The purpose of these schools has been to present in a pedagogical manner the recent advances in the physics of hard and soft condensed matter with emphasis on phase transitions and dynamics. Altogether, more than 1500 students from around 30 different countries have participated in these schools.
The proceedings of these schools have been published.

Titles of previous Geilo Schools

• 1971: Structural Phase Transitions and Soft Modes
  (edited by E. J. Samuelsen, E. Andersen, and J. Feder, Universitetsforlaget, Oslo)
• 1973: Anharmonic Lattices, Structural Transitions and Melting
  (edited by T. Riste, Noordhoff, Leiden)
• 1975: Fluctuations, Instabilities and Phase Transitions
  (edited by T. Riste, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1977: Electron-Phonon Interactions and Phase Transitions
  (edited by T. Riste, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1979: Ordering in Strongly Fluctuating Condensed Matter Systems
  (edited by T. Riste, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1981: Nonlinear Phenomena at Phase Transitions and Instabilities
  (edited by T. Riste, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1983: Multicritical Phenomena
  (edited by R. Pynn and A.T. Skjeltorp, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1985: Scaling Phenomena in Disordered Systems
  (edited by R. Pynn and A.T. Skjeltorp, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1987: Time-Dependent Effects in Disordered Materials
   (edited by R. Pynn, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1989: Phase Transitions in Soft Condensed Matter
  (edited by T. Riste and D. Sherrington, Plenum, New York & London)
• 1991: Spontaneous Formation of Space-Time Structures and Criticality
  (edited by T. Riste and D. Sherrington, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 1993: Phase Transitions and Relaxations in Systems with Competing Energy Scales
  (edited by T. Riste and D. Sherrington, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 1995: Physics of Biomaterials: Fluctuations, Selfassembly and Evolution
  (edited by T. Riste and D. Sherrington, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 1997: Dynamical properties of unconventional magnetic systems
  (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and D. Sherrington, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 1999: Soft Condensed Matter: Configurations, Dynamics and Functionality
  (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and S. Edwards, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 2001: Complexity from Microscopic to Macroscopic Scales: Coherence and Large Deviations
  (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and T. Vicsek, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 2003: Forces, Growth and Form in Soft Condensed Matter: At the Interface between Physics and Biology
  (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and A.V. Belushkin, Kluwer, Dordrecht)
• 2005: Dynamics of Complex Interconnected Systems: Networks and Bioprocesses
  (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and A.V. Belushkin, Springer, Dordrecht)
• 2007: Evolution from Cellular to Social Scales
   (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and A.V. Belushkin, Springer, Dordrecht)
• 2009: Order, Robustness and Instabilities in Complex Systems
   (edited by A.T. Skjeltorp and G. Helgesen, Springer)