The 5th International Soft Matter Conference (ISMC2019) will be held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom from 3-7 June 2019.
The Organisers are looking forward to welcoming you to this Conference, held under the auspices of the SoftComp Network of Excellence (external link).
Congratulations to the winners of the poster sessions, Elia Roma (University of Rome “Roma TRE”) and Yushi Yang (University of Bristol) and a great thank you to Zeiss for providing the poster prizes.
The Conference Booklet (which includes the poster programme) can be found here.
A separate poster abstract booklet can be found here. And an oral abstract booklet here.
A participants list can be found online here.
Note that if you want a hard copy of either of these documents, you have to print it beforehand and bring it with you.
The overview schedule is reproduced below:
- Lydéric Bocquet (CNRS, ENS, Paris):
‘Flow and rheology at ultimate scales’
- Luca Cipelletti (Montpellier):
‘Why soft solids fail’
- Stephen L Craig (Duke):
‘Macromolecular Mechanochemistry’
- Marileen Dogterom (TU Delft):
‘Building synthetic cells'
- Kohzo Ito (Tokyo):
‘Novel Tough Polymers for Energy-Efficient Vehicles and Supramolecular Nanosheet for Drug Delivery System'
- Cait MacPhee (Edinburgh):
'Biofilms: What’s in it for Soft Matter?'
- Susan Perkin (Oxford):
‘A Cabinet of Curiosities: Stories of Electrostatics in Soft Matter’
- Sriram Ramaswamy (IIS, Bengaluru):
'Fast, Elastic, Defective, Active Matter'
The 2019 RSC Soft Matter Lecturer, Tim White from Colorado, will receive his award and deliver a lecture on ‘Pixelated Polymers: Programming Function into Liquid Crystalline Polymer Networks and Elastomers’ at the conference.
There will be 9 scientific sessions:
Active Soft Matter
Keynotes: Hartmut Löwen, Dusseldorf; Eric Clément, ESPCI, Paris
Arrested Soft Matter
Keynotes: Emanuela Del Gado, Georgetown; Paddy Royall, Bristol
Colloidal and Granular Soft Matter
Keynotes: Stefano Sacanna, New York; Joris Sprakel, Wageningen
Interfacial Soft Matter
Keynotes: Daniela Kraft, Leiden; Ray Dagastine, Melbourne
Living Soft Matter
Keynotes: Eric Dufresne, ETH, Zürich; Erwin Peterman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Making and Measuring Soft Matter
Keynotes: Lorna Dougan, Leeds; Matt Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati
Polymeric Soft Matter
Keynotes: Ralph Colby, Penn State; Friederike Schmid, Mainz
Processing & Stressed Soft Matter
Keynotes: Guillaume Ovarlez, Solvay, Bordeaux; Al Crosby, Massachusetts Amherst
Self-assembled Soft Matter
Keynotes: Alison Sweeney, Pennsylvania; Sabine Laschat, Stuttgart
Confirmed sponsors include:
