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