Frank Avignone has completed his PhD in physics in the year of 1965 from Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the Carolina Endowed Professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of South Carolina. He joined the faculty at the University of South Carolina in 1965; and served as chairman of the Department of Physics and Astronomy until 1998 when he retired and was appointed as the first Carolina Endowed Professor at USC. Frank T. Avignone III is the recipient of the 2008 CNTA Distinguished Scientist Award.

Research interests include a variety of topics in Particle Astrophysics and Cold Dark Matter.

Andrei Afanasev has extended his valuable service as an Assistant Professor at Hampton University for 5 years and has been a recipient of many award and grants.Currently, he is working as a Professor (Associate) for George Washington University. His international experience includes various programs, contributions and participation in different countries for diverse fields of study.

His research interests includes Theoretical Nuclear Physics,Fundamental physics,Photoproduction and electroproduction.

William van Wijngaarden has completed his in 1986 from Princeton University. After spending a year as a research associate at Yale University, he joined the faculty at York University in 1988. Currently, he is working as a Professor of physics at York University. He is the recipient of several scholarships and awards, including the University of Windsor's Board of Governor's Medal, the 1967 NSERC Graduate Scholarship, the Joseph Henry Scholarship from Princeton University and a considerable number of sizable research grants. Recently, he was chosen to be a member of the NSERC General Physics Grant Selection Committee.

Research interests include a variety of topics in pure and applied physics, such as laser isotope separation, laser cooling, atom trapping, and environmental monitoring of pollutants, electromagnetically induced transparency for use in optical switching.

Eugene Oks received his Ph.D. from the Moscow Institute of Science and Technology, and later the highest degree of Doctor of Sciences from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Worked in Moscow (USSR) as the head of a research unit (Center for Studying Surfaces and Vacuum), then – at Ruhr-University-Bochum (Germany) as the invited professor, and for the last 26 years – at the Physics Department of the Auburn University (USA) in the position of Professor. His research areas: atomic/molecular physics, plasma physics, laser physics, nonlinear dynamics, astrophysics. Founded/co-founded and developed new research fields: intra-Stark spectroscopy, microwave “lasing” without inversion, quantum chaos. Developed a large number of advanced spectroscopic methods for diagnosing various laboratory and astrophysical plasmas. Published over 300 papers and 4 books. He is the Chief Editor of the journal “International Review of Atomic and Molecular Physics”, a member of the Editorial Boards of the two other journals (International Journal of Spectroscopy and Open Journal of Microphysics), a member of the International Program Committees of the two conferences (Spectral Line Shapes and Zvenigorod Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion).

Research interests include a variety of topics in Theoretical Atomic, Laser and Plasma Physics.

Nicholaos Tsoupas has completed his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in the year 1975 from Ohio State University (Columbus). He is the Adjunct Professor at Stony Brook University (USA). He has Over 200 publications in journals and many contributions to scientific conferences. He also works for Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. He joined as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology later he joined Air Force Technology Center, and Nuclear Research Center “Democritus”, in Greece and continued to be successful in his career.

Research interests include a variety of topics in Accelerator Physics, Computational Physics and Nuclear Physics.

Natig Atakishiyev has completed his first doctoral degree (Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) in 1971 from Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Russia, and second one (Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) in 1987 from N.N. Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. He is researcher (Investigador Titular C) in mathematical physics from Instituto de Matemáticas, Unidad Cuernavaca, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Algebraic approach to difference equations and operators; special functions and orthogonal polynomials , their group-theoretic interpretation; integral and discrete Fourier transforms.

Vladimr Filinov is Doctor Phys&Math. Sc., Prof.. Education: Moscow Power Engineering Institute , M. Sc.degree in Physical Optics, Moscow State University, M. Sc.degree in Mathematics. His research are focusing on the correlation effects in strongly coupled quantum Coulomb systems.

Research Interest includes Computational methods of quantum statistical mechanics and theory of wave propagation in random media, Computational physics (Monte Carlo methods) and Perturbation theory of dense gases, classical and magnetic fluids, quantum dense plasma and solid state.Complex-valued Monte Carlo method and path integrals for solving stationary and non stationary quantum problems. Quantum molecular dynamics methods for solving Wigner - Liouville equations and Tomographic representation of quantum mechanics, Strongly correlated dusty plasma,Strongly correlated quantum electromagnetic and quark – gluon plasmas

Elena V. Orlenko has completed her PhD at the age of 28 years from St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University. She is full professor for the Theoretical Physics Department and director of a research team focusing on spin ordering in the system of identical particles with “high” spins and scattering processes of atomic particles with electron exchange at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Magnetic properties of low dimension atomic Bose- and Fermi-gases with “high”-spins of particles . Magnetic Properties and Magnetic ordering in the system of “high” spin particles Exchange and super-exchange interaction in many fold centered atomic systems and developing the formalism of Exchange Perturbation Theory , Scattering processes of atomic particles with electron exchange. InvariantExchange Perturbation Theory,Superradiation phenomena of the multi-level atomic systems.

Norimichi Kojima has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Kyoto University, Japan. In 1994, he was appointed as a full professor, and the vice-president between 2009 and 2011, the University of Tokyo, and became the emeritus professor in 2015, After retiring from the University of Tokyo, he moved to Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, as a fellow. His current interests include the electronic and structural properties of nanoparticles by means of Mössbauer spectroscopy.

Physics and chemistry based on molecular materials.

Professor Schuessler attended Rupert Charles University of Heidelberg, Germany, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in physics. After two years as assistant professor at the Technological University of Berlin, he was research assistant professor and research associate professor at the University of Washington. He joined Texas A&M as associate professor in 1969 and became a professor in 1981. For short intervals, he has been visiting associate professor at the University of Washington and visiting scientist at the University of Mainz and GSI in Germany. Professor Schuessler has been collaborating on research done at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently is performing experiments at Texas A&M, on-line at the UNISOR mass separator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics at Garching, Germany. He is a member of both the American and European Physical Societies and Sigma Xi.

Research interests include a variety of topics in atomic physics and laser spectroscopy: on-line spectroscopy of short-lived isotopes, measurement of nuclear moments, spins nd charge distributions, cross-sections for spin dependent atomic collisions, ion storage spectroscopy and laser cooling, low energy ion and atom collisions, highly charged ion spectroscopy and Wigner crystals.