Conference Listings

Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Conference: CMMP 2011

13-15 December, 2011

Manchester, United Kingdom

The CMMP11 will be taking place on the 13-15 of December in Manchester, UK. The conference has a wide range of symposia and will reflect the breadth of condensed matter and materials physics - this series of conferences attracts the highest quality invited and plenary talks, and offers a forum for student presentations.

The conference includes:

• Plenary lectures, given by internationally recognised speakers.

• A wide range of symposia with both invited and contributed talks. The final programme will include symposia reflecting your contributions.
  Poster sessions enabling scientists to present their work in an informal and convivial setting.

• A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers attending CMMP. A member of our Global Research Network, Andrei Zvelindovsky along with Paola Carbone are organizing a symposium “Computer simulation in soft matter."

The full confirmed list of speakers, including their photos and biographies, can be found under the Plenary and invited speakers page. To read more visit the conference website.

Dynamics Days 2012

4-7 January, 2012
Baltimore, Maryland

Dynamics Days is an annual conference on topics in nonlinear dynamics. It is being held January 4-7, 2012.

This year’s conference will include sessions in pattern forming systems, characterization and control of nonlinear systems, synchronization of nonlinear systems, and complex biological systems, as well as a celebration of Ed Ott’s 70th birthday and his seminal contributions to the field of nonlinear dynamics. The abstract submission deadline is November 7th, 2012.

Visit the website to read more.

9-12 January, 2012
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) is a European organization devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and to their application to important problems in frontier areas of science and technology.

Description: A groundswell of opinion in the community of researchers interested in foams and emulsions suggests that while the "quasistatic"  flow of these materials is understood in broad terms, and can often be predicted with current numerical methods, the origin of the dissipation observed at finite shear rate is not so clear. A good deal of current theoretical and experimental activity aims to understand and predict the response of disordered foams and emulsions at finite shear-rate and, in particular, to include dissipative processes due to stretching and generation of new films and bubble rearrangements at a mesoscopic level. It is this coupling between different length-scales (mesoscopic bubble vs film) that provides a major barrier to progress. 

To read more visit the website.

12-14 January, 2012
Barcelona, Spain

CECAM (Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire) is a European organization devoted to the promotion of fundamental research on advanced computational methods and to their application to important problems in frontier areas of science and technology.

As the acronym CECAM indicates, traditionally the focus of its activities has been on atomistic and molecular simulations, mainly in relation to the physics and chemistry of condensed matter.

More information TBA. Periodically visit the website for updates.

Biophysical Society 56th Annual Meeting

25-29 February, 2012

San Diego, California

The Annual Biophysical Society Meeting is held each year in February or March. With over 6,000 attendees, the meeting is the largest gathering of biophysicists around the world. More than 3,500 abstracts are submitted each year, which are programmed into poster and platform sessions.

The meeting includes Symposia, Workshops, Minisymposia, Subgroup programs, and the National Lecture, as well as Educational Exhibits, Exhibitor Presentations, and Committee Events.
More information on registration and themes can be found by visiting the website.

43rd IFF Spring School

5-16 March, 2012
Jülich, Germany

This year's annual Jülich Spring School is titled, Scattering Methods for Condensed Matter Research: Towards Novel Applications at Future Sources.

The spring school is a two-week Course with about 50 Hours of Lectures for Students and Young Scientists. The topics covered include;

• Neutron and X-ray scattering

• European Spallation Source

• X-ray Free Electron Laser

• Structure of Crystals and Complex Fluids

• Complementary Techniques

• Dynamics of Disordered Systems and Large Molecules

• Applications in Nanostructures, Life Sciences, …

To read more visit the website.

Glasgow Workshop on Soft Tissue Modeling

14-16 March, 2012
Glasgow, UK

One of the greatest challenges in mechanical modelling is to extend its success to fields outside traditional engineering, in particular to biology, biomedical sciences, and medicine.

This workshop will provide an opportunity for modelling specialists and medical experts to present and exchange opinions on current developments and challenges in the field of soft tissue modelling, with particular applications (though not exclusively) to human biliary and circulation systems. To find more information on the invited speakers and program visit the website.

E-MRS 2012 Spring Meeting

14-18 May, 2012
Congress Center - Strasbourg, France

The 2012 Spring Meeting of the European Materials Research Society will include 25 parallel symposia, one plenary session, one exhibition and much more.  

The scientific program topics include:

• MATERIALS FOR ENERGY

• BIO / ORGANIC / POLYMERIC MATERIALS

• MATERIALS FOR ELECTRONIC / PHOTONIC / PLASMONIC

• ADVANCED MATERIALS AND NANO MATERIAL

• METHODS AND ANALYSIS

To read more visit the website.

Frontiers of Soft Matter

16 - 18 May, 2012
University of Colorado at Boulder

The Frontiers of Soft Matter 2012 symposium will be held in celebration of the 70th birthday of Professor Noel Clark. This three-day meeting, which will take place on the beautiful campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder, will highlight some of the most exciting experimental and theoretical research in soft matter science today, with invited plenary lectures from leading researchers in the US and abroad and contributed poster sessions for all symposium participants.The event is  organized by the  Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.

To read more visit the website.

Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Foods: Faraday Discussion 158

2-4 July, 2012
Hof Van Wageningen, Netherlands

Food materials are unusual as soft matter. They are highly complex, operating on multiple length scales and phases and structured via multiple externally applied fields.

A growing number of scientists are applying a soft matter physics approach to food science. This Faraday Discussion on Soft Matter Approaches to Structured Food will introduce and strengthen the concept of the soft matter approach to food scientists, and bring food scientists together with non-food experts (both experimental and theoretical) from the field of soft matter physics. The Discussion will allow for the exchange of views on state-of-the-art approaches like soft-glass rheology, multiscale/mesoscale simulation techniques, theories on slow dynamics, and driven soft matter systems.

The Discussion will be held in the city of Wageningen in the Netherlands - one of the prime centres for food science in Europe. The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in the Discussion and looks forward to welcoming you in Wageningen.
The aim of this Discussion is to provide a platform for the exchange of views, to encourage regular food scientists (such as process engineers and food chemists) to adopt the soft matter approach, and to encourage non-food experts from the soft matter community to include food materials in their research. Junior researchers and PhD students in food science will have the opportunity to get more experience of novel soft matter approaches by discussion with top experts in the field. They will also benefit from being able to showcase their own research via a poster session.

The themes of the conference include:

• Structuring formation via external fields

• Structuring formation via self-assembly

• Slow dynamics in stabilized/jammed foods 

• Simulation of structured soft matter/foods at multiple length scales 

To read more visit the website.

The COMPLOIDS 2012 Summer School

3-13 July, 2012
Lake Como, Italy

COMPLOIDS is proud to announce the  two-week summer school which  will be held July 3-13 2012 at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" in Varenna, Italy. The primary aim of the school is to cover the most exciting modern topics in the physics of colloids.The school will focus on nine mini-courses and on a small number of  seminars. The topics covered  in the mini-courses will include

1. Colloidal interactions and phase diagrams (C. N. Likos, Wien)

2. Hydrodynamics in colloids  (G. Naegele, Juelich)

3. Simulation techniques (D. Frenkel, Cambridge)

4. Colloidal arrested states of matter (E. Zaccarelli, Roma)

5. Structural investigations of colloids (R. Piazza, Milano)

6. Synthesis  (B. Vincent, Bristol)

7. Applications (S. Granick, Urbana-Champaign)

8. Non-equilibrium phenomena  (C. Vandenbroeck, Diepenbeek)

9. Active Motion (W. Poon, Edinburgh)

Mini-courses (1-7) will consist of six 45-minute lectures, mini-courses (8-9) will consist of three 45-minute lectures.  This schedule will allow speakers to discuss the concepts, methodologies, and results in a particular field in full detail.

To read more visit the website.