IV International Scientific Conference 2014 April 22–25 Saint Petersburg Palace of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich (House of Scientists), Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya, 26 State-of-the-art Trends of Scientific Research of Artificial and Natural Nanoobjects Online registration www.strann.org INVITED SPEAKERS Paul Alkemade Focused helium ion beam materials processing at the nanometer scale The Kavli Institute of Nanoscience of the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Marc Chaussidon Examples of applications of high precision or high resolution ion probe measurements in Earth and planetary sciences CRPG-CNRS, Université de Lorraine, France Zhihai Cheng Direct Imaging the Atomic Structures of Molecules and Low-dimensional Materials by Atomic Force Microscopy National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China Armin Goelzhaeuser Carbon Nanomembranes (CNMs): Two-dimensional Functional Materials visualized by Helium Ion Microscopy (HIM) Bielefeld Institute for BioPhysics & NanoScience (BINAS), Germany Barak Lavi WETSEM technique in material science and life science El-Mul (Electron and Ion detecting solutions), Israel Harald Rose From micrometer to sub-Angstroem resolution- the development of the electron microscope Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Andreas Schertel (Cryo-) FIB-SEM microscopy: Volume imaging of cellular ultrastructure in resin embedded and in native frozen biological specimen Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Germany Sergei Rouvimov Transmission Electron Microscopy of Nano-structures University of Notre Dame, United States Alexei Vinogradov Complex instrumented in-situ mechanical testing in a scanning electron microscope Togliatti State University, Russia Yuri Latyshev Aharonov-Bohm resistance magneto-oscillations on single-nanohole graphite and graphene structures Kotel’nikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of RAS, Russia Nina Kasiyanenko DNA Nanostructures. Reality and Prospects Saint Petersburg State University, Russia Vladimir Krupenin Nanostructures based on SOI for different applications: single-electron transistors, nanowires, biosensors Moscow State University, Russia Georgiy Cirlin III-V nanowires: growth, properties and applications Academic University of Physics and Technology of RAS, Russia Alexey Ustinov Superconducting metamaterials: Reducing losses down to nanoscale National University of Science and Technology "MISIS", Russia Rawil Fakhrullin Hyperspectral imaging and high-resolution dark-field microscopy for cyborg cells imaging and nanotoxicity studies Kazan (Idel buye/Volga region) Federal University, Russia Alexey Krasavin Photonics at the nanoscale: from novel phenomena to promising applications King’s College London, United Kingdom Dmitry Klinov High resolution scanning probe microscopy of biomolecules Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of RAS, Russia