The Gordon Research Seminar on Soft Condensed Matter Physics is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other early career scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and ideas and network with other early career researchers.

The focus of this meeting is encourage scientific exchange within the highly interdisciplinary soft matter community. The theme of the meeting is "materials by design"; emphasis will be placed on using soft materials to achieve new functions, or to explore new physics, either via activity or structural design (meta-materials). Additionally, the meeting will offer a career-development session on effective scientific communication for soft matter scientists.