2011, Vol.14, No.3

The first International Conference "Interdisciplinary Research and Future Technologies" (IDRFT'2011) took place in Minsk May 16-18, 2011. The idea of the Conference was to give an instrument for active researches working in many interdisciplinary fields to present their new results and to provide a venue for a free discussion. The background for the meeting was provided by the new State scientific program "Interdisciplinary Researches and Emerging Technologies as a base of stable innovation development" ("Convergence"), launched this year. In accordance with the main trends of technological evolution ("More than Moore", intellectual instead of information technologies, development of cognitive technologies) interdisciplinary character of research is a principally important feature of modern natural science. During IDRFT'2011 there were presented 74 oral talks and 49 poster reports. A full conference program can be found on the web-site http://master.basnet.by/idrft2011.

This volume of NPCS presents a collection of the papers reported at the IDRFT'2011 meeting. There were three sections at the meeting - Quantum technologies at atomic, molecular and photonic levels; Cognitive technologies; and Nanobiostructures and nanotechnologies for biomedical applications. Following the abovementioned sections, the papers of the special issue are also collected in the corresponding sections.

I hope that the present special issue will help scientific community to get important information on up-to-date results of interdisciplinary studies.

Sergey Kilin,

the IDRFT'2011 chairman,
the Editor of the special issue

September 2011

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