Welcome to the web site for the DSM2008!

Dynamics of Soft Matter, to be held December 4-6, 2008, Boston, MA, is directed to a broad-based international scientific community who wish to advance progress in the use of neutrons to study the dynamics of soft matter.  This will be a satellite event of the Materials Research Society meeting.   MRS Meeting attendees are welcome to attend.

	CO2 in polymer, by Bernard Rousseau, LCP, Orsay University, France

"Dynamics of Soft Matter" Workshop will be held December 4-6, 2008, in Boston Massachusetts, as a satellite event of the MRS annual meeting.  Contributed talks and posters are being solicited.  Sessions on complex fluids, biology, polymers, and surfaces, are planned.  Each talk will include an overview of the status of current applications and techniques, the potential of using advanced neutron techniques to provide new capabilities, and the developments required to enable these goals to be met.

The Workshop will utilize open discussion to summarize the science presentations to maximize the integration of science and techniques to develop the directions of research and future investments in a wide variety of environments. Active feedback will enable a summary of future actions to be discussed on the last day. Included in the Workshop summary will be a description of the capabilities of the present and planned reactor and accelerator-based sources along with development of new techniques. The summary will also serve as an important document when communicating with funding agencies and the public.

Based on presentations and discussions during this Workshop, an outline and writing assignments will be developed for a book in the Springer Series on Neutron Scattering Techniques and Applications; it is expected that this book will serve as a guideline for future international collaborations.  

Details of the Fall 2008 meeting of the Materials Research Society are available at Materials Research Society website.