Scientists from 16 countries will converge at UC Riverside from Monday, June 24, to Wednesday, June 26 for the 87th American Chemical Society (ACS) Colloid and Surface Science Symposium.
The conference is co-chaired by two UC Riverside professors: Sharon Walker, an associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering, and Francisco Zaera, a professor of chemistry in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.
This symposium is an annual forum for communicating new insights into colloidal and surface science with particular emphasis this year on advances in environmental, biological, medical and material applications.
Surface science is the study of physical and chemical phenomena that occur at the interface of two phases. A colloid is a substance microscopically dispersed throughout another substance.
The symposium has 364 abstract submissions, accounting for 280 oral presentations and 84 poster presentations. It has been organized into 12 sessions and a poster session that cover the fundamental areas of colloid and surface science.
Nearly every session involves organizers with UC Riverside affiliations, including faculty from bioengineering, chemical and environmental engineering, materials science and engineering, chemistry, physics and the School of Medicine.
The symposium will feature two keynote speakers: Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, a UC Riverside alumnus and professor of chemistry at UC Irvine, renowned in the field of atmospheric chemistry; and Joanna Aizenberg, a professor of materials science, chemistry and chemical biology and the director of the Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology at Harvard University. She is a leader in the field of biomimetics and bioinspired materials.
For more information about the symposium visit: http://colloids2013.ucr.edu/.