2nd Autumn School on Soft Condensed Matter

Organizers:

A. Lasanta (UGR - Ceuta), A. Fernandez-Nieves (UB - ICREA)

The goal of this Second Autumn School on Soft Condensed Matter is to introduce young students and researchers to key themes in some of the areas of the Soft Matter Spanish community. Additionally, we aim to promote interactions between participants among this community. The School is just before the Spanish Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day. The speakers are recognized researchers in their field, and will give a pedagogical view of the current state of the art of their areas. The Second Autumn School will cover four themes:

��- Prof. Victor Mart�n-Mayor (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): A gentle introduction to the Renormalization Group analysis of continuous phase transitions.
��- Prof. Pablo I. Hurtado Fern�ndez (Universidad de Granada): Dynamical phase transitions and dynamical symmetry breaking in the fluctuations of driven many-body systems.
��- Prof. Antoni Planes (Universidad de Barcelona): Phase transitions in magnetic and related systems.
��- Prof. Enrique Lomba (CSIC): Hyperuniformity: the hidden order of disordered matter.

There will be a poster session so that participants can present their work.

Benasque is a beautiful mountain village located 1140m above sea level offering fantastic landscapes, and scenic hikes to the highest peaks in the Pyrenees.

The School will formally start on Monday morning, October 26. Participants and lecturers can take the bus service from either Barcelona airport or University of Barcelona at Diagonal, and arrive on Sunday, October 25.
The School will end on Wednesday, October 28. A bus returning to Barcelona will depart in the early afternoon of this last day for those participants and lecturers not staying to the Soft Matter 1 1/2 Day.

The School is organized by the Spanish Soft Condensed Matter Network.

Registration fee information

The registration fee for this conference is 200 eur.

The registration fee includes:

- organised bus transportation (reserve seat in advance)
- one reception buffet
- one coffee break with pastries a day
- use of the Centro de Ciencias facilities
- technical assistance and secretarial support

*Cancellation Policy*
A 30 euro charge will be applied for cancellations made up to 10 days before the conference start date.
A no refund policy will be applied to cancellations made after this date.

Bus transportation

The center provides free buses:
From Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, Diagonal 686, Metro: L3 Palau Reial at 15:00h (Note that the bus stops opposite University of Barcelona, Facultat de Física i Química)

From Barcelona airport ('El Prat', Terminal T2A: on leaving exit, turn left and you will find a police building called 'Mossos d'Esquadra'.
Cross the road using the zebra crossing and turn left. The bus will stop there) at 15:30h.

Return buses:
From Benasque to Barcelona airport and then university, departure at 12:00h.
The trip by bus to Barcelona takes 4-5h. approximately. The trip by car only takes 3h 30m.

Bus trajectories and dates:
- Barcelona-Benasque, Oct 25.
- Benasque-Barcelona, Oct 28.