second circular

Two years after Diffusion Fundamentals II in L'Aquila, Italy, and as part of the celebration of the 600^th anniversary of the foundation of Leipzig University, the cradle of the Diffusion Fundamentals Conference series in 2005, the world-wide community of researchers in the field of diffusion is invited to Athens, Greece, to highlight current developments.

Diffusion Fundamentals III is organized under the auspices of the National Technical University of Athens, the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, and the University of Leipzig. Again, the conference will consist of invited plenary talks and poster sessions, where both chairmen and plenary speakers are encouraged to refer extensively to the posters relevant for their session. Following the tradition, a Conference Volume with local paintings by Taro Ito will be issued. Simultaneously, all conference contributions shall be available electronically via the Diffusion Fundamentals Online Journal.

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 within the wide-stretching field of diffusion, including the presentation of

• Diffusion in Nanostructured Solids, Nanoporous Materials, Polymers and Living Cells
• Diffusion Analogues in Social Sciences and Ecology,
• Multiscale Simulation of Mass Transfer Phenomena,
• Novel Insights by Novel Measuring Techniques

List of Speakers and tentative titles of their talks:

The following chairmen have accepted our invitation:

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.


Location
With its rich cultural heritage, impressive monuments, and charming natural landscape, the city of Athens is an ideal venue for a conference in August (photos). The conference will take place in the Emmantina Hotel (www.emmantina.gr), in Glyfada, by the coast of the Saronic Gulf. Conferees will be housed in the Emmantina and nearby Palmyra Beach (www.palmyra.gr) hotels, in a quiet seaside location easily accessible from the bustling centre of Athens by bus and tram and from the Athens airport by bus (click for bird’s eye view of the location by Google maps).
Please visit the location-page for further details (e.g. airport access, local transport, useful links).


Fees, Payment and Registration
The participation fee for early registration (till April 15^th, 2009) is 350,- €, for late registration (till August 1^st, 2009) it is 400,- €. The reduced fee for students is 200,- € (early registration) and 250,- €, respectively. For registration, please fill out the registration form. We will send you a confirmation of your registration via Email after receiving your fee on our bank account.

The conference fee comprises the Conference Book, catering during the conference and the social programme, including the welcome buffet on Sunday, August 23rd, the Gala dinner and the excursion to Sounion.

The price for accompanying persons is 150,- €, (200,- € for late registration), including participation on welcome party, gala dinner and the excursion to Sounion.

Cancellations: If a cancellation request is received before July 1^st, 2009, 75% of the amount paid will be refunded. No refund will be possible after July 1^st, 2009. Please address all request for cancellations to doros@central.ntua.gr.


Accommodation
We recommend the participants to book their accommodation in one of the conference hotels, Emmantina (www.emmantina.gr) or the nearby Palmyra Beach (www.palmyra.gr) hotel. The following daily rates (including breakfast) have been agreed with the conference hotels for participants of Diffusion Fundamentals III:

Important note: Since July 20^to no more rooms are available in both hotels. We recommend to contact the Emmantina hotel by email or via the request form on the hotel website. The hotel will arrange a reservation for you in one of the A-class hotels nearby (e.g. Oasis or Best Western Four Seasons). Please don't forget to refer to the Diffusion Fundamentals III conference.


Conference Volume
The conference book will include full paper contributions of plenary speakers and sessions' chairmen and the two-page poster abstracts and is complemented by paintings of Athens by the Japanese physicist and artist Taro Ito.
A total of the conference contributions will be published only electronically, as a special volume of the Online-Journal "Diffusion Fundamentals". This online publication will accomplish the Conference Volume as well as the full paper contributions by poster presenters (see below for details).


Posters
Authors are requested to send their two-pages abstracts via the Internet before March 31^st, 2009. Accepted abstracts will appear in the conference book.
Please, note that the deadline for last-minutes’ poster contributions is August 1^st. Last minute submissions will only be published in the special volume of the Online-Journal.
Please, follow the format as given under http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/layout-poster-abstracts.doc since only if this format is followed may the contribution be included in the Conference Volume and/or the Online-Journal and send your abstract to tomas@uni-leipzig.de.


Full Paper Contributions
Authors of contributions which were accepted as posters of the conference are invited to send full papers before August 1^st. Please, follow the instructions given under http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/layout-full-paper-contribution.doc and send your paper to tomas@uni-leipzig.de. The publication in the special issue of the Online-Journal "Diffusion Fundamentals" depends on the positive response of the referees.

Important Dates

Conference Chairmen: Christian Chmelik, Leipzig; Nick Kanellopoulos, Athens;
Jörg Kärger, Leipzig; Doros Theodorou, Athens

Scientific Committee:

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

Organizing Committee Athens: Nick Kanellopoulos, George Papadopoulos, George Romanos, Doros Theodorou

Organizing Committee Leipzig: Christian Chmelik, Tomas Binder

Email: info@diffusion-fundamentals.org


Downloads
- a poster announcing the conference: http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/diff-fund-III.pdf (pdf, 0.2 MB)
- the second circular: http://diffusion.uni-leipzig.de/pdf/DFIII-2nd_circular.pdf (pdf, 0.4 MB)