The following scientists will deliver invited presentations (preliminary titles are reported if available):

• Abdellah Ajji, Industrial Materials Institute (IMI), National Research Council Canada (NRC), Boucherville, Quebec, J4B 6Y4, Phone +450 641 5244, Fax +450 641 5105, Personal home page, e-mail, "Biaxial orientation characterization on-line and off-line and structure properties correlations in films"
• David C. Bassett, J.J. Thomson Physical Laboratory, University of Reading, Room 250, Phone +44 (0) 118 9318540, Fax +44 (0) 118 9750203, Personal home page, e-mail, "Row Structures in Science and Technology"
• Mukerrem Cakmak, Dept. Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325-0301, Phone (330) 972-6928, Personal home page, e-mail, "Structure development in injection molded. Slow and Fast crystallizing polymers"
• Masamichi Hikosaka, Venture Business Laboratory,  Hiroshima University,  Higashi Hiroshima, Faculty home page, e-mail, "Topological Mechanism in Melt Memory Effect on Polymer Crystallization"
• Benjamin Hsiao, Department of Chemistry at SUNY Stony Brooks, NY, Phone 631-632-7880, Fax 631-632-7960, Personal home page, e-mail, "Physics of orientation-induced crystallization in polymers - a case study of isotactic polypropylene in shear"

Piet J. Lemstra, Laboratory of Polymer Technology, University of Eindhoven, Personal home page, e-mail
• Giuseppe Marrucci, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Naples "Federico II", Piazzale Tecchio 80, I-80125 Napoli, Italia, Phone +39 (0) 81 7682273, Fax +39 (0) 81 2391800, Personal home page, e-mail, "Modeling the rheology of entangled polymers. State of the art"
• Geoffrey R. Mitchell, J.J. Thomson Physical Laboratory, University of Reading, Room 242, Phone +44 (0) 118 9318573, Fax +44 (0) 118 9750203, Personal home page, e-mail, "Crystallisation from sheared polmer melts: in-situ x-ray and neutron scattering studies"
• Anthony J. McHugh, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Personal home page, e-mail, "Flow-induced crystallization in polymer processing, modeling and experiment"
• Gerhard Eder, Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Institute of Chemistry, Altenberger Str. 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria, Phone and fax +43-732-2468-756, Institute home page, e-mail, "Characterization of the crystallization kinetics of a polypropylene under high cooling, in shear and elongational flow"
• Jean Marc Haudin, CENTRE DE MISE EN FORME DES MATERIAUX, Ecole des Mines de Paris, BP 207, 06904 SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS CEDEX, Phone 04.93.95.75.03, Fax : 04.92.38.97.52, Personal home page, e-mail, "Shear-induced crystallization of polypropylene. Growth enhancement and rheology in the crystallization range"
• Gerrit W.M. Peters, Eindhoven University of Technology, WH-0.120, PO Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, Personal home page, e-mail, "Development and validation of a recoverable strain based model for flow induced crystallization of polymers"
• Andrzej Ziabicki, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Science, Poland, Faculty home page, e-mail, "A model of flow-induced crystallization memory"