INVITED LECTURES
8th Forum on New Materials

Iain ANDERSON, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Ana ARIAS, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Craig ARMIENTO, Umass Lowell, USA
Beatrice FRABONI, University of Bologna,,Italy
Francesco GRECO, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Rylie GREEN, Imperial College London, UK
Martin KALTENBRUNNER, Johannes-Kepler University Linz, Austria
Martijn KEMERINK, Linkoping University, Sweden
Dae-Hyeong KIM/Jahoon KOO, Seoul National University, South Korea
Taek-Soo KIM, KAIST, South Korea
Stephanie LACOUR / Giuseppe SCHIAVONE, EPFL, Switzerland
Darren J. LIPOMI, University of California, San Diego, USA
Yong-Young NOH, Dongguk University, South Korea
Jonathan REEDER, Northwestern University, USA
Natalie STINGELIN, Georgia Tech & Imperial College London, USA & UK
Klas TYBRANDT, Linkoping University, Sweden
 

Erik BAKKERS, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Philippe BLANCHARD, University of Angers, France
Magnus T. BORGSTROM, Lund University, Sweden
Edmondo GILIOLI, CNR Parma, Italy
Clemens HESKE, KIT, Germany, & University of Nevada, USA
Shigeru IKEDA, Konan University, Japan
Hannes JONSSON, University of Iceland, Iceland
Erwin KESSELS / Bart MACCO, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Heiner LINKE, Lund University, Sweden
Jon MAJOR, University of Liverpool, UK
Antonio MARTI, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Budhika MENDIS, University of Durham, UK
Takashi MINEMOTO/Jakapan CHANTANA, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan
Yoshitaro NOSE, Kyoto University, Japan
Masakazu SUGIYAMA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Vittorianna TASCO, NANOTEC CNR Lecce, Italy
Gianluca TIMO, RSE, Italy
Bart VERMANG, University of Hasselt, Belgium
Kenji YOSHINO, University of Miyazaki, Japan
 

Shuzi HAYASE, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Nazario MARTIN, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Agustin MOLINA ONTORIA, IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain
Wolfgang Richard TRESS, EPFL, Switzerland
Trystan WATSON, Swansea University, UK
Koichi YAMASHITA, University of Tokyo, Japan
 

Andrea BALDI, DIFFER-Dutch Inst.for Fundamental Energy Research, Netherlands
Ardemis BOGHOSSIAN, EPFL, Switzerland
Maytal CASPARY-TOROKER, Technion, Israel
Petra E. DE JONGH / Peter NGENE, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Umit DEMIRCI, University of Montpellier, France
Martin DORNHEIM, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Yaroslav FILINCHUK, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Michael HIRSCHER, Max Planck Institut for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Louise JALOWIECKI-DUHAMEL, University of Lille1, France
Torben René JENSEN, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Oliver KROECHER, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Michel LATROCHE, CNRS/ICMPE, France
Fabrice LEARDINI, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Ronald MICHALSKY, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Guido MUL, University of Twente, Netherlands
Luca PASQUINI, University of Bologna, Italy
Kevin SIVULA, EPFL, Switzerland
Stenbjorn STYRING, Uppsala University, Sveden
Petra SZILAGYI, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Heena YANG, EPFL, Switzerland
Andreas ZUETTEL, EPFL, Switzerland
 

Andrea BALDUCCI, University of Jena, Germany
Ratnakumar BUGGA, NASA-Jet Propusion Laboratory, USA
Claude DELMAS, ICMCB-CNRS (UPR9048), France
Giuseppe A. ELIA, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
Stefan FREUNBERGER, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Diana GOLODNITSKY, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Steve G. GREENBAUM, Hunter College at CUNY, USA
Duncan GREGORY, University of Glasgow, UK
Bernard LESTRIEZ, IMN CNRS / University of Nantes, France
Brent MELOT, University of Southern California, USA
Shigeto OKADA, Kyushu University, Japan
Stefano PASSERINI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Teofilo ROJO, University of the Basque Country & CIC energiGUNE, Spain
Wataru SUGIMOTO, Shinshu University, Japan
Sigita TRABESINGER, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
Alberto VARZI, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Marcel WEIL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Nae-Lih WU, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 

Martin BRAM, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Serhiy CHEREVKO, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Elisabetta DI BARTOLOMEO, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
Elisabeth DJURADO, University Grenoble Alpes, France
K. Andreas FRIEDRICH, DLR-German Aerospace Center, Germany
Steven HOLDCROFT, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ulrike KRAMM, University of Darmstadt, Germany
Julia KUNZE-LIEBHAEUSER, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, Austria
Qing Feng LI, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Maria Victoria MARTINEZ-HUERTA, CSIC-ICP, Madrid, Spain
Hamish MILLER, ICCOM-CNR Firenze, Italy
Yu MORIMOTO, Toyota Central R&D Labs, Japan
Isabella NICOTERA, University of Calabria, Italy
Kenneth OZOEMENA, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Stephen SKINNER, Imperial College London, UK
 

Ernst BAUER, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Laurent CHAPUT, Université de Lorraine, France
Alejandro DATAS, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain / Alessandro BELLUCCI, CNR-ISM, Rome, Italy
Anne DAUSCHER, Institut Jean Lamour, France
Marco FORNARI, Central Michigan University, USA
David FUKS, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ryoji FUNAHASHI, AIST, Japan
Yuri GRIN, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
Emmanuel GUILMEAU, CRISMAT-ENSICAEN, France
Tsutomu KANNO, Panasonic Co.Ltd., Japan
Maarit KARPPINEN, Aalto University, Finland
Woochul KIM, Yonsei University, South Korea
Victor I. KUZNETSOV, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
Theodora KYRATSI, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Bertrand LENOIR / Christophe CANDOLFI, Université de Lorraine, France
Qiang LI, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Georg MADSEN, Vienna Technical University, Austria
Takao MORI, NIMS - MANA, Japan
Eckhard MUELLER/Johannes DE BOOR, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
Shinji MUNETOH, Kyushu University, Japan
Dario NARDUCCI, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Michihiro OHTA, AIST, Japan
Ichiro TERASAKI, Nagoya University, Japan
Konstantinos TERMENTZIDIS, CNRS, INSA of Lyon, France
Janusz TOBOLA, AGH University of Science & Technology, Poland
Anke WEIDENKAFF, University of Stuttgart, Germany
 

Mehmet ACET, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Christian BAHL, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Kilian BARTHOLOME, Fraunhofer IPM, Germany
Vittorio BASSO, INRIM, Italy
Ekkes BRUECK, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
Francesca CASOLI, IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy
Teresa CASTAN, University of Barcelona, Spain
Lesley COHEN, Imperial College London, UK
Cesar DE JULIAN FERNANDEZ, IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy
Nora DEMPSEY, CNRS Institut Neel, France
Peter ENTEL, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany / Vladimir SOKOLOVSKIY, Chelyabinsk State University, Russia
Claudia FELSER / Anastasios MARKOU, Max-Planck-Institut f.Chem.Physik fester Stoffe, Germany
Maria Luisa FERNANDEZ GUBIEDA, Basque Country University, Spain
Cristina GOMEZ POLO, Public University of Navarra, Spain
George C. HADJIPANAYIS, University of Delaware, USA
Yusuke HIRAYAMA, AIST, Japan
Spomenka KOBE, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Manfred KOHL, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Laura H. LEWIS, Northeastern University, USA
J. Ping LIU, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Lluis MANOSA, University of Barcelona, Spain
Xavier MOYA, University of Cambridge, UK
Eva PELLICER, University of Barcelona, Spain
Valeria RODIONOVA, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Russia
Karl SANDEMAN, City University of New York, USA
Thomas SCHREFL, Danube University Krems, Austria
Konstantin SKOKOV, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
Julie STAUNTON, University of Warwick, UK
Dieter SUESS, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Paola TIBERTO, INRIM, Italy
Jinbo YANG, Peking University, China
Arcady ZHUKOV, Basque Country University, Spain
 

Jan AUGUSTYNSKI, University of Warsaw, Poland
Detlef BAHNEMANN, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Jonathan BLOH, DECHEMA-Forschungsinstitut, Germany
Zhong CHEN, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Ib CHORKENDORFF, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Christophe COLBEAU-JUSTIN, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Peter CROZIER, Arizona State University, USA
Sandra DIRE, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy
Sophia HAUSSENER, EPFL, Switzerland
Michael R. HOFFMANN, California Institute for Technology, USA
Wolfram JAEGERMANN, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany
Csaba JANAKY, University of Szeged, Hungary
Wojciech MACYK / Marcin KOBIELUSZ, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Bunsho OHTANI, Hokkaido University, Japan
Francesco PAOLUCCI / Giovanni VALENTI, University of Bologna, Italy
Hyunwoong PARK, Kyungpook National University, South Korea
Yaron PAZ, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Gregory S. ROHRER, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Ian SHARP / Chang-Ming JIANG, TU Munich, Germany
Jennifer STRUNK, Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Germany
 

Christopher A. BOWER / Antonio J. TRINDADE, X-Celeprint Inc., USA
Ludwig EDMAN, Umea University, Sweden
Hiroshi FUJIOKA, University of Tokyo, Japan
Hirohiko FUKAGAWA, Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Japan
H.T.(Bert) HINTZEN, Delft University of  Technology, Netherlands
Hideki HIRAYAMA / Tsung-Tse LIN, RIKEN, Japan
Motoaki IWAYA, Meijo University, Japan
Nicolas LAURAND, University of Strathclyde, UK
Pierre LEFEBVRE, L2C - CNRS - University of Montpellier, France
Hans LUGAUER, OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH, Germany
Christian MAY, Fraunhofer FEP, Germany
Hideto MIYAKE, Mie University, Japan
Jongwook PARK, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Barry RAND, Princeton University, USA
Stefano TOFFANIN, CNR-ISMN, Italy
Nicola TRIVELLIN, Light Cube, Padova, Italy
Xiao-Jun WANG, Georgia Southern University, USA
Ken-Tsung WONG, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Takuma YASUDA, Kyushu University, Japan
 

Daniel BELLET, Grenoble INP, France
Roberto FORNARI, University of Parma, Italy
Junjun JIA, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Kee Hoon KIM, Seoul National University, South Korea
Andreas KLEIN, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Demosthenes KOUTSOGEORGIS, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Seth MARDER, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Markus MAUTE, Osram Opto Semiconductors, Germany
Daniel NEUMAIER, AMO GmbH, Germany
Nobuto OKA, Kindai University, Japan
Ian POVEY, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
Pavle V. RADOVANOVIC, University of Waterloo, Canada
Thomas RIEDL, University of Wuppertal, Germany
Yaroslav ROMANYUK, EMPA, Switzerland
Marina RUMYANTSEVA, Moscow State University, Russia
Andre SCHLEIFE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Giancarlo TRIMARCHI, Northwestern University, USA
Leonidas TSETSERIS, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Chris G. VAN DE WALLE, University of California, Santa Barbara / Anderson JANOTTI, University of Delaware, USA
John F. WAGER, Oregon State University, USA
Man-Hoi WONG, Nat.Inst.of Information and Communications Tech., Japan
Naoomi YAMADA, Chubu University, Japan
Tetsuya YAMAMOTO, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
Andriy ZAKUTAYEV, NREL, USA
 

Steffen ANTUSCH, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Sebastijan BREZINSEK, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Thak Sang BYUN, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Viacheslav M. CHERNOV, A.A. Bochvar Res.Inst. for Inorganic Materials, Russia
Sergei DUDAREV, UKAEA, UK
Engang FU, Peking University, China
Ermile GAGANIDZE, IAM-WBM, Germany
Carmen GARCIA-ROSALES, CEIT, Spain
Charles H. HENAGER Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Jan HOFFMANN, KIT, Germany
Hefei HUANG, Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, CAS, China
Yutai KATOH, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Kenji KONASHI, Tohoku University, Japan
Sosuke KONDO, Tohoku University, Japan
Christian LINSMEIER, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany
Yoshitaka MATSUKAWA, Tohoku University, Japan
Alexander V. MUELLER, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany
Rudolf NEU, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
Martin OBERKOFLER, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, Germany
Iacopo ROVELLI, Imperial College London, UK
Marek RUBEL, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Andrea SAND, University of Helsinki, Finland
Gary WAS, University of Michigan, USA
Jeong-ha YOU, Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, Germany
 

Celine CAU-DIT-COUMES, CEA Cadarache, France
Wilson CHIU, University of Connecticut, USA
Karel LEMMENS, SCK•CEN, Belgium
Changzhong LIAO, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michael OJOVAN, International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
Sylvain PEUGET, CEA Marcoule, France
Sophie SCHULLER, CEA Marcoule, France
Weiqun SHI, Institute of High Energy Physics, China
Sergey STEFANOVSKY, SIA Radon, Russia
Yuezhou WEI, Guangxi University, China
 

Cenk AKTAS, Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany
Magnus BERGGREN, Linkoping University, Sweden
Dermot DIAMOND, Dublin University College, Ireland
Malte C. GATHER, University of St Andrews, UK
Eric Daniel GLOWACKI / Vedran DEREK, Linkoping University, Sweden
Hendrik HOELSCHER, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Matjaz HUMAR, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Sahika INAL, King Abdullah Univ.of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Olle INGANAS, Linkoping University, Sweden
Yasuhiro ISHIDA, RIKEN, Japan
Mathias KOLLE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Paola MANINI, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Jesus MARTINEZ DE LA FUENTE, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Phillip B. MESSERSMITH, University of California Berkeley, USA
Sedat NIZAMOGLU, Koc University, Turkey
Wim NOORDUIN, AMOLF, Netherlands
Emilio PARISINI, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
Roberta RAGNI, University of Bari, Italy
Gil ROSENMAN, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Eleni STAVRINIDOU, Linkoping University, Sweden
Claudia TORTIGLIONE, ISASI-CNR, Italy
Massimo TROTTA, CNR-IPCF, Italy
Silvia VIGNOLINI, University of Cambridge, UK
Kenny WEIR, Imperial College London, UK
 

Hugh BARNABY, Arizona State University, USA
Helene BEA, Spintec and CEA, France
Marco BERNASCONI, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Stefano BRIVIO, CNR-IMM, Agrate Brianza, Italy
Shunsuke FUKAMI ,Tohoku University, Japan
Pietro GAMBARDELLA, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cheol Seong HWANG, Seoul National University, South Korea
Salvatore IANNOTTA, CNR-IMEM, Parma, Italy
Jinfeng KANG, Peking University, China
Alexander V. KOLOBOV, AIST, Japan
Michael KOZICKI, Arizona State University, USA
Yusuf LEBLEBICI, EPFL, Switzerland
Thomas MIKOLAJICK, Nam-Lab, Germany
Gabriele NAVARRO / Anthonin VERDY, CEA-LETI, France
Lucian PREJBEANU, CEA/SPINTEC, France
Francesco Maria PUGLISI, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Damien QUERLIOZ, University Paris Sud, France
Bipin RAJENDRAN, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Jennifer L.M. RUPP, MIT, USA
Martin SALINGA, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Abu SEBASTIAN, IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland
Ilia VALOV, Research Centre Juelich, Germany
Qiangfei XIA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
 

Philipp ADELHELM, University of Jena, Germany
Hiroki AGO, Kyushu University, Japan
Sanna ARPIAINEN, VTT, Finland
Philippe BERGONZO, Cornes Technology USA, USA
Mattia BRAMINI, Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
Kuei-Hsien CHEN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Li-Chyong CHEN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Artur CIESIELSKI, University of Strasbourg, France
Artur DIDEIKIN, Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russia
Morinobu ENDO, Shinshu University, Japan
Toshiaki ENOKI, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Ovidiu ERSEN, University of Strasbourg, France
Andrea C. FERRARI, University of Cambridge, UK
Gianluca FIORI, University of Pisa, Italy
Emmanuel FLAHAUT, CIRIMAT-CNRS, France
Etienne GHEERAERT, Institut Néel CNRS, France
Silvia GIORDANI, Italian Institute of Technology & University of Turin, Italy
Ken HAENEN, University of Hasselt, Belgium
Richard JACKMAN, University College London, UK
TaeYoung KIM, Gachon University, South Korea
Vasily LEBEDEV, Saint-Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Russia
Cesar MERINO SANCHEZ, Grupo Antolin Ingenieria SA / Jorge LOPEZ PUENTE, University Carlos III, Spain
Wolfgang MERTIN, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Pit PODLESCHNY, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Maurizio PRATO, University of Trieste, Italy
Hiroshi SAKAGUCHI, Kyoto University, Japan
Christoph STAMPFER, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Matteo TOMMASINI, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
Ester VAZQUEZ, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Andrew WEE, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rositsa YAKIMOVA, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Masahiro YOSHIMURA, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 

Joachim ALBRECHT, Aalen University, Germany
Ryotaro ARITA, RIKEN, Japan
Neven BARISIC, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Johannes BERNARDI, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Christian BERNHARD, Friborg University, Switzerland
Mark BLAMIRE, Cambridge University, UK
Ivan BOZOVIC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
Dario DAGHERO, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Andrea DAMASCELLI/Fabio BOSCHINI, University of British Columbia, Canada
Edward GOLDOBIN, University of Tubingen, Germany
Marco GRILLI, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Maria IAVARONE, Temple University, USA
Kazumasa IIDA, Nagoya University, Japan
Soshi IIMURA, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Vitaly KRESIN, University of Southern California, USA
Jinho LEE, Seoul National University, South Korea
Gennady LOGVENOV, Max-Planck-Institute, Germany
Sergio PAGANO, University of Salerno, Italy
James STOREY, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Denis SUNKO, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Jeffery TALLON, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Tsuyoshi TAMEGAI, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Alexei USTINOV, Karlsruhe Institute of Physics, Germany
John WEI, University of Toronto, Canada
Akiyasu YAMAMOTO, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Huiqiu YUAN, Zhejiang University, China
Xingjiang ZHOU, Institute of Physics, CAS, China
 

Mohammad Reza ABIDIAN, University of Houston, USA
Luigi AMBROSIO / Antonio GLORIA, CNR-IPCB, Napoli, Italy
Marc BOHNER / Christoph STAEHLI, RMS Foundation, Switzerland
Guoping CHEN / Naoki KAWAZOE, MIMS-MANA, Japan
Peilin CHEN, Research Center for Applied Sci., Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tsutomu FURUZONO, Kindai University, Japan
Changyou GAO, Zhejiang University, China
James HENDERSON, Syracuse University, USA
Tony Y. HU, Arizona State University, USA
Yoshihiro ITO, RIKEN, Japan
Jin Ho LEE, Hannam University, South Korea
Andreas LENDLEIN, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany
Jun LI, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Sheereen MAJD, University of Houston, USA
Zhengwei MAO, Zhejiang University, China
Patrick T. MATHER, Bucknell University, USA
Akira MATSUMOTO, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Haibin SHI, Soochow University, China
Tetsushi TAGUCHI, NIMS, Japan
Atsushi TAMURA, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
Vladimir P. TORCHILIN, Northeastern University, USA
Nobuhiko YUI, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan