Transcription: I want to thank everyone for attending the 2002 NCM International Workshop and Symposium. I trust everyone will find that this is a very beneficial experience over this coming week, and I believe we have one of the finest technical programs we've ever put together running at this particular symposium. What I'd like to do to kick off this particular session is to introduce our keynote speaker to set the tone for this conference. Our keynote speaker today is Professor Andrew Wahlert. He was educated in Liverpool in the United Kingdom and then at St. Andrews University in Scotland. He joined the ...