• Paul Alivisatos, University of California-Berkeley, USA
  "Artificial molecules built from colloidal nanocrystals."
  
  
• Uri Banin, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
  "Hybrid metal-semiconductor nanoparticles: a new type of functional materials."
  
  
• Israel Bar-Joseph, Weizmann Institute, Israel
  "Electrical transport and Raman scattering of a single organic molecule."
  
  
• Marcel Bruchez, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
  "Infrared Emitting Quantum Dots for in-vivo Imaging: Opportunities in the clinic?"
  
  
• Miguel A. Correa-Duarte, University of Vigo, Spain
  "Carbon Nanotubes: useful templates for hybrid materials production."
  
  
• Sergey V. Gaponenko, Stepanov Institute of Physics, Minsk, Belarus
  "Mesoscopic enhancement of emission and scattering of light in nanostructures."
  
  
• Beatriz Hernandez Juarez, University of Hamburg, Germany
  "Semiconductor nanoparticles-carbon nanotubes composites."
  
  
• Guglielmo Lanzani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  " Ultrafast dynamics in nanostructures."
  
  
• Alessandra Lanzara, University of Califonia-Berkeley, USA
  "Electronic structure of graphene: the effect of quantum confinement."
  
  
• Oded Millo, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
  "Proximity effects and collective phenomena in nanocrystalline semiconductor systems."
  
  
• Maria Del Puerto Morales, ICMM, Madrid, Spain
  "Effect of nature, size and coating on the biomedical applications of magnetite nanoparticles."
  
  
• Eran Rabani, University of Tel Aviv, Israel
  "Theory of self-assembly of nanorods."
  
  
• Peter Reiss, CEA Grenoble, France
  "Cadmium-free highly luminescent semiconductor nanocrystals."
  
  
• Andrey Rogach, Ludwig-Maximilians-Unversitaet, Germany
  "White light emitting semiconductor nanocrystals."
  
  
• Katerina Soulantica, University of Toulouse, France
  "Co based nano-objects."
  
  
• Joachim Spatz, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  "Formation of Tissue by Nanoactions of Cells."