After more than fifty years since its “birth”, the laser is a modern, efficient and elegant tool, with applications in physics, chemistry, biology, analytics, material science, medicine, space and security. The proposed symposium provides an interdisciplinary forum to discuss recent progress in the area of laser-matter interaction and photon processing of materials for basic and applied research. One of the symposium organizers is Maria Dinescu from the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (NILPRP).