KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Yukio Sakabe, Murata Manufacturing Company, Japan

Gary Messing, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Joachim Maier, Max-Planck Institute Stuttgart, Germany

INVITED SPEAKERS

Sungi Baik, POSTECH, Korea

Slavko Bernik, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia

Dave Blank, University Twente, The Netherlands

Bernard Boukamp, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Robert Bowman, Queens University Belfast, UK

Paulo Bueno, University Estadual Paulista, Brazil

X.M. Chen, Zhijang University, China

Dionizy Czekaj, University of Silesia, Poland

Juergen Fleig, Technical University Vienna, Austria

Miguel Garcia, La Rozas, Madrid, Spain

Felix Greuter, ABB, Switzerland

Alexei Gruverman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Christian Hoffmann, EPCOS, Deutschlandsberg, Austria

Jiri Hlinka, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic

M. Saiful Islam, University of Bath, UK

Lutgard de Jonghe, University of California Berkeley, USA

C.R. Kleijn, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Taras Kolodiazhnyi, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan

Andrey Kozyrev, St Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia

Marc Lethiecq, University of Tours, France

Igor Levin, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA

Jing-Feng Li, Tsinghua University, China

Doru Lupascu, Technical University Dreaden, Germany

Mogens Mogensen, Riso, Denmark

Rosa Merino, CSIC Zaragoza, Spain

Paul Muralt, EPFL, Switzerland

Cewen Nan, Tsinghua University, China

Wolfgang Preis, Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria

Gil Rosenman, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Carsten Schuh, Siemens, Munich, Germany

Mamoru Senna, Keio University, Japan

Yosuke Shiratori, University of Tokyo, Japan

Michael Stelter, Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden, Germany

Toshi Tani, Toyota Central R&D Laboratories, Japan

Tseng-Yuen Tseng, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Bruce Tuttle, Sandia National Laboratories, USA

Irina Vendik, St Petersburg University, Russia

Dwight Viehland, Virginia Tech, USA

Anthony West, University of Sheffield, UK

Masahiro Yoshimura,Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

SYMPOSIUM CO-ORDINATORS

Processing

• Marija Kosec, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
  
• Tim Button, University of Birmingham, UK
  
• Andreas Roosen, University of Erlangen, Germany

Basic Science

• David Payne, University of Illinois, USA
  
• Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield, UK
  
• Paolo Nanni, University of Genoa, Italy

Characterisation

• Marek Faryna, Krakow, Poland
  
• Ian Reaney, University of Sheffield, UK

Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics: Basic Science

• Stan Kamba, Institute of Physics Prague, Czech Republic
  
• Andrew Bell, University of Leeds, UK

Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics: Multiferroics

• Neil Alford, Imperial College, London, UK
  
• Matjaz Valant, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
  
• Andrew Bell, University of Leeds, UK

Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics: Piezoelectrics

• Jurgen Roedel, University of Darmstadt, Germany
  
• Rob Dorey, Cranfield University, UK
  
• HG Kim, KAIST, Korea

Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics: Microwave Dielectrics and Metamaterials

• Spartak Gevorgian, Chalmers University, Sweden
  
• Heli Jantunen, University of Oulu, Finland
  
• Bob Clarke, NPL, UK

Dielectrics and Ferroelectrics: LTCC

• Heli Jantunen, University of Oulu, Finland
  
• Danilo Suvorov, Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
  
• Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield, UK

Thin Films

• Martin Gregg, Queens University Belfast, UK
  
• SB Krupanidhi, IIS, Bangalore, India

Sensors and Actuators

• Pim Groen, TNO, The Netherlands
  
• John Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Interfaces

• Fernando Marques, University of Aveiro, Portugal
  
• John Irvine, University of St Andrews, UK
• Enrico Traversa, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy
  

Ionic and Electronic Conductors; Energy Devices

• Harry Tuller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  
• John Irvine, University of St Andrews, UK

Superconductors and Magnetics

• Matt Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool, UK

Thermistors and Varistors

• José Varela, UNESP, Brazil
  
• Colin Leach, University of Manchester, UK

Biological and Medical Applications

• Yuri Dekhtyar, Riga Technical University, Latvia

COST539

• Biljana Stovanovic, Serbia