The conference will pay a special attention to the following topics:
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coherent states and squeezed states
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uncertainty relations
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phase-space methods
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continuous variables and quantum-information processing with continuous variables
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twin photons, their sources, properties, and applications
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photon-number-resolving detectors, homodyne detection and other detection techniques
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atom and molecular optics with emphasis on nonclassical behaviour
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cavity and circuit QED
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Bose-Einstein condensates
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quantum propagation
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photonic fibres and their nonlinear behaviour
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entanglement and decoherence
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quantum superpositions