Organizing Committee
Chairperson

T. Kiss	Kyushu University
(Acting chairperson)

Members

H. Katase	Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
R. Chubachi	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Steering Committee
Chairperson

Y. Kiyokawa

ISTEC

Members

M. Hoshino	Fujitsu Limited
Y. Iijima	Fujikura Ltd.
S. Isojima	Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD.
K. Katayama	Toshiba Corporation
T. Koizumi	SWCC SHOWA CABLE SYSTEMS CO., LTD.
M. Morita	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
H. Noda	Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.
K. Sakoda	Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc.
M. Tomita	Railway Technical Research Institute
M. Yagi	Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

Program Committee
Chairpersons

T. Kiss	Kyushu University
P. Seidel	Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Members

H. Ikuta	Nagoya University
T. Ishida	Osaka Prefecture University
A. Iyo	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
R. Kita	Shizuoka University
R. Arita	RIKEN
N. Sakai	ISTEC-SRL
T. Sasagawa	Tokyo Institute of Technology
M. Nohara	Okayama University
A. Maeda	The University of Tokyo
Y. Yoshida	Nagoya University
S. Awaji	Tohoku University
T. Izumi	ISTEC-SRL
T. Kato	Japan Fine Ceramics Center
H. Kumakura	National Institute for Materials Science
J. Shimoyama	The University of Tokyo
T. Kato	Sumitomo Electric Industries, LTD.
Y. Iijima	Fujikura Ltd.
K. Matsumoto	Kyushu Institute of Technology
M. Yoshizumi	ISTEC-SRL
M. Ohkubo	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
A. Kandori	Hitachi, Ltd.
K. Tanabe	ISTEC-SRL
H. Terai	National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Y. Hatsukade	Kinki University
Y. Mizugaki	The University of Electro-Communications
M. Naito	Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
M. Hidaka	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
K. Nakayama	Toshiba Corporation
M. Iwakuma	Kyushu University
M. Tomita	Railway Technical Research Institute
N. Amemiya	Kyoto University
T. Hamajima	Tohoku University
N. Hayakawa	Nagoya University
N. Chikumoto	Chubu University
H. Miyazaki	Toshiba Corporation
N. Hirano	Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.
Y. Yamada	ISTEC-SRL

International Advisory Committee
Members

D.A. Cardwell	University of Cambridge
C.W. Chu	University of Houston
T. Claeson	Chalmers University of Technology
J. Clarke	University of California, Berkeley
R. Flukiger	University of Geneve
H.C. Freyhardt	Universitaet Goettingen
Z. Han	Tsinghua University
K. Kitazawa	Tokyo City University
D.C. Larbalestier	Florida State University
A. Lauder	Alan Lauder Inc.
D.F. Lee	Oak Ridge National Laboratory
A.P. Malozemoff	American Superconductor Corporation
E. Masada	Railway Technical Research Institute
X. Obradors	Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona
D.E. Peterson	Los Alamos National Laboratory
B. Raveau	Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CRISMAT
H. Rogalla	NIST Boulder Laboratories
K. Salama	University of Houston
J.W. Spargo	Northrop Grumman Space Technology
M. Tachiki	Tohoku University
O. Tsukamoto	Sophia University
S. Uchida	The University of Tokyo
H.W. Weber	TU Wien, Atomic Institute
L. Zhou	Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research