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Unilever PLC have agreed to provide core funding for continuation of the Edwards Symposium Series after the very successful inaugural event in September 2016. Thanks to their generosity, Edwards Symposia will now be held annually for the next five years. Their format combines leading edge academic presentations with a forum for industrial participants to present research challenges that can inspire future academic research.

The second Edwards Symposium will be held 6-8 September 2017:

http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/tgmw44.shtml

Postdocs and PhD students with interests in soft matter research are invited to join the Edwards Centre by auto-enrolling to the following mailing list:

https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-ecsm-affiliated

You will be required to confirm membership via email but membership is open to all within Cambridge. You can dis-enroll at any time. This list will be used to inform you of ECSM events.

Academics or PI's (those who hold their own grant funding, e.g. in the form of a Fellowship) should instead join the following list:

https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-ecsm-researchstaff

The Edwards Centre now has over 40 academic PIs including permanent academics and independent research fellows. It has a further 80+ members among postdoctoral staff and PhD students across the University. Members are drawn from at least 6 different departments: Physics, Chemistry, Applied Maths, Chemical Engineering, Engineering, Materials Science and Metallurgy.

The Second Edwards Symposium, held 6-8 September, attracted well over 100 participants from at least 10 different countries. This included around 20 participants from industrial or KT organizations. There were sessions on New Functional Materials, Ionic Effects in Soft and Colloidal Materials, Soft Biomatter and Soft Matter Under Flow -- alongside 6 Industrial Challenge presentations and 20 elevator pitches by early-career poster presenters.

An Industrial Icebreaker event will be held on Wednesday 11 October, 11am -- 4pm. The purpose is to explore opportunities for new cooperative interactions between Cambridge academics and either existing or new industrial partners.

To register, visit: http://www.turing-gateway.cam.ac.uk/node/5955