Invited speakers
Confirmed keynote speakers
Ali Erdemir, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA
Michel Fillon, Université de Poitiers, ENSMA, France
Kenneth Holmberg, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
C. Mathew Mate, formerly with Western Digital Company, USA
Bengt-Göran Rosén, Halmstad University, Sweden
Hugh Spikes, Imperial College London, UK
Wilfred T. Tysoe, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA
Confirmed invited speakers
Koshi Adachi, Tohoku University, Japan
María-Dolores Bermúdez, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
Albano Cavaleiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fabrice Dassenoy, École Centrale de Lyon, France
Maria-Isabel De Barros Bouchet, École Centrale de Lyon, France
Kuniaki Dohda, Northwestern University, USA
Nazanin Emami, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Steven Ernest Franklin, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Tomoko Hirayama, Doshisha University, Japan
Venkata Manoj Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Franc Majdič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Guillermo E. Morales Espejel, SKF, The Netherlands
Anne Neville, University of Leeds, UK
M. Clelia Righi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, CNR - Institute of Nanoscience, Italy
Ian Sherrington, University of Central Lancashire, UK
Pat Lam Patrick Wong, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong