Interfaces Against Pollution Environmental Challenges & Opportunities 4th-7th September www.iap2016.org Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) LOCATION (1 hour train from Barcelona) TOPICS Water treatment and soil remediation technologies Instrumental techniques for the study of interfaces Elemental speciation, biouptake, bioavailability, toxicity Natural/engineered colloids and nanoparticles Fundamentals of colloid and interface science Global environmental processes Important dates Early bird registration until 31st May 2016 Regular registration period: 1st June - 4th September 2016 Abstract submission deadline: 31st March 2016 Acceptance notification: before 30th April 2016 Submissions to Environ. Chem. special issue: before 5th January 2017 Plenary Speakers François Morel (Princeton University, NJ, USA) Peter Campbell (INRS, Quebec, CAN) Kenneth Dawson (University College Dublin, IRL) Bert Hamelers (Wetsus, Leeuwarden, NLD) Laurent Charlet (CNRS, University of Grenoble, FRA) Susan Stipp (University of Copenhagen, DNK) Keynote Speakers (still growing) Eric Achterberg (Kiel, DEU) Keld Jensen (Copenhagen, DNK) Yasuhisa Adachi (Tsukuba, JPN) Luuk Koopal (Wageningen, NLD) Pedro Alvarez (Houston, TX, USA) Jamie Lead (Columbia, USA) Marc Anderson (Madison, WI, USA) Herman van Leeuwen (Wageningen, NLD) Juan Antelo (Santiago de Compostela, ESP) Jose Paulo Pinheiro (Nancy, FRA) Marcelo Avena (Bahia Blanca, ARG) Jerome Rose (Aix-en-Provence, FRA) Renata Behra (Zurich, CHE) François Rossi (Ispra, ITA) Marc Benedetti (Paris, FRA) Takumi Saito (Ibaraki, JPN) Enric Brillas (Barcelona, ESP) Pascal Salaun (Liverpool, GBR) Bill Davison (Lancaster, GBR) Vera Slaveykova (Genève, CHE) Angel Delgado (Granada, ESP) Wenfeng Tan (Wuhan, CHN) Jean-François Dufrêche (Montpellier, FRA) Nathalie Tufenkji (Montreal, CAN) Benjamin Erable (Toulouse, FRA) David Waite (Sydney, AUS) Marek Grzelczak (San Sebastian, ESP) Liping Weng (Wageningen, NLD) Nicole Hondow (Leeds, GBR) Lenny Winkel (Zurich, CHE) Including a Special Workshop on Capacitive Deionization by Matthew Suss and Maarten Biesheuvel (Wetsus, Leeuwarden, NLD) Special issue on IAP2016 in Environmental Chemistry (CSIRO Pub.) More information in www.iap2016.org.