Soap, DNA and semiconductorsDecember 13, 2000How can studying soap lead to better methods for transporting drugs around the body? Where’s the link between semiconductors and DNA and how can statistical physics reveal how ecosystems evolve? Find out at the Institute of Physics Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (CMMP) Conference being held at the University of Bristol between 18 and 21 December 2000. The four-day conference will host presentations covering a wide range of issues including brittle metals in rail tracks and quantum computing. The CMMP Conference is organised by the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics Division of the Institute of Physics. It contains thirty different symposia including ‘Plasma and Ion Beam Methods and Applications’, and ‘Helium Physics’. As well as the symposia there is a special session entitled ‘Physics at the Biology Interface’, with a number of talks including one on a silicon, array-based, artificial nose. There will also be seven prize and plenary lectures from world-renowned researchers. Topics include ‘Stripes, Spots and Helter-Skelters – New States in Quantum Hall Systems’, by J T Chalker at Oxford University, and ‘Principles and Applications of Coherent Hard X-ray Imaging’, by a group of researchers at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, (CNRS). The other sessions at the conference are ‘Artificial Structures’, ‘Complex Fluids’, ‘Computational Physics’, ‘Electronic Structure’, ‘Ferroelectrics’, ‘High-Temperature Superconductivity’, ‘Low Temperature Physics’, ‘Low Dimensional Magnetism’, ‘Magnetic Thin Films’ , ‘Multilayers and Spin Values’, ‘Nanoscale Physics and Technology’, ‘Novel Non-cuprate Superconductivity’, ‘Orbital and Quadrupolar Effects in Magnetic Systems’, ‘Physics of Cold Metals’, ‘Physical Realisations of Quantum Computing’, ‘Polymer Crystallisation’, ‘Polymer Electroluminescence and Transport: the Role of Polymer Morphology’, ‘Reflectrometry from Magnets and Superconductors’, ‘Semiconductor Physics: Transport Properties’, ‘Semiconductors: Low Dimensional Semiconductors’, ‘Semiconductors: Characterisation and Devices’, ‘Semiconductor Physics: Optical Properties’, ‘Statistical Physics’, ‘Strongly Correlated and Mesoscopic Systems’, ‘Superconductivity Vortex Matter’, ‘Superconductivity: Materials and Devices’.
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