14th International Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Ice

Topics

• Ice and Life (near and far, far away)

• Surfaces, Interfaces and Nucleation

• Ice Phases, Amorphous Ice and Glass Transitions

• Crystal Growth

• Microstructure and Mechanics

• Cryospheric Processes (from glaciological friction, deformation and damage mechanics, snow dynamics and photochemistry to sea ice thermodynamics)

Key-Speakers

• Katrin Amann-Winkel (Stockholm University, Sweden) on amorphous ice and glass transitions

• Ian Baker (Dartmouth College, U.S.A.) on defects, micro-mechanics and fabric

• Hendrik Bluhm (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, U.S.A.) on water and ice surfaces

• Livia Bove (EPFL, Switzerland) on high pressure phenomena

• Ido Braslavsky (Hebrew University, Israel) on ice binding proteins and cryobiology

• Yoshinori Furukawa (Hokkaido University, Japan) on crystal growth; fundamentals to experiments on the ISS

• Ian Hewitt (University of Oxford, UK) on glaciological friction

• Peter Kusalik (University of Calgary, Canada) on growths of ices from molecular simulations

• Jan Pettersson (Univ. Gothenburg, Sweden) on heterogeneous ice nucleation

• Steve Warren (Univ. of Washington) on optical properties of ice and snow

• Jerome Weiss (ISTERRE, France) on sea ice rheology

• Andrew Wells (University of Oxford, UK) on sea ice thermodynamics

Scientific disciplines addressed

• glaciology

• snow physics

• atmospheric science

• biology

• astrophysics

• condensed matter physics

• surface science

• geophysics

• space science

• material science

• food technology

• multi-phase chemistry

• geo-materials

• ice engineering