Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 225, 1317-1321 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60242-x

Editorial

Festschrift on the occasion of Kurt Kremer's 60^th birthday

¹ Institute for Mathematics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
² Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
³ Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
⁴ Institute for Solid State Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
⁵ Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
⁶ Institute for Computational Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
⁷ Department of Chemistry, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

^a e-mail: luigi.dellesite@fu-berlin.de
^b e-mail: deserno@andrew.cmu.edu
^c e-mail: duenweg@mpip-mainz.mpg.de
^d e-mail: holm@icp.uni-stuttgart.de
^e e-mail: christine.peter@uni-konstanz.de
^f e-mail: pleiner@mpip-mainz.mpg.de

Received: 27 July 2016
Revised: 18 August 2016
Published online: 10 October 2016

Abstract

This special topics issue offers a broad perspective on recent theoretical and computational soft matter science, providing state of the art advances in many of its sub-fields. As is befitting for a discipline as diverse as soft matter, the papers collected here span a considerable range of subjects and questions, but they also illustrate numerous connections into both fundamental science and technological/industrial applications, which have accompanied the field since its earliest days. This issue is dedicated to Kurt Kremer, on the occasion of his 60^th birthday, honouring his role in establishing this exciting field and consolidating its standing in the frame of current science and technology.