In continuation of a very successful series of 5 conferences in Europe and overseas, we invite you to participate in Diffusion Fundamentals VI, scheduled for August 23rd – 26th, 2015 in Dresden/Germany.

Scope

 

As a ubiquitous process of random movement, ranging from molecular up to macroscopic and even cosmic scales, diffusion is key to spreading phenomena in quite diverse areas. Bringing together scientists from disciplines as different as archaeology, ecology, epidemics, ethnology, linguistics and sociology with biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, Diffusion Fundamentals VI is scheduled to highlight the astonishingly similar patterns of spreading phenomena in Humanities, Natural Sciences and Engineering.

 

 

 

Prior to the conference dinner, on Tuesday afternoon (August 25th) the participants will have some free time for an individual walk through the magnificent city of Dresden. The conference dinner will take place in the restaurant Pulverturm which is located in the historical center of Dresden next to Frauenkirche. A nearby tram stop is "Synagoge" (lines 3 and 7). From the conference site you may take tram line 3 from "Nürnberger Platz" (direction "Dresden Wilder Mann") to "Pirnaischer Platz" or "Synagoge" (5 or 6 stops, respectively). The walking distance from main train station is about 25 min (ca. 2 km).
The participants are invited to join the optional Guided Walk through the City of Dresden (free of charge) which is scheduled to start on Wednesday 26th at 3 pm after the end of the conference. Meeting point is the tram stop "Synagoge".

Conference Location

The Diffusion Fundamentals VI conference will take place at: Dresden University of Technology, Chemistry Building, lecture theatre CHE S89, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany. The new chemistry building can be accessed using tram lines 3 and 8 (tram stop "Nürnberger Platz") or by the bus lines 66 (bus stops "Mommsenstraße" or "Technische Universität") and 61 (bus stop "Technische Universität").

The conference dinner on Tuesday will take place at the restaurant Pulverturm which is located in the historical centre of Dresden next to Frauenkirche. From the conference site you may take tram line 3 from "Nürnberger Platz" (direction "Dresden Wilder Mann") and get off at "Synagoge" (6 stops).

The lectures will be given in the lecture theatre CHE S89 on the ground floor of the new chemistry building. The conference office is located in the foyer of the building. Also the Welcome Party on Sunday, the lunches, poster sessions and coffee breaks take place in the foyer, next door to the lecture hall.

 

Local Organization

• Jürgen Caro, Cornelia Breitkopf, Eike Brunner, Grit Kalies, Stefan Kaskel, Christoph Neinhuis, Lutz Schiffer, Hans Wiesmeth

Scientific Committee

• Jörg Kärger, Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Christian Chmelik, Gero Vogl

Diffusion-Fundamentals Advisory Board

• Dezsö L. Beke, Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary
• Stefano Brandani, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Armin Bunde, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Germany
• Jürgen Caro, University of Hannover, Germany
• Alan Chadwick, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
• Christian Chmelik, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Frank Cichos, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Marc-Olivier Coppens, University College London, UK
• Gerhard Ertl, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany
• Dieter Freude, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Petrik Galvosas, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Roger Gläser, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Farida Grinberg, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Paul Heitjans, University of Hannover, Germany
• Jörg Kärger, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Yossi Klafter, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Klaus Kroy, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Alfred Leipertz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto, Canada
• Graeme Murch, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
• Jean Philibert, Université de Paris-Sud, France
• William S. Price, University of Western Sydney, Australia
• Douglas M. Ruthven, University of Maine, Orono, USA
• Michael J. Saxton, University of California, Davis, USA
• Gunter Schütz, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Boris B. Straumal, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
• Doros Theodorou, Athens, University of Patras, Greece
• Rustem Valiullin, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Ilpo Vattulainen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
• Gero Vogl, University of Vienna, Austria
• George H. Weiss, Center for Information Technology Maryland, Bethesda, USA

Support

 We are happy to announce that the Diffusion Fundamentals VI conference will be supported by:

	Technical University Dresden
	Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig
	Leibniz University of Hanover
	Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
	Bruker Biospin
	Chemiewerke Bad Köstritz GmbH
	ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company
	Fonds der Chemischen Industrie
	Förderverein der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig e.V.
	Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden e.V.
	Leipziger Universitätsverlag
	Rubotherm GmbH
	Vereinigung von Förderern und Freunden der Universität Leipzig e.V.