During September 2017, we plan to organize a mini summer school that will take place at the TAU campus dealing with "fundamentals of light-matter interactions". The mini-school are aimed mainly for graduate students, but will be open also excellent Bachelor students from TAU and from other Israeli or international institutes.The topics of the 4 lectures in our mini school will be: (1) Ultrafast Optics (2) Nonlinear Optics (3) Waveguides (4) Imaging and (5) Nanophotonics.