The following is the list of subtopics under which all abstracts will be reviewed and parallel sessions will be held. All delegates are requested to identify one of these topics during their abstract submission.

1. Raman and resonance Raman spectroscopy
2. Biological and biomedical applications (including pharmaceuticals)
3. Materials – nanomaterial, graphene and solidstate
4. Forensic, art, archeological and detection of materials.
5. Terrestrial and planetary applications
6. Surface enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
7. Coherent Raman microscopy
8. Near-field Raman – TERS and single molecule, etc.
9. Time-resolved and non-linear spectroscopy
10. Instrumentation techniques and new developments
11. X-ray Raman
12. Theoretical development and computation
13. Raman optical activity