Structure and Properties of Iridium Oxides (Gang Cao) Describing the Structure-Property Relationships of Transition-Metal Magnetic Oxides: Conceptual, Theoretical and Computational Issues (H J Xiang, C Lee, J Kang, W-J Son, E J Kan, F Wu, C Tian, Y M Zhang, J Liu, J L Bettis, H-J Koo & M-H Whangbo) Spectroscopic Studies of Strong Spin-Orbit Coupling in 4d- and 5d-Transition Element Oxides (Soon Jae Moon & Tae Won Noh) X-Ray Scattering Studies of 4d- and 5d-Transition Metal Oxides (Bernhard Keimer & Ionnis Zegkinoglou) Exploring the Magnetostructural Phases of the Layered Ruthenates with Raman Scattering: Raman Spectroscopy of Orbital Order in Layered Ruthenium Oxides (Lance Cooper) Novel Magnetotransport and Spintronic Effects in Ruthenium Oxides (Gang Cao & Lance E De Long) Metal-Insulator Transition and Superconductivity in n=1 Ruddleston-Popper Ruthenates (Rongying Jin) Superconducting Iron Pnictides (Ward Plummer).