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The following is a partial list.

Keynote Speakers:

Members for the Panel Discussions:

R. S. Berry, University of Chicago
K. H. Bowen, Johns Hopkins University
H. Fraunfelder, Los Alamos National Laboratory
G. A. Prinz, Naval Research Laboratory
M. Roco, National Science Foundation
R. W. Siegel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.

Plenary Speakers:

• A. N. Andriotis, IESL-FORTH, Greece - (Magnetic properties of C₆₀ polymers)

• J. L. Beauchamp, CALTECH - (Exploding Nanodroplets:  Applications to Studies of Ion Solvation, Chemistry of Molecular Clusters, and Frontier Studies in Proteomics)

• D. Bimberg, Berlin, Germany - (Quantum dots and lasers: Paradigm changes in semiconductor physics)

• C. Binns, Leicester, UK - (The behavior of magnetic metals made out of nanocluster building blocks)

• M. T. Bowers, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara - (Non-covalent Complexes in Biological Systems: From Alzheimer's Peptide Abeta(42) to Nucleotide Duplexes)

• C. Brechignac, CNRS II, Orsay, France - (Alignment of Nano-Chains Driven by Cluster Deposition on Constrained Surface)

• J. M. Byers, Naval Research Lab - (Building an interface to biomolecular processes with magnetoelectronics)

• A.W. Castleman, Jr., Penn State - (Clusters: Elucidating the influence of solvation on reactions)

• W. A. deHeer, GeorgiaTech - (Ferroelectricity in ultra-cold metal clusters: A precursor to superconductivity)

• P. Dutta, Northwestern University - (Order at soft-hard interfaces)

• G. Galli, Lawrence Livermore Lab. - (Ab initio simulations of semiconductor nanostructures)

• G. Ganteför, University of Konstanz, Germany - (Experiments on mass selected nanoclusters: Each additional atom matters)

• W. A. Goddard III, CALTECH - (de Novo Computational Chemistry and Applications to Clusters and Nanoassemblies)

• N. J. Halas, Rice University - (Plasmonic nanostructures: Optical design at nanoscale dimensions)

• W. Harbich, IPE, Lausanne, Switzerland - (Size controlled nanostructures by cluster deposition: From soft-landing to implantation)

• M. Haruta, Tsukuba, Japan - (Remarkable structure sensitivity of the catalysis by gold nanoparticles)

• A. J. Heinrich, IBM Almaden Research Center - (Controlling the motion of  molecules on the atomic scale)

• K. Helmerson, NIST - (Optical Manipulation and Fusion of Micro-Containers for Biotechnology)

• M. F. Jarrold, Indiana University - (Assembly of Unsolvated Helices and Sheets into Complexes and Tertiery Structure Domains)

• K. Kern, Stuttgart, Germany - (Nanoscale control of supramolecular assemblies)

• F. Liu, University of Utah - (Self-organized formation of nanostructures in strained thin films)

• S. G. Louie, University of California, Berkeley - (Theory of the electronic, transport, and optical properties of nanotubes)

• C. D. Montemagno, University of California, Los Angeles - (Nanotechnology, biotechnology, and complexity theory: Essential tools for engineering hybrid biotic-abiotic systems)

• M. Moskovits, University of California, Santa Barbara - (Semi-conductor nanowires and nanowire arrays as smart sensors)

• R. Nieminen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland - (Coulomb blockade in gold nanoclusters)

• H. Ohno, Tohoku University , Sendai, Japan - (Ferromagnetic semiconductor spintronic materials and devices)

• J. N. Onucic, Univ. of California, San Diego - (Exploring protein folding funnel landscape: Theory meets experiments)

• R. E. Palmer, The University of Birmingham, UK - (Nano-structured surfaces from size selected clusters: From physics to biology)

• S. T. Pantelides, Vanderbilt University - (Catalysis with nanoclusters - The role of the nanoscale)

• J. H. Parks, Harvard University - (Dynamics of trapped gas phse DNA: Fraying and electron autodetachment)

• S. Reimann, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden - (Electronic structure of quantum dot lattices)

• S. A. Solin, Washington University, St. Louis - (Geometry driven interfacial phenomena in semiconductor-metal hybrid structures: Extraordinary magnetoresistance and extraordinary piezoconductance)

• G. A. Somorjai, University California, Berkeley - (Fabrication of two-dimensional and three-dimensional platinum nanoclusters to serve as high technology catalysts)

• M. F. Thorpe, Arizona State University - (Protein unfolding: Rigidity lost)

• P. Toennies, Max Planck Inst., Germany - (Diffraction of magic helium clusters)

• V. Vogel, Univ. of Washington, Seattle - (Nano-assemblies shuttled by motor proteins)

• M. Willander, Chalmers Univ., Sweden - (Theoretical and experimental aspects on trapping and detection of single and few molecules by using nanoprobes)

• L. Wöste, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany - (Learning about clusters by teaching lasers to control them)

• W. Yang, Duke University - (Simulation of Chemical Reactions in Enzymes with a Density Functional Theory)

• O. Zhou, Univ. of North Carolina - (Generation of diagnostic x-ray radiation using a CNT field emission cathode)

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