Soft Matter is very pleased to be sponsoring InterPore2021! Register now for fascinating lectures, engage with fellow researchers from across the globe and discover cutting-edge exploration of porous media.

This year’s conference will include both oral and poster (+pitch) presentations. The online platform will allow you to join a world-class conference from your own home or office and at the convenience of your own schedule. Pre-recorded presentations will be available for viewing beginning nine days prior to the conference and for up to two weeks after the conference. Presenters will give a 10-minute presentation and answer questions during live Q&A sessions. All lectures will be recorded and available for viewing the day after each session and after the conference so that you don’t miss a thing – no matter where you are. Learn more about the conference and register here: https://events.interpore.org/event/25/

Topics and applications

At the beginning of December, the Soft Matter: Young Investigators Meeting was held (virtually); organised for the soft matter community in India by Susmita Dash, Aloke Kumar, Basavaraja Gurappa and Dillip Satapathy. Soft Matter Associate Editor Sanat Kumar gave a keynote talk on how problem solving has defined his career and provided valuable insights for young researchers. The meeting included a poster session with prizes sponsored by Soft Matter.

We are pleased to announce below the winners of the poster session:

Merin Jose – Evaporative self-assembly of binary mixture of soft colloids

G Manikandan- Rapid Moisture Responsive Silk Fibroin Actuators

Anuj Chhabram – Electrostatic interactions of the Polyelectrolyte polymers attached to the spherical surface

Congratulations, from all of us at Soft Matter!

The the 33rd Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS), will take place from the 8th to the 13th September 2019 at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Topics will cover fundamental and applied advances in the fields of dispersed systems, nanoparticles, self-assembly and supramolecular systems, as well as wetting and liquid interfaces. In addition, advances in theory, simulation, and instrumentation including new analytical techniques will be discussed. During the conference, plenary lectures will be given by the laureates of the Overbeek and Solvay Prizes and by other eminent speakers. Participation and advancement of young researchers and PhD students will be encouraged through the Enzo Ferroni Prize and several best poster prizes.

For more information and to register visit the conference website: https://kuleuvencongres.be/ecis2019/home

The Polydays 2019 conference, taking place in Berlin on the 11th – 13th September, will focus on the transformation of material research by digital technologies, initiated by the Berlin-Brandenburg Association of Polymer Research (BVP) and organized by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht (HZG). The conference will be chaired by Prof. Andreas Lendlein (Institute of Biomaterial Science, HZG) and co-chaired by Prof. Hans Börner (Institute of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Confirmed plenary speakers:
– Amanda Barnard, CSIRO, Melbourne, Australia
– Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool, UK
– Jean-François Lutz, CNRS-Institute Charles Sadron, Strasbourg, France
– E. W. (Bert) Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
– Roeland Nolte, Radboud University, The Netherlands
– H. Jerry Qi, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

Key dates
12th July – abstract submission deadline
31st July – early bird registration deadline

For more information please refer to the conference webpage:  www.hzg.de/polydays2019

The 29th biennial meeting of the Institute of Physics Polymer Physics Group will take place from 11-13 September 2019 at the University of Lincoln, UK.  The early registration deadline is 19 July 2019 and poster abstract submission will remain open until 23 August 2019.

The Founders’ Prize lecture will be given by Masao Doi (Beihang University, China), and the invited speakers (confirmed) are Rachel Evans (Cambridge, UK), Marie-Pierre Laborie (Freiburg, Germany), Juan de Pablo (Chicago, USA) and James Sharp (Nottingham, UK).

Please see the conference website http://paps19.iopconfs.org/home for further details.  The event is open to all with an interest.

Mark your calendar: InterPore2020 will be held 25-28 May 2020 in Qingdao, China!

Topics covered include

For more information please refer to the conference webpage.

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:

Invited Speakers:

Submit your abstracts now before the deadline on April 12th.

Early bird registration ends on June 30th.       

The 15th International Conference on Magnetic Fluids will take place at Sorbonne Université in Paris (France) July 8-12, 2019. This conference brings together the international scientific community involved in magnetic fluid science, at large, from liquid dispersions to more complex fluids such as magnetorheological fluids, ferrogels, ferronematics, ferropolymers, biocolloidal systems etc.

The conference will highlight synthesis and properties of innovative magnetic materials with a special emphasis on societal applications in the domain of energy, environment and biomedical.

The International Conference on Magnetic Fluids is an annual gathering with the following objectives:

• Attract high quality papers in different subfields.
• Offer the opportunity to be updated on the latest research outputs on several Magnetic Fluids topics
• Organize specific workshops around the most attractive and current issues.
• Gather worldwide experts as conference speaker

The regular submission deadline is May 31, 2019 and the regular registration deadline is June 19, 2019.

Teaser:

Jülich Soft Matter Days (20-23 Nov. 2018)

In 2018 we are organizing again the workshop on the physics and chemistry of mesoscopically structured biological and synthetic macromolecular systems. We hope that this workshop will provide a forum to share and discuss the latest advances for all active researchers in this field. The sessions of the meeting include Cell Mechanics and Migration, Active Systems, DNA-based Macromolecules, Colloids and Proteins, Biopolymers, Flow and Microfluidics, Interfaces.

For a list of invited speakers and further information, please visit the conference website.

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is 30 July.

Read more:

Soft Matter Science has emerged in recent years as an independent and interdisciplinary research field, bringing together scientists from macromolecular physics and chemistry, statistical physics, biophysics, and molecular and cell biology. The systems investigated in this field include synthetic and biological macromolecules, colloids, membranes, vesicles, and active systems such as synthetic and biological microswimmers. The phenomena investigated include the phase behaviour and non-equilibrium dynamics in colloidal dispersions and polymeric systems. Soft Matter Science thus aims at the understanding of complex macromolecular systems, the design and use of synthetic and biomimetic materials, their application as functional materials, and the understanding of biological systems and processes. While many of these systems have already been investigated separately for a long period of time, their common features and interactions have recently come into focus.

These highly complex materials consist of structural units with typical length scales ranging from nanometers to micrometers. The experimental and theoretical investigations involved, as well as the understanding of the properties of these materials, pose enormous challenges due to their high complexity, the large number of cooperative degrees of freedom, and the large range of relevant length, time and energy scales.

To bring together scientists from these various research fields and to foster the exchange of ideas and collaborations, we are organizing the workshop

Jülich Soft Matter Days 2018

on the physics and chemistry of mesoscopically structured biological and synthetic macromolecular systems. We hope that this workshop will provide a forum to share and discuss the latest advances for all active researchers in this field. The topics planned for this year’s workshop are:

• Cell Mechanics and Migration
• Active Systems
• DNA-based Macromolecules
• Colloids and Proteins
• Biopolymers
• Flow and Microfluidics
• Interfaces

Please mind the deadline for abstract submission:

30 July 2018

For a list of invited speakers and further information, please visit the conference website.