Since its first occurrence in 1990 in Lyon, the Liquid Matter Conferences have been held regularly every third year. The following conferences were held in Florence (1993), Norwich (1996), Granada (1999), Konstanz (2002), Utrecht (2005), Lund (2008), Vienna (2011), Lisbon (2014) and Ljubljana (2017).

The 11th conference was thus supposed to take place in 2020 with Prague as the hosting city. However, because of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated restrictions and uncertainties, the Liquid Matter Board and the Condensed Matter Division of the EPS have taken a difficult decision not to hold the conference this year as planned and have rescheduled it to next year.

The 11^th Liquid Matter Conference, organized jointly by the Czech Academy of Sciences and J. E. Purkinje University under the auspicies of the European Physical Society will be thus held in July 18-23, 2021

with the venue and other organizational details remaining unchanged.

The purpose of the conference is to review recent advances in experimental, theoretical, and applied studies in the liquid state of matter, bringing together researchers from all over the world working in the field of physics and chemistry of liquids as well as in several closely related areas such as soft condensed matter and biophysics.