Invited Speakers
Below is the preliminary list of confirmed Invited Speakers for the conference.
| Scott Anderson | University of Utah, USA |
| Kit Bowen | Johns Hopkins University, USA |
| Ib Chorkendorff | Technical University of Denmark |
| Larry Curtiss | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Veronique Dupuis | University Lyon & CNRS, Lyon, France |
| Mady Elbahri | Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany |
| Riccardo Ferrando | University of Genova, Italy |
| Alessandro Fortunelli | CNR-ICCOM, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, CNR Pisa, Italy |
| Gerd Ganteför | University of Konstanz, Germany |
| Hannu Häkkinen | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Wolfgang Harbich | EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Ueli Heiz | Technische Universität München, Germany |
| Puru Jena | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA |
| Roy Johnston | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom |
| Shiv Khanna | Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA |
| Armin Kleibert | Paul-Scherrer Institute / Swiss Light Source, Switzerland |
| Julia Laskin | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, USA |
| Peter Lievens | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
| Karl-Heinz Meiwes-Broer | Universität Rostock, Germany |
| Patrice Melinon | University Lyon & CNRS, Lyon, France |
| Paolo Milani | University Milan and CiMaINa, Milan, Italy |
| Atsushi Nakajima | Keio University, Yokohama, Japan |
| Shobhana Narasinham | JNCASR, Bangalore, India |
| Gianfranco Pacchioni | Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca , Milan, Italy |
| Richard Palmer | University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
| Stefan Vajda | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Michael White | Brookhaven National Laboratory/Stony Brook University |
| Yoshihide Watanabe | Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc., Japan |
| Hisato Yasumatsu | Toyota Technological Institute, Genesis Research Institute, Inc., Japan |
Invited Hot Topic Speakers
The following is the preliminary list of confirmed Invited Hot Topic Speakers.
| Jaakko Akola | Tampere University of Technology, Finland |
| Bruce Clemens | Stanford University, USA |
| Marcel Di Vece | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium |
| Heinz Hövel | Universität Dortmund, Germany |
| Yasushi Iwata | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan |
| Fengqi Song | Nanjing University, China |
| Bing Yang | Argonne National Laboratory, USA |
| Feng Yin | Shaanxi Normal University, China |
