Chair of Scientific Committee
| Professor Marie-Paule Pileni | Pierre and Marie Curie University, France |
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Marie-Paule Pileni is a Distinguished Professor and Director of the Mesoscopic and Nanometric Materials Laboratory at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI and chair of Institut Universitaire de France. 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 334 articles in international scientific journals. Between 1999 et 2004, 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 and the Descartes-Huygens Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science. 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 and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and has a doctorate honoris causa from Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden. She is a Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Légion d'Honneur and Officier dans l'Ordre National du Mérite. |
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
| Professor Heinrich Begehr | Free University of Berlin, Germany |
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Heinrich Begehr has been Professor of Mathematics at Free
University Berlin since 1970, Visiting Professor in the USA,
USSR, China, Egypt, Italy, Kasakhstan, Poland, Romania,
Venezuela. He was director of the I. Mathematical Institute of
FU Berlin for about 25 years, chairman of the Berlin
Mathematical Society for 8 years, president of ISAAC
(International Society for Analysis, its Applications and
Computation) for 4 years. He is Honorary Professor of the L.N.
Gumilyov Eurasian National University in Astana, member of the
Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Armenian Branch). He was
INTAS Project Coordinator for 4 years, NATO Country Co-director
of a NATO ARW. He is editor of 2 book series, and editorial
board member of several international mathematical journals. He has authored and co-authored 6 books, edited, co-edited, co-translated 18 volumes, and written about 150 papers with about 30 co-authors from various countries. His scientific interest is analysis and history of mathematics. Most of his research is done in applied complex analysis, mainly on complex analytic and functional analytic methods in partial differential equations. |
Physics and Earth Sciences
| Professor Jiri Bicak | Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |
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Professor Jiri Bicak is Head of the Department of Theoretical and Mathematical Physics of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. His main research interests and work are: general relativity, gravitational radiation theory, the asymptotic structure of space times, black hole physics, exact solutions of Einstein's field equations and their physical interpretation, conservation laws, cosmological models and perturbation theory, canonical formalism and selected problems of relativistic astrophysics. He has published over 120 original papers in professional journals and volumes and 2 books. He has given lectures and conferences in Europe, USA, Canada, Israel, Australia, Japan and South-Africa. He is member of several European Academies and international societies and received various awards and medals for research and popularization of Science. |
Mathematics and Computer Sciences
| Professor Vincenzo Capasso |
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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 (Milan Research Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) (1999-2005), and later ADAMSS (Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (2005-2006) at the University of Milan. President of ECMI (the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) during 1999-2001; President of ESMTB (European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology) 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.) |
Biology and Life Sciences
| Doctor Giampaolo Ferroni | Electromedical Centre Marche |
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Dr. Giampaolo Ferroni is a well-known researcher and manager who works in the field of electromagnetic methods in biomedicine. He is an adjuct Professor of Technologies and Radiological Equipments at the University of Ancona and also works as a consultant to governmental and private industries. He founded an industrial/research complex C.E.M. that renders services to a large number of European hospitals and research centres. Professor Ferroni has acquired vast experience working in Eastern European countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Poland etc. |
Chemistry
| Professor Enzo Tiezzi | University of Siena, Italy |
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rofessor Tiezzi has a Degree in Chemistry. He is a Postdoctoral Research associate at Washington University (U.S.A) (1966-1967), at the Department of Physics ( with Prof. S.Weissman) and at the Department of Biology (with Prof. B.Commoner). Full Professor of Physical Chemistry from 1979 at the University of Siena. His experience in Biophysics, Physical Chemistry, NMR spectroscopy and Ecological Modelling was acquired in the course of university appointments in Siena, Florence, Cagliari and U.S.A. (Washington University). Director of the Department of Chemistry of the University of Siena, from beginning till 1987. In 1987 he delivered the Inaugural Lecture of the Opening of the 746th Academic Year of the University of Siena. He is author of over 300 scientific publications and has been invited to deliver lectures at many international meetings. In 1998 the International Meeting "Structures, Relations and complexity" has been organized to celebrate his academic activity, with the participation of the Nobel Prize winners I.Prigogine and M.Gell-Mann and S.J.Gould. He is focal point of the IGBP for Italy. He is in the Editorial Board of Ecological Modelling. |