Conference Chair Teruo Kishi (President of NIMS) Honorary Advisor Akira Fujishima (President of KAST) Advisory Board Kazuhito Hashimoto (Dept. of Eng., Univ. of Tokyo) Kazunari Domen (Tokyo Inst. of Tech.) Bunsho Ohtani (Univ. of Hokkaido) Masakazu Anpo (Dept. of Eng., Osaka Pref. Univ.) Yoshimitsu Saeki (TOTO Ltd.) Takashi Nohmura (Taiyo Kogyo Co.) Organizing Committee / Program Committee Jinhua Ye (Chair, NIMS) Mitsutake Oshikiri (NIMS) Yasuo Ebina (NIMS) Jiang Yin (NIMS) Tetsuya Kako (NIMS) Hiroshi Irie (Univ. of Tokyo) Tetsuya Shichi (JR Tokai)） Secretariat Takehiko Matsumoto (NIMS) E-mail: MATSUMOTO.Takehiko@nims.go.jp Sengen 1-2-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan 305-0047 Phone: +81-29-859-2645 Fax: +81-29-859-2601 Registration Desk Tsukuba Information Lab. Inc. E-mail: 2nd-nims@tilab.co.jp Phone: +81-29-858-1111 Fax: +81-29-852-8282