- Tribology (F. Dassenoy/Lyon)
- Phononic Crystals (G. Fytas/Heraklion and E.M. Thomas/Rice Univ./Houston)
- Negative thermal expansion (C. Lind/Toledo USA)
- Thermoelectrics (G. Snyder/Northwestern, Evanston USA)
- SAXS (A. Fernandez-Martinez/IS-Terre, Grenoble)
- Photoelectrochemistry (M.N.Tahir, Dharan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)