INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDS

Symposium A
Adaptive, Active and Multifunctional Smart Materials Systems

Co-Chairs:
Markus ANTONIETTI, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Zhongyang CHENG, Auburn University, USA
Salvatore IANNOTTA, IMEM - CNR, Italy
Ping SHENG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Programme Chair:
Salvatore IANNOTTA, IMEM - CNR, Italy

Members:
Munetaka AKITA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Michael BENDIKOV, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Lennart BERGSTROM, Stockholm University, Sweden
Vivek BHARTI, 3M Center, USA
Claudio BIANCHINI, CNR-ICCOM, Italy
Jerome BIBETTE, ESPCI, France
Ian BOND, University of Bristol, UK
Enric CANADELL, University of Barcelona, Spain
Gregory Paul CARMAN, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Frank CARUSO, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Xiaobo CHEN, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., USA
Seung Bok CHOI, Inha University, Korea
Marcelo J. DAPINO, Ohio State University, USA
Luisa DE COLA, Munster University, Germany
Kazunari DOMEN, University of Tokyo, Japan
Marc DRILLON, University of Strasbourg, France
Mats FAHLMAN, Linkoping University, Sweden
Albert FIGUERAS, CSIC-ICN, Spain
Silvija GRADECAK, MIT, USA
Claes GRANQVIST, Uppsala University, Sweden
Anselm GRIFFIN, Georgia Tech, USA
Georges HADZIIOANNOU, University of Bordeaux, France
Yoon-Bong HAHN, Chonbuk National University, Korea
Kazuhito HASHIMOTO, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Lei JIANG, Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China
En-Tang KANG, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jose M. KENNY, University of Perugia, Italy
Alexei R. KHOKHLOV, Moscow State University, Russia
Susumu KITAGAWA, Kyoto University, Japan
Kenji KITAMURA, NIMS, Japan
Kazuyuki KURODA, Waseda University, Japan
Jan MA, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Meyya MEYYAPPAN, NASA, USA
Sergiy MINKO, Clarkson University, USA
Dieter NEHER, University of Potsdam, Germany
Dhananjai PANDEY, Banaras Hindu University, India
Shashi PAUL, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Michael POPALL, Fraunhofer-Institut für Silicatforschung, Germany
Horst-Günter RUBAHN, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Clement SANCHEZ, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France
Andreas SCHOENECKER, Fraunhofer Inst.for Ceramic Tech. and Systems IKTS, Germany
Ulrich SCHUBERT, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Vesselin N. SHANOV, University of Cincinnati, USA
Lu-Ping SHI, Data Storage Institute, Singapore
Elias SIORES, University of Bolton, UK
Henry A. SODANO, University of Florida, USA
Richard J. SPONTAK, North Carolina State University, USA
Masahide TAKAHASHI, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Mauricio TERRONES, Penn State University, USA
Richard A. VAIA, AFRL/MLBP, USA
Olin VELEV, North Carolina State University, USA
Marco VITTORI ANTISARI, ENEA, Italy
Ben WANG, Florida State University, USA
Junji WATANABE, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Masayoshi WATANABE, Yokohama National University, Japan
Francois WEISS, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
Weijia WEN, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Matthias WUTTIG, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Tian-Bing XU, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
Weiguang ZHU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Focused Session A-11
Multiferroics

Programme Chair:
Gopalan SRINIVASAN, Oakland University, USA

Members:
Agnes BARTHELEMY, Université Paris-Sud, France
Mark BLAMIRE, University of Cambridge, UK
Gustau CATALAN, CIN2-CSIC, Spain
Ying-Hao CHU, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Chun-Gang DUAN, East China Normal University, China
Arunava GUPTA, University of Alabama, USA
Milko ILIEV, University of Houston, USA
Hyun M. JANG, POSTECH, Korea
Masashi KAWASAKI, University of Tokyo, Japan
Michel KENZELMANN, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Tsuyoshi KIMURA, Osaka University, Japan
Hermann KOHLSTEDT, University of Kiel, Germany
Jeremy LEVY, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Alois LOIDL, University of Augsburg, Germany
B.S. MURTY, IIT-Madras, India
Naoto NAGAOSA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Thomas T.M. PALSTRA, University of Groningen, Holland
Jordi PASCUAL, ICN-Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, Spain
Vladimir PETROV, Novgorod State University, Russia
Silvia PICOZZI, CNR-SPIN, Italy
Shashank PRIYA, Virginia Tech, USA
Vladimir Ya. SHUR, Ural State University, Russia
Evgeny Y. TSYMBAL, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Thomas TYBELL, Norwegian Univ.of Science & Technology, Norway
Dwight VIEHLAND, Virginia Tech, USA
John WANG, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Focused Session A-12
Progress in Metamaterials Research

Programme Chair:
Concita SIBILIA, Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Italy

Members:
Richard AVERITT, Boston University, USA
Filiberto BILOTTI, Universita degli Studi "Roma Tre", Italy
Christophe CALOZ, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Che Ting CHAN, Hong Kong University of Science and Tech., Hong Kong
Huanyang CHEN, Soochow University, P.R.China
Jian-Chun CHENG, Nanjing University, P.R.China
Chiara DARAIO, CALTECH, USA
Jennifer A. DIONNE, Stanford University, USA
Nader ENGHETA, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Nicholas X. FANG, MIT, USA
Didier FELBACQ, University Montpellier 2, France
Harald GIESSEN, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Satoshi KAWATA, Osaka University, Japan
Yuri S. KIVSHAR, Australian National University, Australia
Natalia M. LITCHINITSER, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Stefan MAIER, Imperial College London, UK
Francisco MEDINA-MENA, University of Seville, Spain
Susumu NODA, Kyoto University, Japan
Mikhail A. NOGINOV, Norfolk State University, USA
Ekmel OZBAY, Bilkent University, Turkey
Min QIU, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Antti RAISANEN, Aalto University, Finland
J. Roy SAMBLES, Exeter University, UK
Alex SCHUCHINSKY, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Gennady SHVETS, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
David R. SMITH, Duke University, USA
Clivia Marfa SOTOMAYOR TORRES, Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology (CIN2-CSIC), Spain
Costas SOUKOULIS, Iowa State University & University of Crete, USA / Greece
Edwin L. THOMAS, Rice University, USA
Douglas WERNER, Penn State University, USA
Anatoly V. ZAYATS, King's College London, UK
Xiang ZHANG, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Lei ZHOU, Fudan University, P.R.China

Focused Session A-13
Graphene - From Science to Technology

Programme Chair:
Vincenzo PALERMO, CNR-ISOF, Italy

Members:
Laszlo P. BIRO, MTA MFA, Budapest, Hungary
Antonio H. CASTRO NETO, Boston University, USA
Chun-Wei CHEN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Kuei-Hsien CHEN, Inst.of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan
Yongsheng CHEN, Nankai University, China
Luigi COLOMBO, Texas Instruments Incorporated, USA
Toshiaki ENOKI, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Vladimir I. FALKO, Lancaster University, UK
Roman FASEL, EMPA, Switzerland
Andrea C. FERRARI, University of Cambridge, UK
Albert FERT, Université Paris Sud, France (Nobel Laureate)
Michael S. FUHRER, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Hongjun GAO, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
Pertti HAKONEN, Aalto University, Finland
Byung Hee HONG, SungKyunKwan University, Korea
Karsten HORN, FHI-MPG, Germany
Sorin IVANOVICI, BASF SE, Germany
Jari KINARET, Chalmers University, Sweden
Kostya NOVOSELOV, University of Manchester, UK (Nobel Laureate)
Taiichi OTSUJI, Tohoku University, Japan
Luca OTTAVIANO, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Alain PENICAUD, Université Bordeaux-I, France
Stephan ROCHE, Catalan Inst. of Nanotechnology (ICN), Spain
Rodney S. RUOFF, University of Texas, USA
Paolo SAMORI', Université de Strasbourg, France
Thomas SEYLLER, University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Zexiang SHEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Young-Woo SON, Korea Inst.for Advanced Study, Korea
Bart J. VAN WEES, University of Groningen, Holland
Andrew WEE, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Chao ZHANG, University of Wollongong, Australia

Focused Session A-15
Actively Moving Polymers

Programme Chair:
Andreas LENDLEIN, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Teltow, Germany and Berlin Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin, Germany

Members:
Christopher BOWMANN, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Filip E. DU PREZ, Ghent University, Belgium
Urs DUERIG, IBM, Zuerich, Switzerland
Yakai FENG, Tianjin University, P.R.China
Sunishi HAYASHI, SMP Technologies Inc., Japan
Jozsef KARGER-KOCSIS, University of Budapest, Hungary
Duncan J. MAITLAND, Texas A&M University, USA
Patrick MATHER, Syracuse University, USA
Abhay PANDIT, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Hans-Joachim RADUSCH, Martin-Luther-Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
U. Gianfranco SPIZZIRRI, University of Calabria, Italy
Christoph WEDER, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Timothy J. WHITE, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Tao XIE, GM R&D Center, USA
Ryo YOSHIDA, University of Tokyo, Japan

Symposium B
State-of-the-Art Research and Application of SMAs Technologies

Co-Chairs:
Stefano BESSEGHINI, RSE, Italy
Shuichi MIYAZAKI, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Eckhard QUANDT, University of Kiel, Germany
Minoru TAYA, University of Washington, USA

Programme Chair:
Stefano BESSEGHINI, RSE, Italy

Members:
Franca ALBERTINI, IMEM-CNR, Italy
Tony ANSON, Brunel University, UK
Ferdinando AURICCHIO, Universita di Pavia, Italy
Vladimir BRAILOVSKI, Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada
Vasiliy D. BUCHELNIKOV, Chelyabinsk State University, Russia
Fabio CASCIATI, Universita di Pavia, Italy
Eduard CESARI, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Volodymyr A. CHERNENKO, Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU, Spain
Yuri CHUMLYAKOV, Siberian Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
Jan M. DUTKIEWICZ, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Simo-Pekka HANNULA, Aalto University of Technology, Finland
Laurent HIRSINGER, Institut FEMTO-ST, France
Wei Min HUANG, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tomoyuki KAKESHITA, Osaka University, Japan
Ibrahim KARAMAN, Texas A&M University, USA
Cheol KIM, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Yoichi KISHI, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Manfred KOHL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Yinong LIU, University of Western Australia, Australia
Hans-Jürgen MAIER, University of Paderborn, Germany
P.K. MUKHOPADHYAY, S.N.Bose Centre, Kolkata, India
Yasukazu MURAKAMI, Tohoku University, Japan
Antoni PLANES, University of Barcelona, Spain
Bogdan RANIECKI, IPPT-PAN, Poland
Xiaobing REN, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Avadh B. SAXENA, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
Ludwig SCHULTZ, IFW Dresden, Germany
Petr SITTNER, Institute of Physics, Acad.of Sci. of the Czech Rep., Czech Republic
Qing-Ping SUN, Hong Kong University of Science and Tecnology, Hong Kong
Jan VAN HUMBEECK, KU Leuven, Belgium
Shyi-Kaan WU, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
L'Hocine YAHIA, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Yufeng ZHENG, Peking University, China

Symposium C
Electroactive Polymers: Advances in Materials and Devices

Co-Chairs:
Toshihiro HIRAI, Shinshu University, Japan
Jinsong LENG, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Steen SKAARUP, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Elisabeth SMELA, University of Maryland, USA

Programme Chair:
Steen SKAARUP, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Members:
Alvo AABLOO, Tartu University, Estonia
Iain ANDERSON, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand
Karl-Friedrich ARNDT, TU Dresden, Germany
Kinji ASAKA, AIST, Japan
Vaclav BOUDA, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
Zhongyang CHENG, Auburn University, USA
Stephen DUCHARME, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA
Takeo FURUKAWA, Kobayasi Institute of Physical Research, Japan
Jian Ping GONG, Hokkaido University, Japan
Salvatore GRAZIANI, Universita di Catania, Italy
Edwin JAGER, Linkoping University, Sweden
Keiichi KANETO, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Kwang Jin KIM, University of Nevada, USA
Seon Jeong KIM, Hanyang University, Korea
Guggi KOFOD, University of Potsdam, Germany
Gih Keong LAU, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Doug MacFARLANE, Monash University, Australia
Tetsu MITSUMATA, Yamagata University, Japan
Hani E. NAGUIB, University of Toronto, Canada
Siavouche NEMAT-NASSER, University of California at San Diego, USA
Hidenori OKUZAKI, Yamanashi University, Japan
Yoshihito OSADA, RIKEN, Japan
Toribio F. OTERO, Univ. Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
Mika PAAJANEN, VTT, Tech. Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Hoon Cheol PARK, Konkuk University, South Korea
Qibing PEI, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Ron PELRINE, SRI International, USA
Mohsen SHAHINPOOR, University of Maine, USA
Herbert SHEA, EPFL, Switzerland
Anuvat SIRIVAT, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Ji SU, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Frédéric VIDAL, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
Qiming ZHANG, Penn State University, USA

Symposium D
Smart and Interactive Textiles

Co-Chairs:
Juan HINESTROZA, Cornell University, USA
George K. STYLIOS, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Xiao-ming TAO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Programme Chair:
Cosimo CARFAGNA, CNR-ICTP, Italy

Members:
Domenico ACIERNO, University of Naples, Italy
Luigi AMBROSIO, IMCB-CNR, Napoli, Italy
Sima ASVADI, Philips, The Netherlands
Annalisa BONFIGLIO, DIEE, Universita di Cagliari, Italy
Guy BUYLE, Centexbel, Belgium
Paul CALVERT, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA
Gilsoo CHO, Yonsei University, Korea
Marion ELLWANGER-MOHR, Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany
Tushar K. GHOSH, North Carolina State University, USA
Ana Marija GRANCARIC, University of Zagreb, Croazia
Elisabeth HEIMDAL, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
You-Lo HSIEH, University of California at Davis, USA
Sundaresan JAYARAMAN, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
James JOHNSTON, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Kap-Jin KIM, Kyung Hee University, Korea
Seong Hun KIM, Hanyang University, Korea
Vladan KONCAR, ENSAIT - GEMTEX, France
Katerina KREBBER, BAM, Germany
Tong LIN, Deakin University, Australia
Torsten LINZ, Fraunhofer IZM TexLab, Germany
Jean LUPRANO, CSEM, Switzerland
Igor LUZINOV, Clemson University, USA
Andreas LYMBERIS, European Commission, Belgium
Elvio MANTOVANI, Nanotec IT-AIRI, Italy
Heikki MATTILA, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Jane McCANN, University of Wales, UK
Uwe MOEHRING, Textile Research Institute Thuringia-Vogtland e.V., Germany
François NARBONNEAU, MULTITEL, Belgium
Fernando NUNES FERREIRA, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Rita PARADISO, Smartex Laboratories, Italy
Heinrich PLANCK, ITV-Denkendorf, Germany
Subbiyan RAJENDRAN, University of Bolton, UK
Seeram RAMAKRISHNA, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Nicolas RENAUD, Cetemmsa, Spain
Stephen J. RUSSELL, University of Leeds, UK
Laurence SCHACHER, University of Mulhouse, France
Tahir SHAH, University of Bolton, UK
Thomas STEGMAIER, ITV Denkendorf, Germany
Lieva VAN LANGENHOVE, Ghent University, Belgium
Liesbeth VAN PIETERSON, Philips, The Netherlands
Jan VANFLETEREN, IMEC-Ugent, Belgium
Sigurd WAGNER, Princeton University, USA
Xun-gai WANG, Deakin University, CMFI, Australia

Symposium E
Next Generation Micro/Nano Systems

Co-Chairs:
Thomas GESSNER, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Marc J. MADOU, University of California, Irvine, USA
Shuichi SHOJI, Waseda University, Japan

Programme Chair:
Leandro LORENZELLI, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Members:
Narayana R. ALURU, University of Illinois, USA
Farrokh AYAZI, Georgia Tech, USA
Anja BOISEN, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Alain BOSSEBOEUF, CNRS - University of Paris South, France
Dong-il CHO, Seoul National University, Korea
Kukjin CHUN, Seoul National University, Korea
Nico DE ROOIJ, EPFL, Switzerland
Masayoshi ESASHI, Tohoku University, Japan
Lorenzo FARAONE, University of Western Australia, Australia
Teruo FUJII, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hiroyuki FUJITA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Reza GHODSSI, University of Maryland, USA
Bonnie GRAY, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jongyoon HAN, MIT, USA
Christofer HIEROLD, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland
Klas HJORT, Uppsala University, Sweden
Henrik JAKOBSEN, Vestfold University College, Norway
Dieter KERN, University of Tübingen, Germany
Dong-Joo KIM, Auburn University, USA
Satoshi KONISHI, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Gwo-Bin LEE, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Jing-Feng LI, Tsinghua University, P.R.China
Wen Jung LI, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Ron LIFSHITZ, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Johan LIU, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Bernd MICHEL, Fraunhofer Institution ENAS, Germany
Alexandru MULLER, IMT Bucharest, Romania
Bradley NELSON, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland
Ian PAPAUTSKY, University of Cincinnati, USA
Yves-Alain PETER, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
Ivo RENDINA, CNR-IMM Napoli, Italy
Albert ROMANO-RODRIGUEZ, University of Barcelona, Spain
Gary W. RUBLOFF, University of Maryland at College Park, USA
Kazuo SATO, Nagoya University, Japan
Ulrich SCHMID, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Pietro SICILIANO, CNR-IMM, Lecce, Italy
Olav SOLGAARD, Stanford University, USA
Richard SYMS, Imperial College London, UK
Osamu TABATA, Kyoto University, Japan
Yu-Chong TAI, CALTECH, USA
Francis TAY ENG HOCK, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Thomas G. THUNDAT, University of Alberta, Canada
Christos TSAMIS, National Center for Sci. Res. "Demokritos", Greece
Ruud VULLERS, Imec, The Netherlands
Anthony WALTON, University of Edinburgh, UK
Wanjun WANG, Louisiana State University, USA
Zhong Lin WANG, Georgia Tech, USA
Sang Sik YANG, Ajou University, Korea
J. Andrew YEH, NTHU, Taiwan
Roland ZENGERLE, University of Freiburg, Germany
Xin ZHANG, Boston University, USA

Symposium F
Smart & Adaptive Optics

Co-Chairs:
Brian CULSHAW, University of Strathclyde, UK
Bahram JALALI, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Wenhan JIANG, The Institute of Optics and Electronics, CAS, China

Programme Chair:
Giancarlo RIGHINI, CNR, Italy

Members:
Ady ARIE, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Hiroshi ASANUMA, Chiba University, Japan
Anand ASUNDI, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hartmut BARTELT, IPHT-Jena, Germany
Thomas BIFANO, Boston University, USA
Gilberto BRAMBILLA, University of Southampton, UK
Mark L. BRONGERSMA, Stanford University, USA
John CANNING, University of Sydney, Australia
Sang H. CHOI, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Aaron DANNER, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ben EGGLETON, University of Sydney, Australia
Javier GARCIA DE ABAJO, Instituto de Optica - CSIC, Spain
Christophe GORECKI, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Alan H. GREENAWAY, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Trevor J. HALL, University of Ottawa, Canada
Hans Peter HERZIG, EPFL, Switzerland
Iam-Choon KHOO, Penn State University, USA
Joachim R. KRENN, Karl-Franzens-University, Austria
Joel KUBBY, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Alexis KUDRYASHOV, Moscow State Open University, Russia
El-Hang LEE, Inha University, Korea
Marian MARCINIAK, National Inst.of Telecommunications, Poland
Fernando MENDOZA SANTOYO, Centro de Investigaciones en Optica, Mexico
Namkyoo PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Nasser PEYGHAMBARIAN, The University of Arizona, USA
Sergio RESTAINO, U.S. Naval Research Lab., USA
Gérard ROUSSET, Université Paris 7, France
Victor RYZHII, University of Aizu, Japan
Angela SEDDON, The University of Nottingham, UK
Vladimir M. SHALAEV, Purdue University, USA
Hajime SHOJI, Sumitomo Electric Ind., Ltd., Japan
Andrea SIMONI, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Thomas J. SULESKI, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Takunori TAIRA, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
Hwa-Yaw TAM, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Setsuhisa TANABE, Kyoto University, Japan
Hugo THIENPONT, Vrije University, Belgium
Din Ping TSAI, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wim C. VAN ETTEN, University of Twente, Holland
Anbo WANG, Virginia Tech, USA
Diederik WIERSMA, CNR-INO, Italy
Tomasz R. WOLINSKI, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Ming C. WU, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Nikolay I. ZHELUDEV, University of Southampton, UK

Italian Scientific Committee
Maurizio FERRARI, CNR - IFN, Trento (Chair)
Simone ESPOSITO, INAF, Arcetri, Firenze
Gianluca GALZERANO, IFN - CNR, Milano
Francesco GONELLA, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia
Guglielmo LANZANI, Politecnico di Milano
Alessandro MARTUCCI, Universita di Padova
Stefano PELLI, IFAC - CNR, Firenze
Angela PIEGARI, ENEA, Roma
Franco QUERCIOLI, INO - CNR, Firenze
Luigi SIRLETO, IMM - CNR, Napoli
Cesare UMETON, Universita della Calabria, Rende, Cosenza

Symposium G
Emboding Intelligence in Structures and Integrated Systems

Co-Chairs:
Fabio CASCIATI, Universita di Pavia, Italy (Programme Chair)
B.L. (Les) LEE, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, USA
Hui LI, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China
André PREUMONT, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Programme Chair:
Fabio CASCIATI, Universita di Pavia, Italy

Members:
Lenser AGHALOVIAN, Institute of Mechanics of NAS of Armenia, Armenia
A. Emin AKTAN, Drexel University, USA
Eduard ARZT, Saarland University, Germany
Alexander BELYAEV, Institute for Problems in Mechanical Eng., Russia
Ayech BENJEDDOU, SUPMECA, France
Christian BOLLER, Universitat des Saarlandes, Germany
Fu-Kuo CHANG, Stanford University, USA
Gye-chun CHO, KAIST, Korea
Fabrizio DAVI', Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy
Guido DE ROECK, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Andrea DEL GROSSO, Universita degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Lucia FARAVELLI, Universita di Pavia, Italy
Gerard F. FERNANDO, University of Birmingham, UK
Dan M. FRANGOPOL, Lehigh University, USA
Michael I. FRISWELL, Swansea University, UK
Claus-Peter FRITZEN, University of Siegen, Germany
Yozo FUJINO, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ulrich GABBERT, University of Magdeburg, Germany
Ephrahim GARCIA, Cornell University, USA
Victor GIURGIUTIU, University of South Carolina, USA
Alfredo GÜEMES, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Anxin GUO, Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China
Jan HOLNICKI-SZULC, Institute of Fundamental Technol. Research, Poland
Daniel J. INMAN, The University of Michigan, USA
Hans IRSCHIK, Johannes-Kepler-Universitaet Linz, Austria
Camille ISSA, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Hyungjo JUNG, KAIST, Korea
A. Bani-Hani KHALDOON, Qatar University, Qatar
Jeong-tae KIM, Pukyong National University, Korea
Anne S. KIREMIDJIAN, Stanford University, USA
Francesco LANZA DI SCALEA, University of California at San Diego, USA
Ying LEI, Xiamen University, P.R.China
Wei-Hsin LIAO, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shih Chi LIU, National Science Foundation, USA
Chin-Hsiung LOH, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Xilin LU, Tongji University, P.R.China
C.S. MANOHAR, Indian Institute of Science, India
Sami MASRI, University of Southern California, USA
Annibale Luigi MATERAZZI, Universita di Perugia, Italy
Akira MITA, Keio University, Japan
Satish NAGARAJAIAH, Rice University, USA
Aly S. NAZMY, Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates
Yi Qing NI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Wieslaw OSTACHOWICZ, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Jinping OU, Dalian University of Technology, P.R.China
Costas PAPADIMITRIOU, University of Thessaly, Greece
Seunghee PARK, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Piervincenzo RIZZO, University of Pittsburgh, USA
José RODELLAR BENEDE, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Yong-rae ROH, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Bijan SAMALI, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Rahmat SHOURESHI, New York Institute of Technology, USA
Hoon SOHN, Korea Advanced Inst.of Science & Technology, Korea
Billie F. SPENCER Jr., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Wieslaw J. STASZEWSKI, Sheffield University, UK
Afzal SULEMAN, University of Victoria, Canada
Costas A. SYRMAKEZIS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Liqiong TANG, Massey University, New Zealand
Moshe TUR, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Fabrizio VESTRONI, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Pennung WARNITCHAI, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Chung-Bang YUN, KAIST, South Korea
Zhi ZHOU, Dalian University of Technology, P.R.China

Symposium H
Mining Smartness From Nature

Co-Chairs:
Takuzo AIDA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
ZhenDong DAI, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
George JERONIMIDIS, The University of Reading, UK
Nadrian C. SEEMAN, New York University, USA

Programme Chairs:
Nadrian C. SEEMAN, New York University, USA
Friedrich C. SIMMEL, Technical University Munich, Germany

Members:
Robert ALLEN, University of Southampton, UK
Martyn AMOS, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Bharat BHUSHAN, Ohio State University, USA
Vincent BULONE, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Jerome CASAS, Université de Tours, France
Wei CHEN, SINANO, CAS, P.R.China
Mihai CHIRITA, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Gr.T. Popa", Romania
Paolo DARIO, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Dennis E. DISCHER, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Manuel ELICES, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Peter FRATZL, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Giuseppina GINI, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stanislav N. GORB, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany
Yuichi HIRATSUKA, JAIST, Japan
Shigeyuki HOSOE, RIKEN, Japan
Eric JAKOBSSON, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Pasi KALLIO, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Satoshi KOBAYASHI, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Sunghoon KWON, Seoul National University, Korea
Akhlesh LAKHTAKIA, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Hao LIU, Chiba University, Japan
Sylvain MARTEL, Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Raul J. MARTIN-PALMA, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Constantinos MAVROIDIS, Northeastern University, USA
Fiona MELDRUM, University of Leeds, UK
Carlo MENON, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Phillip B. MESSERSMITH, Northwestern University, USA
Tsafrir MOR, Arizona State University, USA
Christof M. NIEMEYER, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
Gerald POLLACK, University of Washington, USA
Yasubumi SAKAKIBARA, Keio University, Japan
Mehmet SARIKAYA, University of Washington, USA
Mitsuhiko SHIONOYA, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Friedrich C. SIMMEL, Technical University Munich, Germany
Uwe B. SLEYTR, BOKU, Vienna, Austria
Lloyd SMITH, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Christina D. SMOLKE, Stanford University, USA
Shigeru SUNADA, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Andrew J. TURBERFIELD, Oxford University, UK
Reidun TWAROCK, University of York, UK
Julian VINCENT, University of Bath, UK
Joseph WANG, University of California at San Diego, USA
Daniel WEIHS, Technion, Israel
Marc WEISSBURG, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Itamar WILLNER, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Hao YAN, Arizona State University, USA
Byoung-Tak ZHANG, Seoul National University, Korea
Di ZHANG, Shanghai JiaoTong University, P.R.China

Symposium I
Progress in Wearable/Wireless and Implantable Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications

Co-Chairs:
Dermot DIAMOND, Dublin City University, Ireland (Programme Chair)
Toshiyo TAMURA, National Institute for Longevity Science, Japan
Vijay V. VARADAN, University of Arkansas, USA
Guang-Zhong YANG, Imperial College London, UK

Programme Chairs:
Dermot DIAMOND, Dublin City University, Ireland

Members:
Roger ARMITAGE, Adidas Group, UK
Maria Teresa ARREDONDO W., Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Ilangko BALASINGHAM, University of Oslo & NTNU, Norway
Dinesh BHATIA, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Paolo BONATO, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, USA
Dongyi CHEN, University of Electronic & Sci.Tech.of China, P.R.China
Hui CHEN, Virginia State University, USA
Lorenzo CHIARI, Universita di Bologna, Italy
Wan-Young CHUNG, Pukyong National University, Korea
Giovanni DE MICHELI, EPFL, Switzerland
Danilo DE ROSSI, University of Pisa, Italy
Eryk DUTKIEWICZ, Macquarie University, Australia
Thomas FALCK, Philips Corporate Technologies, The Netherlands
Joerg HABETHA, Philips GmbH, The Netherlands
Robert ISTEPANIAN, Kingston University, UK
Emil JOVANOV, University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA
John LACH, University of Virginia, USA
Insup LEE, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Steffen LEONHARDT, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Paul LUKOWICZ, University of Passau, Germany
Michael MARSCHOLLEK, Peter L. Reichertz Institut, Germany Eric McADAMS, INSA Lyon, France
Mehran MEHREGANY, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Kwang Suk PARK, Seoul National University, Korea
Niilo SARANUMMI, VTT, Finland
Majid SARRAFZADEH, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Mohamad SAWAN, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada
Wee SER, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
William C. TANG, University of California, Irvine, USA
Chris VAN HOOF, IMEC, Belgium
Athanasios VASILAKOS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Peter VELTINK, University of Twente, Holland
Lei WANG, Shenzhen Inst. of Advanced Integration Technology, China

Symposium J
Biomedical Applications of "Smart" Technologies

Co-Chairs:
François A. AUGER, University of Laval, Canada
Kazunori KATAOKA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Robert N. MULLER, University of Mons, Belgium
Thomas J. WEBSTER, Brown University, USA

Programme Chair:
E. Pasquale SCILINGO, University of Pisa, Italy

Members:
Silvio AIME, University of Torino, Italy
Toshihiro AKAIKE, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Cameron ALEXANDER, University of Nottingham, UK
Anthony J. ATALA, Wake Forest University Baptist, USA
Yoshinobu BABA, Nagoya University, Japan
Rolando BARBUCCI, Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy
Yilin CAO, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, P.R.China
Patrick COUVREUR, CNRS, France
Tejal DESAI, University of California at San Francisco, USA
Sandra DOWNES, The University of Manchester, UK
Jennifer H. ELISSEEFF, John Hopkins University, USA
Antoine FERREIRA, Universite d'Orleans, France
Aaron FLEISCHMAN, Lerner Research Institute, USA
Robert A. FREITAS Jr., Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, USA
Yasuhisa FUJIBAYASHI, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Japan
Rogerio GASPAR, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Juri GELOVANI, The University of Texas, USA
Norbert GRETZ, Heidelberg University, Germany
J. Zach HILT, University of Kentucky, USA
Jari HYTTINEN, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Koji IKUTA, Nagoya University, Japan
Esmaiel JABBARI, University of South Carolina, USA
Ming JIANG, Peking University, China
David S. JONES, Queen's University of Belfast, UK
Bengt KASEMO, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ick Chan KWON, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Vinod LABHASETWAR, Lerner Research Institute, USA
Robert LANGER, MIT, USA
Feng-Huei LIN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Nigel LOVELL, University of New South Wales, Australia
Atsushi MARUYAMA, Kyushu University, Japan
Takeo MATSUMOTO, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
Klaas NICOLAY, Eindhoven University of Technology, Holland
Konstantina S. NIKITA, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Vasilis NTZIACHRISTOS, Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen, Germany
Kinam PARK, Purdue University, USA
Josep A. PLANELL, IBEC Barcelona, Spain
Buddy D. RATNER, University of Washington, USA
Michael L. REED, University of Virginia, USA
Michael S. SACKS, University of Pittsburgh, USA
David SAMPSON, University Western Australia, Australia
Francesco STELLACCI, EPFL, Switzerland
Samuel I. STUPP, Northwestern University, USA
Maryam TABRIZIAN, McGill University, Canada
Vladimir P. TORCHILIN, Northeastern University, USA
Valery TUCHIN, Saratov State University, Russia
Pankaj VADGAMA, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Janos VOROS, ETH-Zentrum, Switzerland
Anthony WEISS, University of Sydney, Australia
Carsten WERNER, Technical University Dresden, Germany
Jackie Y. YING, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
Nobuhiko YUI, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan
Christiane ZIEGLER, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany