Inaugural lecture: Jean-Pierre Sauvage (U Strasbourg)
- Felix Castellano (North Carolina State U)
- Chi-Ming Che (U Hong Kong)
- Niko Ernsting (Humboldt U Berlin)
- Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Inst. Tech.)
- Prashant Kamat (U Notre Dame)
- Brahim Lounis (U Bordeaux)
- Benedetta Mennucci (U Pisa)
- Stéphane Petoud (U Geneva)
- Ilme Schlichting (Max-Planck Heidelberg)
- Mark E. Thompson (U Southern California)
- Kyung Byung Yoon (Sogang U Seoul)
- Hong Zhang (Changchun & Amsterdam)