Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter

States and phase transitions in soft condensed matter: An introduction to the interactions.- Qualitative aspects of condensation, ordering and aggregation.- Gravity’s Rainbow — Structure of a 2D crystal grown in a strong gravitational field.- Structures and phase transitions in thermotropic liquid crystals.- Multicriticality in hexatic liquid crystals.- Molecular motions of hydrocarbon chains (decylammonium, n-nonadecane) in their dynamically disordered phases: An incoherent neutron scattering study.- Anchoring transitions at crystal-nematic interfaces.- Spectrum of the propagative modes near the smectic-A to hexatic-B or crystal-B phase transition.- Optical activity in the isotropic and blue phases of a chiral liquid crystal.- Lyotropic liquid crystals, structures and phase transitions.- X-ray reflectivity and diffraction studies of liquid surfaces and surfactant monolayers.- Marangoni effect, instabilities and waves at interfaces.- The phases and phase transitions of lipid monolayers.- Wetting of rough solid surfaces by liquids.- Crystalline and liquid crystalline order in colloidal dispersions: An overview.- Random surfactant assemblies and microemulsions.- Observations of sphere to rod transition in a three-component microemulsion.- Field-induced percolation in microemulsions.- New source of corrections to scaling for micellar solution critical behavior.- Two-dimensional phase transitions of a surfactant monolayer.- Dynamics of wetting.- Estimation of wettability in a complex porous network.- Fingering instability of a spreading drop.- Rigid and fluctuating surfaces: A series of synchrotron X-ray scattering studies of interacting stacked membranes.- Spontaneous and induced adhesion of fluid membranes.- Impurity-modulated interface formation in lipid bilayermembranes near the chain-melting phase transition.- Temperature-dependent growth of fractal and compact domains.- Structural properties of a lecithin-cholesterol system: Ripple structure and phase diagram.- Polymer blends in solution.- Segregation of polymer blends in small pores.- Adsorption of random copolymers.- Novel factors influencing microphase separation in SB/SBS copolymers.- 2H NMR line shape in polymer networks.- Gelation and associating polymers.- Sol-gel transition: An experimental study.- Structure and dynamics of aerogels.- New critical exponents for spatial and temporal fluctuations in stochastic growth phenomena.- Effects of phase transitions and fluctuations on mass transport.- The stretched exponential, the Vogel Law, and all that.- Some industrial applications of soft condensed matter in high-performance polymers processing.- Water-processable conducting polymers.- Organizing Committee and Participants.