Workshop on Adsorption in Compliant Solids

June 9—11 2011, Paris

♦ Welcome!

This workshop entitled “Adsorption in Compliant Solids: Theory, Simulation, and Experiments” will be held in Paris, from June 9 to 11, 2011, under the auspices of the French CNRS. It is organized on the occasion of the attribution of a Blaise Pascal International Research Chair to professor Alex Neimark, for work in collaboration with professor Alain Fuchs.

♦ Workshop presentation

At the present time, due to a large variety of compliant solids and very different magnitudes of adsorption deformation, there is no single theoretical framework available for the description of these phenomena. Moreover, adsorption deformation is a phenomenon that spawns many communities, with scientists working on different classes of materials and having few opportunities to collectively discuss and improve the methods and tools available today. The aim of this workshop is to initiate such a discussion, to outline the on-going theoretical and methodological developments in the field, and to shed some light onto the topical problems for the future.

A more detailed presentation of the workshop’s aims and topics can be found here.

♦ Registration

The program will include a series of invited lectures given by leading experimentalists, theoreticians, and computer scientists, and a poster session organized in an interactive manner. For inquiries and requests for poster presentations, please by March 1, 2011.

On the financial side, there will be no conference fee, and a modest financial assistance might be available to support students presenting posters. Registration is mandatory: with your name, affiliation and addresses, and the poster title (if you want to present). The deadline for poster proposals is March 1, 2011; the deadline for registration is May 1, 2011.