Topological Soft Matter: From Liquid Crystals to Biosystems
21 - 23 May 2025
Center Rog, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This spring, we are organizing a focused three-day conference Topological Soft Matter: From Liquid Crystals to Biosystems dedicated to the past, recent, and future advances in soft matter. We look forward to seeing you in Ljubljana.
Invited speakers
Randall D. Kamien, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Ivan I. Smalyukh, Department of Physics and Chemical Physics Program, University of Colorado, USA
Gareth P. Alexander, Centre for Complexity Science, University of Warwick, UK
Holger Stark, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Jun-ichi Fukuda, Department of Physics, Kyushu University, Japan
Claudio Zannoni, Dipartimento di Chimica Industriale "Toso Montanari”, Università di Bologna, Italy
Maria Helena Godinho, Faculty of Science and Tecnhology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Guilhem Poy, Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, Université de Montpellier, France
Iam-Choon Khoo, Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Hans-Rainer Trebin, Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Lech Longa, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland
Timothy J. Sluckin, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
Julia M. Yeomans, The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, UK
Jayasri Dontabhaktuni, Department of Physics, Mahindra University, India
Pawel Pieranski, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris Sud, France
Etienne Brasselet, Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine (LOMA), France
Mark Dennis, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK
Samo Kralj, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Alenka Mertelj, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Igor Muševič, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Schedule
Venue: Ljubljana, Slovenia
📌 Center Rog, Trubarjeva 72, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Photo by Andrej Tarfila, www.slovenia.info
Photo by Andrej Tarfila, www.slovenia.info
Photo by Andrej Tarfila, www.slovenia.info
Photo by Dražen Štader, www.slovenia.info
Photo by Andrej Tarfila, www.slovenia.info
Photo by Aleš Fevžer, www.slovenia.info
Organisers
Primož Ziherl and Miha Ravnik
✉️ primoz.ziherl@fmf.uni-lj.si, miha.ravnik@fmf.uni-lj.si
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia