| Topic | Speaker |
| High harmonic generation, attosecond physics | Markus Gühr, SLAC |
| Physics of FELs | Paul Emma, SLAC |
| Ultrafast lasers | Bill White, SLAC |
| X-ray interaction with materials, High energy density science | Justin Wark, Department of Physics, University of Oxford |
| Theory of materials in extreme conditions | Evan Reed, Stanford Department of Materials Science and Engineering |
| Ultrafast chemistry | Albert Stolow, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada |
| Femtosecond x-ray studies of materials, plasma sources | Matias Bargheer, Institut für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Potsdam |
| Coherent x-ray imaging | Henry Chapman, Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY |
| Ultrafast magnetism, strongly correlated materials | Hermann Dürr, SLAC |
| attosecond physics, intense laser-atom interactions | Louis DiMauro, Department of Physics, Ohio State University |