edited by M Lal (Unilever Research Port Sunlight, India) , R A Mashelkar (Council of Scientific & Industrial Research, New Delhi) , B D Kulkarni (National Chemical Laboratory, Pune) , & V M Naik (Unilever Research India, Bangalore)

The mesoscopic domain encompasses structures that are best described in terms of the time and length scales which lie between the two extremes of the molecular and the phenomenological description of materials. Important examples of such structures are self-assemblies, emulsions, gels, colloids aggregates and macromolecules networks. Discussing the key advances made in recent years in our understanding of both equilibrium and dynamic aspects of mesoscopic structures, most talks at the conference were given by world class researchers in the field, who included, among others, Prof J S Higgins, CBE, FRS (Imperial College, London), Prof D Frenkel (FOM, Amsterdam), Prof M E Cates (Edinburgh), Prof R C Ball (Warwick), Prof S Ramaswamy (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore), Prof R Pandit (Bangalore), Dr J A Yeomans (Oxford), Prof S Puri (JNU, New Delhi), Dr D Langevin (CRPP, Bordeaux), and Prof W G M Agterof (Unilever Research, Vlaardingen).

• Spinodal Decomposition in the Viscous Hydrodynamic Regime (S I Jury et al.)
• Spinodal Decomposition in Binary Fluids (A J Wagner & J M Yeomans)
• Dynamics of Phase Separation in Binary Alloys with Vacancies (S Puri)
• Spatiotemporal Chaos in a Model for CO Oxidation on Pt(110) (A Pande & R Pandit)
• Experimental Studies of the Dynamics of Surfactant Monolayers (D Langevin)
• From Van der Waals to Protein Crystallisation (D Frenkel & P R Ten Wolde)
• Microemulsification of Triglyceride Oils (W G M Agterof et al.)
• Hydrodynamic Screening and Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions in Stokesian Fluidised Beds (A J Levine et al.)
• Polymer Blends — Mixing, Demixing and Compatibilisation (J S Higgins)
• The Propagation of Stress Through Static Powders (R C Ball)
• and other papers