ADVISORY BOARD
12th International Ceramics Congress


Symposium CA
CERAMIC POWDERS: SYNTHESIS, PROCESSING AND SINTERING

Programme Chair:
Jean François BAUMARD, France

Members:
Mufit AKINC, USA
Lennart BERGSTROM, Sweden
Stuart BLACKBURN, UK
Aldo R. BOCCACCINI, Germany
Paul BOWEN, Switzerland
Francis J. CAMBIER, Belgium
W. Roger CANNON, USA
C. Barry CARTER, USA
I-Wei CHEN, USA
Hans-Eckart EXNER, Germany
Gideon GRADER, Israel
Krzysztof HABERKO, Poland
Stuart HAMPSHIRE, Ireland
Juergen G. HEINRICH, Germany
Yoshihiro HIRATA, Japan
Junichi HOJO, Japan
Hae Jin HWANG, Korea
Frank KERN, Germany
Doh-Yeon KIM, Korea
Mikito KITAYAMA, Japan
Sridhar KOMARNENI, USA
Fred LANGE, USA
Romano LAPASIN, Italy
Rodrigo MORENO, Spain
Eugene A. OLEVSKY, USA
Momcilo M. RISTIC, Serbia
Jürgen RÖDEL, Germany
Andreas ROOSEN, Germany
Yoshio SAKKA, Japan
Saburo SANO, Japan
C.C. SORRELL, Australia
Satoshi TANAKA, Japan
Veena TIKARE, USA
Jose Arana VARELA, Brazil
Koji WATARI, Japan
Guo-Jun ZHANG, China

Symposium CB
NOVEL ROUTES FOR CERAMICS SYNTHESIS AND PROCESSING

Programme Chair:
Ralf RIEDEL, Germany

Members:
Dinesh K. AGRAWAL, USA
David AVNIR, Israel
Florence BABONNEAU, France
Joachim BILL, Germany
J.P.G. BINNER, UK
Christian BONHOMME, France
Raj BORDIA, USA
Jin-Ho CHOY, Korea
Mark M. DE GUIRE, USA
Etienne DUGUET, France
Mohan EDIRISINGHE, UK
Nahum FRAGE, Israel
Takashi GOTO, JAPAN
Peter GREIL, Germany
Keijiro HIRAGA, Japan
Nicola HUESING, Germany
Hubert HUPPERTZ, Austria
Leonard V. INTERRANTE, USA
Edwin KROKE, Germany
Terence G. LANGDON, USA
Ya-Li LI, China
Yoshitake MASUDA, Japan
Gary MESSING, USA
Philippe MIELE, France
Kazuki NAKANISHI, Japan
Takeshi OKUTANI, Japan
Clément SANCHEZ, France
Tsugio SATO, Japan
Toshimori SEKINE, Japan
Yoshiyuki SUGAHARA, Japan
Yoko SUYAMA, Japan
Naresh N. THADHANI, USA
Omer VAN DER BIEST, Belgium
Monika WILLERT-PORADA, Germany
Masahiro YOSHIMURA, Japan

Focused Session CB-11
Self-propagating High-temperature Synthesis of Ceramics

Chair:
Alexander G. MERZHANOV, Russia

Coordinator:
Hamazasp E. GRIGORYAN, Russia

Members:
Frédéric BERNARD, France
Inna P. BOROVINSKAYA, Russia
Giacomo CAO, Italy
Elazar GUTMANAS, Israel
Suren KHARATYAN, Armenia
Evgeny LEVASHOV, Russia
Jerzy LIS, Poland
Alexander MUKASYAN, USA
Zuhair A. MUNIR, USA
Manshi OHYANAGI, Japan
Roman PAMPUCH, Poland
Alexander E. SYTSCHEV, Russia
Galina XANTHOPOULOU, Greece

Focused Session CB-12
Layered and Functionally Graded Materials

Chair:
Changchun GE, P.R. China

Members:
Serkan DAG, Turkey
Moshe P. DARIEL, Israel
Martin FRIESS, Germany
Michael M. GASIK, Finland
Jae-Ho JEON, Korea
Akira KAWASAKI, Japan
Jeong-Ho KIM, USA
Kiyotaka MATSUURA, Japan
Luis Augusto ROCHA, Portugal
Alexander S. ROGACHEV, Russia

Symposium CC
PROGRESS IN THE UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OF CERAMICS SURFACES FOR TRIBOLOGY AND CORROSION

Programme Chair:
Mark HADFIELD, UK

Members:
Koshi ADACHI, Japan
Yasuhisa ANDO, Japan
Christopher DELLACORTE, USA
Jay FINEBERG, Israel
Mike GRAHAM, Canada
Richard H.J. HANNINK, Australia
Kiyoshi HIRAO, Japan
Masami IKEYAMA, Japan
Lars-Gunnar JOHANSSON, Sweden
Thomas KLASSEN, Germany
Tapio MANTYLA, Finland
Denis MAZUYER, France
Ronald A. McCAULEY, USA
James D. McGUFFIN-CAWLEY, USA
Kouji MIURA, Japan
Klaus G. NICKEL, Germany
Nobuo OHMAE, Japan
Andreas A. POLYCARPOU, USA
W. Mark RAINFORTH, UK
W. Gregory SAWYER, USA
James L. SMIALEK, USA
Mineo SUZUKI, Japan
Karl-Heinz ZUM GAHR, Germany

Symposium CD
CERAMIC JOINING

Programme Chair:
Alberto PASSERONE, Italy

Members:
Mathieu BROCHU, Canada
Robin A.L. DREW, Canada
Christian ELSAESSER, Germany
Nikos EUSTATHOPOULOS, France
John A. FERNIE, UK
Natalya FROUMIN, Israel
Masahiro FUKUMOTO, Japan
Andreas GLAESER, USA
Mark HOFFMAN, Australia
Wayne KAPLAN, Israel
Kevin M. KNOWLES, UK
Charles LEWINSOHN, USA
Y. NAIDICH, Ukraine
Kiyoshi NOGI, Japan
Ivar E. REIMANIS, USA
Manfred ROTH, Switzerland
Natalia SOBCZAK, Poland
Tadatomo SUGA, Japan
Katsuaki SUGANUMA, Japan
Shun-ichiro TANAKA, Japan
Antoni P. TOMSIA, USA

Symposium CE
CERAMICS AND COMPOSITES IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS

Programme Chair:
Sheldon WIEDERHORN, NIST, USA

Members:
Fritz ALDINGER, Germany
Narottam P. BANSAL, USA
Michel BARSOUM, USA
Theodore M. BESMANN, USA
Philippe COLOMBAN, France
Robert DANZER, Austria
Goffredo DE PORTU, Italy
Jan DUSZA, Slovakia
William A. ELLINGSON, USA
Gilbert FANTOZZI, France
Adrian GOLDSTEIN, Israel
Georg GRATHWOHL, Germany
Greg HILMAS, USA
Michael J. HOFFMANN, Germany
Karl JAKUS, USA
Sylvia JOHNSON, USA
Katsutoshi KOMEYA, Japan
Edgar LARA-CURZIO, USA
Laura MONTANARO, Italy
Mats NYGREN, Sweden
Giuseppe PEZZOTTI, Japan
Abel ROUSSET, France
Pavol SAJGALÍK, Slovakia
Gerold SCHNEIDER, Germany
Vincenzo M. SGLAVO, Italy
Vladimir Ja SHEVCHENKO, Russia
Rolf STEINBRECH, Germany
Tierry TIEGS, USA
Wei-Hsing TUAN, Taiwan
Fumihiro WAKAI, Japan
Yanchun ZHOU, China

Symposium CF
CERAMICS FOR CHEMICAL, ELECTROCHEMICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS

Programme Chair:
Paolo COLOMBO, Italy

Members:
Sheikh A. AKBAR, USA
Florence ANSART, France
Mario APARICIO, Spain
Alan ATKINSON, UK
Juana BENAVENTE HERRERA, Spain
Henny J.M. BOUWMEESTER, The Netherlands
Carlo CANTALINI, Italy
M.D. DE MELLO INNOCENTINI, Brazil
Sylvain DEVILLE, France
Scott W. DONNE, Australia
Jose L.G. FIERRO, Spain
Ludwig GAUCKLER, Switzerland
Tatsumi ISHIHARA, Japan
Saiful ISLAM, UK
Ellen IVERS-TIFFEE, Germany
Yuji IWAMOTO, Japan
Nitin LABHSETWAR, India
Jan LUYTEN, Belgium
Alessandro MARTUCCI, Italy
Kazushige OHNO, Japan
Alain PIERRE, France
Aleksander PYZIK, USA
Armin RELLER, Germany
Yoshihiko SADAOKA, Japan
Michael SCHEFFLER, Germany
Richard SISSON, USA
Fabio SPIZZO, Italy
Jeffry W. STEVENSON, USA
Henk VERWEIJ, USA
Anil V. VIRKAR, USA
Ulrich VOGT, Switzerland
Toshiya WATANABE, Japan
Anthony R. WEST, UK
Sujanto WIDJAJA, USA
Wojtek WLODARSKI, Australia
Atsuo YAMADA, Japan
Jinhua YE, Japan

Symposium CG
CERAMIC THIN FILMS AND COATINGS FOR PROTECTIVE, TRIBOLOGICAL AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL APPLICATIONS

Programme Chair:
Ghislain MONTAVON, France

Members:
Sergey E. ALEXANDROV, Russia
Samir AOUADI, USA
Christoper C. BERNDT, Australia
Maher I. BOULOS, Canada
Raymond (Reuven) BOXMAN, Israel
Viorel T. BRAIC, Romania
Yip-Wah CHUNG, USA
W.J. CLEGG, UK
Diederik DEPLA, Belgium
Dongfeng DIAO ,China
Izhak ETSION, Israel
Martin FENKER, Germany
Steven L. GIRSHICK, USA
Wayne L. GLADFELTER, USA
Gregory GOH, Singapore
Vladimir GOROKHOVSKY, USA
Philippe GOUDEAU, France
Papken HOVSEPIAN, UK
Ulf JANSSON, Sweden
Kwang-ho KIM, South Korea
Yoshinori KOGA, Japan
Seiji KURODA, Japan
Nadhira LAIDANI, Italy
Erich LUGSCHEIDER, Germany
Christian MITTERER, Austria
Christian MOREAU, Canada
Javad MOSTAGHIMI, Canada
Chris MURATORE, USA
Daniel NELIAS, France
Paolo M. OSSI, Italy
Nitin P. PADTURE, USA
Joerg PATSCHEIDER, Switzerland
Sophoclis PATSIAS, UK
Rosendo SANJINES, Switzerland
Naruo SASAKI, Japan
Jochen M. SCHNEIDER, Germany
Uwe SCHULZ, Germany
Fuh-Sheng SHIEU, Taiwan
Dmitry V. SHTANSKY, Russia
José Filipe VILELA VAZ, Portugal
Bogdan G. WENDLER, Poland
Ping XIAO, UK
Xian Ting ZENG, Singapore
Sam ZHANG, Singapore

Symposium CH
ADVANCES IN ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL CERAMICS

Programme Chair:
Vojislav V. MITIC, Serbia

Members:
Jun AKEDO, Japan
Neil ALFORD, UK
Wolfgang BENECKE, Germany
Amar BHALLA, USA
Guozhong CAO, USA
Xiang Ming CHEN, China
Jose Maria DE TERESA, Spain
Brahim ELOUADI, France
Mohammed ES-SOUNI, Germany
Albert FIGUERAS, Spain
Robert FREER, UK
Daniel GUYOMAR, France
Hajime HANEDA, Japan
Heli JANTUNEN, Finland
Peter KAZANSKY, UK
Eung Soo KIM, Korea
Toshio KIMURA, Japan
Hermann KOHLSTEDT, Germany
Makoto KUWABARA, Japan
Alexander A. LEBEDEV, Russia
Yongxiang LI, China
Longtu LI, China
Bill MILNE, UK
Sahn NAHM, Korea
Toshio OGAWA, Japan
Maria Lorena PARDO MATA, Spain
David A. PAYNE, USA
Gary R. PICKRELL, USA
Shashank PRIYA, USA
Jianrong QIU, China
Vito RAINERI, Italy
Ramamoorthy RAMESH, USA
Ahmad SAFARI, USA
Nava SETTER, Switzerland
Yuichi SHIMAKAWA, Japan
Derek C. SINCLAIR, UK
Arthur W. SLEIGHT, USA
Mas SUBRAMANIAN, USA
Danilo SUVOROV, Slovenia
Philippe TAILHADES, France
Yuri D. TRETYAKOV, Russia
Susan TROLIER-McKINSTRY, USA
Hong WANG, China
Zuo-Guang YE, Canada
Ki Hyun YOON, Korea
Weiguang ZHU, Singapore

Focused Session CH-6
Multiferroics

Chair:
Alois LOIDL, Germany

Members:
Agnes BARTHELEMY, France
Mirza I. BICHURIN, Russia
Mark BLAMIRE, UK
Long-Qing CHEN, USA
Sang-Wook CHEONG, USA
Manfred FIEBIG, Germany
Michael KARKUT, France
Michel KENZELMANN, Switzerland
Andrei L. KHOLKIN, Portugal
Ce-Wen NAN, China
Beatriz NOHEDA, The Netherlands
Masanori OKUYAMA, Japan
Ernie PAN, USA
Juan-Manuel PEREZ-MATO, Spain
J.F. SCOTT, UK
Gopalan SRINIVASAN, USA
Pam A. THOMAS, UK
Yoshinori TOKURA, Japan
Dwight VIEHLAND, USA

Symposium CI
MAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF OXIDES

Programme Chairs:
Dino FIORANI, Italy

Members:
Emilio BELLINGERI, Italy
Ami BERKOWITZ, USA
Maurizio FERRETTI, Italy
Josep FONTCUBERTA, Spain
Atsushi FUJIMORI, Japan
Tomoji KAWAI, Japan
Tsuyoshi KIMURA, Japan
Hideomi KOINUMA, Japan
David LOOK, USA
Fabio MILETTO GRANOZIO, Italy
Liliana MITOSERIU, Romania
Takashi MIZOKAWA, Japan
Isabelle MONOT-LAFFEZ, France
Satishchandra B. OGALE, India
Giorgio PICCALUGA, Italy
Bernard RAVEAU, France
Naurang L. SAINI, Italy
D.S. SCHMOOL, Portugal
Jean-Marc TRISCONE, Switzerland
David VANDERBILT, USA
Yonggang ZHAO, PR China

Symposium CJ
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR SILICATE CERAMICS

Programme Chair:
Michele DONDI, Italy

Members:
Magdi F. ABADIR, Egypt
Nitin V. AFZULPURKAR, Thailand
George N. ANGELOPOULOS, Greece
Giovanni BALDI, Italy
Philippe BLANCHART, France
Anselmo O. BOSCHI, Brazil
Richard BOWMAN, Australia
William M. CARTY, USA
Kausik DANA, India
Swapan Kumar DAS, India
Vilma DUCMAN, Slovenia
B. EFTEKHARI YEKTA, Iran
Juan Carlos FACTOROVICH, Argentina
Dachamir HOTZA, Brazil
Leena HUPA, Finland
Philip R. JACKSON, UK
Alpagut KARA, Turkey
Ferhat KARA, Turkey
Vladimir KOZHUKHAROV, Bulgaria
Joao A. LABRINCHA, Portugal
Hongjie LUO, China
Tiziano MANFREDINI, Italy
Guillermo MONROS, Spain
Arnaldo MORENO BERTO, Spain
Redouane MOUSSA, Morocco
Manuel OCANA JURADO, Spain
Thierry POIRIER, Venezuela
Johannes H. POTGIETER, South Africa
Juan Jacobo RUIZ VALDES, Mexico
Toyohiko SUGIYAMA, Japan
Petra SULCOVA, Czech Republic
Giorgio TIMELLINI, Italy
Jacques TIRLOCQ, Belgium
Paolo ZANNINI, Italy
Jian Er ZHOU, China

Symposium CK
GEOPOLYMERS AND GEOCEMENTS: LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CERAMIC MATERIALS

Programme Chair:
Cristina LEONELLI, Italy

Members:
Erez ALLOUCHE, USA
Mirko BRAGA, Italy
Christopher CHEESEMAN, UK
Gui DEMORTIER, Belgium
Katja DOMBROWSKI, Germany
Constantino FERNANDEZ PEREIRA, Spain
Dechang JIA, P.R. China
Waltraud M. KRIVEN, USA
Zongjin LI, P.R. China
Kenneth J.D. MacKENZIE, New Zealand
Alejandro MANZANO RAMIREZ, Mexico
Henk NUGTEREN, Netherlands
Hassane OUDADESSE, France
Christos G. PAPAKONSTANTINOU, USA
Dan S. PERERA, Australia
Vijaya B. RANGAN, Australia
Kwesi SAGOE-CRENTSIL, Australia
Frantisek SKVARA, Czekia
Pavel STRAKA, Czekia
Bob TALLING, Finland
Amandio TEIXEIRA PINTO, Portugal
Benjamin VARELA, USA
Marcel WEIL, Germany
Frank WINNEFELD, Switzerland
Yunsheng ZHANG, P.R. China

Symposium CL
REFRACTORIES: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN MATERIALS, PRODUCTION AND USE

Programme Chair:
James P. BENNETT, USA

Members:
Esteban F. AGLIETTI, Argentina
Charles ALT, USA
Christos G. ANEZIRIS, Germany
Carmen BAUDIN, Spain
Paulo R.H.M. BITTENCOURT, Brazil
Michel BOUSSUGE, France
Richard C. BRADT, USA
Elena BRANDALEZE, Argentina
Thierry CUTARD, France
Axel ESCHNER, Germany
Geraldo E. GONCALVES, Brazil
Delia GUTIERREZ-CAMPOS, Venezuela
Harald HARMUTH, Austria
William L. HEADRICK, USA
Marc HUGER, France
Boris L. KRASNY, Russia
W.E. LEE, UK
Valery V. MARTYNENKO, Ukraine
Josè Luis MENDOZA BEDOLLA, Mexico
Kusuhiro MUKAI, Japan
George OPREA, Canada
Toshitaka OTA, Japan
Victor Carlos PANDOLFELLI, Brazil
Christopher PARR, France
Jacques POIRIER, France
Peter QUIRMBACH, Germany
Michael RIGAUD, Canada
Mototsugu SAKAI, Japan
Kwang Bo SHIM, Korea
Nigel STONE, Australia
Kiyoshi SUGITA, Japan
Analia G. TOMBA MARTINEZ, Argentina
Thorsten TONNESEN, Germany
Patrick WOLLANTS, Belgium

CM - 2nd International Conference
DISCLOSING MATERIALS AT NANOSCALE

Co-Chairs:
Christoph GERBER, Switzerland
Yury GOGOTSI, USA
Koichi NIIHARA, Japan

Programme Chair:
Maurizio FERRARI, Italy

Members:
James H. ADAIR, USA
Rui M. ALMEIDA, Portugal
Masakazu AONO, Japan
Katsuhiko ARIGA, Japan
Yoshio BANDO, Japan
François BEGUIN, France
Dieter BIMBERG, Germany
Richard J. BLAIKIE, New Zealand
Brigitte BOULARD, France
Jürgen BRUGGER, Switzerland
Enric CANADELL, Spain
R.P.H. CHANG, USA
Yong-Ho CHOA, Korea
Gan-Moog CHOW, Singapore
M. Lucia CURRI, Italy
Chunhai FAN, China
Shoushan FAN, China
Daisuke FUJITA, Japan
Lian GAO, China
Malcolm L.H. GREEN, UK
Martin P. HARMER, USA
M. Saif ISLAM, USA
Jing-Feng LI, China
Marian MARCINIAK, Poland
Meyya MEYYAPPAN, USA
Paolo MILANI, Italy
Seizo MORITA, Japan
Ungyu PAIK, Korea
David PETTIFOR, UK
Alexander QUANDT, Germany
C.N.R. RAO, India
Giancarlo C. RIGHINI, Italy
Albert ROMANO-RODRIGUEZ, Spain
Tohru SEKINO, Japan
Zhigang SHUAI, China
Richard W. SIEGEL, USA
Xiaowei SUN, Singapore
Masasuke TAKATA, Japan
Setsuhisa TANABE, Japan
Zhong Lin WANG, USA
Andrew T.S. WEE, Singapore

CN - 6th International Conference
ADVANCED INORGANIC FIBRE COMPOSITES FOR STRUCTURAL AND THERMAL MANAGEMENT APPLICATIONS

Co-Chairs:
Mrityunjay SINGH, USA (Programme Chair)
Walter KRENKEL, Germany
Tatsuki OHJI, Japan

Members:
Rajiv ASTHANA, USA
Alan BAKER, Australia
Wolfgang BROCKS, Germany
Tsu-Wei CHOU, USA
R.J. DIEFENDORF, USA
Andrew L. GYEKENYESI, USA
Jow-Lay HUANG, Taiwan, ROC
Toshihiro ISHIKAWA, Japan
Chun-Gon KIM, South Korea
Hai-Doo KIM, South Korea
Pierre LADEVEZE, France
Jacques LAMON, France
Javier LLORCA, Spain
Lalit Mohan MANOCHA, India
Sanjay MATHUR, Germany
Sergei T. MILEIKO, Russia
Andreas MORTENSEN, Switzerland
Roger NASLAIN, France
Kiyohito OKAMURA, Japan
Dieter SPORN, Germany
Vijay K. SRIVASTAVA, India