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Diffusion Fundamentals (Academic Conferences)
StatusActive
GenreSpreading phenomena in nature and society
FrequencyBiennially
Location(s)Varying
CountryVarying
Inaugurated2005 in Leipzig
FounderJörg Kärger
Websitediffusion-fundamentals.org/conferences/index.html
Diffusion Fundamentals
(Online-Journal)
DisciplinePhysics (and others)
LanguageEnglish
Edited byJörg Kärger, Leipzig
Paul Heitjans, Hannover
Publication details
History2005−present
Publisher
Universität, Leipzig (Germany)
Frequencytwo numbers per year
open
ISO 4Find out here
Indexing
ISSN1862-4138
Links

Diffusion Fundamentals is the name of a series of conferences dealing with phenomena of diffusion (in the sense of spreading) in nature, technology, and society. Due to the multifacetted and intricate nature of diffusion, the conference does not only cover problems pertaining to known classic physical diffusion but also includes phenomena such the spread of diseases and even the spread of language peculiarities. That is because all of the mentioned phenomena are driven by the same principles.

The conferences are accompanied by an peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open-access scientific journal of the same name. Both are under the auspices of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities, supported by Leipzig University.

History

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The impetus for the establishment of the Diffusion Fundamentals Conference Series and Online Journal came from a workshop organized in 1996 at Leipzig University with the support of the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation jointly with the German Physical Society in reunified Germany under the leadership of the physicists Reinhold Haberlandt and Jörg Kärger (both Leipzig) and Paul Heitjans (Hannover). Two textbooks, Diffusion in Condensed Matter[1] and Diffusion in Condensed Matter: Methods, Materials, Models[2] resulted from this workshop which, half a century after the publication of Wilhelm Jost's classic Diffusion in Solids, Liquids, Gases, gave an overview of the current state of knowledge in diffusion research. As well, during the workshop, there arose the interest in considering diffusion (or, more generally, spreading) phenomena in their broadest (truly transdisciplinary) sense, as they can be observed in "nature, technology and society", and to dedicate to it a conference series, accompanied by a free-accessible online journal.

To commemorate the pioneering work on diffusion by Adolf Fick in 1855 and by Albert Einstein in 1905, both published in Leipzig, the first meeting in the Diffusion Fundamentals conference series was held in Leipzig in 2005, which also saw the publication of the first volume of the Diffusion Fundamentals online journal. As a rule, two volumes per year of the online journal were subsequently published. The biennial Diffusion Fundamentals conference was held outside Europe for the first time in 2011, at its fourth meeting in Troy, New York, United States, and for the first time in Asia at its tenth meeting in 2023, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

A special highlight in the series was the 6th meeting in 2015 in Dresden, when the Saxon Academy of Sciences took over the patronage and the book on Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society[3] resulting from this meeting was awarded the Literature Prize of the Chemical Industry Fund in 2019.[4]

List of the Conferences

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# Year Host location Country Chairmen
I 2005 Leipzig Germany Germany Jörg Kärger, Paul Heitjans
II 2007 L'Aquila Italy Italy Stefano Brandani, Jörg Kärger, Roberto Volpe
III 2009 Athens Greece Greece Doros Theodorou, Nick Kanellopoulos, Christian Chmelik, Jörg Kärger
IV 2011 Troy, NY United States United States Marc-Olivier Coppens, Alex Neimark, Douglas M. Ruthven, Matthias Thommes
V 2013 Leipzig Germany Germany Frank Cichos, Klaus Kroy
VI 2015 Dresden Germany Germany Jürgen Caro, Hans Wiesmeth
VII 2017 Moscow Russia Russia Boris S. Bokstein, Alexey O. Rodin, Boris B. Strauma
VIII 2019 Erlangen Germany Germany Andreas P. Fröba, Jörg Kärger, Alfred Leipertz, Michael H. Rausch
IX 2022 Kraków Poland Poland Rafał Abdank-Kozubski, Jörg Kärger
X 2023 Tashkent Uzbekistan Uzbekistan Shlomo Weber
XI 2007 Evanston, IL United States United States Randall Q. Snurr

References

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  1. ^ Jörg Kärger, Paul Heitjans, Reinhold Haberlandt (ed.): Diffusion in Condensed Matter. Springer (2001) ISBN 978-3-540-41550-3
  2. ^ Paul Heitjans, Jörg Kärger (ed.): Diffusion in Condensed Matter: Methods. Materials, Models. Springer (2005) ISBN 978-3-540-72081-2
  3. ^ Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl (ed.): Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer (2005) ISBN 978-3-319-67797-2
  4. ^ "Literaturpreis der chemischen Industrie 2019 für das Buch "Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society"". Retrieved 24 April 2023.

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