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The conference is the soft matter community’s signature event and features speakers from the leading edge of the field. Topics will include colloidal soft matter emulsions, polymeric soft matter, liquid crystal anisotropic soft matter, self-assembled soft matter and more.

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP)

Moiré materials offer an unprecedented level of tunability for band structure, symmetry, and topology, creating a rich platform to investigate various phenomena within a unified approach. The conference will focus on pressing theoretical questions in moiré materials, such as the origin of superconductivity, the nature of correlated states, and the role of topology, as well as experimental challenges and novel techniques. Furthermore, the conference aims to investigate emerging tunable platforms, including twisted superconductors, topological surface states, quasi-periodic moiré systems, and twisted magnetic materials.

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

The 15th International Symposium on Superalloys (Superalloys 2024) aims to highlight technologies for lifecycle improvement of superalloys. In addition to the traditional focus areas of alloy development, processing, mechanical behavior, coatings, and environmental effects, the Superalloys symposium invites papers from academia, supply chain, and product-user members of the superalloy community that highlight technologies that contribute to improving manufacturability, affordability, life prediction, and performance of superalloys.

Metallurgy and Materials Science,    Chemicals and Materials Science

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)

The TMS Fall Meeting 2024 will be held at Materials Science & Technology 2024 (MS&T24) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A complement to the TMS Annual Meeting held each spring, the TMS Fall Meeting at MS&T offers TMS members a chance to connect each year at a second large-scale, multidisciplinary meeting. TMS presents robust programming, networking and social activities, and professional development events tailored to its members' interests within the broader structure of the MS&T conference series, giving members an opportunity to experience both their TMS community and the resources of all the MS&T partnering societies.

Metallurgy and Materials Science,    Chemicals and Materials Science

SPIE - The international society for optics and photonics.

The latest research on materials and thin films used with high-power, high-energy lasers

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Active matter explores collective phenomena that emerge from energy-consuming components interacting with each other and their environment. Great strides have been made in understanding the surprising behavior of active fluids, from spontaneous flow to flocking to condensation with no attractive interactions, demonstrating the relevance of the active matter paradigm to systems as diverse as collections of living organisms, cell assemblies, the cell interior, and synthetically engineered materials. A recent new direction for the field has been the study and engineering of active solids - elastically coupled networks where active energy input allows for actuation and shape changes not possible in equilibrium. This conference will bring together scientists working across active matter and related disciplines, including hydrodynamic and elastic theories of active matter, living matter, classical and quantum materials far from equilibrium, and animate matter, to study the behavior of a broad range of active solids, from active hydrogels to metamaterials to mechanical structures composed of linked robotic components. It will aim to connect these distinct branches, find overarching principles that span these fields, and identify areas for future breakthroughs.

ITCC and ITES are aimed to encourage the open exchange of ideas, promote scientific advancement, foster the development of new professionals and facilitate discussions on cutting-edge developments in thermophysics.

High Performance Materials, Batteries, Adhesives and Thin-Films, Thermal Interface Materials, Heat Transfer, Reference Materials, Steady State Methods and Transient Methods, Thermoreflectance Methods, Novel Methods of Measurement

SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics

Updates on technologies such as telescopes, imaging systems, seeker/trackers, high-energy laser systems, solar energy, etc. which require optical components. Tech Days covers technology investment efforts in optical materials, substrate design & manufacture, optical fabrication and metrology technology, optical coatings, wavefront sensing and control via adaptive optics, nano-technology imaging technologies, etc.

Annually summarizing the U.S. government's investment strategies and activities in developing technology

Materials Research Society (MRS)

The MRS Fall Meeting delivers a combination of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research, innovative technologies, and collaborative networking with the field’s leading minds, which leads to new discoveries in areas ranging from quantum materials to energy and sustainability.

Chemicals and Materials Science,    Metallurgy and Materials Science

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

The control of quantum many-body states of matter in solid-state systems with short strong classical laser pulses has seen a surge in the past decade. Time-resolved experiments on solid-state systems have made rapid strides in inducing or enhancing correlated states of electrons, ranging from superconducting, magnetic, and correlated insulating phases to topological states of matter. The goal of this conference is to bring together leading researchers from different backgrounds – theory and experiment, solid state, and quantum optics – to review recent advances and to address promising new directions including the extensions of quantum optical techniques and strong cavity fields to the materials realm, providing a different route to the preparation, manipulation, and interrogation of correlated electron phases.

Quantum materials, Low Temperature Physics,    Optics and Lasers

UC Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics

Over the past ten years tremendous progress has been achieved in quantum field theory thanks to the realization that symmetries can be interpreted in terms of the action of topological defects on the space of operators. This gives a generalization of the notion of symmetries, explicitly realized in many instances exploiting Lagrangian field theory techniques, uncovering a rich and unexpected landscape of physical effects in condensed matter, high energy physics, and quantum gravity. This conference will bring together the major experts in the subject, and strives to be an opportunity for participants to quickly get up to speed with the most recent advances and open problems in the field.

Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology,    High Energy Physics, Particles and Fields

Optica

Held every three years, Optica OIC — Optical Interference Coatings Conference, has served for the past four decades as the premier conference on the topic of optical interference coatings. OIC covers all aspects of optical coatings, including fundamental research on coating design theory, materials, deposition methods, characterization technologies and applications in electronic displays, optical communication, high power and ultra-fast lasers, sensing, solar cells, low-emissivity coatings, optical instruments and space. The conference consists of five days of oral and poster presentations. None of the sessions are held in parallel, so attendees can listen to a short presentation on every paper and then choose to visit the posters of greatest interest. Each session starts with invited talks by world-leading experts. The conference also includes: three problem contests that demonstrate the state-of-art capability in the design, manufacturing and measurement of optical coatings short courses that cater to the needs of beginner through advanced levels a four-day technical exhibition by companies to display their latest products a special evening technical presentation

Optics and Lasers,    Photonics, Optoelectronics and Display Devices

American Physical Society (APS)

Optica

An international forum for discussion of all aspects of nonlinear optics Including new phenomena, novel devices, new directions, advanced materials and applications. Nonlinear optical phenomena are now studied and applied over a wide range of energy scales and power levels, from single-photons to zettawatts, and over broad spectral ranges, from THz to Gamma-ray frequencies.