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.)

André Leclercq, graduate in Law and in Economic Law, has managed his career since 1979 in major European companies and is one of the most recognised specialist in Human Resources Management in Europe. Fabricom, Ikea, Diamant Boart, Volkswagen, Holcim and since 2003 Arcelor are the companies he has been working for. He has always been involved in major strategic projects and has every time played the role of the “human federator” giving the project teams the power to achieve their ambitious goals through the empowerment of their members and through a very professional management style of the project governance. André is today member of the Corporate team in charge of Human Resources Management for the whole Group ArcelorMittal (280.000 people). He is also Executive in more than 10 non profit associations.

Marie-Paule Pileni is a Distinguished Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI and chair of Institut Universitaire de France and adjunct Professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the school of chemistry and biochemistry, Gergia Tec, Atlanta (USA) . She studied the development of structure-reactivity relationships in organized molecular systems, and, about the physical properties of these new materials, developed the self-organization of the nanocrystals in compact hexagonal networks (2D) and face-centered cubic structures (3D) at the mesoscopic scale. In 1999, she demonstrated the specific collective properties of these assemblies. In 2004, in addition to the physical properties, she proved the existence of properties intrinsic to these assemblies.She has published more than 377 articles in international scientific journals. Between 1999 et 2009, she received the Langmuir award of the American Chemical Society, the lecture award of the Japanese Chemical Society, the Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science and Emila Valori from the French Academy of Sciences. In addition, she was the French citation laureate, the Institute of Scientific Information Award for most quoted French scientist between 1981 and 1998. She is a member of the European Academy of Science, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and has a doctorate honoris causa from Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden. She is a officier « dans l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur » and « dans l'Ordre National du Mérite ».