Abstract: Over 400 researchers from 31 countries attended Carbon 2004, an international Carbon conference, held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, from July 11-16, 2004. About 494 presentations (287 oral, 207 posters) at this conference covered the following 13 areas: Adsorption and gas storage, Biological and medical application, Carbon nanomaterials, Chars/cokes and industrial applications, Electronic/Electrochemical properties and applications, Flame formed carbons, Materials characterization/techniques, Membranes/pyrocarbons and diamond films, Novel forms and chemically modified carbons, Porous carbons/activations, Precursor chemistry/carbonization and graphitization, Reactivity/catalysis and surface science, Structural carbons/fibers and composites. Carbon nanomaterials and nanostructure were highlighted at this conference, 12 of all 48 oral sessions and 112 of all 494 papers being on this topic. A pre-conference workshop, A Colloquium on Carbon Nanoforms, and three of the four plenary lectures reported the latest -development and showed us the current trends in research on Carbon nanomaterials. At this conference, the idea was emphasized that the “nano” concept now not only represents some kinds of materials and structure, but also, much more important, brings us a new insight to carbon materials, novel or conventional. Carbon scientists firmly believe that they are trying to create the “golden age” of Carbon materials.