The WaterEurope Interdisciplinary Conference about Water will take place in Zaragoza, Spain (the city of the Water 2008 Expo), in the period June 12-14, 2014.

WaterEurope gives a stage for European water researchers to seed and foster new collaborations among scientists coming from different backgrounds and sharing the same multidisciplinary interests about water and its uncommon properties. We believe that the state of the art in this field requires a close interchange among theories and experiments. To this goal, we invited leading experts in a number of experimental and theoretical fields involving water science in order to promote interaction and cross-fertilization between different standpoints.

The Conference Program will include the following topics: water properties and their applications; water in biological systems; water in energy materials, water in nanoconfinement; water in food science and cryoprotection; water in drug-design; water in planetary science.

This is the preliminary list of Invited Speakers:

Xavier Barril (Facultat de Farmacia, Universitat de Barcelona)

Daniel Borgis (CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris)

Fernando Bresme (Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London & Department of Chemistry Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Frédéric Caupin (Laboratoire de Physique de la Matière Condensée et Nanostructures, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 et CNRS)

Dominique Champion (Ingénierie Moléculaire et Sensorielle de l'Aliment et des Produits de Santé —Laboratoire Eau, Molécules actives, Macromolécules Activités – AGROSUP, Dijon- Université de Bourgogne)

Marivi Fernández-Serra (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Stony Brook University)

Paola Gallo (Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica - Università di Roma Tre)

Pavel Jungwirth (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague)

Werner F. Kuhs (GeoZentrumGöttingen Abteilung Kristallographie - Gottingen University, Germany)

Sandrine Lyonnard (CEA-Grenoble, INAC/SPrAM, Groupe Polymeres Conducteurs Ioniques)

Roland R. Netz (Physik Department, Technische Universitaet Muenchen)

Michele Parrinello (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Zürich) [TBC]

Nick Quirke (Chemistry Department, Imperial College, London)

Maria Antonietta Ricci (Dipartimento di Scienze - Università di Roma Tre)

Jose Teixeira (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, Saclay)

Carlos Vega (Departamento de Química Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Rodolphe Vuilleumier (Ecole normale supérieure Département de Chimie - Département de Chimie – Paris)

The list of  invited contributors will be periodically updated in the conference web-page: http://www.cecam.org/workshop-1-1089.html

Important Deadlines:

Conference registration for contribution: 18 April 2014

Announcement of acceptance of abstracts: 25 April 2014

Early registration fee payment: 2  May 2014

Final program communication: 9  May 2014

You can register and submit your abstract at the web-site: http://www.cecam.org/workshop-4-1089.html (for a talk) and
http://www.cecam.org/workshop-3-1089.html (for a poster).

The Organizing Committee of WaterEurope 2014,

Livia Bove, Jordi Martí, and Giancarlo Franzese
Livia.Bove@impmc.upmc.fr