Local Organizing Committee

Margit Fisch, Chair Felix Chun Jan Fichtner Detlef Frohneberg Rolf Gillitzer Oliver Hakenberg Peter Hammerer Christian Hampel

Dieter Jocham Rainer Kuntz Sebastian Melchior Maurice-Stephan Michel Kurt Miller Stefan Müller Silke Riechardt Hubertus Riedmiller

Jan Roigas Herbert Rübben Dirk Schultheiss Joachim Steffens Michael Stöckle Joachim Thüroff Manfred Wirth

Scientific Programme Committee

Gerald H. Jordan, USA, Chair Michael Marberger, Austria, Co-Chair Jan Breza, Slovakia Christopher Cheng, Singapore Catherine deVries, USA Zygmunt Dobrowolski, Poland Mostafa Elhilali, Canada Jan Fichtner, Germany Margit Fisch, Germany Petrisor Geavlete, Romania Reynaldo Gómez, Chile Serigne Gueye, Senegal Chris F. Heyns, South Africa Badrinath Konety, USA Arturo Mendoza-Valdés, Mexico

Masaru Murai, Japan Craig Niederberger, USA S.K. Pal, India Antonio Carlos Pompeo, Brazil Dmitry Pushkar, Russia Redouane Rabii, Morocco Peter Rehder, Austria Hubertus Riedmiller, Germany Nasser Simforoosh, Iran René Sotelo, Venezuela Arnulf Stenzl, Germany Joachim Thüroff, Germany Nick Watkin, UK Manfred Wirth, Germany

SIU Congress Organizing Committee

William Lynch, Australia, Chairman Patrick Coloby, France Margit Fisch, Germany Yoshihiko Hirao, Japan Gerald H. Jordan, USA Abdennabi Joual, Morocco Michael Marberger, Austria Seiji Naito, Japan Redouane Rabii, Morocco Simon Tanguay, Canada Joachim Thüroff, Germany Luc Valiquette, Canada

SIU Board of Chairmen

President - Joachim Thüroff, Germany President-elect - Mahesh Desai, India Vice President - Chris F. Heyns, South Africa Past President - Mostafa M. Elhilali, Canada General Secretary - Luc Valiquette, Canada Adjunct General Secretary - Simon Tanguay, Canada Treasurer - Patrick Coloby, France Congress Organizing - William Lynch, Australia Scientific Programme - Gerald Jordan, USA Consensus & Education - Richard Santucci, USA Institutes & Scholarships - Hassan Abol-Enein, Egypt Publications - Antonio Carlos Pompeo, Brazil Internet & Communications - Reynaldo Gómez, Chile Long-term Strategic Planning - Christopher Cheng, Singapore International Relations - Catherine deVries, USA Sub-Specialty Societies - Nasser Simforoosh, Iran Fundraising - Yoshihiko Hirao, Japan National Delegate Representative - Yinghao Sun, China National Delegate Representative - Peter Hammerer, Germany General Assembly Representative - Jae Seung Paick, South Korea General Assembly Representative - Serigne Gueye, Senegal Nominating Committee - Mostafa M. Elhilali, Canada