Plenary Lecturers

Takuzo Aida, The University of Tokyo, Japan

    “Aqua Materials and Bucky Gels”

Akira Harada, Osaka University, Japan

    “Macroscopic Self-Assembly and Self-Healing through Molecular Recognition”

Alexei Khokhlov, Moscow State University, Russia

    “Magneto-responsive elastomeric materials: main physical properties and applications”

Bjorn Lindman, Lund University, Sweden

    “Amphiphilic properties of cellulose: Dissolution, association and network formation”

Ludwik Leibler, ESPCI, France

    “Adhesion and organ repair by nanoparticle solutions”

Kell Mortensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

    “Hydrogels based on Molecular Self-assembly Combined Studies of Structure and Rheology”

Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

   “Polyelectrolyte Gel Dynamics”

Ung-il Chung, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

  “Development of novel structural biomaterials by controlling 3D shape”

Keynote Speakers

Anna Balazs, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA

Matthias Ballauff, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Germany

Christopher Bowman, Colorado Univ., USA

Costantino Creton, ESPCI, France

Jack Douglas, NIST, USA

Cecile Dreiss, King’ College London, UK

Bhuvanesh Gupta, Indian Inst. Tech., India

Chang-Sik Ha, Pusan National Univ., Korea

Ferenc Horkay, NIH, USA

Eva Malmström- Jonsson, Royal Inst. Tech., Sweden

Costas S. Patrickios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Walter Richtering, RWTHA Aachen Univ., Germany

Michael Rubinstein, North Carolina, USA

Oren Scherman, Univ. of Cambridge, UK

Chi Wu, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Miklos Zrinyi, Semmelweis Univ., Hungary

Invited Speakers

Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University, Japan

Takashi Miyata, Kansai Univ., Japan

Yukio Nagasaki, Tsukuba Univ., Japan

Atsushi Suzuki, Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan

Toshikadzu Takata, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Japan

Masayoshi Watanabe, Yokohama Nat. Univ., Japan

Ryo Yoshida, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

and others...