The following arguments will be treated during the lectures (speakers to be confirmed):

1) Tutorials:

• Deji Akinwande, UT-Austin, Austin , USA, 2D electronic devices, 
• Sofer Zdenek, University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, 2d pnictognes ,
• Deborah Prezzi , CNR-Nano, Modena, Italy, Atomically-controlled graphene nanostructures and ribbons,
• Carlo S. Casari , Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy,  Nanostructured surfaces,

2) Linear and non-linear optics:

• Norbert ESSER, ISAS, Berlin, Germany: Raman at surface phonons: surface structure/reconstruction and 1D and 2D atomic layers on surfaces
• Christoph Cobet, JKU, Linz, Austria: tutorial on Ellipsometry/RAS on liquid-solid-interfaces and in-situ optics in electrochemistry.
• Bernardo Mendoza, Leon, Mexico, Bulk photovoltaic effects in semiconductors and metals: jerk current and the DC nonlinear Hall effect
• Giuseppe Pirruccio, Mexico, Heat transfer at nanoscale
• Vesna Vasic, Vinca Institut, Belgrad, Serbia, Antitumor Gold(III) Complexes in Biological Tissue
• Antonio Cricenti, ISM-CNR, Rome, Italy, Optical nanospectroscopy for bioanalysis
• Lutz Waldecker, Stanford University, Stanford, USA, Measurement and manipulation of excitons in 2D semiconductors 

3) Dynamics:

• Kenan Gundogdu, NCSU Physics, Raleigh, USA: ultrafast and nonlinear optical spectroscopy on electronic phase transitions in 2D materials. 
• Norman Tolk, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA: Femtosecond Laser Induced Transient States of Matter
• Caterina Vozzi, IFN-CNR, Milano, Italy: Ultrafast Molecular Imaging

4) 2D materials:

• Friedhelm Bechstedt, University of Jena, Jena, Germany: Excitons in 2D materials: Polarization and chemistry dependence
• Patrick Vogt, Chemnitz, Germany: Introduction to graphene, silicene, germanene from experimental side
• Stefano Lupi, Univ Roma La Sapienza, Italy, Optical Properties of exotic electronic materials: From Graphene and Silicene to Topological Insulators and Weyl Semimetals
• Alessandro Molle , IMM-CNR, Milano, Italy, Xenes: from growth to applications
• Riccardo Frisenda, ICMM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, Micro-reflectance and transmittance spectroscopy applied on 2D materials
• Yves Borensztein, INSP-CNRS, Paris, France Quantitative determination of silicene and germanene structures by Grazing incidence X ray Diffraction

Other advanced seminars will be included in the final programme