The conference will pay a special attention to the following topics:

• coherent states and squeezed states
• phase-space methods
• continuous variables and quantum-information processing with continuous variables
• photon pairs, their sources, properties, and applications
• photon-number-resolving detectors, homodyne detection and other detection techniques
• atom and molecular optics with emphasis on nonclassical behaviour
• cavity QED
• Bose-Einstein condensates
• quantum propagation
• photonic fibres and their nonlinear behaviour
• quantum computing, quantum memories
• entanglement and decoherence
• quantum cryptography