Equilibrium and Beyond-Equilibrium Self-Organization in Soft Materials:
The goal of the symposium is to bring together scientists different fields and with different expertise to identify analogies between diverse phenomena to build general principles about the self-organization of soft matter at, and, far-from-equilibrium. The symposium will be highly interdisciplinary and will encourage discussions and cross-fertilization of ideas. Both experimental and modeling studies will be addressed.
Symposium Topics:
- Complex Liquid Crystalline Mesophases
- Bio-Inspired Organic-Inorganic Composites
- Intracellular Phase Transitions
- Living Soft Matter
- Organic Electronics
- Supramolecular and Liquid Crystalline Polymers
- Dynamic and Equilibrium Self-Assembly
- Multicomponent Polymersomes
- Polyelectrolyte Complexes
- Kinetically Arrested Nanostructures
Invited Speakers:
- Nicholas Abbott (Cornell University, USA).
- Linda S. Hirst (University of California-Merced,USA).
- Juan J. de Pablo (University of Chicago, USA).
- Andrea Tao (UCSD, USA).
- Magdaleno Medina-Noyola (UASLP, Mexico).
- Slobodan Zumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia).
- Gabriela Romero Uribe (UTSA, USA).
- Ramon Castaneda-Priego (Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico).
- Marcus Mueller (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany)
- Margarita Herrera-Alonso (Colorado State University, USA).
- Robijn Bruinsma (UCLA, USA).
- Fred C. MacKintosh (Rice University, USA).
- Ivan I Smalyukh (University of Colorado Boulder, USA).
- Gerardo Odriozola (UAM-I, Mexico).
- Nathan C. Gianneschi (Northwestern University, USA).
- Samanvaya Srivastava (UCLA, USA).
- Maximino Aldana (ICF-UNAM, Mexico).
- Apala Majumdar (University of Bath, UK)
- Bernardo Yanez-Soto (UASLP, Mexico).
- Jay D. Schieber (IIT, USA).
- Valeria Molinero (University of Utah, USA).
- Rolando Castillo (IF-UNAM, Mexico).
- Vivek Sharma (UIC, USA).
- Rodrigo Sanchez (UAM-Iztapalapa, Mexico).
Submit your abstracts now before the deadline on April 12th.
Early bird registration ends on June 30th.
