Keynote speakers:
* Bertram Batlogg (CMP) - is a Distinguished Professor at ETH, Zürich. In his recent work on organic conductors he has discovered the electrically powered organic laser, the fractional quantum Hall effect in organic semiconductors and superconductivity in organic crystals.

* Richard Maughan (MP) - is a Professor of Medical Physics, he played a major role in establishing the fast neutron therapy accelerator facility at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and is currently working on developing a proton therapy program at the University of Pennsylvania.

* Mark Sceats (ACOFT) - is Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre. The centre has over 200 staff and sponsorships from 5 Universities, TAFE, DSTO and 24 companies and which has spun off 8 companies. He holds 4 patents on photonic devices.

* Sheila Tobias (PEG) - is from Arizona, trained in the liberal arts, now focuses on why bright, ambitious college students choose not to study the physical sciences. She is working on professionalizing the science master's degree to attract more management students to science.

Plenary Speakers
* Barry Barish (ASGRG) - Professor of Physics at Caltech and is Director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Laboratory. He is supporter of the Australian Consortium for Interferometric Gravitational Astronomy's bid to become partners in Advanced LIGO.

* Philip Burke (AMPQC) - CBE, FRS. Professor at Queen's University, Belfast and is the father of computational collision theory, where rapid progress has occurred recently, with a multitude of applications in fundamental sciences and industry.

* Alun Jones (IOP) - Chief Executive and Managing Director, Institute of Physics Events.

* Boris Kayser (AINSE/NUPP) - recently appointed to Fermi National Laboratory, Illinois and formerly the National Science Foundation Program Director for Particle Theory, he is one of the world's foremost phenomenologists in the area of neutrino physics.

* Gerhard Rempe (AOS) - Director of the Quantum Dynamics Division of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, which focuses on experiments with ultra-cold atoms and their quantum behaviour.

* Brian Schmidt (ASA) - Research Fellow at the Research School of Astronomy, ANU, has carried out ground-breaking research in the detection and measurement of supernovae at very high redshift, which has provided key evidence that we live in an accelerating universe.

* Sir Peter Williams (IOP) - President of the Institute of Physics.

Public Lecture
* Karl Kruszelnicki will be giving the public lecture on the Tuesday evening of the Congress. The talk will be titled:

"Great Moments in Science © - The Four Forces and Murphy's Law"

Special Talk

* Harrison Schmitt - the last human to walk on the Moon.