Il Ciocco, Italy, August 20-25, 2001 (Click here for more information on IL Ciocco)
International Advisory Committee: P.G. de Gennes (France), J.N. Israelachvili (USA), T. Pollard (USA), H. Ringsdorf (Germany)
Local Organizing Committee: A. Halperin (SPrAM, Grenoble, France), J. Kas, M. Forstner, D. Martin (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Synopsis and Perspective:
The distinctive aspect of this conference is that it aims to promote exchange and collaboration between practitioners of three different and weakly interacting disciplines: soft matter physics, supramolecular chemistry and molecular cell biology. To this end we bring together a group of experts committed to such an exchange and focus the conference on a well-defined theme of assembly and self-assembly. In addition, the program of this conference intentionally avoids well-discussed topics such as protein folding and membrane physics. This new century's science will be greatly inspired by biology. Enhancing contacts between biology, chemistry and physics is important for the achievement of synergy between these disciplines and for technological developments in our future society.More Information:
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The conference is planned to take place in IL Ciocco, Italy, from the 20th to the 25th of August of 2001. We plan to have approximately 150 participants drawn, in equal proportions, from the three disciplines involved: soft matter physics, supramolecular chemistry, and cellular molecular biology. The list of invited speakers includes leading scientists among them Nobel laureates, members of the American and French National Academy of Sciences, and directors of Max-Planck Institutes. The registration fee is 155,000 lira per person per day, plus 40,000 lira per day for a single room. (Click here for an exchange rate converter)
There is now additional information about travel to the IL Ciocco site available on this website, under travel information.
The organizers would like to thank the following institutions for their financial support for the conference: The European Union; The US Office of Naval Research; Office of Naval Research International Field Office (ONRIFO); the European Office of Aerospace Research & Development(EOARD); the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); SPrAM; the Mainz Academy of Science; Evacyte; BASF; Hoffman-La Roche; DSM; Merck; Bayer; Shlumberger; CEA