The Condensed Matter Division (CMD) of the European Physical Society aims to serve its scientific, industrial and educational communities by helping them to obtain the latest information on progress in their specialties and related fields, to gain visibility for their research, to help them interact with their peers and to develop professionally.

For this, CMD organises a number of major physics events, awards two of the foremost prizes in Condensed Matter Physics - the EPS-CMD Europhysics Prize (sponsored by EPL, the EPS flagship letters journal) and the Liquid Matter Prize - and issues a monthly Newsletter.

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CMD Sections

The Condensed Matter Division includes several sections focused on specific areas of condensed matter physics:

• Liquids
• Low Temperature Physics 
  
• Magnetism - close collaboration with EMA
• Semiconductors and Insulators
  
• Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics
  
• Structural And Dynamical Properties Of Solids
• Surfaces And Interfaces

CMD Board (+)

• José Maria de Teresa (Chairman, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón, Zaragoza, Spain) 
• Laurence Ramos (Soft Matter and Biophysics section, CNRS-University of Montpellier, France)
• Joaquim Agostinho Moreira (Structure and Dynamics section, University of Porto, Portugal)
• Christian Enss (Low Temperature Section, University of Heidelberg, Germany)
• Igor Musevic (Liquid Physics Section, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• Massimo Rontani (Semiconductors and Insulators Section, University of Modena, Italy)
• Amina Taleb (Surface and Interface Physics section, Synchrotron SOLEIL, Gif-sur Yvette, France)
• Silke Bühler Paschen (elected, University of Vienna, Austria)
• María José Calderón (elected, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Spain)
• Erich Runge (elected, Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany)
• Roberta Caruso (co-opted, EPS Young Minds, University of Naples, Italy)
• Kees van der Beek (co-opted, CNRS, Palaiseau, France)
• Burkard Hillebrands (Magnetism / EMA, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
• Alfonso Muñoz (EHPRG, ex officio, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain)
  

• The 2020 EPS-CMD Europhysics Prize is awarded to Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup of the University of Stuttgart (+).

• The 2020 EPS Liquid Matter Prize is awarded to Prof. Daan Frenkel of the University of Cambridge (+).

CMD Conferences (+)

A major activity of CMD and its sections is the organisation of quality peer-reviewed conferences and scientific meetings, including the biennial EPS CMD conference, as well as several other major European conferences.

The last CMD conference, CMD2020GEFES, was held online. It was organised together with the Condensed Matter Physics Division GEFES of the Spanish Royal Physics Society RSEF, comprised 35 Minicolloquia (topical) sessions, and attracted 2000 participants.

The next General conference of the EPS Condensed Matter Division (CMD29) to be held in Manchester (UK) is postponed to August 21^st through 26^th, 2022.

CMD29 (http://cmd29.iopconfs.org) is organised together with the Institute of Physics (IOP). The main part of the conference will be the now traditional minicolloquia, or topical sessions. 49 Minicolloquium proposals have been received.

The 35^th European Conference on Surface Science is planned to take place at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, from the August 30^th to September 3^rd, 2021.

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