Presidium :

Vincenzo Capasso has been Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at the Universita’ degli Studi di Bari (1981-90) and at Universita’ degli Studi di Milano (1990-current) , Visiting Professor in the USA, P.R. China, Austria, Romania, Spain, Germany. He was Director of the Institute for Research in Applied Mathematics, of the Italian National Research Council during 1985-1994; founder and Director of Miriam (1999-2005), and later ADAMSS (2005-2006) at the University of Milan. President of ECMI during 1999-2001; President of ESMTB during 2000-2002. Elected Fellow of the International Statistics Institute (1980-current). He has been member of the Scientific Committees of various international institutions, and of many international conferences. He is editor of 2 book series, and editorial board member of several international mathematical journals.He has authored and co-authored 2 books; edited, co-edited 10 volumes, and written more than 150 papers with co-authors from various countries. He has been main lecturer in many international conferences. His main scientific interests are in Probability, Mathematical Statistics with applications to Biology and Medicine (Epidemics, Environmental pollution, Social behaviour of swarms, Birth-and-growth processes, shape analysis, tumours, angiogenesis, etc.), and Industrial Problems ( Quality Control and Reliability, Heat transfer, Material Science, etc.)

Professor Sasa Divjak is the Head of Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Multimedi at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; he is also a Senior member of IEEE and Chair of IEEE Slovenia Computer Society Chapter, Chairman of CoLoS association and a member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is past Vice-President of Iskra Delta Computers, Vice Dean for Research and Development at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Ljubljana and at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Dean of the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, visiting professor at University of Udine (Italy), Head of Chair for Software at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana. He was also responsible for many projects devoted to the computer supported simulation and automation of different technological processes and for many projects related to multimedia and computer literacy, Co-author of SW support of first Slovenian robots, collaborator in the Italian regional educational project "Factories of the future", member of Program Committee for computer literacy of Slovenian Ministry of Education and Science and Chairman of IEEE Slovenia Section.

Bernard Barbara is Director of Research at the Neel Institute, Grenoble (CNRS). All along his career he initiated original or pioneering works on different subjects of solid state physics, including magnetism. In 2002, he won with his colleagues the “2002-Agilent Technologies Euro-Physics Prize” (the most prestigious honor given by the European Physical Society). He was elected at the European Academy of Sciences in 2003. He is co-author of almost 350 scientific papers and is very often invited to international meetings and conferences (about 100 fulfilled invitations). He is continuously requested by best scientific journals, universities, foundations, for scientific reports. He also serves as an expert to the French Ministry of Research and New Technologies.

The research activity is devoted to the deformation behaviour and mechanical properties of numerous metals and alloys establishing the relationship with the microstructure. The activity started at the University of Bologna as assistant professor and is continuing as professor at the University of Ancona,  supported by grants from national research agencies, industries and EC research projects, establishing over the years collaborative research activities with many leading groups around the world. He has held visiting appointments at numerous universities, including the Concordia University of Montreal in Canada, the University of Trondheim in Norway, the Nihon University in Japan and the Pohang University in South Korea. Currently, he has published more than 250 scientific papers, together with more than 70 different co-authors.   Elected Fellow of ASM International, 1995,  and member of Eurasc, 2003.

Prof. Emmanuel Floratos is a renowned scientist who made influential contributions to physics and mathematics. He was awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal for his contributions to physics and fundamental research in finite quantum mechanics.

Professor Terence Langdon received the Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition of his outstanding achievements and pioneering research in the processing of ultrafine-grained metals by severe plastic deformation and for fundamental investigations into the properties of materials processed by equal-channel angular pressing and, more recently, high-pressure torsion. Currently, Prof. Langdon has published more than 500 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals with more than 300 different co-authors. His publications have received over 18,000 citations. In 2008 he was one of the receipients of the Blaise Pascal Medal of Eurasc.