Eleventh Statistical Mechanics of Soft Matter Meeting

The Eleventh SM2 Meeting will be held at RMIT from 4-5 December, 2025, with a summer school immediately beforehand on 3 December.

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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 and, depending on the number of registered participants, a digital poster session. There is no registration fee.

There will be a conference dinner on the evening of Thursday, 4 December.


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


Note: Molecular Modelling Conference 2025 will be held at RMIT from 8-10 December, and may also be of interest to you.


Registration

Registration is now open! Note that registration is free but essential.

Registration deadline: 31 October, for abstract submission to be considered for a talk. (Depending on the number of registrations some abstracts may be accepted as digital poster presentations rather than talks.)

Please register at the SM2 registration page.


Summer school

SM2 will be preceded by a statistical mechanics summer school, to be held on 3 December. It will consist of self-contained pedagogical talks by early career researchers on different areas of soft matter where the interaction with statistical mechanics opens up exciting possibilities.

  • Dr Ben Dalton, Reaction coordinates and memory kernels: the basis of coarse-grained dynamic protein folding models
  • Dr Saffron Bryant, Cryopreservation: How different soft matter states can influence biological survival at very low temperatures
  • Dr Tu Le, Machine learning for functional materials
  • Dr Brendan Dyett, The preparation and characterisation of lipid nanoparticles for drug delivery applications

Local information

The meeting will be held on the main campus of RMIT in the Melbourne CBD.


Accommodation

There are a large number of accommodation options within walking distance to the University, including in the CBD and neighbouring suburbs such as Southbank, Docklands, Parkville, and Carlton.


Organisers

Peter Daivis RMIT
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
2024 Tenth meeting at the University of Sydney