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The Gordon Conference on Condensed Matter Physics covers a wide area ranging from biophysics and soft condensed matter (the physics of polymers, colloids and granular materials) to quantum electronics and transport. It aims to bring together researchers in academics and industry over this broad area and to present talks and discussions illustrating some of the most recent, exciting, important and speculative discoveries of the past two years. This is one of the few conferences which aims to bridge the growing divide between the hard and soft condensed matter communities. Along with presenting the recent highlights in these subfields it looks for emerging topics where both electronic properties and the behavior of macromolecules and nano-meso-microscopic entities are important.
In emphasizing some of the strong overlaps in these diverse areas, the 2001 conference is focussed on organic electronics, ranging from new discoveries on organic crystals, doped optically or with a gate voltage, to carbon nanotubes to conducting polymers (the subject of this years Nobel prize in chemistry) to the question of the electronic conductivity in biopolymers and in particular DNA. Another focus concerns organic and biological polymers for information storage and processing, self-recognition, directed self-assembly, and as building blocks for complex structures. The frustration and dynamical problems associated with particle assemblies are also represented with sessions on granular materials, jamming and the glass transition. We will deal with