• Colloidal soft matter and emulsions
• Polymeric soft matter
• Liquid crystal and anisotropic soft matter
• Glasses, arrested soft matter, jamming, and granular materials
• Self-assembled soft matter
• Biological matter, active soft matter, and living soft matter
• Rheology and non-equilibrium phenomena in soft matter
• Others, including Interfacial soft matter, metamaterials, and industrial soft matter

Selected Speakers

• Clifford P. Brangwynne, Princeton University, USA
• Hans-Jürgen Butt, Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung, Germany
• Marjolein Dijkstra, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
• Zvonimir Dogic, UCSB, USA
• Jian Ping Gong, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Cristina Marchetti, UCSB, USA
• Srikanth Sastry, JNCASR, India
• Vincenzo Vitelli, University of Chicago, USA
• Dirk Aarts, University of Oxford, UK
• Daniel Bonn, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Sujit S. Datta, Princeton University, USA
• Olivier Dauchot, ESPCI, France
• Masao Doi, University of Chinese Academy of Science, China
• Jens Elgeti, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Jun-ichi Fukuda, Kyushu University, Japan
• Rajesh Ganapathy, JNCASR, India
• Yilong Han, HKUST, Hong-Kong
• Jessie S. Jeon, KAIST, Korea
• Amelia Liu, Monash University, Australia
• Ran Ni, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• John Russo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Chantal Valeriani, University of Madrid, Spain
• Matthieu Wyart, EPFL, Switzerlad
• Limei Xu, Peking University, China
• Ning Xu, USTC, China
• Miho Yanagisawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Wang Yujie, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
• Hepeng Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China