Nine lecturers have been invited to cover the following areas: glasses and vitreous materials; ceramic materials; metallic materials; polymeric materials and composite materials. The organizing committee has invited well-known professors with excellent teaching ability to convey the students useful insights in the MSE. The list of the invited speakers is shown below.

Vitreous Materials

Himanshu Jain

D.Eng.Sc. Materials Sci. & Eng.
Columbia University, USA

T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair in Eng. & Appl. Science Director, NSF's International Materials Institute for New Functionality in Glass

Lehigh University , US

Edgar Dutra Zanotto

PhD Glass Technology
University of Sheffield, UK

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of the Vitreous Materials Lab (www.lamav.ufscar.br)

Federal University of São Carlos

Ceramics

William Edward Lee

PhD Radiation Damage in Ceramics
University of Oxford, UK

Chair in Ceramic Engineering and Director Centre for Advanced Ceramics (CASC) (www3.imperial../w.e.lee)

Imperial College of Science and Technology, London , UK

Paolo Colombo

PhD in Materials Science and Engineering
Padova University, Italy

Professor of Materials Science and Technology (www.dim.unipd.it/../Colombo/Research.html)

University of Padova, Italy

Victor Carlos Pandolfelli

PhD in Ceramic Engineering
Leeds University, UK

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Head of ALCOA laboratory

Federal University of São Carlos

Metals

Terence G. Langdon

PhD Physical Metallurgy, Imperial College University of London, U.K.

Research Professor of Materials Science and Director (http://ae-www.usc.edu/../langdon)

Centre for Bulk Nanostructured Materials
University of Southampton, U.K.

Lindsay Greer

PhD Materials Science and Metallurgy
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Professor of Materials Science (www.msm.cam.ac.uk/mkg)

University of Cambridge, UK

Gary R. Purdy

PhD Materials Science and Engineering
McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, CA

Professor Materials Science and Engineering (http://mse.mcmaster.ca/../purdy)

McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, CA

Walter José Botta Filho

PhD Metallurgy and Science of Materials
University of Oxford, UK

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Federal University of São Carlos

Polymers

Ica Manas-Zloczower

D.Sc. Chemical Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

Associate Dean of Faculty Development (http://polymers.case../manas_zloczower.htm)

Macromolecular Science and Engineering Case Western Reserve
University Cleveland, OH, EUA

Ramani Narayan

PhD Polymer Engineering & Science
Bombay University, Bombay, India

University Distinguished Professor (www.msu.edu/~narayan)

Chemical Engineering & Materials Science
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, EUA

Rosario Elida Suman Bretas

PhD in Chemical Engineering
Washington University in Saint Louis, MO, EUA

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering

Federal University of São Carlos

Polymer Composites

József Karger-Kocsis

PhD in Chemical Engineering
Lomonosow Moscow Institute of Fine Chemicals Technology, Russia

Professor of Polymer Engineering (www.pt.bme.hu/index.php?l=a)

Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME)
Budapest, Hungary

Elias Hage Junior

PhD in Fiber and Polymer Science
North Carolina State University, EUA

Professor of Materials Engineering

Federal University of São Carlos

José Alexandrino de Sousa

PhD in Polymer Technology
Loughborough University, UK

Professor of Polymer Engineering

Federal University of São Carlos