27 March 2017, SCI Belgrave Sq, London, UK

This one day meeting in London will focus on recent advances in colloid and interfacial science as a route to materials and processes with societal value, with distinguished speakers both from industry and academia. The meeting will close with the McBain Lecture, awarded annually by the RSC/SCI Joint Colloids Group to recognize a rising star in colloid and interface science.

This year’s awardee is Dr João Cabral from Imperial College London, for his outstanding work on the thermodynamics and assembly of colloid and polymer mixtures, and the design of functional materials via interfacial instabilities. An enthusiast of scattering, his team and collaborators have pioneered the use of neutron and X-rays to study flow processing of complex fluids in complex microfluidic flows.

To see the programme and register, click here

Registration from £10, 11am start.

Invited speakers:

• Dr João Cabral (Imperial College London), McBain Lecture: “Interfacial instabilities in frontal photopolymerisation, microflow and complex fluid processing”
• Prof Tom McLeish FRS (Durham University): “Molecular viscoelasticity in spaces of different dimensionality”
• Prof Dame Julia Higgins FRS (Imperial College London): “Soft mixtures, thermodynamics and interfacial structures”
• Dr Eric Robles (Procter & Gamble): “The Role of Colloid Chemistry in Every Breakthrough Innovation in Industry”
• Dr Lionel Porcar (Institut Laue Langevin): “Recent advances in flow-SANS for colloidal and interfacial science”
• Dr Alex Routh (University of Cambridge): “Strength development during consolidation in drying films”
• Prof Sidney Nagel (University of Chicago): “Pattern formation”

1st Session: July 30 (Sun) – Aug 5 (Sat), 2017 / 2nd Session: Aug 7 (Mon) – Aug 11 (Fri), 2017

1st Session: Otaki Seminar House, Otaki Village / 2nd Session: Hokkaido University Sapporo Campus, City of Sapporo

18 – 21 May, 2017, Bucharest, Romania

10 January 2017, London, UK

Organised jointly by RSC’s Formulation Science and Technology Group and Colloid & Interface Group, and by SCI’s Colloid & Surface Chemistry Group, this one-day meeting will bring together leading researchers from industry and academia, looking at cutting-edge science underpinning products in the context of the challenges that their industry faces, which can range from product performance to regulation.

Each industry has different constraints (cost / purity / safety / shelf life etc.).   Application environments can range from ambient (agrochemical) to inside the body (pharmaceutical) or to extremes of temperature and pressure (oil).  These differences mean successful formulations require innovative and excellent use of colloid, polymer, surfactant and interfacial science. The speakers hope to inspire, educate and entertain scientists both from academia and other industries.

Speakers include:

• Malcolm Faers Bayer Crop Science
• Simon Emmett Akzo Nobel
• Jayne Lawrence Kings College
• Peter Dettmar Technostics
• Mauro Vaccaro Procter & Gamble
• Nick Ainger Unilever
• Cuross Bakhtiar Harley Street Consultants
• Peter Dowding Infineum
• Geoff Maitland Imperial College

Early Bird registration deadline is 02 December 2016 – don’t delay!

For further information and to register, please visit: http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/24574/secrets-of-formulation-iv

We are delighted to announce that the Soft Matter Young Investigators Meet 2016 (SMYIM2016) will be held in Goa, India, on 16 – 18 December 2016.

16 – 18 December 2016, Goa, India

The soft matter young investigator meet (SMYIM), started 4 years back, and the previous three meetings, in Jan-2014, Dec-2014 and Dec-2015, in Pondicherry were a wide success.

SMYIM aims to bring together serious soft matter scientists and engineers to present their research ideas and to encourage new and fruitful collaborations. The meeting is an attempt to connect a rapidly growing interdisciplinary group working on colloidal/polymer/granular matter-dynamics, self assembly of mesoscopic structures and the interface of soft matter, chemistry and biology, to enhance the quality of soft matter science through profitable discussions by bringing scientist together.
The past meetings appealed to broad and high-level variety of scientists, theorists, experimentalists and modeling folks, from various academic and geographical backgrounds, and have led to long-lasting collaborations between researchers with complementary skill sets.

Scientific Sessions:

• Bulk soft matter assemblies (colloids, gels, proteins, surfactants and liquid crystals)
• Nanoparticle and Nanomaterials
• Polymers, networks and composites
• Surfaces, interfaces, and interactions
• Biological aspects of soft matter

After the great success of ICSM 2014, we are pleased to announce the second edition of the International Conference on Soft Materials (ICSM 2016).

On behalf of the organising committee, we would like to invite scientists, academicians, young researchers and students from all over the world to attend the ICSM 2016 in Pink City Jaipur.

This conference will bring together, once again, a multi-disciplinary and international group of scientists to promote and enhance recent achievements in the field of soft materials. The exchange of knowledge and discussions amongst participants will be favoured during the conference and related social events.

Interested participants might extend their stay over weekend and see Jaipur and historical monuments in nearby cities like Taj Mahal (Agra), Pushkar (Ajmer) and Red Fort (New Delhi).


Mark these dates in your diary:
– 15 August 2016 – Abstract deadline
– 31 August 2016 – Notification of accepted abstracts
– 30 September 2016 – Early bird registration closes
– 31 October 2016 – Online registration closes
– 12-16 December 2016 – Conference is held in Jaipur, India

For more information, please contact the organising committee: