Theory, structure and dynamics
- (A) Theoretical approaches to surface/interface- and nano-structures and properties

• Mads Brandbyge (Tech. Univ. of Denmark)
  Theoretical studies of electron transport in nano-scale systems
• Alessandro De Vita (King's College London)
  Modelling the self-assembly of supported supramolecular nanostructures
  
• Mineo Saito (Kanazawa Univ.)
  Half-metallicity of Carrier-doped Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon
  

- (B) Surface structures: atomic and electronic structures, and surface vibrations

• Ulrich Heiz (Tech. Univ. of Munich)
  Size-dependent chemistry of supported clusters
• Natarajan Chandrasekhar （Nat'l Univ. of Singapore）
  BEEM - probing technologically important interfaces with nanometer spatial resolution
• Kota Tomatsu （Univ. of Tokyo）
  Scattering potentials of Si and Sn atoms embedded into Ge (001)
  studied by STM and ab-initio calculations

- (C) Surface Dynamics: adsorption, desorption, reaction, and diffusion

• Andrew Hodgson (Liverpool Univ.)
  The Structure and Reactions of Water and OH at Metal Surfaces
• Hiroshi Morikawa （Kyoto Univ.）
  Tunneling dynamics of single-molecule tautomerization

Fabrication and physical properties
- (D) Atomic-scale controlled surfaces/interfaces, and self-organized nanostructures

• Sebastian Loth (Andreas Heinrich) (IBM)
  Quantum magnetism and spin coupling at the atomic scale
• Richard Berndt (Univ. of Kiel)
  Conductance of controlled single atom and single molecule contacts

- (E) Nano-materials: nanotubes, nanowires, nanoparticles, and nanodots

• Chuan Liang Feng (Max Plank Inst.)
  Quantum-Dot/Dendrimer Based Functional Nanotubes for Sensitive Detection
  of DNA Hybridization
• Kenji Hata (AIST, Japan)
  Super-Growth CVD for Mass production of Carbon nanotubes and its applications
• Nan Wang (Univ. of Cambridge)
  Direct measurement of charge transport through single conducting polymer molecule
  wired into gaps in single walled carbon nanotubes
• Takami Muto (Tohoku Univ.)
  The Formation Mechanism of Aluminum Nanodots by Inhomogeneous Anodization
  as a Self-Alignment Technique for a Room-Temperature Operating Single-Electron Transistor

- (F) Fabrication processes: epitaxy, deposition, etching, cleaning, thin-film growth

• Masaharu Oshima (Univ. of Tokyo)
  In-situ photoelectron spectroscopy and photoemission electron microscopy
  for local electronic and magnetic structures of transition metal oxide thin films
• Kenji Shiraishi (Univ. of Tsukuba)
  What happens at nano-scale interfaces?
• Wei-Chuan Fang (Industrial Tech. Research Inst., Taiwan)
  Low-Temperature Synthesis and Characterization of ITO Thin Films

- (G) Device application of metal, ceramics, organic, and hybrid films

• Masakazu Nakamura (Chiba Univ.)
  Limiting Factors of Carrier Transport in Organic TFTs with Polycrystalline Active Layer

Characterization methods
- (H) Characterization of novel surfaces, interfaces and nanostructures

• Michel A. Van Hove (City Univ. of Hong Kong)
  Nanostructure from Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Low-Energy Electron Diffraction
• Shirley Chiang (Univ. of California-Davis)
  High Resolution Surface Microscopy of Nucleation, Growth, and Phase Transitions
• Taku Suzuki (NIMS, Japan)
  Element selective spin state analysis at surfaces and interfaces by spin-polarized ion scattering

- (I) Tools and standards for micro/nano-analysis

• Thomas Schmidt (Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin)
  SMART: using an aberration corrected photoemission electron microscope as a nano-analytic tool
• Hiroshi Daimon (NAIST, Japan)
  Two-dimensional photoelectron spectroscopy by a conventional and newly-developed display analyzer

- (J) Scanning probe microscopy

• Hirofumi Yamada (Kyoto Univ.)
  Subnanometer-resolution Imaging of Biomolecules and Hydration Force Measurements
  by Frequency Modulation Atomic Force Microscopy
• Holger Schönherr (Univ. of Twente)
  Chemical and Optical Probing of Nanoscale Soft Materials by AFM Approaches: Challenges, Hopes and Opportunities

Surface chemistry
- (K) Colloid chemistry and soft materials: supramolecules, macromolecules, and liquid crystal

• Satomi Onishi (Univ. of South Australia)
  Friction and capillary forces at the nanometer scale
• Masatsugu Shimomura (Tohoku Univ.)
  A Novel Nano Bio-interface Prepared by Self-organization

- (L) Electrochemistry, photochemistry and catalysis

• Charles T. Campbell (Univ. of Washington)
  Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Elementary Steps in Catalysis

- (M) Self-assembly and self-organization for nanostructure formation, and characterization

• Atsushi Takahara (Kyushu Univ.)
  Molecular Design and Characterization of Soft Interfaces
• Li-Jun Wan (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
  Surface Molecular Engineering: From Single Molecule to Self-assembly

Biological applications of surface science and nanotechnology
- (N) Nanobio-process, biosurfaces and biointerfaces

• Robert Hamers (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
  Ultra-stable Molecular and Biomolecular Interfaces via Covalent Grafting

- (O) Bio-diagnostics, bioassays and biosensors

• Andreas Offenhäusser (Research Center Jülich)
  Connecting DNA, Protein and Neurons with Electronics
• Hiroshi Kawarada (Waseda Univ.)
  Mechanism of DNA and RNA sensing by diamond surface channel devices

Plenary Lectures

• Patrick Soukiassian (Univ. de Paris-Sud/Orsay)
  Engineering and Understanding Surface, Interfaces and Nanostructures Properties at the Atomic Scale
• Yasuhiro Iwasawa (Univ. of Tokyo)
  In-situ Surface Science of Dynamic Catalysis: Active Organized Structure and Reaction Genesis at Surfaces
• Wolfgang Knoll (Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research)
  Interfacial Architectures for Bio-Sensing