Workshop Announcement:

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     Soft packings, nested clusters, and condensed matter
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              September 19 to September 23, 2016

  American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center

                     San Jose, California

        http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/softpack


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Description:
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This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will be devoted to
modeling the geometry of condensed matter. The workshop will focus on
"soft packing" and "nested clustering" phenomena in discrete geometric
structures and their applications to understanding the internal atomic
structure of solids and fluids. 

The workshop is organized by
Karoly Bezdek, Nikolai Dolbilin, Egon Schulte, and Marjorie Senechal.

For more details please see the workshop announcement page:
http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/softpack

Space and funding is available for a few more participants.
If you would like to participate, please apply by filling
out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later
than May 1, 2016. Applications are open to all, and
we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities,
junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily
undergraduate institutions to apply.

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AIM Research Conference Center:
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The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) hosts focused
workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. AIM
focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on
a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a
significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an
important new result, or investigating the convergence between
two distinct areas of mathematics.

For more information, please visit
http://www.aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/