A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), entitled “Spintronics and nanomagnetism”, was held on 25 April 2012 at the conference hall of the Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS.
The agenda of the session announced on the RAS Physical Sciences Division website www.gpad.ac.ru included the following reports:

1. Zvezdin A K, Zvezdin K A (Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow), Popkov A F (National Research University ’Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology’, Moscow) “Spin moment transfer effects and their applications in spintronics”;
2. Fraerman A A (Institute for Physics of Microstructures, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod) “Magnetic states and transport properties of ferromagnetic nanostructures”;
3. Panin V E, Egorushkin V E, Panin A V (Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk) “Nonlinear wave processes in a deformable solid as in a multiscale hierarchically organized system”.