International Soft Matter Conference 2010

July 5-8, 2010
Granada, Spain

The International Soft Matter Conference will bring together students and scientists interested in soft matter systems such as polymers, colloids, surfactants, membranes, biomaterials and their composites. It intends to adress Soft matter science’s need for an interdisciplinary approach connecting theoretical, computational and experimental physics, physical chemistry, material science and biology. A special focus of discussion in this context will be the application of soft matter concepts to biological and biomimetic systems. Registration is open and the abstract submission deadline is April 15th, 2010. Read more at the website. Invited speakers will provide a catalyst for interactions by covering a range of topics such as dilute and dense phase flows, jamming, regime transitions, multiphase systems, avalanches instabilities, patterns, segregation/mixing, and related phenomena. Visit the website to read more.

MACRO 2010, The 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress

July 11-16, 2010
Glasgow, UK

The 43rd IUPAC World Polymer Congress, ‘Macro2010’, is the latest in the series of the biennial meetings of the IUPAC Polymer Division. The series has been running for several decades and is the largest international multi-symposium conference dedicated to all aspects of polymer science and engineering. Macro2010 is organised by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and hosted by the Pure and Applied Macromolecular Chemistry Group (Macro Group UK), a joint interest group of the RSC and the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI). Visit the website to read more.

The 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference (ILCC) 2010

July 11-16, 2010
Krakow, Poland

The ILCC will be organized in Krakow, Poland, by the Jagiellonian University in co-operation with twelve Polish Universities and research institutions active in the field of liquid crystals. The 23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference will steer “across borders and multiscales” through all fields of scientific endeavour involving liquid crystals. Research presentations covering the broadest variety of subjects, ranging from synthetic chemistry through nanoscale characteristics up to macroscopic properties. Visit the website to read more.

LCOPV 2010 Workshop

August 7-9, 2010
University of Colorado Boulder, CA

The topical workshop “Directing Nanoscale Organization in Organic Photovoltaics:  Liquid Crystals for Renewable Energy (LCOPV)” will take place on the campus of the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colorado, August 7-9, 2010.  The meeting is organized by the two Colorado National Science Foundation Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers - the Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center (at the University of Colorado at Boulder), and the Renewable Energy Materials Research Center (at Colorado School of Mines, in Golden). The purpose of the workshop being to stimulate productive interactions between the liquid crystal and broader organic self-assembly communities, and the molecular electronics and organic photovoltaics communities. The program will consist of traditional lectures, tutorials, and posters. To read more visit the website.

NEQ-SOFT International Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter

August 17-20, 2010
Nara, Japan

The international Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Soft Matter is to be held 17-20 of August, in Nara, Japan. Organized by NEQ-SOFT, the symposium is focused on the behavior of soft matter coupled to the non-equilibrium nature. Although the topics discussed will be wide-spread ranging from microscopic molecular dynamics of polymers to macroscopic flow behavior of structured fluids, their common features are formation of the mesoscopic and hierarchical structures originating from a large number of internal degrees of freedom of the constituents. Registration is open so visit the website to read more.

The 23rd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society

August 30th - September 3rd
University of Warsaw, Poland

The conference provides a forum for presentations of research work across the full range of condensed matter physics to a wide international audience. The conference programme will include plenary talks by outstanding physicists, oral sessions, including invited and contributed presentations with up to seven parallel sessions, and ample time for poster sessions. The conference should offer space for disscusing both novel and established topics, including selected important areas of condensed matter physics. Visit the website to read more.

IOP Institute of Physics presents: Physics Meets Biology

September 1-3, 2010
St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

Physics Meets Biology 2010 will provide a broad view of the most recent and exciting research across a broad range of topics and scales: its scope includes physical probes and imaging, bionanotechnology, molecular machinery, cytoskeletal mechanics, signalling, control, neural systems, development, evolution and ecology. The conference is organized around an international programme of invited speakers and will include contributed talks and poster sessions. Its state-of-the-art research coverage is designed to inform experts of the latest developments; it will also provide a valuable introduction to biophysical research for junior researchers including graduate students. Visit the website to read more.

The 24th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society

September 5-10
Prague, Czech Republic

The 24th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS 2010) is being held under the auspices of the Charles University in Prague and the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The topics of the 24th ECIS conference will cover self-assembling, stimuli-responsive and hierarchically organized systems, colloids, polymers, biologically important
and bioinspired systems, thin films and interfaces, novel nano- and mesostructured functional materials including materials for pharmaceutical and medical applications. Visit the website to read more.

International Workshop Series: Passion for Knowlege

September 28-30
Donostia International Physics Center

The Donostia International Physics Center is celebrating its tenth year anniversary with a series of workshops entitled “Passion for Knowledge.” Each of the scientific workshops will focus into one of the main subjects of research in the DIPC. Of the four workshops presented one of them is “Passion for Soft Matter”: Presenting state-of-the-art experiments and theoretical advances in the fields of softmatter.

The other three workshops will focus on Electrons, Interfaces and Photons. The 4 workshops will take place from September 28th to September 30th and all 4 workshops are integrated in the same event. Participants are free to attend any scientific talk from any of the workshops, independently on the particular one in which they initially register. To read more about the speakers, poster session and lecture programs visit the website here.

82nd Annual Meeting of the Society of Rheology

October 24-28
Sante Fe, New Mexico

The Society of Rheology 82nd Annual Meeting is being held from October 24 - 28, 2010 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The conference will have ten thematic sessions and a poster session, which includes the annual student/post-doc poster competition. Some of the planned sessions are;

• Rheology and Flow of Glass-like Materials
• Nano- and Micro-Rheology: Indentation and Beyond
• Rheology of Natural Materials: Biorheology and Food Rheology
• Self-Assembling, Associative, and Gel-like Systems
• Suspensions, Colloids and Emulsions
• Complex Fluids: Nanocomposites and Phase Separated System
• Polymer Rheology: Melts, Solutions and Blends
• Micro- and Nano- Fluidics
• Computational Rheology: Behavior ‘in Silico’
• Surface and Interfacial Rheology

The Society of Rheology is one of the five founding members of the American Institute of Physics. The Society is also a member of the International Committee on Rheology, which organizes the International Congress on Rheology, held every four years. Registration for the poster session is open until August 13, 2010. Visit the website to read more.