Chairman: P. Jena (U.S.A.) 
Secretary: S. N. Khanna (U.S.A.)
Treasurer: B. K. Rao (U.S.A.) 

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

R. S. Berry (University of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.)
C. Brechignac (CNRS, Orsay, France)
R. Car (IRRMA, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
A. W. Castleman, Jr. (Penn. State University, University Park, U.S.A.)
L. J. de Jongh (Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory, Leiden, Netherlands)
M. Dresselhaus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA)
H. Gleiter (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany)
A. J. Henglein (Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin,Germany)
S. Iijima (NEC Corporation, Tsukuba, Japan)
J. Jortner (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
T. P. Martin (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany)
D. G. Pettifor (Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.)
C. N. R. Rao (Jawaharlal Nehru Inst. for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India)
G. Scoles (Princeton University, Princeton, U.S.A.)
E. Tosatti (I. C. T. P., Trieste, Italy)
R. W. Siegel (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, U.S.A.)
R. E. Smalley (Rice University, Houston, U.S.A.)
G. M. Whitesides (Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.)

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

J. R. Anderson (University of Maryland)
A. S. Arrott (Virginia State University)
L. A. Bloomfield (University of Virginia)
M. S. El-Shall (Virginia Commonwealth University)
A. Guiseppi-Elie (Virginia Commonwealth University)
P. Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University)
S. N. Khanna (Virginia Commonwealth University)
A. C. Lilly (Philip Morris, U.S.A.)
R. J. Mattauch (Virginia Commonwealth University)
B. K. Rao (Virginia Commonwealth University)
H. E. Schone (College of William and Mary)
C. E. Stronach (Virginia State University)
R. Zallen (Virginia Tech)