A scientific session of the Physical Sciences Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) was held in the conference hall of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS on 26 October 2011.
The following reports were put on the session’s agenda posted on the website www.gpad.ac.ru of the RAS Physical Sciences Division:

1. Morozov S V (Institute of Microelectronics Technology and High Purity Materials, RAS, Chernogolovka, Moscow region) “New effects in graphene with high carrier mobility”;
2. Volostnikov V G (Samara Branch of the P N Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS, Samara) “Modern optics of Gaussian beams”;
3. Mushnikov N V (Institute of Metal Physics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg) “Intermetallide-based magnetic materials”.