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Soft Matter Workshop

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Agregar a calendario 2023-07-13 09:00:00 2023-07-14 17:00:00 Soft Matter Workshop El Taller de Materia Blanda da la bienvenida a destacados investigadores de todo el mundo para compartir avances sobre la materia blanda. El programa científico de la conferencia se facilitará una vez hayamos finalizado la lista definitiva de participantes. La conferencia incluirá presentaciones orales breves (30 minutos y 5 minutos de preguntas) y tendrá lugar en persona y en línea sólo para presentaciones orales. La conferencia también incluirá una sesión de pósters en persona. Salón Azul, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Campus Cumbayá. USFQ no-reply@usfq.edu.ec America/Guayaquil public
Place
Salón Azul, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Cumbayá Campus.

The Soft Matter Workshop welcomes leading researchers from around the world to share advances in soft matter. The scientific program for the conference will be provided once we have finalized the final list of participants.

The conference will include short oral presentations (30 minutes and 5 minutes for questions) and will be held in person and online for oral presentations only. The conference will also include an in-person poster session.

Event registration

Cost:

  • $50 USD (Classroom or Online)
  • Free for the USFQ community.

Registration:

  • To ensure your participation, you will need to register through the digital platform (QR Code) for the event or send an email to falexis@usfq.edu.ec
  • If registering via email, send the following information:
    • Identify yourself in the Subject of the Message as follows: Last Name + First Name + SMW2023 (all continuous).
      Example: RodriguezCarlaSFW2023.
    • First Name and Last Name:
    • Institution:
    • Country:
    • Participation: Exhibitor or participant only
    • Title of the work (for exhibitor):
    • Abstract (for exhibitor):
    • Mode (for participants only): Online or face-to-face
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Payment:

USFQ participants and exhibitors do not need to pay for the event, but should register by QR code mode or by mail to falexis@usfq.edu.ec

  • Bank transfer:

    Banco Pichincha: Checking account N°3407330004
    Holder: Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ

    In case of international transfers, the following information must be used:

    Deposit or transfer receipts must be uploaded to the event payment button so that the income can be validated and assigned to your cost center.

 

How to participate

 

  • Participants: Online or face-to-face.
  • Presenter: Oral or Poster. Abstracts will be reviewed by a committee and authors will be notified of approval for poster or oral presentation.

Characteristics of the abstract:

  • Number of words: 400. Typeface and font size: Times New Roman. 12 pts.
  • Abstracts should be 400 words maximum and will be received and categorized in different sessions that will combine presentations by professionals and students.
  • It should be a continuous text (1 paragraph) with elements reflecting introduction, objectives, materials and methods, results and conclusions.

Digital certificate:

  • Certificates for participants and exhibitors will be sent digitally. Co-authors who do not participate to the event will not receive certificates.

Lecture time:

  • Lectures: 30 minutes, plus 5 minutes for questions.
  • The best presentations will be awarded considering the following criteria: Quality of the presentation, quality of the speaker, originality of the content, answers to questions.
  • There will be two categories for presentations: novice (recent graduate students or in progress) and professional (with third or fourth level degrees).

Publications:

  • Presenters will be invited to publish their work presented at the workshop in a full paper in the journal Bionatura (Scopus). The special edition of the SMW2023 event will be published in the online journal Bionatura in May 2024 (date reserved).

Bionatura Magazine 

Poster Presentation:

  • Size: 60 x 90 cm, without white border and roll-up. Place the logo of the event and the logo of the institution(s). Must include: authors (identify contact e-mail address), introduction, methodology, results, conclusions, discussion, bibliography and acknowledgements. Each poster presenter should print their poster on an A4 sheet, or smaller, to be handed out to the attendees upon request. Poster sessions will be established by topic.

 

Keynote Speakers

  • Dr. Ali Gilles Tchenguise Miserez, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
    BBML - Biological and Biomimetic Materials Laboratory (ntu.edu.sg)
  • Dr. Raffaele Mezzenga, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Group Leader - Laboratory of Food and Soft Materials | ETH Zurich
  • Dr. Alejandro Marangoni, University of Guelph, Canada
    Alejandro Marangoni | Food Science (uoguelph.ca)
  • Dr. Anne-Laure Fameau, INRA, France
    Anne-Laure FAMEAU | Researcher | PhD | Institut National de l'Agriculture, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement de France (INRAE), Paris | INRAE | Research profile (researchgate.net)
  • Dr. Erica Pensini, University of Guelph, Canada
    Erica Pensini, PhD, P.Eng. | Engineering (uoguelph.ca)