- S. Vaikuntanathan (Univ. of Chicago, USA) - Statistical Mechanics
- Juan M.R. Parrondo (UCM, Madrid) - Statistical Mechanics
- Florent Krzakala (Ecole Normale, Paris) - Coding & computation
- Lenka Zdeborova (CEA/Saclay, France) - Glasses & computation
- Ben Machta (Princeton, USA) - Information Geometry
- Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University, USA) - Information Geometry
- Fernando Brandao (Caltech, USA) - Quantum Computation
- Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University, USA) - Quantum Computation