ADVISORY BOARD
5th Forum on New Materials


Symposium FA
ADVANCED FOSSIL FUEL ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES: THE MATERIALS DEMAND

Co-Chairs:
John E. OAKEY, UK
Cynthia POWELL, USA (Programme Chair)
Kaneaki TSUZAKI, Japan
Terry WALL, Australia

Members:
Fujio ABE, Japan
Iver E. ANDERSON, USA
Beth L. ARMSTRONG, USA
Rangan BANERJEE, India
Giuseppe BARBIERI, Italy
Steven A. BENSON, USA
Christian CODDET, France
Frank A. DE BRUIJN, The Netherlands
Bernard FEDELICH, Germany
Brian GLEESON, USA
May-Britt HAGG, Norway
John HALD, Denmark
Hiroshi HARADA, Japan
David HARRIS, Australia
Gordon HOLCOMB, USA
Kiyohito ISHIDA, Japan
Paul D. JABLONSKI, USA
Jamie KRUZIC, USA
Xingbo LIU, USA
David LUEBKE, USA
Valentino LUPINC, Italy
Bryan MORREALE, USA
Ken NATESAN, USA
John NICHOLLS, UK
Matthias OECHSNER, Germany
Stephen S. PAGLIERI, USA
Martin PALM, Germany
John PRICE, Australia
Claudia RINALDI, Italy
Joop SCHOONMAN, The Netherlands
Sridhar SEETHARAMAN, USA
Yong-ho SOHN, USA
Pierre STEINMETZ, France
Ron VAN GESTEL, The Netherlands
Vis VISWANATHAN, USA
K. Scott WEIL, USA
Rui YANG, P.R. China

Symposium FB
MATERIALS AND PROCESS INNOVATIONS IN HYDROGEN PRODUCTION AND STORAGE

Co-Chairs:
Maximilian FICHTNER, Germany
J. Karl JOHNSON, USA
Shin-ichi ORIMO, Japan
Marco VITTORI ANTISARI, Italy (Programme Chair)
Andreas ZÜTTEL, Switzerland

Members:
Etsuo AKIBA, Japan
Marcello BARICCO, Italy
Craig BUCKLEY, Australia
Ping CHEN, Singapore
Bernard DAM, The Netherlands
Andrew DICKS, Australia
Martin DORNHEIM, Germany
Dan ELIEZER, Israel
Helmer FJELLVAG, Norway
Yogi GOSWAMI, USA
Z. Xiao GUO, UK
Michael J. HEBEN, USA
Michael HIRSCHER, Germany
M. Ashraf IMAM, USA
Puru JENA, USA
Hannes JONSSON, Iceland
Jae Sung LEE, Korea
Robert LEISURE, USA
Nathan S. LEWIS, USA
Jeffrey R. LONG, USA
Max LU, Australia
Zong-qiang MAO, P.R. China
Tomoya MATSUNAGA, Japan
Laurens METS, USA
Darius MILCIUS, Lithuania
Nazim Z. MURADOV, USA
Dag NOREUS, Sweden
Jens K. NORSKOV, Denmark
James A. RITTER, USA
Louis SCHLAPBACH, Switzerland
Aldo STEINFELD, Switzerland
Ned STETSON, USA
Bill SUMMERS, USA
Gavin WALKER, UK
Irene YAROVSKY, Australia
Ragaiy ZIDAN, USA
Marco ZOPPI, Italy

Symposium FC
FUEL CELLS: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES

Co-Chairs:
Bert RIETVELD, The Netherlands
Prabhakar SINGH, USA
Harumi YOKOKAWA, Japan
Tianshou ZHAO, Hong Kong

Programme Chair:
Vincenzo ANTONUCCI, Italy

Members:
Antonino S. ARICO', Italy
Sukhvinder BADWAL, Australia
Frano BARBIR, Croatia
Jay B. BENZIGER, USA
Roberto BOVE, The Netherlands
Kwong-Yu CHAN, Hong Kong
Chu-Sheng CHEN, P.R. China
Lutgard C. DE JONGHE, USA
Fatih DOGAN, USA
Koichi EGUCHI, Japan
Thomas F. FULLER, USA
Juergen GARCHE, Germany
Nancy L. GARLAND, USA
Dave GHOSH, Canada
Sossina M. HAILE, USA
John T.S. IRVINE, UK
San Ping JIANG, Singapore
Prashant V. KAMAT, USA
Xianguo LI, Canada
Göran LINDBERGH, Sweden
Aristide F. MASSARDO, Italy
Mogens MOGENSEN, Denmark
Chikashi NISHIMURA, Japan
Janusz NOWOTNY, Australia
Ilan RIESS, Israel
Rolf ROSENBERG, Finland
Nigel M. SAMMES, USA
Jacobo SANTAMARIA, Spain
Kazunari SASAKI, Japan
Mauro SCAGLIOTTI, Italy
Günther G. SCHERER, Switzerland
Matthew SEABAUGH, USA
Subhash C. SINGHAL, USA
Ulrich STIMMING, Germany
Detlef STOLTEN, Germany
Yung-Eun SUNG, Korea
Werner TILLMETZ, Germany
Eric WACHSMAN, USA
Chao-Yang WANG, USA
Shu YAMAGUCHI, Japan

Symposium FD
ELECTROCHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS: THE NEXT EVOLUTION

Co-Chairs:
Yet-Ming CHIANG, USA
Arumugam MANTHIRAM, USA
Tsutomu OHZUKU, Japan
Bruno SCROSATI, Italy (Programme Chair)
Jean-Marie TARASCON, France

Members:
Doron AURBACH, Israel
Peter G. BRUCE, Scotland
B.V.R. CHOWDARI, Singapore
Fausto CROCE, Italy
Jeff R. DAHN, Canada
Nancy DUDNEY, USA
Bruce DUNN, USA
Steve G. GREENBAUM, USA
Clare P. GREY, USA
Hiroaki HATORI, Japan
Chi-Chang HU, Taiwan
Jari KESKINEN, Finland
Doug MacFARLANE, Australia
Nookala MUNICHANDRAIAH, India
Katsuhiko NAOI, Japan
Peter H.L. NOTTEN, The Netherlands
Petr NOVAK, Switzerland
Shigeto OKADA, Japan
Su-Moon PARK, Korea
Stane PEJOVNIK, Slovenia
S.R.S. PRABAHARAN, Malaysia
Jai PRAKASH, USA
Debra ROLISON, USA
Oumarou SAVADOGO, Canada
Patrice SIMON, France
Marshall C. SMART, USA
Esther S. TAKEUCHI, USA
Michael M. THACKERAY, USA
M. Stanley WHITTINGHAM, USA
Martin WINTER, Germany
Margret WOHLFAHRT-MEHRENS, Germany
Yu-Ping WU, P.R. China

Symposium FE
ADVANCES IN MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFICIENT DIRECT THERMAL-TO-ELECTRICAL ENERGY CONVERSION

Co-Chairs:
Kunihito KOUMOTO, Japan (Programme Chair)
David Michael ROWE, UK
Ali SHAKOURI, USA

Members:
Lukian Ivanovich ANATYCHUK, Ukraine
Viatcheslav ANDREEV, Russia
Hiroaki ANNO, Japan
Theodorian BORCA-TASCIUC, USA
Harald BÖTTNER, Germany
Thierry CAILLAT, USA
S.K. CHOU, Singapore
Ryoji FUNAHASHI, Japan
David C. JOHNSON, USA
Tsuyoshi KAJITANI, Japan
Mercouri KANATZIDIS, USA
Holger KLEINKE, Canada
Heiner LINKE, USA
Antoine MAIGNAN, France
Mamoun MUHAMMED, Sweden
Eckhard MÜLLER, Germany
George S. NOLAS, USA
Michitaka OHTAKI, Japan
Peter Franz ROGL, Austria
Brian C. SALES, USA
Hubert SCHERRER, France
Ryosuke SUZUKI, Japan
Ichiro TERASAKI, Japan
Janusz TOBOLA, Poland
Terry M. TRITT, USA
Ctirad UHER, USA
Rama VENKATASUBRAMANIAN, USA
Anke WEIDENKAFF, Switzerland
Krzysztof T. WOJCIECHOWSKI, Poland
Jihui YANG, USA
Veljko ZLATIC, Croatia

Symposium FF
MATERIALS CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE NUCLEAR FISSION AND FUSION TECHNOLOGIES

Co-Chairs:
Harald BOLT, Germany
Hua-Tay LIN, USA (Programme Chair)
Tatsuo SHIKAMA, Japan

Members:
Jarir AKTAA, Germany
David BACON, UK
Nadine BALUC, Switzerland
Alfredo CARO, USA
Michel CHATELIER, France
Sergei DUDAREV, UK
Thomas FANGHANEL, Germany
Kaiming FENG, P.R. China
Monica FERRARIS, Italy
Zhengyi FU, P.R. China
E.R. HODGSON, Spain
Jun-Hwa HONG, Korea
Ji-Jung KAI, Taiwan
Yutai KATOH, USA
Akihiko KIMURA, Japan
Akira KOHYAMA, Japan
Myeun KWON, Korea
Marion LE FLEM, France
Rainer LINDAU, Germany
Jochen LINKE, Germany
Stuart MALOY, USA
Kazuo MINATO, Japan
Takeo MUROGA, Japan
Maylise NASTAR, France
Robert ODETTE, USA
Ji Yeon PARK, Korea
Baldev RAJ, India
Joachim ROTH, Germany
Marek RUBEL, Sweden
Maria SAMARAS, Switzerland
Leo SANNEN, Belgium
Naoki SONEDA, Japan
Roger E. STOLLER, USA
Toshiyuki TAKAGI, Japan
Kostya TRACHENKO, UK
Jaap VAN DER LAAN, The Netherlands
Zhiguang WANG, P.R. China
Wolfgang WIESENACK, Norway
Brian D. WIRTH, USA
Yican WU, P.R. China
Michio YAMAWAKI, Japan
Suyuan YU, P.R. China
Shengyun ZHU, P.R. China
Steve J. ZINKLE, USA

Focused Session FF-10
Materials Technology for Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal

Chair:
Kevin FOX, USA

Members:
Joonhong AHN, USA
Bruce BEGG, Australia
Rodney C. EWING, USA
Thorsten GEISLER-WIERWILLE, Germany
Russell HAND, UK
Kazuya IDEMITSU, Japan
Carol JANTZEN, USA
Hitoshi MIMURA, Japan
Vincenzo RONDINELLA, Germany
Sergey STEFANOVSKY, Russia
Satoru TANAKA, Japan
Francesco TROIANI, Italy
Pierre VAN ISEGHEM, Belgium
Eric R. VANCE, Australia
Etienne VERNAZ, France
William WEBER, USA
Siegfied WEISENBERGER, Germany

Symposium FG
PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGES

Co-Chairs:
Paul DASTOOR, Australia
Michael GRÄTZEL, Switzerland
Lawrence L. KAZMERSKI, USA
Makoto KONAGAI, Japan

Programme Chair:
Nicola ROMEO, Italy

Members:
Timothy J. ANDERSON, USA
Harry A. ATWATER, USA
Guillermo Carlos BAZAN, USA
Carlo Alberto BIGNOZZI, Italy
David CARLSON, USA
Richard CORKISH, Australia
Silvia DESTRI, Italy
Bernhard DIMMLER, Germany
Ken DUROSE, UK
Chris FEREKIDES, USA
Carlo FLORES, Italy
Alex FREUNDLICH, USA
Stefan W. GLUNZ, Germany
Huey-Liang HWANG, ROC
Ghassan E. JABBOUR, USA
Ladislav KAVAN, Czech Republic
Valdotas KAZUKAUSKAS, Lithuania
Dong-Hwan KIM, Korea
Kwanghee LEE, Korea
Antonio LUQUE, Spain
Tom MARKVART, UK
Qingbo MENG, P.R. China
Steven A. RINGEL, USA
Francesco ROCA, Italy
Hans-Werner SCHOCK, Germany
Ruud E.I. SCHROPP, The Netherlands
Carole SENTEIN, France
Wim SINKE, The Netherlands
Jinsoo SONG, Korea
Hideki SUGIHARA, Japan
Sam-Shajing SUN, USA
Ayodhya TIWARI, Switzerland
Marko TOPIC, Slovenia
Takahiro WADA, Japan
Wenjing WANG, P.R. China
Tadeusz ZDANOWICZ, Poland
Yuwen ZHAO, P.R. China

Symposium FH
CONCENTRATING SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES: MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS FOR CPV AND CSP COMPETITIVENESS

Co-Chairs:
Viatcheslav ANDREEV, Russia
Antonio LUQUE, Spain
Mark MEHOS, USA (Programme Chair)
Robert PITZ-PAAL, Germany

Members:
Atsuki AKISAWA, Japan
Kenji ARAKI, Japan
Santanu BANDYOPADHYAY, India
Vittorio BRIGNOLI, Italy
Bruno D'AGUANNO, Italy
Alain DOLLET, France
N.J. EKINS-DAUKES, UK
Giuseppe GABETTA, Italy
Henner GLADEN, Germany
Giorgio GRADITI, Italy
Andreas HAEBERLE, Germany
Andreas HAUER, Germany
Jorge M. HUACUZ VILLAMAR, Mexico
Jacob KARNI, Israel
Sivanappan KUMAR, Thailand
Cherng-Tsong KUO, Taiwan
Sarah R. KURTZ, USA
Giuliano MARTINELLI, Italy
Diego MARTINEZ, Spain
Anton MEIER, Switzerland
Leonardo MERLO, Italy
David R. MILLS, USA
Hans-Dieter MOHRING, Germany
Werner PLATZER, Germany
Xavier PY, France
Volker QUASCHNING, Germany
Carlos RAMOS, Mexico
K. Srinivas REDDY, India
Valery D. RUMYANTSEV, Russia
Franziska SCHEFFLER, Germany
S.A. SHERIF, USA
Robert SOLER, France
Pascal STOUFFS, France
Martha SYMKO-DAVIES, USA
Rainer TAMME, Germany
Bernard THONON, France
Gianluca TIMO', Italy
Bae-Heng TSENG, Taiwan
Wim VAN HELDEN, The Netherlands
Mauro VIGNOLINI, Italy
Zhifeng WANG, P.R. China
Roland WINSTON, USA
Dong ZHANG, P.R. China

Symposium FI
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE RESEARCH AND APPLICATION OF TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING AND SEMICONDUCTING OXIDES

Co-Chairs:
David S. GINLEY, USA (Programme Chair)
Claes G. GRANQVIST, Sweden
Yuzo SHIGESATO, Japan

Members:
Marcela BILEK, Australia
Clark BRIGHT, USA
Klaus ELLMER, Germany
Norifumi FUJIMURA, Japan
Alexander GASKOV, Russia
Hao GONG, Singapore
Stuart J.C. IRVINE, UK
Andreas KLEIN, Germany
Tobin J. MARKS, USA
Rodrigo MARTINS, Portugal
Francis MAURY, France
Julia E. MEDVEDEVA, USA
Ion N. MIHAILESCU, Romania
Tadatsugu MINAMI, Japan
Joan Ramon MORANTE, Spain
Androula G. NASSIOPOULOU, Greece
Bernard NGHIEM, France
Martyn E. PEMBLE, Ireland
David SHEEL, UK
Kazushige UEDA, Japan
M.C.M. VAN DE SANDEN, The Netherlands
John F. WAGER, USA

Symposium FJ
MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR SOLID STATE LIGHTING

Co-Chairs:
April S. BROWN, USA
Chennupati JAGADISH, Australia
Iain McCULLOCH, UK

Programme Chair:
Giovanni BRUNO, Italy

Members:
Hiroshi AMANO, Japan
Herbert BOERNER, Germany
Alberta BONANNI, Austria
Franco CACIALLI, UK
Luisa DE COLA, Germany
Russell D. DUPUIS, USA
Ian FERGUSON, USA
Bernard GIL, France
Martin HEENEY, UK
Michael HEUKEN, Germany
H.T.J.M. HINTZEN, The Netherlands
Julia W.P. HSU, USA
Sheng-Lung HUANG, Taiwan
Dave IRVINE-HALLIDAY, Canada
Masashi KAWASAKI, Japan
Alois KROST, Germany
Thomas F. KUECH, USA
Hao-Chung KUO, Taiwan
Mike LESZCZYNSKI, Poland
Yung-Sheng LIU, Taiwan
Michael LORENZ, Germany
Maria LOSURDO, Italy
Nicola LOVERGINE, Italy
Francesco NASO, Italy
Jeff NAUSE, USA
Norbert H. NICKEL, Germany
David P. NORTON, USA
Jamie PHILLIPS, USA
David ROGERS, France
Timothy D. SANDS, USA
Alan SELLINGER, USA
Franky SO, USA
James S. SPECK, USA
Hongsuk SUH, Korea
Christian WETZEL, USA
Magnus WILLANDER, Sweden
Takafumi YAO, Japan
Edward T. YU, USA

Symposium FM
ELECTROMAGNETIC METAMATERIALS

Chair:
Nikolay I. ZHELUDEV, UK

Members:
Allan D. BOARDMAN, UK
Tie Jun CUI, P.R. China
Nader ENGHETA, USA
Yuri S. KIVSHAR, Australia
Angrey N. LAGARKOV, Russia
Joshua Le-Wei LI, Singapore
Joan Ferran MARTIN ANTOLIN, Spain
Susumu NODA, Japan
Ekmel OZBAY, Turkey
John PENDRY, UK
Vladimir M. SHALAEV, USA
Costas M. SOUKOULIS, Greece
Sergei A. TRETYAKOV, Finland
Lucio VEGNI, Italy
Martin WEGENER, Germany
Xiang ZHANG, USA
Said ZOUHDI, France

FK - 6th International Conference
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING OF NOVEL SUPERCONDUCTORS

Co-Chairs:
Donald U. GUBSER, USA
Hideo HOSONO, Japan
Davor PAVUNA, Switzerland

Programme Chair:
Attilio RIGAMONTI, Italy

Members:
Marcel AUSLOOS, Belgium
Antonio BARONE, Italy
Johann W. BLATTER, Switzerland
Bernd BÜCHNER, Germany
Alexander I. BUZDIN, France
Paolo CALVANI, Italy
Paul CANFIELD, USA
David CAPLIN, UK
Tord CLAESON, Sweden
Edward W. COLLINGS, USA
Guy DEUTSCHER, Israel
Takeshi EGAMI, USA
René FLÜKIGER, Switzerland
Laszlo FORRO, Switzerland
Hidetoshi FUKUYAMA, Japan
Wilfried GOLDACKER, Germany
Fedor GOMÖRY, Slovakia
Xiao HU, Japan
Ienari IGUCHI, Japan
Peter KOMAREK, Germany
Igor MAZIN, USA
Masato MURAKAMI, Japan
Vladimir M. PAN, Ukraine
Dean E. PETERSON, USA
Justin SCHWARTZ, USA
Paul SEIDEL, Germany
Yuh SHIOHARA, Japan
Jozef SPALEK, Poland
Frank STEGLICH, Germany
Setsuko TAJIMA, Japan
Shoji TANAKA, Japan
Yasutomo J. UEMURA, USA
Andrei VARLAMOV, Italy
Nan Lin WANG, P.R. China
Harald W. WEBER, Austria
Sergio ZANNELLA, Italy
Albert ZELLER, USA
Lian ZHOU, P.R. China

Programme Committee:
Attilio RIGAMONTI, Italy (Chair)
Claudio CASTELLANI, Italy
Andrea GAUZZI, France
Renato S. GONNELLI, Italy
Luigi MARITATO, Italy
Marina PUTTI, Italy
Laura ROMANO', Italy

FL - 9th International Conference
MEDICAL APPLICATIONS OF NOVEL BIOMATERIALS AND NANO-BIOTECHNOLOGY

Co-Chairs:
Zhongwei GU, P.R. China
Kazuhiko ISHIHARA, Japan
John A. JANSEN, The Netherlands (Programme Chair)
Thomas WEBSTER, USA

Members:
Luigi AMBROSIO, Italy
Rolando BARBUCCI, Italy
Bikramjit BASU, India
Fabio BELTRAM, Italy
Mario CANNAS, Italy
Yilin CAO, P.R. China
Jiang CHANG, P.R. China
Fuzhai CUI, P.R. China
Wouter DHERT, The Netherlands
Paul DUCHEYNE, USA
Achim GOEPFERICH, Germany
J. Zach HILT, USA
Karin HING, UK
Lynn L.H. HUANG, Taiwan
Esmaiel JABBARI, USA
Kazunori KATAOKA, Japan
Minna KELLOMAKI, Finland
Young Ha KIM, Korea
C. James KIRKPATRICK, Germany
Sunil KUMAR, Australia
Cato T. LAURENCIN, USA
Claudio MIGLIARESI, Italy
Antonios G. MIKOS, USA
Roger NARAYAN, USA
Chikara OHTSUKI, Japan
Akiyoshi OSAKA, Japan
Kinam PARK, USA
Josep A. PLANELL, Spain
Laura POOLE-WARREN, Australia
Seeram RAMAKRISHNA, Singapore
John A.M. RAMSHAW, Australia
Buddy RATNER, USA
Alex SEIFALIAN, UK
Michael SITTINGER, Germany
Anna TAMPIERI, Italy
Keiichi TORIMITSU, Japan
Ian TUCKER, New Zealand
Kathryn UHRICH, USA
Jos VANDER SLOTEN, Belgium
Nobuhiko YUI, Japan