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| Diffusion Fundamentals (Academic Conferences) | |
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| Status | Active |
| Genre | Spreading phenomena in nature and society |
| Frequency | Biennially |
| Location(s) | Varying |
| Country | Varying |
| Inaugurated | 2005 in Leipzig |
| Founder | Jörg Kärger |
| Website | diffusion-fundamentals |
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| Discipline | Physics (and others) |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Jörg Kärger, Leipzig Paul Heitjans, Hannover |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2005−present |
| Publisher | Universität, Leipzig (Germany) |
| Frequency | two numbers per year |
| open | |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 1862-4138 |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]| # | Year | Host location | Country | Chairmen |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | 2005 | Leipzig |  Germany |
Jörg Kärger, Paul Heitjans |
| II | 2007 | L'Aquila |  Italy |
Stefano Brandani, Jörg Kärger, Roberto Volpe |
| III | 2009 | Athens |  Greece |
Doros Theodorou, Nick Kanellopoulos, Christian Chmelik, Jörg Kärger |
| IV | 2011 | Troy, NY |  United States |
Marc-Olivier Coppens, Alex Neimark, Douglas M. Ruthven, Matthias Thommes |
| V | 2013 | Leipzig | Germany |
Frank Cichos, Klaus Kroy |
| VI | 2015 | Dresden | Germany |
Jürgen Caro, Hans Wiesmeth |
| VII | 2017 | Moscow |  Russia |
Boris S. Bokstein, Alexey O. Rodin, Boris B. Strauma |
| VIII | 2019 | Erlangen | Germany |
Andreas P. Fröba, Jörg Kärger, Alfred Leipertz, Michael H. Rausch |
| IX | 2022 | Kraków |  Poland |
Rafał Abdank-Kozubski, Jörg Kärger |
| X | 2023 | Tashkent |  Uzbekistan |
Shlomo Weber |
| XI | 2007 | Evanston, IL | United States |
Randall Q. Snurr |
References
[edit]- ^ Jörg Kärger, Paul Heitjans, Reinhold Haberlandt (ed.): Diffusion in Condensed Matter. Springer (2001) ISBN 978-3-540-41550-3
- ^ Paul Heitjans, Jörg Kärger (ed.): Diffusion in Condensed Matter: Methods. Materials, Models. Springer (2005) ISBN 978-3-540-72081-2
- ^ Armin Bunde, Jürgen Caro, Jörg Kärger, Gero Vogl (ed.): Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society. Springer (2005) ISBN 978-3-319-67797-2
- ^ "Literaturpreis der chemischen Industrie 2019 für das Buch "Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society"". Retrieved 24 April 2023.
Sources
[edit]- "Conference series on the Phenomenon of Diffusion". Saxon Academy of Sciences.
- Conference Series Diffusion Fundamentals Unifying Diffusive Spreading in Nature, Technology and Society, Chapter 3 in: Jürgen Caro: Jörg Kärger: Diffusion Is His Life. In: Chemie Ingenieur Technik. Volume 95, Issue 11, November 2023, Pages 1707–1712 (online)
- Zach Evenson (23 May 2023). "Behind the Book – On People, Particles, and Pandemics – The Universal Laws Behind Diffusive Spreading". Website Springer-Verlag. (last section)
- Christian Chmelik. "Diffusion Fundamentals. An interdisciplinary online journal in the Open Access offering of Leipzig University". University Library Leipzig.
- "Diffusion fundamentals for the basic principles of diffusion theory, experiment and application". qucosa.de.