Attention will be duly paid to topics that will increasingly become important in the near future, such as those identified in the thematic programme "Unlocking the resources of the living world and the ecosystem" of the Fifth Framework Programme of the EC and those involving the engineering community:
| Marina Alexandersson | (Sweden) | Alfio Quarteroni | (Italy) |
| Giuseppe Baselli | (Italy) | Helen Byrne | (United Kingdom) |
| Tom Britton | (Sweden) | Karl Sigmund | (Austria) |
| Klaus Dietz | (Germany) | Denis Thieffry | (France) |
| Wulfram Gerstner | (Switzerland) | Daniel Tranchina | (USA) |
| Hans-Christian Hege | (Germany) | Tamiki Umeda | (Japan) |
| Hans V. Westerhoff | (The Netherlands) | ||
| Avidan U. Neumann | (Israel) | Simon Wood | (United Kingdom) |
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