Invited Speakers

M P Allen, University of Warwick, UK   Structure of molecular liquids

S Balibar, ENS, Paris, France   Nucleation and the metastability of liquids

C Bechinger, University of Stuttgart, Germany   Direct measurements of depletion interactions in colloidal suspensions

K Binder, University of Mainz, Germany   Interface controlled phase transitions in nanosystems

M Dijkstra, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands   Binary crystal structures: from charged spheres to hard spheres

J E Enderby, University of Bristol, UK   Bob's contribution to physics (after dinner speech)

P F N Faisca, University of Lisbon, Portugal   From toy models to real protein folding: how far can we go?

M E Fisher, University of Maryland, USA   The saga of ionic criticality: some new chapters

D Frenkel, Amolf, The Netherlands   Interfacial effects in crystal nucleation

W Freyland, University of Karlsruhe, Germany   Interfacial phase transitions in fluid metals and ionic liquids

G Gompper, IFF, Juelich, Germany   Forced crumpling of self-avoiding elastic sheets

H J Guentherodt, University of Basel, Switzerland   Impact of scanning probe methods on soft matter and interfaces

J P Hansen, University of Cambridge, UK   A multi-scale description of diblock copolymer self-asembly: from monomers to ordered micelles

P Leiderer, University of Konstanz, Germany   Colloids in restricted geometry: model systems for matter on the nanoscale

H N W Lekkerkerker, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands   Life at ultralow interfacial tension: the interface of a demixed colloid-polymer mixture

H Lowen, University of Duesseldorf, Germany   Walls, interfaces, and colloidal suspensions

A Maciolek, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Poland   Critical Casimir forces in superfluid films

A O Parry, Imperial College, London, UK   Hard lessons from hard walls: or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the Bob

P Pershan, University of Harvard, USA   X-ray scattering studies of liquid surfaces and thin films: fluctuations, surface order, and the Casimir effect

P N Pusey, University of Edinburgh, UK   Colloidal Glasses

J Ralston, University of South Australia, Australia   Control of surface wettability by direct manipulation of surface interactions

L Reatto, University of Milano, Italy   Critical phenomena in soft matter fluids

R Roth, MPI Stuttgart, Germany   Fluids adsorbed in narrow pores

D E Sullivan, University of Guelph, Canada   Liquid crystalline ordering of wormlike polymers: bulk and confined systems

P Tarazona, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain   Intrinsic density profiles and their density functional description

J White, University of Salamanca, Spain   Microscopic structure of a hard-sphere fluid in a nanopore: dimensional crossover and ensemble effects

B Widom, University of Cornell, USA   Three-phase contact-line analog of the Gibbs adsorption equation