Materials and complexity IV

14-17 November 2006

 

This annual workshop brings together researchers and students working across a wide range of topics from the forefront of materials science research, spanning several orders of magnitude in length scales and connecting the morphology of materials with their physical properties. The focus is on computational, theoretical, and experimental work that spans these fields.

The workshop takes place at the ANU's Kioloa campus, a relaxed venue on the NSW south coast, offering an ideal environment to stimulate scientific discussions. Please download the conference flyer and/or conference schedule here.

Conference topics:

  • Networks and porous media
  • Theory and properties of crystalline frameworks
  • Granular matter
  • Soft matter and self assembly
  • Dynamic Surface Interactions and Surface Forces

Invited Speakers:

  • Prof. Paul T. Callaghan (tentative)
    MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology (Director),
    Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
  • Prof. Klaus R. Mecke
    Morphology and condensed matter
    Institute of Theoretical Physics (Head),
    University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
  • Prof. W. Val Pinczewski
    School of Petroleum Engineering (Head),
    University of New South Wales

 

Registration

The cost is $400 and includes accommodation, all meals, and transport to and from Canberra. Financial assistance for students and early career researchers (ECRs) is available on request and provided by the ARC networks ARNAM, ARCNN, and COSNet (see below). Final registrations are due by 15th October. Please send an email with your name and a brief description of your research interests to christoph.arns@anu.edu.au.

 

Past workshops
2005 Materials and complexity III
PHOTOS from the workshop are now online.

 

Acknowledgments

We thank the Australian Research Council (ARC) for support via ARNAM, the Australian Research Network for Advanced Materials, ARCNN, the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network, COSNet, the ARC Complex Open Systems Research Network, and CRC Smartprint, the Cooperative Research Centre for Functional Communication Surfaces.