Workshop Programme
for period 8 - 12 April 2013
Nonlinear Analysis of Continuum Theories: Statics and Dynamics
8 - 12 April 2013
Timetable
| Monday 08 April | ||
| 09:15-09:50 | Registration | MLC |
| 09:50-10:00 | Introduction | MLC |
| 10:00-11:00 | Kinderlehrer, D (Carnegie Mellon University) | MLC |
| Remarks about the Janossy effect | Satellite | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Bauman, P (Purdue University) | MLC |
| Analysis of Disclination-Line Defects in Liquid Crytals | Satellite | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) | MLC |
| Modeling the Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Systems | Satellite | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:00 | Wilkinson, M (University of Oxford) | MLC |
| Eigenvalue Constraints and Regularity of Q-tensor Navier-Stokes Dynamics | Satellite | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Joo, S (Old Dominion University) | MLC |
| Field instabilities of Smectic A liquid crystals in 2D and 3D | Satellite | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion chaired by F-H Lin | MLC |
| 17:00-18:00 | Drinks Reception | MLC |
| Tuesday 09 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Zhang, P (Peking University) | MLC |
| The Small Deborah Number Limit of the Doi-Onsager Equation to the Ericksen-Leslie Equation | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Majumdar, A (University of Bath) | MLC |
| Tangent unit-vector fields: nonabelian homotopy invariants, the Dirichlet energy and their applications in liquid crystal devices | Satellite | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Slastikov, V (University of Bristol) | MLC |
| On stability of radial hedgehog in Landau - de Gennes model | Satellite | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Zarnescu, AD (University of Sussex) | MLC |
| Eigenframe discontinuities, commutators and nematic defects | Satellite | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:00 | Liu, Y (Universität Regensburg) | MLC |
| Wellposedness of a Coupled Navier-Stokes/Q-tensor System | Satellite | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Henao, DA (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) | MLC |
| Radial symmetry and biaxiality in nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion chaired by OD Lavrentovich | MLC |
| Wednesday 10 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Capdeboscq, Y (University of Oxford) | MLC |
| An inverse problem arising from polarimetric measurements of nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Marchetti, MC (Syracuse University) | MLC |
| Spontaneous flows and defect proliferation in active nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Biscari, P (Politecnico di Milano) | MLC |
| Anisotropic elasticity and relaxation in nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 12:30-13:00 | Discussion chaired by E Virga | MLC |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch | MLC |
| 14:30-17:00 | Free | MLC |
| Thursday 11 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Seguin, B (McGill University) | MLC |
| Derivation of the Balance Laws for Liquid Crystals using Statistical Mechanics | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Walkington, N (Carnegie Mellon University) | MLC |
| Numerical Approximation of the Ericksen Leslie Equations | Satellite | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Calderer, M-C (University of Minnesota) | MLC |
| Liquid crystal phases of biological networks: models and analysis | Satellite | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | MLC |
| 14:00-15:00 | Hong, M-C (University of Queensland) | MLC |
| Some results on the existence of solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system | Satellite | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea | MLC |
| 15:30-16:30 | Wang, C (University of Kentucky) | MLC |
| Some recent results on analysis of nematic liquid crystal flows | Satellite | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion chaired by C Zannoni | MLC |
| 19:00-22:00 | Drinks and Conference Dinner at Oriel College | MLC |
| Friday 12 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | De Simone, A (SISSA) | MLC |
| Mechanical response and microstructures in liquid crystal elastomers: small vs large strain theories | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Liverpool, T (University of Bristol) | MLC |
| Polar Active Liquid Crystals : microscopics, hydrodynamics and rheology | Satellite | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Morning Coffee | MLC |
| 11:30-12:30 | Phillips, D (Purdue University) | MLC |
| Analysis of defects in minimizers for a planar Frank energy | Satellite | |
| 12:30-12:45 | Discussion chaired by J Ball | MLC |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |