Organisation of conferences and focus sessions
See “Conference & Event Posters” for a collection of conference posters.
Conferences
This is a list of conferences where I was a member, chair or co-chair of the organising committee.
Sept 2019 International Union of Materials Research Societies – International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA), Perth, Member (with minor role) of the organising committee, 22-26 Sept 2019
Dec 2018 Australian Institute of Physics Bianniel Congress, Chair of the organising committee and member of programme committee, 9-13 December 2018
May 2018: ‘Living Light 2018‘, Cambridge, 3-7 May 2018 (I had a minor role on the scientific committee for this conference and was not able to attend)
Sept 2017 Member of organising committee of conference Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems, Bad Herrenalb/Germany, 10-15 September 2017
Sept 2016 Organisation of Boden Research Conference 2016 “Animal, Vegetal, Mineral‘, 19-23 Sept 2016, Yallingup, Western Australia (more information)
Sept 2015 member of organising committee of conference Shape Up: Exercises in Materials Geometry and Topology, Berlin, 14-18 September 2015 (joint organisation with Myfanwy Evans, Frank Lutz, Bodo Wilts and Andrew Kraynik)
Sept 2015 member of organising committee of conference Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems, Bad Herrenalb/Germany, 7-11 September 2015
Aug 2015 Conference ‘Physics of Cells: From Molecules to Systems (PhysCell 2015)‘, 30 Aug – 4 Sept 2015, Bad Staffelstein, Germany (I played a lesser role as one of many members of the co-organisation committee)
Sept 2014, chair (jointly with Thorsten Poeschel) of organising committee of conference Jam-Packed: Packing and Jamming of Particulate Systems , Erlangen/Germany, 15-18 Sept 2014
Oct 2011, member of organising committee of conference Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems, Freudenstadt/Germany, 9-13 September 2013
Oct 2011, chair (jointly with Stephen Hyde) of conference organisation committee Geometry of interfaces – topological complexity in materials and biology, Primosten, Croatia, 3–7 October 2011
Jul 2011, member of organising committee of conference “Geometry and Physics of Spatial Random Systems”, Bad Herrenalb (Germany), 26-29 July 2011 (I played a lesser role in the organising committee consisting of the GPSRS principal investigators)
May 2010, scientific program committee of European Polymer Conference (EUPOC 2010) on “Hierarchically Structured Polymers, Gargnano Lago Di Garda, Italy, 30 May – 4 June 2010 (Joint organiser with Robert Magerle and Julio San Roman of the scientific program)
Focus sessions
This is a list of focus sessions at major scientific meetings where I was the organiser or co-organiser of individual focus sessions or symposia.
Mar 2020 Organisation of Focus Session “Chirality in Polymers and Soft Matter: From Molecular to Hierarchical Scales” (R33), invited speaker: Prof Mohan Srinivasarao and Dr Prerna Sharma) at the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting in Denver, 2-6 Mar 2020 (CANCELLED, as the March meeting was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
Mar 2019 Organisation (with Greg Grason, Lisa Manning and Michael Klatt) of Focus Session “Hyperuniformity and optimal tessellations“, invited speaker: Prof Jasna Brujic and Prof Salvatore Torquato) at the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting in Boston, 4-8 Mar 2019
Mar 2018 Organisation (with Prof Doug Cleaver and Prof Karen Daniels) of Focus Session “Aspherical Particles in Soft Matter Self-Assembly and Granular Matter” (joint session 2.1.2 of GSOFT & GSNP), invited speaker: Prof Marjolein Djikstra) at the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting in Los Angeles, 5-9 Mar 2018
Mar 2018 Organisation (with Dr Bodo Wilts and Prof Yuru Deng) of Focus Session “Physics of Intracellular Membranes and Organelles” (joint session GSNP&DBIO), invited speaker: Prof Nipam Patel) at the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting in Los Angeles, 5-9 Mar 2018
Mar 2017 Symposium “Bioinspired Functional Materials: From Nature’s Nanoarchitectures to Nanofabricated Designs” (SYBM) at the Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Dresden 19-24 March 2017. (joint organisation with Karin Jacobs and Robert Magerle)
Mar 2017 Organisation (with Annela Seddon, Cecile Leal and Mahesh Mahanthappa) of Focus Session “New Mesophase Symmetries and Topologies in Self-Assembled Soft Matter” (invited speaker: Frank Bates) at the American Physical Society (APS) Spring Meeting in New Orleans, Mar 2017
Nov 2015 session organiser for Symposium ‘TT: Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling‘ (joint organisation with Sanju Gupta, Zhong Fang and Avadh Saxena) at the MRS Fall Meeting, 29 Nov – 4 Dec 2015, Boston/MA
Mar 2015 Focus session “Beyond the Gyroid: Complex Network Phases in Self-Assembled Soft Materials“, joint organiser with Jacob Kirkensgaard (Niels Bohr Institute Copenhagen), American Physical Society Spring Meeting, San Antonio / Texas, 2-6 March 2015