Executive:

Vinod K. Sarin
L. Llanes

Steering:

E. Drake
H. E. Exner
L. Llanes
S. Luyckx
H. Ortner
D. Mari
V. K. Sarin

Organizing Committee (ICSHM 9)

D. Mari (Chairman),École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
L. Llanes (Co-Chairman),Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, (Spain)
V.K. Sarin, Boston University, Boston (USA)
M. Ekelund, Sandvik Tooling Stockholm (Sweden)
S. Moseley, Hilti AG (Liechtenstein)
A.T. Santhanam, Kennametal Inc, Latrobe (USA)
U. Schleinkofer, Ceratizit (Germany)
E. Drake, Reedhycalog, a Grant Prideco Company, Houston (USA)
K.C. Chen, Schlumberger Doll Research Laboratory, Cambridge (USA)
G. Dumitru, University of Applied Sciences Aargau (Switzerland)
H. E. Exner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt (Germany)
Z.Z. Fang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (USA)
S. Basu, Boston University, Boston (USA)
L.M. Berger, Fraunhofer Institut Werkstoff-und-Strahltechnik, Dresden (Germany)
S.H. Kang, Seoul National University, Seoul (South Korea)
Sabine Lay, Institut National Polytechnique, Grenoble (France)
S. B. Luyckx, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa) †
J. Boland, CSIRO, Kenmore (Australia)
W. Acchar, UFRN, Natal (Brazil)
H.M. Ortner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt (Germany)
P. Wei, Tsinghua University, Beijing (China)
J. C. Bressiani, IPEN, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
A.S. Khanna, IIT, Bombay (India)

† ICSHM 9 will be dedicated to the memory of S. B. Luyckx.