Workshop Programme
for period 7-11 January
Symmetry, Bifurcation and Order Parameters
7-11 January
Timetable
| Monday 07 January | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Registration | MLC |
| 09:45-10:00 | Welcome by Director, Professor John Toland | MLC |
| 10:00-11:00 | Sluckin, T (University of Southampton) | MLC |
| Fluids with attitude | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lavrentovich, OD (Kent State University) | MLC |
| Liquid crystals, liquid crystal droplets and colloids: basic properties | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Virga, EG (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | MLC |
| Order tensors of equilibrium phases | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:30 | Stewart, I (University of Strathclyde) | MLC |
| Ericksen-Leslie theory for nematic liquid crystals and its developments | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Frenkel, D (University of Cambridge) | MLC |
| T.B.A. | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Welcome Wine Reception | MLC |
| Tuesday 08 January | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Gartland Jr., EC (Kent State University) | MLC |
| An Overview of the Oseen-Frank elastic model and some symmetry aspects of the Straley Mean-Field model for Biaxial Nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 09:40-10:20 | Zheng, X (Kent State University) | MLC |
| On the Maier-Saupe theory of Nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:20-11:00 | Longa, L (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) | MLC |
| The Landau theory of liquid crystals and its molecular interpretation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:10 | Fatkullin, I (University of Arizona) | MLC |
| Onsager - type theorias, where to from here? | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Warner, M (University of Cambridge) | MLC |
| Solid liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:30 | Yokoyama, H (Kent State University) | MLC |
| Molecular Origin of K13 Revisited | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Virga, EG (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | MLC |
| What an old problem has still to say: the infamous K13-case | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Sonnet, A-M (University of Strathclyde) | MLC |
| Hard core effects in mean field theories | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 09 January | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Ball, J (University of Oxford) | MLC |
| Function spaces and liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-10:40 | Zarnescu, A (University of Sussex) | MLC |
| On the cubic instability in the Q-tensor theory of nematics | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Bauman, P (Purdue University) | MLC |
| Problems related to defects in nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 11:20-11:50 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:50-12:30 | Forest, G (University of North Carolina ) | MLC |
| Defects in nematic polymer hydrodynamics: survey of our work over the past 10 years | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 13:30-14:30 | Doi, M (Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute) | MLC |
| Onsager's Variational Principle in Soft Matter Dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Zannoni, C (Università di Bologna) | MLC |
| Describing and determining the order of liquid crystals in the bulk and close to interfaces | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 16:00-17:00 | Ratiu, T (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) | MLC |
| Geometric theories of conservative liquid crystal dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 10 January | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Glotzer, S (University of Michigan) | MLC |
| When shapes collide: finding order in disorder | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania ) | MLC |
| Liquid crystals and what they have taught us | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Kamien, R (University of Pennsylvania) | MLC |
| Topological defects and the ground state manifold | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Chossat, P (CNRS - Université de Nice) | MLC |
| The mathematics of pattern formation: a modern view | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:30 | Dawes, J (University of Bath) | MLC |
| Localised pattern formation | Sem 1 | |
| 19:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner at Emmanuel College | MLC |
| Friday 11 January | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Zhang, P (Peking University) | MLC |
| From molecular symmetry to order parameters | Sem 1 | |
| 09:40-10:20 | Lauterbach, R (Universität Hamburg) | MLC |
| Invariant theory: a useful tool for equivariant dynamics and the mathematics of liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:20-11:00 | Gaeta, G (Universita' di Milano) | MLC |
| Free energy according to Poincare' and Landau | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:10 | Rucklidge, A (University of Leeds) | MLC |
| Three-wave interactions in problems with two length scales: Faraday waves and soft-matter quasicrystals | Sem 1 | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 13:30-14:00 | Warner, M; Osipov, M; Ball, J (Cambridge/Strathclyde/Oxford) | MLC |
| Overviews of other MLC workshops | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:15 | Closing remarks | MLC |
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