The 10th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society

Abstract

The 10th General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society was held in Lisbon from9 to 12 April 1990; it was attended by 670 scientists from 28 countries of Europe and overseas.Following the tradition of the series, the Lisbon EPS Conference covered most of the relevant topics in Condensed MatterPhysics, organized in three major Symposia: Soft Matter and Polymers, Solid State Physics and The Physics of Materials forfuture Electronics. The last Symposium was jointly organized with the European Materials Research Society, starting a timelycooperation between both European Societies in important scientific and technological areas of common interest.The Conference included 4 plenary lectures, 69 invited talks and 440 contributions in poster sessions.The present volume T35 of the Topical Issues of Physica Scripta, contains papers of the invited talks. The motivation ofthis volume is to present a wider information of the contents of the Conference, and also to offer to the participants, and inparticular to the younger ones, the opportunity of a deeper personal analysis of the ideas and concepts that have been underdiscussion during the four days of the Conference.The local organization of the Conference was the responsibility of the Portuguese Physical Society, through its Divisionof Condensed Matter Physics. The event substituted in 1990 the Iberian Symposium on Condensed Matter Physics, whichis regularly and alternatively organized in Spain and Portugal every two years, under the special sponsorship of Unesco.We wish to express our thanks to the Conference Committees, to the authors and the individuals who contributed to thecontents of the Conference.A special acknowledgement is due to the Sponsors for their generous support of this event.