Speakers Confirmed : Ju Li (MIT) Long-Qing Chen (Penn State) Paco Guinea (Imdea Nanoscience) Jörg Weissmüller (TU Hamburg) Kirill Bolotin (TU Berlin) Darrell Schlom (Cornell) Robert Young (Manchester Univ.) Benny Davidovitch (Massachusetts Amherst Univ.) Javier Martin (Oviedo Univ.) Martin Hytch (CNRS) Yong Xie (Materials Science Factory) Artur Braun (EMPA) Samuel Manas (Delft U. T.) Hosni Idrissi (UC Louvain) Ho Nyung Lee (Oak Ridge Nat. Labs) Carmen Martinez (IMDEA)