Focusing on Topological Complexity in Materials & Biology

Topics include

• Gyroid-Phases in Condensed Matter
• Ordered Membrane Organelles
• Triply-periodic Minimal Surfaces
• Emergence of Chirality
• Topology & Intra-cellular Organisation
• Biological Photonic Crystals
• Cubic Bicontinuous Phases
• Structural Entanglement & Networks
• Effective Properties and Confinement
• Polycontinuous Patterns In-vivo & In-vitro
• Self-assembly

Invited Speakers

• Yuru Deng (Singapore)
• Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann (Darmstadt, Germany)
• Marianne Impéror-Clerc (Paris-Sud, France)
• Randall Kamien (Pennsylvania, US)
• Kåre Larsson (Lund, Sweden)
• Sievert-Jan Marrink (Groningen, Netherlands)
• Klaus Mecke (Erlangen, Germany)
• Alan Schoen (Carbondale, US)
• John Seddon (Imperial College, UK)
• Doekele Stavenga (Groningen, Netherlands)
• Peter Vukusic (Exeter, UK)

Organization & Scientific Program

• Gerd Schröder-Turk
  (University of Erlangen, Germany)
• Stephen Hyde
  (Australian National University)
• David M. Smith
  (Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Zagreb)

Local organisation and support

• Ana‐Sunčana Smith
  (University of Erlangen, Germany)

Special Issue Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus

A number of communications will be selected for publication in a special issue of Journal of the Royal Society Interface Focus.