History and Future of the ISMC

1st ISMC

October 1-4, 2007
Aachen, Germany

Building on a charter of establishing an interdisciplinary series of events that connect theoretical, computational & experimental physics, physical ...

2nd ISMC

July 5-8, 2010
Granada, Spain

Planned and organized by Prof. R. Hidalgo-Álvarez and the Biocolloid and Fluid Physics Group, the second event was supported by the Donostia Internati...

3rd ISMC

September 15-19, 2013
Rome, Italy

The event was organized at the Sapienza University of Rome and covered biological soft matter, colloids, dynamics of complex fluids, membranes, polyme...

4th ISMC

September 12-16, 2016
Grenoble, France

The event was organized by scientists from Grenoble University and other research organizations and facilities including ILL, ESRF, CEA, CNRS, and INP...

5th ISMC

June 3-7, 2019
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The event was backed by the European SoftComp Network of Excellence, its Organizing Committee was chaired by Simon Titmuss, and its International Pro...

ISMC - Around the World in 3 years

Planned for Summer 2020
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Circumnavigating the globe to bring soft matter discoveries to each continent. The first non-European ISMC planned for summer 2020 at MIT was cancelle...

6th ISMC

September 19-23, 2022
Poznan, Poland

The event was organized by the NanoBioMedical Centre of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, and held at the Poznań Congress Center. This conferenc...

7th ISMC

September 4-8, 2023
Osaka, Japan

The 2023 event marked the first ISMC to be held outside of Europe. It was hosted by the Japanese Soft Matter Society and chaired by Ryoichi Yamamoto a...

8th ISMC

July 29-August 2, 2024
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

The event is organized by the Soft Matter Association of the Americas (SMAA) and chaired by Ronit Freeman, Michael Rubinstein and Jan Genzer. It compl...

9th ISMC

Planned on 29 September – 3 October, 2025
Minoa Palace Resort, Chania, Crete, Greece

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