A partial list of confirmed keynote speakers (in alphabetic order):

Michael Altman	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Michael Arnold	University of Wisconsin-madison
Christoph Deneke	Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
Daniel Dougherty	North Carolina State University
Jiangfeng Du	University of Science and Technology of China
Rui-Rui Du	Rice University
Mark A. Eriksson	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jim Evans	Iowa State University
Zhong Fang	Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yukio Hasegawa	University of Tokyo
Xiao Hu	International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, Japan
Jinfeng Jia	Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Peter Kratzer	University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Max G. Lagally	University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jian-Xin Li	Nanjing University, China
Oussama Moutanabbir	Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada
Hiroshi Nishihara	University of Tokyo
Qian Niu	University of Texas at Austin
Joerg Schaefer	University of Würzburg, Germany
Oliver G. Schmidt	Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany
Jian Shen	Fudan University, China
Chih-Kang Shih	University of Texas at Austin
Peter Sutter	University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Patricia Thiel	Ames Laboratory
Enge Wang	Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jian Wang	Peking University
Hanno H. Weitering	University of Tennessee
Ruqian Wu	University of California-Irvine
Xincheng Xie	Peking University, China
Harold J.W. Zandvliet	University of Twente, Netherland
Xixiang Zhang	King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Zhenyu Zhang	University of Science and Technology of China
Xingjiang Zhou	Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences