List of invited speakers (as of May 10, 2006)

• Arun Bansil (Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, USA)
  Modeling electronic structure and spectroscopy of complex materials: ARPES, RIXS and STM
  
• Juan Bartolomé (Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, CSIC-Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
  Magnetic phase diagrams of the R₃(Co:Ni)₁₅B₂, R=Y and Nd intermetallic compounds
  
• Ernst Bauer (Institute of Solid State Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
  RPt₃Si compounds: a play ground of challanging physical properties
  
• Rolf Berger (Department of Materials Chemistry, University of Uppsala, Sweden)
  Magnetic structures and magnetic interactions in layered transition metal chalcogenides
  
• Victor V. Eremenko (Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kharhov, Ukraine)
  Magnetoelastic phenomena in the mixed state of niobium dichalcogenide
  
• Yuri Grin (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)
  Chemical bonding and crystal structures of intermetallics
  
• Jean-Marc Joubert (Laboratoire de Chimie Metallurgique des Terres Rares, CNRS, Thiais, France)
  Crystal chemistry of the sigma phase
• Wolfgang Jeitschko (Institute for Solid State Inorganic Chemistry - Materials Science, University of Münster, Germany)
  Polyanions in Intermetallic Solids
  
• Keiichi Koyama (Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Japan)
  High field X-ray diffraction studies of novel ferromagnetic shape memory alloys
  
• Arthur Mar (Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada)
  Bonding and Electronic Structure of Binary and Ternary Phosphides by X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy
  
• Salvatore Miraglia (Laboratoire de Cristallographie & CRETA, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
  Hydrogen-induced martensitic transformation in TiV_0.8Cr_1.2 studied by in situ neutron diffraction
  
• Krzysztof Parliński (Henryk Niewodniczański Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland)
  Ab initio phonon calculations in materials containing d- and f- elements
  
• Vitalij Pecharsky (Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, USA)
  Some extraprdinary effects associated with magnetostructural transitions in the R5T4 intermetallics
  
• Peter Rogl (Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Vienna, Austria)
  Intermetallic clathrates
  
• Vasily R. Shaginyan (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, Gatchina, Russia)
  Asymmetrical tunneling in Heavy Fermion Metals as a possible probe for their non-Fermi liquid peculiarities
  
• Franck Steglich (Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany)
  Superconductivity and Magnetism in Strongly Correlated f-Electron Metals
  
• Andrzej Ślebarski (Institite of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
  Electron-correlation effects in a disordered Fe₂VAl and Fe₂TiSn
  
• Ewa Talik (Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
  90^th anniversary of Czochralski pulling method
  
• Robert Troć (Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, Poland)
  The possibility of the mixed valence states in uranium intermetallic compounds 
• Taiju Tsuboi (Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto Sangyo University, Kamigamo, Kyoto, Japan)
  Photophysics and electroluminescence of solid organometallic compounds with d-electrons
  
• Peter Wachter (Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
  Similarities between Cu and Pu containing “high Tc” superconductors

• Herbert Boller (Institute for General and Inorganic Chemistry, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria)
  Thiocuprates - interesting anisotropic solids
• Wiesława Sikora (Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland)
  Group theory for magnetic structure determination - recent developments and quadrupolar ordering analysis

• Roman Gladyshevskii (Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine)
  Oksana Bodak’s contribution to solid state chemistry
• Ya. Kalychak (Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv, Ukraine)
  Professor Oksana Bodak: our teacher, colleague and friend

• Olivier Isnard (Laboratoire de Cristallographie, CNRS, Grenoble, France)
  Crystal and magnetic structures of R-Co-B compounds and related phases
• Gérard Venturini (Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Minéral, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France)
  Crystallographic and magnetic properties of MFe₆X₆ and MFe₆X_1-xX’_x compounds (M = lanthanides; X=Ge,Sn; X’=Ga,Ge,In)