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7 Liquid Matter
ConferencethLund
Lund (www.lund.se/english) is situated in the attractive and expansive Öresund region(www.oresundregion.org). It is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, dating back more than
1000 years, and has always been a centre for ideas and creativity. Lund has the charmof a small town, while offering the attractions and comforts of a major city. Lundagård,a park area containing Universitetsplatsen and a romanesque cathedral, is at the heartof the town, and museums, art galleries, restaurants, cafés, and shops are conventiently
located within walking distance.
Lund University (www.lu.se) was founded in 1666. With eight faculties and a multitude
of research centres and specialized institutes, it is today the largest unit for research andhigher education in Sweden.
Photo: Kennet Ruona

Travel information
Copenhagen Airport (CPH) in Denmark is the closest major international airport withfrequent train services to Lund via Malmö. The journey takes about 45 minutes and thetrains depart from the airport every 20 minutes. About 2/3 of these continue to Lund,
while 1/3 require a change in Malmö. The conference site is within walking distance ofLund Central Station. The local Malmö Airport (MMX) with a few international flights
is about 35 minutes from Lund by taxi or bus.

Updated information/registration on: www.liquids2008.se
Contact e-mail address: info@liquids2008.se
Deadline for abstract: 1 February 2008.

27 June – 1 July 2008
Lund, Swedenorganized byThe Liquids Section of the Condensed Matter Divisionof the European Physical Society& Lund University

General information

Conference site

The seventh Liquid Matter Conference will take place at Lund University, Sweden, in2008. Previous conferences were held in Lyon (1990), Firenze (1993), Norwich (1996),Grenada (1999), Konstanz (2002), and Utrecht (2005). This series of meetings isorganized by the Liquids Section of the Condensed Matter Division ofthe European Physical Society.

The conference site is located around Universitetsplatsen in university and student union
buildings in the very centre of Lund, Sweden.

Call for nominations for the Liquid Matter PriceOn the occasion of the 7th Liquid Matter Conference, theEuropean Physical Society through its Liquids Sectionof the Condensed Matter Division will for the second
time award the “Liquid Matter Prize of the European
Physical Society”. The prize will be awarded to aperson who has made outstanding contributions tothe science of liquid matter in the experimental ortheoretical area and who is still active in research.
The award may be given for pure or appliedresearch. The Liquids Board of the European
Physical Society issues this call for nominations,which must contain a short citation and abrief description of the main achievements of
the nominated person. Self-nomination is notpermitted. The nominations should be sent toHakan.Wennerstrom@fkem1.lu.se no later than
20 June 2007.

The conference will start in the morning of Friday 27
June 2008 and finish early in the afternoon of Tuesday
1 July 2008. The aim of the conference is to bring
together scientists working on the liquid stateof matter. This rapidly growing field includes
the physics, chemistry, biology, and chemicalengineering of liquid matter as well as various
applied research areas in the chemical,pharmaceutical, food, and oil industries.
The conference will consist of plenary
lectures, topical symposia with keynote
lectures and contributed oral presentations, and poster sessions.

Topics1) Simple liquids: ionic and quantum 		
liquids and liquid metals
2) Water and aqueous solutions3) Liquid crystals4) Polymers, polyelectrolytes, and biopolymers5) Colloids
6) Films, foams, and surfactants7) Confined liquids and interfacial phenomena8) Supercooled liquids, glasses, and gels
9) Phase transitions and nucleation
10) Non-equilibrium systems and rheology
11) Biological and biomimetic fluids

Plenary speakers (confirmed)
Dirk Aarts (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
Kurt Binder (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)
Antonio Coniglio (Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy)
Stéphane Fauve (l’Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
Björn Lindman (Lund University, Sweden)
Sriram Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Michiel Sprik (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Reinhard Strey (University of Cologne, Germany)
Alfons van Blaaderen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Hiroshi Yokoyama (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Scienceand Technology, Japan)			
Håkan Wennerström(Chairman of the Prize Committee)

International program committee

Welcome to Lund
Photos:Andrei BroukhnoHåkan Wennerström, Chairman
Johan Bergenholtz, Secretary
Sébastien Balibar
Christoph Dellago
Bob Evans
Daan Frenkel
Georg Maret
Rudolf Podgornik
Wilson Poon
Philip Salmon
Francesco Sciortino
Margarida Telo da Gama

Local organizing committee
Bo Jönsson, Chairman, Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University
Jan Forsman, Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University
Per Linse, Physical Chemistry 1, Lund University
Johan Reimer, Physical Chemistry 1, Lund University
Magnus Ullner, Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University