The topics will be organized in the following sessions:

Organizers: Artem R. Oganov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) and Alexander F. Goncharov (Carnegie Institute)

Organizers: Torben R. Jensen (Arhus University), Craig Buckley (Curtin University of Technology) and Hai-Wen Li (Kyushu University)

Organizers: Rajeev Ahuja (Uppsala University) and Yaroslav Filinchuk (Universitet Catholique de Louvain)

Organizers: Changqing Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Organizers: Christoph Meingast and Frederic Hardy(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Organizers: Arun Bansil (Northeastern University), Swastik Kar (Northeastern University) and Humberto Terrones (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Organizers: Naurang Saini (Sapienza University of Rome) and Takashi Mizokawa (Waseda University

Organizers: Jiuhua Chen and Surendra Saxena (Florida International University)

Organizers: Andreia Luisa da Rosa and Renato Borges Pontes (Federal University of Goias, Brazil); Erika Nascimento Lima (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso)

Organizers: Giuliana Aquilanti (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste, Italy) and Fabrizio Bardelli (CNR-Nanotec, Roma, Italy)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Symposium 11 will be merged with Symposium 3

Organizers: Richard G. Hennig and James J. Hamlin (University of Florida)