Organisers

• Davide Pini (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Milano)
• Gerhard Kahl (Technical University of Vienna)
• Nigel Wilding (University of Bath)

Supports

 CECAM

 COST - MolSimu

Description

One of the central problems of liquid state theory is the
determination of the phase diagram of fluids from the potential acting between its constituent particles. In accomplishing this program, a realistic description of the critical region is perhaps the most severe difficulty to be overcome. Over the past two decades, significant progress has been made in this direction. The proposed workshop will cover the theoretical and simulation approaches which include a reliable treatment of the critical behavior of fluids, thus allowing a unified description over a wide range of thermodynamic states.

Scientific Objectives

The aim of this workshop is to summarize the present state-of-the-art of liquid-state approaches aimed at a realsitic description of criticality, and to discuss recent and possible future developments, especially in connection with the applications to soft matter. These approaches include renormalization-group based as well as thermodynamically self-consistent theories, and simulation methods.

References

[1] J. P. Hansen and I. R. McDonald, Theory of simple liquids, (Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2006) 3rd edition.
[2] A. Parola and L. Reatto, Adv. Phys. 44, 211 (1995).
[3] D. Pini, G. Stell, and N. B. Wilding, Mol. Phys. 95, 483 (1998).