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ICAM Held Its First Annual Meeting in Asia, April 7-9

Tue, April 12, 2011

Aside from the excitement surrounding ICAM’s first annual meeting in Asia, the meeting offered a comprehensive program that reflected ICAM’s four major topic areas:  biological physics, quantum matter, soft matter, and sustainable energy and materials.  The program included keynote lectures for each of these topics.  After these talks, leaders in the ICAM community offered specialized lectures on related topics. 

This year, the keynote lecturers were:

• Steven Boxer, Stanford:  Grand Challenges in Living Matter


• Noel Clark, University of Colorado:  Grand Challenges in Soft Matter


• David Pines, UC-Davis and ICAM and Joerg Schmalian, Ames Laboratory:  Grand Challenges in Superconductivity:  From 1948 to 2011


• G. Zimanyi, UC-Davis:  Grand Challenges in Energy/Sustainability Research;  Physics for Sustainability:  The Solar Challenge

The ICAM annual meeting also marked the 100th anniversary of superconductivity.  Superconductivity was discovered by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in Leiden.  ICAM was especially pleased to conduct its superconductivity symposium on the birthday of its discovery.  We celebrated this achievement with a distinguished group of speakers and a panel discussion on superconductivity.

This year, two special forums were held at the meeting.  One focused on existing and potential ICAM initiatives during the next five years.  As a way of initiating this discussion, each participant was asked to contribute one or two PowerPoint slides that outlined her or his thoughts on exciting new directions for ICAM.  Organizers scheduled a second panel discussion on ICAM’s path forward in energy /sustainability research.  This forum was led by G. Zimanyi, Alex Navrotsky, and Hong Ding.

Finally, the meeting offered a ‘get acquainted’ session for younger members of the scientific community.  ICAM sent approximately six post-doctoral researchers to this session that was held Saturday morning; the Chinese community was invited to do the same. The meeting allowed these scientists to share their work, discuss collaborative strategies, and talk about their role in ICAM for the coming years.

For more information about the meeting, please visit: http://icamconferences.org/AM2011/.  More detailed information about the meeting’s events will be available soon.

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