further details and information on the Aussois area.

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International Advisory and Program Committee

Thomas Basché (Mainz, Germany)
Rufus Cone (Bozeman, Montana, USA)
Ta-Chau Chang (Taipeh, Taiwan, ROC)
Daniel Dolfi (Palaiseau, France)
Josef Friedrich (Munich, Germany)
Jean-Pierre Galaup (Orsay, France)
Stefan W. Hell (Göttingen, Germany)
Jean-Louis Le Gouët (Orsay, France)
Peter Lu (Richland, Washington, USA)
Neil Manson (Canberra, Australia)
Kristian Merkel (Bozeman, Montana,USA)
W. E. Moerner (Stanford, California, USA)
Norio Murase (Osaka, Japan)
Michel Orrit (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Seishiro Saikan (Tohoku, Japan)
Alwyn Seeds (London, UK)
Matthew Sellars (Canberra, Australia)
Toshiro Tani (Tokyo, Japan)
Paul Tchénio (Orsay, France)
Hans-Peter Trommsdorff (Grenoble, France)
Martin Vacha (Tokyo, Japan)
Yuri Vainer (Troitsk, Russia)
Silvia Völker (Leiden, The Netherlands)
Kelvin Wagner (Boulder, Colorado, USA)
Ludger Wöste (Berlin, Germany)

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Local Organizing Committee

Jean-Pierre Galaup - Chair
Ivan Lorgeré – co-Chair
Fabien Bretenaker
Claudine Crépin
Jean-Louis Le Gouët
Marie-France Joubert
Paul Tchénio
Hans-Peter Trommsdorff

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General Conference Information

Conference registration, travel arrangements, hotel reservation and special activities will be handled by:

Société Française d’Optique
Centre Scientifique, Bât 503 - 91403 ORSAY cedex (France)
Web link:   http://www.france-optique.org/indexfram.html
E-mail:       hbsm06@france-optique.org

More information on housing are also available at:

Centre Paul Langevin CNRS
Web link:    http://www.caes.cnrs.fr
E-mail:        aussois@caes.cnrs.fr

Rooms will be available at the Centre Paul Langevin. The conference registration fee will include complete housing, meals, coffee breaks, a tour in the “Parc National de la Vanoise”, and a Gala dinner at a guest chalet. Aussois is accessible via Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and Geneva.

For further information see also :

Conference web site            http://www.lac.u-psud.fr/hbsm2006/hbsm06.htm
Centre Paul Langevin          http://www.caes.cnrs.fr
Aussois area info                 http://www.aussois.com
Parc National de la Vanoise  http://www.vanoise.com
Railways information           http://www.sncf.fr/