Water is full of surprises!

Water colors our planet, quenches our thirst, and stimulates our imagination. Understanding the fundamental principles governing the structure and dynamics of water - and particularly how water mediates chemical interactions and processes - continues to pose formidable challenges and yield abundant surprises. The focus of this Gordon Research Conference is on identifying key questions, describing emerging understandings, and unveiling surprising discoveries related to water and aqueous solutions. The talks and posters at this meeting will describe studies of water and its interactions with objects such as interfaces, channels, electrons, oils, ions, and proteins; probed using optical, electrical, and particle experiments, and described using classical, quantum, and multi-scale theories.

This conference will be preceded by a two day Gordon Research Seminar (GRS), exclusively for graduate students and postdocs, organized by Sapna Sarupria (chair), and Robin Underwood (associate chair).

As in past years, this GRC will also include short talks by graduate students and postdocs, selected from among the posters presented at the meeting.