PolyU to host Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference in June 2024

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) cordially invites you to the 2024 Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, to be held at PolyU campus, 21–24 June 2024. The Conference brings together academic, research and industry communities coming from fields of thermodynamics, fluidics, bio-chemical and bio-medical engineering, and microfluidics, for interdisciplinary exchange with a focus on energy applications involving microchannel flow or microscale surface phenomena.

• Conference Website: https://www.microfip.org/
• Plenary Speakers: https://www.microfip.org/program/speakers.html
• Program Overview: https://www.microfip.org/program/program_overview.html
• Conference Officials: https://www.microfip.org/about/conference_officials.html
• Online Registration: https://www.microfip.org/cgi-bin/registration.cgi

The Conference includes presentations delivered by a line-up of distinguished scientists from around the world. Prof. Sir Andre GEIM, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics from The University of Manchester (UOM), winner of 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, will deliver a presentation titled “Exploring 2D Empty Space”. He shall overview recent work by his team on creating angstrom-scale channels, which covers the properties of gases, liquids and ions under the extreme confinement.

Prof. Geim is a renowned physicist. He received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his ground-breaking work on graphene together Prof. Sir Konstantin NOVOSELOV from UOM. The team used a piece of graphene no thicker than the diameter of a hair to investigate the miraculous traits of graphene. They discovered that electrons travelling in graphene behave as if they did not have any mass and move ahead at a constant speed of one thousand kilometres per second. This discovery opens up the possibility of studying certain phenomena more easily on a smaller scale without the use of a large particle accelerator.

Prof. Geim was also awarded the 2020 Ig Nobel Prize for his work on levitating frogs, becoming the only recipient of both Nobel and IgNobel Prizes. The Ig Nobel Prize honours scientific achievements that make people laugh and then make people think.

Do not miss the valuable opportunity to learn from eminent scholars! Act fast and register at https://microfip.org/.