General Information
The twelfth Liquid Matter Conference will take place at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, in 2024. Previous conferences were held in Lyon (1990), Firenze (1993), Norwich (1996), Grenada (1999), Konstanz (2002), Utrecht (2005), Lund (2008), Vienna (2011), Lisbon (2014), Ljubljana (2017) and virtual (2021). This series of meetings is organized by the Liquids Section of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scientists working on the liquid state of matter. This rapidly growing field includes the physics, chemistry, biology, and chemical engineering of liquid matter as well as various applied research areas in the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries.
The conference will consist of plenary lectures, topical symposia with keynote lectures and contributed oral presentations, and poster sessions. The plenary lectures will be streamed. All speakers will be on site.
Topics to be discussed at the Liquid Matter Conference 2024
1. Ionic Liquids, Electrolytes and Liquid Metals
PL: Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern Univ., USA
KN: Andreas Härtel, Univ. of Freiburg, Germany
KN: Robert Dryfe, Univ. of Manchester, UK
2. Water, Mixtures and Solutions
PL: Pablo Debenedetti, Princeton Univ., USA
KN: Livia Bove, Univ. La Sapienza, Italy
KN: Carlos Vega, Uni. Complutense of Madrid, Spain
3. Liquid Crystals and Anisotropic Fluids
PL: Miha Ravnik, Univ. of Ljubljana, Slovenia
KN: Francesc Sagues, Univ. de Barcelona, Spain
KN: Lisa Tran, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
4. Polymers, Polyelectrolytes and Biopolymers
PL: Maria Helena Godinho, New Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal
KN: Paul Cremer, Penn State University, USA
KN: Felix Roosen-Runge, Lund University, Sweden
6. Liquid interfaces, Foams and Emulsions
PL: Detlef Lohse, Univ. of Twente, The Netherlands
KN: Cécile Monteux, ESPCI, Sorbonne University, France
KN: James Sethian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
7. Liquids in Confinement, Solid-Liquid
Interfaces and Wetting
PL: Aleksandra Radenovic, EPFL Lausanne, CH
KN: Laurent Joly, Univ. of Lyon, France
KN: Limei Xu, Peking University, China
8. Supercooled Liquids, Glasses and Gels
PL: Srikanth Sastry, JNC-ASR Bangalore, India
KN: Camille Scalliet, CNRS, Paris, France
KN: Frank Scheffold, Univ. of Fribourg, CH
9. Active Matter and Driven Systems
PL: Olivier Dauchot, ESPCI Paris, France
KN: Jérémie Palacci, Inst. of Science and Technology, Austria
KN: Juliane Simmchen, TU Dresden, Germany
10. Biological Fluids and Liquid-Liquid Phase
Separation
PL: Frank Jülicher, MPG-PKS, Germany
KN: Eric Dufresne, Cornell University, USA
KN: Andela Saric, Inst. of Science and Technology, Austria
11. Liquid matter in Energy, Environmental and
Climate Science
PL: Freddy Bouchet, CNRS Lyon, France
KN: René van Roij, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands
KN: Franziska Glassmeier, Delft Univ. of Technology, The Netherlands