Nataša Vaupotič and Mojca Čepič served as members of the organizing committee of the conference »European Conference on Liquid Crystals 2011« (University of Maribor, February 6-11), the world largest scientific meeting dedicated to liquid crystals in 2011. In addition, members of the program gave a total of 4 invited talks and more than 30 other contributions at international scientific meetings, and 12 talks at foreign universities.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
Members of the program are actively involved in teaching and administrative positions at three national universities: in Ljubljana, Maribor and Nova Gorica. In 2011, members of the program taught a total of 57 undergraduate and graduate courses, and supervised or co-supervised 2 PhD theses, 1 master thesis and 14 undergraduate theses. In addition, in order to communicate science to a general audience, we were involved in preparing more than 20 professional and popular-science essays.
D.08 Management and development of research activities
Members of the program serve on editorial boards of several international scientific journals (Rudolf Podgornik is co-editor in chief of J. Biol. Phys.; Milan Brumen, Mojca Čepič, Marko Marhl, Rudolf Podgornik, and Primož Ziherl are members of editorial boards of ISRN Biomathematics, Eur. J. Phys., Biosystems, PMC Biophysics, and Phys. Rev. E, respectively) and national journals (Marko Marhl, Mojca Čepič and Milan Brumen are members of editorial boards of Fizika v šoli, Presek and Proteus, respectively). In addition, we review manuscripts for many prominent international journals; in 2011 we peer-reviewed more than 90 manuscripts.
C.04 Editorial board of an international magazine