Workshop Programme
for period 18 - 22 March 2013
Analytical and Computational Paths from Molecular Foundations to Continuum Descriptions
18 - 22 March 2013
Timetable
| Monday 18 March | ||
| 08:30-08.50 | Registration | MLC |
| 08:50-09:00 | Welcome by Director, Professor John Toland | MLC |
| 09:00-09:50 | Ball, J (University of Oxford) | MLC |
| Satisfaction of the eigenvalue constraints on the $Q$-tensor | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Frenkel, D (University of Cambridge) | MLC |
| The physics of unphysical simulations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:00-11:50 | Evans, B (University of Bristol) | MLC |
| Density Functional Theory for Hard-Body Models of Liquid Crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | Berardi, R (Università di Bologna) | MLC |
| Coarse-grained modelling and computer simulations of liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 12:40-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 14:00-14:50 | Cates, M (University of Edinburgh) | MLC |
| Active liquid crystals and the origins of cellular locomotion | Sem 1 | |
| 14:50-15:40 | Vanakaras, A (University of Patras) | MLC |
| Biaxial Nematics: Symmetry and Hierarchical Domain Structure | Sem 1 | |
| 15:40-16:00 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 16:00-16:50 | Belli, S (Utrecht University) | MLC |
| Brick-by-brick stabilizing the Biaxial Nematic Phase | Sem 1 | |
| 16:50-17:50 | Welcome wine reception | MLC |
| Tuesday 19 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Gartland Jr., EC (Kent State University) | MLC |
| Liquid Crystal Director Models with Coupled Electric Fields | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Majumdar, A (University of Bath) | MLC |
| Modelling a planar bistable device on different scales | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:00-11:50 | Mottram, N (University of Strathclyde) | MLC |
| Modelling planar bistable devices: from Q-tensor to director models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | Muller, EA (Imperial College London) | MLC |
| SAFT force fields for coarse-grained MD simulations | Sem 1 | |
| 12:40-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 13:30-17:00 | Free Afternoon | MLC |
| Thursday 21 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Ravnik, M (University of Oxford/Ljubljana) | MLC |
| Design of liquid crystal superstructures: geometry, topology, flow, and mesophase | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Schoen, M (Technische Universität Berlin) | MLC |
| Isotropic-polar phase transition in an amphiphilic fluid | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:00-11:50 | Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) | MLC |
| Modeling Multi-component Liquid Crystal Systems | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | de Pablo, J (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | MLC |
| Directed assembly in liquid crystals. Nanoparticles and nanodroplets | Sem 1 | |
| 12:40-13:30 | Lunch at Wolfson Court | MLC |
| 14:00-14:50 | Skacej, G (University of Ljubljana) | MLC |
| Molecular modeling of liquid crystal elastomers | Sem 1 | |
| 14:50-15:40 | The Round Table Discussion | MLC |
| 15:40-16:00 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 16:00-17:00 | Poster Session | MLC |
| 19:30-22:00 | Conference Dinner at Christ's College | MLC |
| Friday 22 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Rey, A (McGill University) | MLC |
| Structure and Dynamics of Anisotropic Soft Matter | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Fatkullin, I (University of Arizona) | MLC |
| Liquid crystals out of equilibrium: connecting molecular dynamics, kinetic and hydrodynamic equations | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:00 | Morning Coffee Followed by: |
MLC |
| 11:00-17:00 | BLCS/SMTG/INI workshop on the molecular modelling and theory of liquid crystals | MLC |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |