Sergey Vladimirov School of Physics, University of Sydney Complex plasmas: self-organized "dusty" matter from nanotechnology to astrophysics Wednesday 25th, May 14:05-14:55pm, Carslaw Building Room 373. What qualitatively new features appear if matter contains solid inclusions? How do the physical states of matter including the most chaotic and disordered one, a plasma, behave in the presence of charged colloidal "dust"? The vast variety of unexpected observed phenomena, like crystallization in a plasma, underlines the complexity of granular matter. Technologically, complex plasma phenomena hold enormous application potential and are starting to be exploited in modern high-tech industries. In this talk, I discuss the fundamental physics and the application potential of complex plasmas - a new and largely unexplored state of "dusty" (granular) matter. The charged solid particles (dust grains) vary widely in sizes, from tens of nanometers in nanotechnology to meters and even more in astrophysics. They change the properties of ambient plasmas dramatically. Complex plasmas behave unusually and tend to structure themselves such as in the process of star formation from dusty gas-molecular clouds. Remarkably, the basic physics behind numerous phenomena ranging from nanotechnology to astrophysics is often the same and related to fundamental collective processes in complex plasmas.