Brett Carlson (ITA) Reaction Mechanisms for Incident Nucleons and Complex Particles Jutta Escher (LLNL) Surrogate Reaction Methods Yoram Alhassid (Yale U) Nuclear Level Density Theory Sophie Pé ru (CEA Bruyères) Photon Strength Function Theory Sunniva Siem (Oslo U) Nuclear Level Density and Strength Function Measurements Dario Vretenar (Zagreb U) Nuclear Fission Theory Carl Brune (Ohio U) R-matrix Theory and Measurements Gregory Potel (LLNL) The Optical Model Maë l le Kerveno (IPHC) Neutron Inelastic Scattering Sté phane Goriely (ULB) Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics Applications Helmut Leeb (TUW) Nuclear Data Evaluation Daniel Cano (CIEMAT) Nuclear Data Measurements