June 30 - July 2, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Overview

The conference will bring together a highly interdisciplinary group of scientists, engineers, and social scientists interested in diffusion and related spreading phenomena. Oral presentations will address a broad, interdisciplinary audience.

Topics of interest include:
  • Basic principles of diffusion theory and simulation
  • Experimental measurements and applications in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering
  • Spreading phenomena in Archaeology, Ecology, Epidemics, Linguistics, Sociology, etc.
This international conference series has been held every 2 years since 2005. The 20th anniversary meeting is the second conference to be held in North America.

Keynote Lectures
  • Stefano Brandani, University of Edinburgh, "The Ruthven number: An essential quantity in determining diffusion coefficients in nanoporous materials using uptake experiments"
  • Dorit Brixius, Technical University of Dresden, "The Danger of Diffusion Models in the History of Global Science"
  • Dirk Brockmann, Technical University of Dresden, "Spatial Disease Dynamics 2.0 - What We Learned from the Covid-19 Pandemic"
  • Sabina Hrabetova, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, "Diffusion as a Tool to Explore Structure and Function of the Brain’s Extracellular Space"
  • Alberto Striolo, University of Oklahoma, "Interrogating Transport Mechanisms in Crowded Narrow Pores Using Molecular Simulations"
  • Eric Vanden-Eijnden, New York University, TBA
Abstract Submission
    Abstract submission is now open!

    Abstracts for oral and poster presentations should be submitted by February 15. Please use this template and submit your abstract as a Word file named as lastname_firstname.docx, where last name and first name correspond to the name of the presenter here.