List of committees – Conference organization

List of committees – Conference organization

International Advisory Committee M.S. Altman (Hong Kong SAR, China) E. Bauer (USA) H.-J. Ernst (France) G. Kellogg (USA) B. Poelsema (The Netherlands) R. Tromp (USA) Organizing Committee

T. Yokoya (Okayama Univ.) H. Yoshikawa (NIMS) Finance Committee Chair: R. Oiwa (ULVAC-PHI, Inc.) Vice chair: K. Wada (ASTECH Corp.) M. Hasegawa (Hitachi, Ltd.) S. Takahashi (Hakuto Co., Ltd.) Y. Yamazaki (Toshiba Corp.)

Chair: T. Koshikawa (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ.) Vice-Chair: M.S. Altman (Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech.) Vice-Chair: K. Kobayashi (JASRI/SPring-8) K. Asakura (Hokkaido Univ.) H. Daimon (Nara Inst. Sci. & Tech.) K. Goto (Nagoya Inst. Tech.) M. Iwami (Okayama Univ.) Y. Iwasawa (Univ. Tokyo) T. Kinoshita (JASRI/SPring-8) M. Oshima (Univ. Tokyo) K. Oura (Osaka Univ.) K. Seki (Nagoya Univ.) S. Shin (RIKEN) M. Suzuki (JASRI/SPring-8) K. Ueda (Toyota Tech. Inst.) N. Ueno (Chiba Univ.) Y. Watanabe (JASRI/SPring-8) Secretariat: H. Kimura (JASRI/SPring-8) Secretariat: T. Yasue (Osaka Electro-Communication Univ.)

Program Committee

Steering Committee

Organized by

Chair: T. Kinoshita (JASRI/SPring-8) Y. Fujikawa (Tohoku Univ.) F.-Z. Guo (JASRI/SPring-8) H. Kimura (JASRI/SPring-8) F. Matsui (Nara Inst. Sci. & Tech.) T. Matsushita (JASRI/SPring-8) T. Muro (JASRI/SPring-8) T. Nakamura (JASRI/SPring-8) T. Okuda (Univ. Tokyo) Y. Saitoh (Japan Atomic Energy Agency) M. Taguchi (ULVAC-PHI, Inc.)

The Japan Society of Applied Physics SPring-8

Chair: K. Asakura (Hokkaido Univ.) S. Imada (Osaka Univ.) T. Kinoshita (JASRI/SPring-8) T. Koshikawa (Osaka Electro- Commun. Univ.) K. Ono (KEK) M. Oshima (Univ. Tokyo) H. Shimoyama (Meijo Univ.) Y. Watanabe (JASRI/SPring-8) Publication Committee Co-Chair: M.S. Altman (Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech.) Co-Chair: Y. Watanabe (JASRI/SPring-8) H. Adachi (Muroran Inst. Tech.) H. Hibino (NTT) F. Maeda (NTT) K. Ono (KEK) M. Yoshitake (NIMS)

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Leading Corporate Sponsors

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ASTECH Corporation/SPECS GmbH Ebara Corporation Hakuto Co., Ltd. Omicron NanoTechnology GmbH Techscience Ltd./Surface Preparation Lab. Toray Research Center, Inc. TOYAMA Co., Ltd. VIC International ULVAC-PHI, Inc./ELMITEC Elektronenmikroskopie GmbH

Catalysis Society of Japan The Chemical Society of Japan The Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research The Japanese Society of Microscopy The Magnetic Society of Japan The Surface Science Society of Japan The Vacuum Society of Japan

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