LAM 14

The 14th International Conference on Liquid and Amorphous Metals (LAMXIV) will be held at the University of Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, in 2010 (tentatively during July). The conference aims to gather the wide community of scientists interested in liquid and amorphous metals and to provide the attendees with an up-to-date survey of progress in this intriguing field of the condensed matter physics.

The first conference of this longstanding cycle of events was held in Brookhaven (USA) as LM-1 in 1966. The next liquid metals conferences were held in Tokyo (1972) and Bristol (1976). The cycle was then renewed including topics on amorphous metals in Grenoble (1980), Los Angeles (1983), Garmisch-Partenkirchen (1986), Kyoto (1989), Vienna (1992), Chicago (1995), Dortmund (1998), Yokohama (2001), Metz (2004) and Ekaterinburg (2007).

As in previous editions, the conference is devoted to liquid and amorphous metals, and to those non-metallic systems which are traditionally hosted within the program (semi-conductors, molten salts, quasycrystals, etc.). Focused sections will be also included to explore new horizons in the field of liquid and amorphous materials, with special emphasis on those which can be tackled with emerging techniques (ultrafast spectroscopies, extreme conditions, metallic colloids). The meeting will include single sessions of invited and selected contributing papers as well as dedicated poster sessions.

We strongly encourage the participation of junior researchers and graduate students. A number of bursaries will be posted to this aim.