New Approaches to Problems in Liquid State Theory

Charged And Polar, Liquids, Phase Transitions and Metastability.- Understanding criticality: Simple fluids and ionic fluids.- Equation of state and critical behavior of simple fluid models.- Phase separation and critical phenomena in simple fluids and in binary mixtures.- Critical behaviour of the restricted primitive model (RPM).- Phase diagram of dipolar hard-core molecule systems.- New results on some ionic-fluid problems.- Fluids with internal degrees of freedom.- Replica and glasses.- Nematic to smectic: A “hard” transition.- Interfaces And Confined Fluids.- Fluids in model pores or cavities: The influence of confinement on structure and phase behaviour. I. DFT for small systems: hard spheres in a spherical cavity.- Fluids in model pores or cavities: The influence of confinement on structure and phase behaviour. II. Freezing and condensation transitions of confined fluids.- Bulk and surface properties of dipolar fluids.- Fluids in contact with structured substrates.- Liquid state methods for disordered systems.- Inhomogeneous fluids in an external field.- Free energy density functional from OD cavities.- Geometrically based free energy functional for confined hard spheres and the density functional theory for simple classical systems.- Charge-stabilized colloids confined to a slit: A case for attraction between like charged particles.- Wetting phase transitions and petroleum reservoirs.- Complex Fluids.- Atomistic computer simulation studies of surfactant systems.- On effective interactions in colloidal physics.- Theory and simulations of polymers at surfaces.- Static structure and chain conformations in polyelectrolyte solutions.- Theories of hydrophobic effects and the description of free volume in complex liquids.- Theoretical and simulation study of modelprotein solutions.- Quantum Fluids.- Ab initio liquids: Simulating liquids based on first principles.- Progress in the theory of inhomogeneous 4He.- Tight-binding lattice-gas model: Alkali fluids.- Current-density functional theory of time-dependent linear response in quantal fluids: Recent progress.- List of participants.