The registration and the call for abstracts for the 3rd European Workshop on Self-Organized Nanomagnets ( www.nanomagnets2012.es ) are already open. This workshop is the third edition in a series after the meetings held at Eisenerz, Austria, Oct. 8 - 11th 2006 and Aussois, France, March 29th - April 3rd 2009. This year's edition will be held in the town of Guadarrama, situated on the mountain range close to Madrid (Spain).

The main topics that will be covered at the Workshop will be:

• Magnetism at the nanometer scale

• Self-assembly and self-organization; array formation and addressing

• Magnetic characterization of individual nanomagnets and arrays

• Molecular magnets

• Magneto-plasmonics

• Advanced nanofabrication and synthesis

• Applications of nanomagnets

• Nanomagnets in Medicine

The following invited speakers have confirmed their participation at the meeting:

• Catherine AMIENS (CNRS Toulouse, France)

• Souad AMMAR-MERAH (Univ. Paris-Diderot, France)

• Gaspar ARMELLES (CNM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

• Francesco BUATIER DE MONGEOT (Univ. Genoa, Italy)

• Oksana CHUBYKALO-FESENKO (ICMM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain)

• Valentin Alek DEDIU (ISMN CNR, Bologna, Italy)

• Pietro GAMBARDELLA (ICREA, Barcelona, Spain)

• Laura J. HEYDERMAN (Paul Scherrer Inst., Villigen, Switzerland)

• Fernando LUIS (Univ. Zaragoza, Spain)

• Richard MATTANA (Thales-CNRS, Palaiseau, France)

• Taufik Onur MENTES (Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy)

• Olga MYKHAYLYK (Tech. Univ., Munich, Germany)

• Hans Peter OEPEN (Univ. Hamburg, Germany)

• Amadeo L. VÁZQUEZ DE PARGA (Univ. Autónoma, Madrid, Spain)

For further information and registration please visit the workshop's website at: www.nanomagnets2012.es