Optimal design of soft matter - including a celebration of Women in Materials Science (WMS)

• Collection
• Statistics

Created:	2019-06-12 12:44
Institution:	Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Description:	Soft matter systems range from fluids, colloids, to active and biological matter. Such materials have prominent role in Nature and are key to various applications used in our daily lives, from rubbers, paints, adhesives, displays to biological elements and biopharmaceuticals. Modern soft matter is starting to get into the capacity that desired material properties can be controllably designed, with design routes including self-assembly, microfluidics, micro manipulation, genetic encoding, and other. Can such design routes be optimized? Can one design “optimal matter”, of course for some application? Are there mathematical and other tools and methodologies that can lead in such optimal design? The goal of this workshop is to address challenges in the optimal design of soft matter, identifying the most productive directions for research and applications and discussing the development of new methodological approaches. The workshop will bring together scientists of various backgrounds –from physics, mathematics, engineering, to chemistry- to discuss and work in this one week in the stimulating environment of Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. The program will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and posters. The proportion of women working in selected areas of materials science significantly exceeds the proportion of women working in mathematics more broadly and in recognition of this, we have embedded a Celebration of Women in Materials Science (WMS) programme into this workshop. Finally, the optimal design of matter -in general- is a topic of growing interest and this workshop aims to contribute to future spectacular advances in the world of complex materials.

Media items

This collection contains 1 media item.