The 3rd International Conference on "Collective Motion in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions" (COMEX 3) will be held in June 2 - 5, 2009 at Mission Point Resort on Mackinac Island in Michigan, United States. The conference will be hosted by the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University.

The COMEX conferences are a continuation of the long series of topical conferences on giant resonances started in 1979. The scope of COMEX3 will be similar to that of the previous ones, COMEX1, held in Paris in 2003 and COMEX2, held in Sankt Goar, Germany. Some of the main topics are giant resonances in cold and hot nuclei, collective modes in exotic nuclei, spin and isospin modes, clustering and pairing effects and multi-phonon excitations. In addition, applications in astrophysics and related collective phenomena in non-nuclear systems are part of the scope of the conference.