first circular

Two years after the Diffusion Fundamentals I Conference in Leipzig, the world-wide community of researchers in the field of diffusion is invited to L'Aquila to highlight the current developments in the field. Following the tradition of Diffusion Fundamentals I (see book announcement) a Conference Volume with paintings of L'Aquila by the Japanese physicist and artist Taro Ito will appear as a souvenir for all participants. Diffusion Fundamentals II is co-organized by University College London, University of Leipzig and University of L'Aquila.

The scientific programme includes invited plenary talks, covering those topics of diffusion theory, experiment and application, which are in the focus of current research. The talks will address a broad, interdisciplinary audience rather than only the specialists in the different fields and include the following topics (working titles):

Diffusion in Reduced Dimensionality		Diffusion in Cells: NMR Studies
Interdiffusion in Critical Binary Mixtures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation		Diffusion Challenges in (Chemical) Industries
QENS and the Benefit of Diffusion Measurement over Different Length Scales		The Invasion of Newcomers: Isotopes, Neobiota, Foreigners
Challenges in Macroscopic Measurement of Diffusion in Zeolites		NMR Imaging of Ventilation and Diffusion in Lungs
Diffusion in Hydrogeology		Atomistic Model of Diffusion in Solids
Genetic and Cultural Diffusion		Polymer Dynamics: From Synthetic Polymers to Proteins
Fickian and non-FickianDiffusion in Solid Polymers		Diffusion in self assembled Composites
Diffusion in Oxides
The following plenary speakers have accepted our invitation:
John Barker – London		Ed Cussler – Minneapolis
Clemens Bechinger – Stuttgart		Hervè Jobic – Villeurbanne
Kurt Binder – Mainz		Yossi Klafter – Tel Aviv
Stefano – London		Philip Kuchel – Sydney
Armin Bunde – Giessen		Manfred Martin – Aachen
Richard Catlow – London		Nikolaus Nestle – Ludwigshafen
Luca Cavalli-Sforza – Stanford		Dieter Richter – Jülich
Mark Conradi – St. Louis		Giulio Sarti – Bologna
		Gero Vogl – Vienna

Each group of plenary talks shall be accompanied by poster sessions. Ideally, the contributions to the poster sessions should be related to the various aspects covered in the plenary talks. Correspondingly, the plenary speakers and the chairpersons of the sessions shall be asked to serve as first reviewers of the poster submissions and shall be encouraged to refer to individual posters during their presentations, whenever appropriate.

Again, to reach as many (in particular young) researchers as possible, the conference is planned as a low-cost conference (participation fee between 200,- € and 300,- € aspired, depending on the level of sponsorship), which implies to rely on information exchange by www as extensively as possible. This will in particular concern the conference contributions, which shall be published in total only electronically, as a special volume of the Online-Journal of the webseite http://www.diffusuion-fundamentals.org. The conference fee comprises catering during the conference, the social programme, including Gala Dinner, and the Conference Volume.
The conference takes place in the city of L'Aquila one hour away from Rome. L'Aquila, laid out within medieval walls, is surrounded by mountains on all sides. A booklet by Albrecht Beutelspacher, University of Giessen, in both German and Italian (ISBN 3423330694), entitled "Pasta all'infinito - my Italian Journey into Maths", provides a nice introduction to the conference location, its people and some mathematics. As part of the social programme, with an entertaining talk on the "(wo)man on the street" he is as well going to present some mathematical surprises during the conference. Following his first visit to L'Aquila described in this book, the international community of researchers in the field of diffusion is invited to take profit of a marvelous place, not yet heavily affected by tourism, and its picturesque ambience.

Poster
Authors are requested to send their two-pages abstracts via the Internet before April 30th, 2007. Please, follow the format as given under http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/layout-poster-abstracts.doc since only in this case the contribution may be included in the Conference Volume.

Conference Chairmen: Stefano Brandani, London; Jörg Kärger, Leipzig; Roberto Volpe, L'Aquila

Scientific Committee:

Dezsö L. Beke, Debrecen		Stefano Brandani, London		Armin Bunde, Giessen
Paul Callaghan, New Zealand		Alan Chadwick, Canterbury		Marc-Olivier Coppens, Delft
Gerhard Ertl, Berlin		Dieter Freude, Leipzig		Farida Grinberg, Leipzig
Paul Heitjans, Hannover		Jörg Kärger, Leipzig		Yossi Klafter, Tel Aviv
Alfred Leipertz, Erlangen-Nuremberg		Graeme Murch, Callaghan		Harry Pfeifer, Leipzig
Jean Philibert, Paris		William S. Price, Sydney		Douglas M. Ruthven, Orono
Michael J. Saxton, Davis		Gunter Schütz, Jülich		Doros Theodorou, Athens
Ilpo Vattulainen, Helsinki		Gero Vogl, Vienna		George H. Weiss, Bethesda

Organizing Committee: Christian Chmelik, Tomas Binder

If you are interested in participation in the Conference you can pre-register at the website at
http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pages/conf2007-preregistration.php
We will send you the -Second Circular- together with the final registration form in January 2007.

A poster announcing the conference may be found under http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/diff-fund-II.pdf (pdf, 0.3 MB).