50 Years of Anderson Localization Sponsors Sympossium, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, December 4-5, 2008
		"Localization [..], very few believed it at the time, and even fewer saw its importance, among those who failed to fully understand it at first was certainly its author. It has yet to receive adequate mathematical treatment, and one has to resort to the indignity of numerical simulations to settle even the simplest questions about it." P.W. Anderson, Nobel Lecture, 1977

	General	This workshop is enabled by the precious support of a number of sponsors.
	IHP	The Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP), attached as an "Ecole interne" to the "Université Pierre et Marie Curie" in Paris, is the house of mathematicians and theoretical physicists. The Institute supports the workshop on 50 years of Anderson localization by putting its large amphitheatre at out disposal.
	Phoremost	PhOREMOST is a 4-year European project (a network of excellence), established in 2004, in the area of nanophotonics and molecular photonics, to address the near- and long-term needs of photonic functional components. The network aims to enhance European research in nanophotonics by integrating students and researchers working these in fields to realise the underpinning science and engineering for molecular-based optical components, hence nanophotonics to access the molecular scale.      Nanophotonics is defined as the science and engineering of light-matter interactions where, on the one hand, interactions take place within the wavelength and sub-wavelength scales and, on the other hand, the physical, chemical and structural nature of artificially or natural nanostructured matter determines these interactions.
	Imcode	The French Reserach group Imagerie, Communication et Désordre (IMCODE) is fully supported by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). IMCODE was created in 2003 and has approximately 250 members in France and many contacts all over the world. It advocates an interdisciplinary program with mesocopic physics and imaging with all kinds of waves (ultrsound, seismic waves, light, micro-waves) in disordered media. The present workshop will be its last event.
	NWO	The Netherlands Organisation for Research coordinates all research in the Netherlands. Every year a number of Spinoza prices are awarded to a few outstanding researchers. This is the most prestiguous national award. In 2002 this Spinoza award was granted to Ad Lagendijk for his contributions to wave propagation in complex media. The workshop is supported by this award.
	LENS	The European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) is presently an active member of the LASERLAB-EUROPE consortium, constituted by 18 large laser infrastructures operating in different European countries providing access to the different laser facilities to external visiting scientists with the financial support of the European Union. The research fields at LENS nowadays cover a wide spectrum of subjects, from atomic physics to photochemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, f rom material science to photonics, from art restoration and preservation to solid and liquid state physics. The group of Massimo Inguscio works on the experimental observation of Anderson localization with cold atoms. LENS has his own PhD Course in Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy, and a Post Doctoral Fellowship program; both activities are partially supported by the EU Marie Curie Program. Diederik Wiersma represents both PhOREMOST and the LENS in the organization of the workshop, supported by LENS