Mischa Bonn, Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and FOM-Institute AMOLF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Ultrafast dynamics of water at the water-air interface studied by femtosecond surface  vibrational spectroscopy"

Tobias Brixner, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
"Coherent Spectroscopies on Ultrashort Time and Length Scales"

Peter Hommelhoff, Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany
"Attosecond physics at a nanoscale metal tip"

Steven L. Johnson, ETH Zürich, Institute for Quantum Electronics, Zürich, Switzerland
"A direct view of the dynamics of lattice and spin with femtosecond x-ray diffraction"

Nina Rohringer, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Hamburg, Germany
"First experimental realization of an atomic inner-shell x-ray laser in the keV photon-energy regime"

Pascal Salières, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
"Attosecond Electronic and Nuclear Dynamics in High-Harmonic Generation from Aligned Molecules"

Koichiro Tanaka, Kyoto University, Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences, Kyoto, Japan
"Nonlinear Terahertz Spectroscopy in Solids with Single-Cycle Terahertz Pulses"

Niek van Hulst, ICFO, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
"Persistent Quantum Coherence in Single Light-Harvesting Complexes"

Ahmed H. Zewail, 1999 Chemistry Nobel Prize, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA
"4D Electron Microscopy: Development and Applications"

Contributed submissions upgraded to Invited presentations:

Thomas Allison, JILA, NIST and the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
"High Brightness XUV Frequency Combs via Intracavity High Harmonic Generation"

Artem Bakulin, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
"Ultrafast Pump-Push Photocurrent Spectroscopy of Organic Photoconversion Systems"

Tenio Popmintchev, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
"A New Frontier in Nonlinear Optics: Bright Coherent Ultrafast Kiloelectronvolt X-rays on a Tabletop"