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(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

(Department of Mathematics Hong Kong Baptist University)

(Professor, Platform Technologies Research Institute,RMIT University)

(Executive Director, National Science Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

(Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years of farming in a mountain village, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the acclaimed author of the short story collection American Visa (1994), the novel Foreign Devil (1996), two poetry collections Of Flesh & Spirit (1998) and The Magic Whip (2003), the cultural study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China (2000), and most recently Emperor Dragon (2006), a traditional Chinese folk tale, and The Last Communist Virgin (April 2007), a second collection of stories. Wang Ping is also the editor and co-translator of the anthology New Generation: Poetry from China Today (1999), and her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts for poetry, and the Minnesota State Arts Board for fiction, M.A. (Comparative Literature) New York University, 1999, 1994 M.A. (English Literature) Long Island University,1987 B.A. (English Literature) Beijing University, 1984)

(Professor, Department of Electrical and Control Engineering National Chiao Tung University )

(Professeur, Dept Informatique et Recherche Op??rationnelle Universit?? de Montr??al)

(George A. Lopez (Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1975) is a professor of political science and Senior Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Lopez\'s research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, and gross violations of human rights. He also has an interest in ethical issues related to these questions. His work has been published in Chitty\'s Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, International Studies Quarterly, The Fletcher Forum, Journal of International Affairs, The International Journal of Human Rights, and Ethics and International Affairs. With Michael Stohl, he has been editor and contributor to five books on repression and state terror, most notably, Government Violence and Repression: An Agenda for Research. Working with David Cortright since 1992, he has written more than twenty articles and book chapters, as well as five books, on economic sanctions. The latter include Economic Sanctions: Panacea or Peacebuilding in the Post-Cold War World? and Civilian Pain and Political Gain: Assessing the Humanitarian Impact of Economic Sanctions with Thomas Weiss and Larry Minear. The Sanctions Decade: Assessing UN Strategies in the 1990s has drawn critical acclaim, including being named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title designation in 2000. Smart Sanctions: Targeting Economic Statecraft, and Sanctions and the Search for Security, co-authored with Cortright, appeared in 2002. Lopez has served in an advisory capacity to a number of foundations and organizations involved in human rights, international affairs education, and peace research. From 1988 through 1998, he chaired the Selection Committee of the Research and Writing Grants Committee of the MacArthur Foundation\'s Program in Peace and International Cooperation. From May 1-December 31, 1997, he served as Interim Executive Director of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and chaired their Board of Directors until June, 2003. In addition, in 2001-2 he was a senior research associate at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs in New York City, Senior Fellow and Professor of Political Science 115 Hesburgh Center)

(Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science )

(Professor, Dipartimento di Fisica Universita' degli Studi di Camerino)

(professor, School of Electronics & Computer Science University of Southampton)

(Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science The University of Kansas )

(Professor)

(* Morris, Sam H. — of Globe, Gila County, Ariz. Democrat. Member of Democratic National Committee from Arizona, 1943-50. Still living as of 1950)

(Professor, National Chung Cheng University)

(Yukio YAMADA, Director of Department , Ph.D. Dept. Material Science and Bioengineering,)