Tenth Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter Conference

The Tenth SM² Meeting will be held at the University of Sydney on November 25 and 26, 2024, and will be followed by a one-day summer school on 27 November.

SM² is a discussion meeting on all aspects of the equilibrium and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics of soft condensed matter, from fundamentals to applications, relating to liquids, colloids, polymers, gels, biological molecules, liquid crystals and other forms of soft matter.

The format of the meeting is a single stream comprised of short talks (20-30min, depending on the number of speakers) and digital posters. There is no registration fee.

Registration is free but essential. The deadline for registration is November 8, 2024; if you plan to make a presentation you must provide a title and abstract prior to this date.

There will be a conference dinner on the evening of Monday, November 25.

It is past the deadline for abstract submission, but it is still possible to register to attend the conference. Please register at the SM² registration page.

If you wish to be added to our mailing list please send an email to: smsq.meeting@gmail.com.

Update (11/11/2024): the program is now available!

Update (11/11/2024): please register for the conference dinner via the registration page!

Summer School

We will run a Summer School on Wednesday 27 November, 2024 which will consist of workshops on free energy methods and applications of Monte Carlo. The summer school has been designed with honours student, PhD students, and postdocs in mind. Please see the program for details on the Workshops as they become available.

Registration for the Summer School, which is free, is through the Google form on the registration page.

Local information

The meeting will be held on the main campus of the University of Sydney (the Camperdown/Darlington campus).

Registration and talks will take place in the Messel Lecture Theatre in the Sydney Nanoscience Hub.

The Sydney University campus is 5 km and roughly 25min by public transport from the centre of Sydney. The University is easily accessed by public transport either by train to Redfern Station or bus routes along Parramatta Rd or City Rd/King St. Local parking is scarce and expensive so we recommend not planning on coming to the University by car.

A map of the campus with the conference location and local eating spots can be downloaded as a pdf file here , and is also shown below.

Accommodation

There are a large number of accommodation options within walking distance to the University. The adjacent suburbs are Newtown, Glebe, Darlington, Chippendale, Camperdown, Ultimo and Redfern and any accommodation in these suburbs is within 1.5km of the campus.

Organisers

Peter Harrowell	University of Sydney
Asaph Widmer-Cooper	University of Sydney
Enquiries:	smsq.meeting@gmail.com

Past SM² meetings

2013	Inaugural meeting at RMIT, Melbourne
2015	Second meeting at Swinburne University of Technology
2016	Third meeting at the University of Melbourne
2017	Fourth meeting at the University of Sydney
2018	Fifth meeting at the University of Auckland
2019	Sixth meeting at the University of Adelaide
2020	Seventh meeting hosted virtually by Griffith University and the University of Queensland
2022	Eighth meeting at Monash University
2023	Ninth meeting at Murdoch University