Welcome to DSL2011 - Algarve, Portugal

Organiser	Local Committe:
Prof. A. Öchsner (chair) Technical University of Malaysia - UTM, Malaysia Prof. G. Murch (co-chair) The University of Newcastle, Australia Prof. A. Shokuhfar (co-chair) K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran Prof. J. Delgado (co-chair) University of Porto, Portugal	Prof. Victor Lobo (Head of Local Committee) – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Prof. António Miguel Universidade de Évora Portugal Prof. Manuel Alves Universidade do Porto, Portugal Prof. César Sequeira Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Scientific Committee:
Prof. I.E. Campos Silva IPN SEPI-ESIME, Mexico Prof. V. Popov Institute of Metal Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Prof. A.A. Kodentsov Eindhoven University Technology, The Netherlands Prof. Carlos Roberto Grandini UNESP/Bauru, Brazil Dr. Ing. Gian Piero Celata ENEA, Italy Prof. G.J. Creus Universidade Federal Rio Grande Sul - UFRGS, Brazil Prof. J.P. Rino Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil Prof. K. Sefiane The University of Edinburgh, UK Prof. M.E.R. Shanahan University of Bordeaux, France Prof. H. Nakajima Osaka University, Japan Prof. Noorhana Yahya Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia Prof. Omar S. Es-Said Loyola Marymount University, USA Prof. Sergio Nardini Seconda Universita' degli Studi di Napoli, Italy Prof. Y. Sohn University of Central Florida, USA Prof. Mónica Oliveira University of Aveiro, Portugal Prof. B. Bokstein Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, Russia Prof. L. S. Shvindlerman University of Aachen, Germany Prof. Dr. Nicola Bianco Universita' degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy Prof. Oronzio Manca Seconda Universita' degli Studi di Napoli, Italy Prof. Hamid Reza Rezaie Iran University of Science and Technology, Iran Dr. Pierre GILORMINI Laboratoire d'Ingénierie des Matériaux (LIM), FRANCE Prof. Azita AHMADI SENICHAULT Laboratoire TREFLE, France Prof. Denis MAILLET LEMTA Nancy-University CNRS, France Prof. Eliane ESPUCHE Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France Prof. Hervé COMBEAU Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France Prof. M. EL Ganaoui University of Limoges / CNRS, France Prof. Nadia. Jessel University of Strasbourg, France Prof. R. Bennacer Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France	Prof. A. N. Dmitriev Institute of Metallurgy of the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Prof. A. Fishman Ural Department of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Prof. I. Belova The University of Newcastle, Australia Prof. R.V. Ramnath Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT, USA Prof. Toshitada Shimozaki Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan Prof. Helmut Mehrer Institut für Materialphysik Universität Münster, Germany Prof. Rafal Kozubski Jagellonian University, Poland Prof. Giovanni Mazzolai Telematic University e-Campus, Italy Prof. P. Pizani Universidade Federal de São Carlos-UFSC, Brazil Prof. Yuh Fukai The University of Tokyo Japan Prof. Dieter Freude Universität Leipzig Germany Prof. Paul Heitjans Leibniz University Hannover Germany Prof. V. Teixeira University of Minho, Portugal Prof. M.A.J. Somers Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Prof. H. Fujikawa Air Water Incorporated., Japan Prof. Chan-Gyu Lee Changwon National University, Korea Dr. Cornelia Breitkopf Technische Universität München, Germany Prof. Mohamad Rusop Universiti Tekbologi MARA (UiTM) Malaysia Prof. Gregory Kozlowski Wright State University, USA Dr. Sofoklis S. Makridis University of Western Macedonia, Greece	Prof. M.A. Dayananda Purdue University, USA Prof. Dezső L. Beke University of Debrecen, Hungary Prof. R.F. Moreira Martínez Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, SPAIN Prof. I. Malico Universidade de Évora Portugal Prof. Jozef L. Kokini Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, USA Prof. Odila Florencio UFSCAR, Brazil Prof. Jose A.R. Parise PUC Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Prof. S. Seetharaman Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Prof. B.B. Straumal Institute of Solid State Physics, Russia Prof. Ulrich Krupp FH Osnabrück Germany Prof. Yvan Houbaert Ghent University, Belgium Prof. M. Zinigrad Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel Prof. Esah bt. Hamzah Technical University of Malaysia - UTM, Malaysia Prof. L. Q. Wang The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dr. Eusebio Solórzano University of Valladolid, Spain Prof. Keesam Shin Changwon National University, Korea Prof. F. Coutelieris University of Ioannina, Greece Prof. Huseyin Cimenoglu Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Prof. M. Danielewski AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Prof. M.J.S. De Lemos Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica‐ITA, Brazil