Annual Meeting 2025

The SoftComp/EUSMI Annual Meeting 2025 will take place from
May 19^th – 22^nd, 2025, in Venice-Mestre, Italy

We are excited to announce the SoftComp Annual Meeting 2025, a premier forum for SoftComp participants to engage, discuss, and collaborate on cutting-edge scientific research and joint future goals.

This year, the Annual Meeting will cover all the classic topics in Soft Matter while placing a special focus on the applications of AI and Machine Learning in Soft Matter.

The meeting consists of three full days from Monday May 19^th (lunch time) through Thursday May 22^nd (lunch time), 2025.

The meeting is a forum to discuss scientific work, to network, and to initiate future projects in any Soft Matter fields.

Meeting Chairs

• Achille Giacometti, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
• Alfons van Blaaderen, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Meeting Program

Invited Speakers

• Cecilia Clementi, Freie University of Berlin, Germany
• Laura Filion, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Michael M. Lerch, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
• Christos Likos, University of Vienna, Austria
• Wilson Poon, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Stefano Sacanna, New York University, USA
• Nicholas Vogel, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Germany

Topical Sessions

• AI and machine learning in soft matter

General Soft Matter Sessions

• Glasses, Colloids, and Self-Assembly
• Biological Soft Matter
• Polymers and Biopolymers
• Gels and Networks
• New Methods and Techniques
• Surfaces, Interfaces, and Emulsions
• Synthesis

Young Scientists Session

• Young Scientists Session

Poster Session

• Two dedicated Poster Sessions
• Posters will be on display during the wholle Annual Meeting

Meeting Venue, Registration, Dates, Submission, Accommodation and Financial Support

Venue

• The Annual Meeting will be held at the premisis of Univ. Ca’ Foscari in Venice-Mestre, Italy.

Important dates

• Abstract submission deadline: 15^th March 2025
• Notification of acceptance 30^th March 2025
• Scientific Programme 15^th April 2025
• Deadline for the registration: 30^th April 2025.

Call for contributions

You are kindly invited to submit the title and the abstract of your scientific contribution(s) through the abstract submission page, provided by the EUSMI portal (link not yet available).

All contributions will be practically accepted, with the possibility that in case there will not enough time to accommodate all the requested oral contributions, they will become poster presentations.

Poster size

Poster format A0 portrait.

Registration

• for SoftComp members https://eu-softcomp.net/news/meetings/annual-meeting-2025/register
• EUSMI users are also allowed to attend the SoftComp/EUSMI Meeting. EUSMI users shall first sign up in the SoftComp portal at https://eu-softcomp.net/user-area (please select the EUSMI user flag) and only after the account has been approved, they can register for the Annual Meeting 2025.

Please note the submission of a contribution is not considered as a proof of the registration.

New registrations and updates of existing registrations after April 30^th, 2025, are not guaranteed and subjected to rooms availability.

Only registrations with complete information by April 30^th, 2025, will be considered.

Accommodation, Travel, Costs and SoftComp Financial Support

The SoftComp central budget will cover the full meeting costs, the subsistence and accommodation costs from May 19^th through May 22^nd, 2025, and will provide a financial contribution to travel costs (up to a max of 250 euro per person) up to four persons per SoftComp group. Unless requested otherwise, the SoftComp Management will charge the four persons of each SoftComp group with most expensive costs to the SoftComp central budget, all others will pay their stay directly at the hotel at the check-out.

Flights and trains can be booked in economy class without any authorization, while the use of private car to reach Venice-Mestre has to be authorized in advance. Please note that the nearest airport is the international airport Venice, with many flights daily from the major European airports.

Transportations to and from the airport to the conference venue/hotels will be organized for those who register before April 30th, 2025. Information will be be provided after the deadline for registration. The conference venue is at walking distance from the railway station Venice-Mestre.

In case of a cancellation communication of a participation after April 30^th, 2025, travel costs will be reimbursed for cause force major, only.

The participants will be lodged at the following hotels:

• Hotel Alverì
• NH Laguna Palace
• Hotel Staycity

They are all at walking distance from the conference venue.

Please note that the accommodation until May 19^th and after May 22^nd, 2025, is not covered by the central budget. If you are interested anyway to arrive outside the SoftComp meeting days, please contact the SoftComp Network office for information.

Meals

All lunches are served at the conference venue.

Gala dinner

Gala dinner will be on May 21^st, 2025, at 20:00.

Contact

For any questions, please contact directly the SoftComp Project Manager (F.Carsughi@fz-juelich.de).

Annual Meeting programme

The programme will be published on April 15^th, 2025.