The Workshop is supported by the European Science Foundation (ESF), COST Action CM1101 "Colloidal Aspects of Nanoscience for Innovative Processes and Materials" as one of its events.

The Workshop will take place in the central building (Rectorat) of Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria, from 1 to 4 April 2012.

The Local Organizing Committee includes members of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Sofia University:
Chair: Professor Peter A. Kralchevsky
Organizational Secretary: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krastanka Marinova
Financial Secretary: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Slavka Tcholakova

The Workshop will consist of 25 presentations (see the preliminary Program for details):

(A) 14 presentations will be given by contributors to the special Hydration-Force Issue of Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Sci. (COCIS) Vol. 16, Issue 6, Pages 515-624 (December 2011) edited by Thomas Zemb and V. Adrian Parsegian. The idea is to have a format similar to the Faraday discussions. For each paper, the author will have 15 min to present the basic ideas and results of the study and 15 min for discussion.

(B) 9 presentations will report new results on surface forces in relation to the activities of COST CM1101; they are denoted by '*' in the Program. Their format will be 20 min for presentation and 10 min for discussion.