Paris, Madrid, February 20th, 2 Dear , The 2020 European Condensed Matter conference – CMD 2020 GEFES, jointly organized by the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (EPS – CMD) and the Condensed Matter Group / GEFES of the Spanish Royal Physics Society / RSEF will take place in Madrid, Spain, from August 31st through September 4th, 2020. This large physics event follows CMD27 : the joint conference of EPS-CMD and the Condensed Matter Section of the DPG (Berlin, March 2018); CMD 26 (Groningen, the Netherlands, September 2016); and CMD25 – Condensed Matter in Paris (September 2014).[1] The comprehensive programme of plenary talks[2] and no less than 55 minicolloquia[3] at CMD 2020 GEFES, covering all areas of Condensed Matter Physics is now online ! You are kindly invited to submit your abstract on the conference website as of today. Please upload your abstract in pdf format using this template. Limit your abstract to one page (including images if wanted) and 500kB. Important datesAbstract submission: until April 30th, 2020Notification of acceptance: before May 31st, 2020Participant early registration: until June 15th, 2020Website: Click here We remind you that the 2020 Europhysics Prize will be awarded during CMD 2020 GEFES, and that the 2020 Prize Nomination Call is open until March 30th. Please see the EPS-CMD web pages for details. We are very much looking forward to your participation! For the EPS Condensed Matter Board and RSEF – GEFES,Kees van der Beek EPS – CMD Chair eps.cmd@gmail.comMaría José Calderón RSEF – GEFES chair gefes.rsef@gmail.com[1] A complete list of CMD conference over the years can be found on the EPS-CMD webpages PLENARY SPEAKERS AT CMD 2020 GEFES The following speakers have confirmed their participation in CMD 2020 GEFES : • Nuno Araujo (Lisbon, Portugal) • Stefano Baroni (Trieste, Italy) • Maria Grazia Betti (Rome, Italy) • Hélène Bouchiat (Université Paris-Saclay, France) • Seamus Davis (University of Oxford, U.K.) • Roel Dullens (University of Oxford, U.K.) • Katharina Franke (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany) • María García-Parajo (Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) • Francesco Giazotto (Pisa, Italy) • Francisco J. García-Vidal (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) • Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) • Tomáš Jungwirth (Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic) • Eugene Mele (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Penn Arts and Sciences, USA) • Beatriz Noheda (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) • Michelle Simmons (Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, Australia) |