Historical lectures:

• Wilfried Meyer (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
• Klaus Ruedenberg (Iowa State University, USA):
  “Three Millennia of Atoms, Molecules and Bonds, the Growth of Scientific Insights in the Atomistic Structure of Matter”

Experimental lecture:

• Nuno Maulide (University of Vienna, Austria)

Plenary lectures:

• Irene Burghardt (Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany)
• Garnet Chan (Princeton University, USA)
• Andreas Dreuw (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
• Marcus Elstner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• Jürgen Gauß (University of Mainz, Germany)
• Hardy Gross (Max-Planck-Institut für Mikrostrukturphysik, Halle, Germany)
• Roland Lindh (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Todd Martínez (University of Stanford, USA)
• Benedetta Mennucci (University of Pisa, Italy)
• Mike A. Robb (Imperial College London, UK)
• Peter Saalfrank (University of Potsdam, Germany)
• Ivano Tavernelli (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Walter Thiel (Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany)
• Hans-Joachim Werner (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
• Angela Wilson (University of North Texas, USA)