Editorial: Festschrift on the occasion of Kurt Kremer's 60^th birthday

This special topics issue offers a broad perspective on recent theoretical and computational soft matter science, providing state of the art advances in many of its sub-fields. As is befitting for a discipline as diverse as soft matter, the papers collected here span a considerable range of subjects and questions, but they also illustrate numerous connections into both fundamental science and technological/industrial applications, which have accompanied the field since its earliest days. This issue is dedicated to Kurt Kremer, on the occasion of his 60^th birthday, honouring his role in establishing this exciting field and consolidating its standing in the frame of current science and technology.