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Workshop Programme

for period 24 - 28 June 2013

Liquid Crystal Defects and their Geometry, Active and Solid Liquid Crystals, and Related Systems

24 - 28 June 2013

Timetable

Monday 24 June
09:00-09:35 Registration MLC
09:35-09:45 Welcome by Director, Professor John Toland MLC
09:45-10:30 Kleman, M (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) MLC
  Liquid crystal defects, a critical overview Sem 1
10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee MLC
11:00-12:00 Kamien, R (University of Pennsylvania) MLC
  Pure and Applied Focal Conics Sem 1
12:00-12:45 Fukuda, J (AIST) MLC
  Exotic defect structures in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal Sem 1
12:45-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court MLC
14:00-14:45 Alexander, GP (University of Warwick) MLC
  tba Sem 1
14:45-15:30 Zumer, S (University of Ljubljana) MLC
  tba Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea MLC
16:00-17:00 Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania) MLC
  Rothschild Lecture: Rigidity, Zero Modes, States of Self Stress, and Surface Phonons in Periodic and Diluted Periodic Networks near their Instability Limit Sem 1
17:00-18:00 Welcome wine reception MLC
Tuesday 25 June
09:00-09:45 Smalyukh, I (University of Colorado) MLC
  Topological colloids and particle-induced defects in liquid crystals Sem 1
09:45-10:30 Cates, M (University of Edinburgh) MLC
  Colloidal Doping of Cholesterics and Blue Phases Sem 1
10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee MLC
11:00-11:45 Marenduzzo, D (University of Edinburgh) MLC
  tba Sem 1
11:45-12:30 Liverpool, T (University of Bristol) MLC
  tba Sem 1
12:30-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court MLC
14:00-14:45 Yeomans, J (University of Oxford) MLC
  Continuum Models of Active Nematics Sem 1
14:45-15:30 Dogic, Z (Brandeis University) MLC
  Hierarchical active matter: from beating bundles to active gels, streaming liquid crystals and motile emulsions Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea MLC
16:00-16:45 Toner, J (University of Oregon) MLC
  Universality for Moving Stripes: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics Sem 1
17:00-21:00 Walk to Grantchester, pub dinner* (either on Tues or Thu) MLC
Wednesday 26 June
09:00-09:45 Vitelli, V (Universiteit Leiden) MLC
  tba Sem 1
09:45-10:30 Giomi, L (SISSA) MLC
  Hyperbolic geometry in liquid crystalline interfaces Sem 1
10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee MLC
11:00-11:45 Modes, CD (Rockefeller University) MLC
  Avenues to Active Shape Control in Nematic Solid Sheets Sem 1
11:45-12:30 Virga, E (Università degli Studi di Pavia) MLC
  Curvature potentials for defects on nematic shells Sem 1
12:30-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court MLC
14:00-14:45 DeSimone, A (SISSA) MLC
  tba Sem 1
14:45-15:30 Urayama, K (Kyoto Institute of Technology) MLC
  Stretching of Polydomain and Monodomain Nematic Elastomers: Experimental Study Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea & Poster Session MLC
16:00-17:30 Posters/Discussions/Free MLC
19:30-22:00 Conference Dinner at Lucy Cavendish College MLC
Thursday 27 June
09:00-09:45 Biggins, J (University of Cambridge) MLC
  Hard and soft elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers Sem 1
09:45-10:30 Uchida, N (Tohoku University) MLC
  Topological defects in nematic elastomers and membranes Sem 1
10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee MLC
11:00-11:45 Xing, X (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) MLC
  tba Sem 1
11:45-12:30 Adams, J (University of Surrey) MLC
  Modelling Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers Sem 1
12:30-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court MLC
14:00-14:45 MLC
  Active media Sem 1
14:45-15:30 MLC
  Active media Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea MLC
16:00-16:45 MLC
  Active media Sem 1
17:00-21:00 Walk to Grantchester, pub dinner* (either on Tues or Thu) MLC
Friday 28 June
09:00-09:45 Ravnik, M (University of Ljubljana) MLC
  Three-dimensional liquid crystalline superstructures for photonics (** joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
09:45-10:30 Dierking, I (University of Manchester) MLC
  tba (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
10:30-11:00 Morning Coffee MLC
11:00-11:30 Warner, M (University of Cambridge) MLC
  Photo-elastomers (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
11:30-12:00 Modes, CD (Rockefeller University) MLC
  Modes-photoglass (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
12:00-12:15 Conclusions MLC
12:15-13:30 Lunch at Wolfson Court MLC
14:00-14:45 Broer, D (Eindhoven University of Technology) MLC
  Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks & Hydogels (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
14:45-15:30 Copic, M (University of Ljubljana) MLC
  Kinetics of Light-Induced Patterning in Liquid Crystal Elastomers (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
15:30-16:00 Afternoon Tea MLC
16:00-16:45 Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) MLC
  Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light (**joint talk with I-CAMP) Sem 1
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