Despite their breathtaking variety, ubiquity, and value for mankind, our understanding of the physical nature of soft and liquid matter lags behind the solid state due to their sheer complexity, and the intricate tapestry of order and disorder which they can exhibit. This meeting aims to bring together experts in the subjects of soft matter (active matter, polymers, liquid crystals, colloids, gels), the liquid state (glasses, supercooled liquids, water, granular matter, ionic liquids), and phase transitions (phase separation, pattern formation, dynamics), both pioneers of the field and emerging investigators. The event will not only reflect on past and present developments, but consider the future of the field in a rapidly changing scientific landscape.

The conference will be held in the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), The University of Tokyo, Japan, providing an opportunity to acknowledge the contributions of Professor Hajime Tanaka, a recently retired faculty member of the IIS with over 30 years of service to the field at the institute.

March 10(Mon)-13(Thu), 2025

Convention Hall, Conference Room

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

Komaba 4-6-1, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan (directions)

Daniel Bonn (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Pablo Debenedetti (Princeton University, USA)

Masao Doi (The University of Tokyo, Nagoya University, Beihang University, China)

Mark Ediger (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

Erika Eiser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)

Daan Frenkel (University of Cambridge, UK)orwegian 

Peter Harrowell (The University of Sydney, Australia)

Atsushi Ikeda (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Kohzo Ito (The Unversity of Tokyo, Japan)

Sara Jabbari-Farouji (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Anaël Lemaître (Laboratoire Navier-UMR 8205, France)

Hartmut Löwen (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)

Anders Nilsson (Stockholm University, Sweden)

Itamar Procaccia (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Beatrice Ruta (Universite Lyon 1, France)  

Srikanth Sastry (Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India)

Francesco Sciortino (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Noushine Shahidzadeh  (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Kaori Sugihara (IIS, The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Yuka Tabe (Waseda University, Japan)

Chantal Valeriani (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)

David Weitz (Harvard University, USA)

Limei Xu (Peking University, China)

Ryoichi Yamamoto (Kyoto University, Japan)

Slobodan Zumer (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

Akira Furukawa (The University of Tokyo)

Takeaki Araki (Kyoto University)

Anne-Laure Biance (University of Lyon, France)

Kunimasa Miyazaki (Nagoya University)

C. Patrick Royall (ESPCI Paris, France)

John Russo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

Kyohei Takae (Tottori University)

Jun Yamamoto (Kyoto University)

Miho Yanagisawa (The University of Tokyo)

Taiki Yanagishima (Kyoto University)

Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo

KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)