■ 1) Beyond SRO (MRO, LRO, Boson peak)

 

Hellmut Eckert (Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany)

The use of solid state NMR for studying network former connectivities and spatial ion distributions in glassy solid electrolytes.

 

 

Philip S. Salmon (Department of Physics, University of Bath, UK)

Intermediate and extended range order in network glasses.

 

 

■ 2) Glass structure (bulk) and Properties

Grant S. Henderson (Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada)

Germanate glasses and the germanate anomaly: What do we know?

 

 

■ 3) Glass surface properties and its bulk structure

 

Günther H. Frischat in collaboration with J.-F. Poggemann and G. Heide (Institut für Nichtmetallische Werkstoffe, Technische Universität Clausthal, Clausthal, Germany)

Real space characterisation of glass surfaces by atomic force microscopy

 

 

■ 4) Liquid structure and levitation techniques

 

Norbert Mattern (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden, Dresden, Germany)

Structure formation in liquid and amorphous metallic alloys

 

 

Louis Hennet (Centre de Recherche sur les Matériaux à Haute Température, Orleans, France)

Structure and dynamics in levitated liquid aluminates

 

 

■ 5) Modelling

 

Takashi Uchino (Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kobe University, Nada-ku, Kobe, Japan)

Structure and properties of nanometre-sized amorphous silica particles: Modelling and experiments

 

 

■ 6) Nanocrystalline materials

 

Bruno Chaudret (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination CNRS, Toulouse, France)

Organometallic Nanoparticles : Synthesis, Organization and Applications

 

 

■ 7) NETWORK GLASSES (HR NEUTRON SCATTERING)

 

Alex C. Hannon (ISIS Science Diffraction & Muon Division, ISIS Department, CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK)

Coordination number changes in borate and germanate glasses

 

 

■ 8) Nonmelting techniques to produce glasses (sol -  gel)

 

Massimo Guglielmi (Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica - Settore materiali, Padova, Italy)

Hybrid and mesoporous glass-like films through sol-gel techniques

 

 

■ 9) Photoinduced structural metastabilities

 

Himanshu Jain (Whitaker Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, USA)

Photoinduced structural instabilities in glass and their applications

 

 

■ 10) Polyamorphic transitions

 

Martin Wilding (Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, UK)

Polyamorphic transitions: discontinuous changes in the structures of liquids at high temperatures and pressures

 

 

■ 11) Self organization effects in disordered solids

 

Matthieu Micoulaut (Laboratoir de Physique Théorique des Liquides, CNRS UMR 7600, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France)

Self-organization effects in glasses

 

 

Gerry Lucovsky (North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA)

Intermediate phases and chemical bonding self-organization in i)oxide dielectric films for advanced semiconductor devices, and ii) chalcogenide alloys for optical recording

 

■ 12) DVD related science: Structure and technology

 

Noboru Yamada in collaboration with Rie Kojima and Toshiyuki Tatsunaga (AV Core Technology Development Centre, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.,and Characterization Technology Group, Matsushita Technoresearch Inc., Nagumo-Nakamachi, Moriguchi, Osaka, Japan)

Nano –seconds reversíble structure changes of chalcogenide thin films