About

This is the second edition of the Charged Matter series. The first took place at ISTA (Austria) in March 2025, with 17 invited speakers and about 100 participants from physics, chemistry, astronomy, biology, and earth and climate science. This edition moves to OIST, to bring the meeting closer to the Asia-Pacific community.

The programme spans fundamental charge-transfer mechanisms, charge-driven interfacial chemistry, droplet and granular electrification, and the role of aerosol and droplet charging in cloud formation and climate. Open questions include the origin of lightning, the cause of triboelectric charging, charge-based biological electrosensing, and the role of charged interactions in planet formation.

We hope the meeting creates connections across fields that share the same questions but rarely meet.

本シンポジウムは「Charged Matter」シリーズの第2回です。第1回は2025年3月にISTA（オーストリア）で開催され、17名の招待講演者
と、物理学、化学、天文学、生物学、地球・気候科学の各分野から約100名が参加しました。今回は会場をOISTに移し、アジア太平洋地域の研究コミュニティにより近い場所で開催します。

プログラムは、電荷移動の基礎的な機構、電荷が駆動する界面化学、液滴や粉粒体の帯電、そして雲の形成と気候におけるエアロゾルや
液滴の帯電の役割に及びます。未解決の問いには、雷の起源、摩擦帯電の原因、電荷にもとづく生物の電気感覚、惑星形成における帯電
による相互作用の役割などがあります。

同じ問いを共有しながら、これまで交流の少なかった分野の間に、本会議が新たなつながりを生むことを願っています。

Programme at a glance

• 10 invited talks and ~34 contributed talks over three days
• A group photo, an OIST tour and a poster session on Day 1
• A free afternoon and the banquet dinner on Day 2

Code of Conduct

Purpose

To ensure that all participants have a clear understanding of the behavior that is expected of them.

Code of Conduct

We are committed to making our workshops (workshop(s) organized by OIST, hereinafter “our workshop(s)”) an inclusive space for sharing ideas and knowledge. We will not tolerate disrespectful communication, discrimination, harassment, or bullying in any form. As such, all participants attending our workshops are required to comply with this Code of Conduct. To provide all participants the opportunity to benefit from our workshops, we at OIST are dedicated to a positive, safe and harassment-free experience. Harassment in any form is specifically prohibited.

What is Harassment?

Harassment involves continued antisocial or unreasonable actions that violate a reasonable person’s personal rights and/or dignity and cause mental suffering, and thus worsen the person’s environment or make him/her anxious about participation. Behavior that is acceptable to one person may not be acceptable to another, so we ask that you use discretion to be sure that respect is communicated. Harassment intended in a joking manner nevertheless constitutes unacceptable behavior. Speech that is not welcomed or that is personally offensive, whether it is based on gender, age, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, ethnicity, national origin, religion etc. will not be tolerated.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please bring this to the immediate attention of the organizers. If you wish to report an issue concerning the organizers, you can contact the Conference and Workshop Section directly and submit a confidential report by sending an email to workshop-codeofconduct@oist.jp or submitting a report through the ⁠webform.

All complaints will be taken seriously and responded to by the Dean of Research promptly. Confidentiality will be maintained to the extent that it does not compromise the rights of others. Individuals found in breach of this Code of Conduct will be dismissed from the workshop immediately. Retaliation for reporting harassment is also a violation of Code of Conduct, as is reporting an incident in bad faith.