Topical Overview: William H. Butler MINT, University of Alabama, USA Peter Fischer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA Andrei I. Kirilyuk Radboud University, Nijmengen, Netherlands Yoshichika Otani University of Tokyo, Japan Andrei N. Slavin Oakland University, Rochester, USA Hartmut Zabel Ruhr-Universitaet, Bochum, Germany Plenary Lectures: Mark Blamire University of Cambridge, UK Roberto B. Muniz Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi, R.J., Brazil Burkard Hillebrands Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany Juergen Kirschner Max-Planck Instituet fuer Mikrostrukturphysic, Halle, Germany Stuart S.P.Parkin IBM Almaden Researsh Center, San Jose, USA Ivan Schuller University of California, USA Tomas J. Silva NIST, Boulder, USA Yoshishige Suzuki Osaka University, Japan |