IV Higher Courses of CIS for young scientists, post-graduate and graduate students on advanced methods of research in nanosystems and materials will be held in Dubna and Moscow on 10-23 July (SYN-nano-2011, http://nanoschool.jinr.ru/).

The opening of the Dubna part of the Higher Courses will be held in the JINR International Conference Hall on 11 July, and the official opening of the international youth event will be held on 12 July in Moscow, in the Kurchatov Institute, whose experimental facilities will serve the base for the second part of theoretical and practical trainings. The Courses will continue in Dubna on 13-17 July.

That important educational event was organized by The Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute", the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, and the Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Higher Courses will be held under the aegis and with support of the International Foundation for Educational, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation. This year the event will be also supported by the Foundation for infrastructural and educational programmes “ROSNANO”.

Grigory Arzumanyan