MLC Seminar List
for period 7 Jan to 5 Jul
| Monday 07 January | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Sluckin, T (University of Southampton) | |
| Fluids with attitude | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lavrentovich, OD (Kent State University) | |
| Liquid crystals, liquid crystal droplets and colloids: basic properties | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Virga, EG (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | |
| Order tensors of equilibrium phases | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Stewart, I (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Ericksen-Leslie theory for nematic liquid crystals and its developments | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Frenkel, D (University of Cambridge) | |
| T.B.A. | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 08 January | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Gartland Jr., EC (Kent State University) | |
| 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) | |
| On the Maier-Saupe theory of Nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:20-11:00 | Longa, L (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) | |
| The Landau theory of liquid crystals and its molecular interpretation | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Fatkullin, I (University of Arizona) | |
| Onsager - type theorias, where to from here? | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Warner, M (University of Cambridge) | |
| Solid liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Yokoyama, H (Kent State University) | |
| Molecular Origin of K13 Revisited | Sem 1 | |
| 16:30-17:30 | Virga, EG (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | |
| What an old problem has still to say: the infamous K13-case | Sem 1 | |
| 17:30-18:30 | Sonnet, A-M (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Hard core effects in mean field theories | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 09 January | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Ball, J (University of Oxford) | |
| Function spaces and liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-10:40 | Zarnescu, A (University of Sussex) | |
| On the cubic instability in the Q-tensor theory of nematics | Sem 1 | |
| 10:40-11:20 | Bauman, P (Purdue University) | |
| Problems related to defects in nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:30 | Forest, G (University of North Carolina ) | |
| Defects in nematic polymer hydrodynamics: survey of our work over the past 10 years | Sem 1 | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Doi, M (Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute) | |
| Onsager's Variational Principle in Soft Matter Dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Zannoni, C (Università di Bologna) | |
| Describing and determining the order of liquid crystals in the bulk and close to interfaces | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Ratiu, T (EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) | |
| Geometric theories of conservative liquid crystal dynamics | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 10 January | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Glotzer, S (University of Michigan) | |
| When shapes collide: finding order in disorder | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania ) | |
| Liquid crystals and what they have taught us | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Kamien, R (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Topological defects and the ground state manifold | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Chossat, P (CNRS - Université de Nice) | |
| The mathematics of pattern formation: a modern view | Sem 1 | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Dawes, J (University of Bath) | |
| Localised pattern formation | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 11 January | ||
| 09:00-09:40 | Zhang, P (Peking University) | |
| From molecular symmetry to order parameters | Sem 1 | |
| 09:40-10:20 | Lauterbach, R (Universität Hamburg) | |
| 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) | |
| Free energy according to Poincare' and Landau | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:10 | Rucklidge, A (University of Leeds) | |
| Three-wave interactions in problems with two length scales: Faraday waves and soft-matter quasicrystals | Sem 1 | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Warner, M; Osipov, M; Ball, J (Cambridge/Strathclyde/Oxford) | |
| Overviews of other MLC workshops | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 16 January | ||
| 14:10-17:00 | Chillingworth, D (University of Southampton) | |
| Dynamics of bulk nematics in a uniform shear flow (informal workshop) | DS | |
| Tuesday 22 January | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Calderer, C (University of Minnesota) | |
| Polyelectrolyte gels: modeling chemo-mechanical interaction | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 23 January | ||
| 15:30-17:00 | Chillingworth, D (University of Southampton) | |
| Dynamics of bulk nematics in a uniform shear flow (informal workshop) | DS | |
| Thursday 24 January | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Mottram, N (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Modelling bistable displays using Q-tensor theory | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 29 January | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Phillips, D (Purdue University) | |
| Analysis of chevron patterns using gamma convergence | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Dawes, J (University of Bath) | |
| Informal workshop on groups, orbits and bifurcation I | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 01 February | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Dawes, J (University of Bath) | |
| Informal workshop on groups, orbits and bifurcation II | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 05 February | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Allen, M (University of Warwick) | |
| Monte Carlo simulations and Onsager density functional theory of hard particle liquid crystal models | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 06 February | ||
| 16:00-17:00 | Chillingworth, D (University of Southampton) | |
| Informal workshop on shear flow | DS | |
| Thursday 07 February | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Park, J (Chungnam National University) | |
| Some mathematical analysis of molecules in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Lauterbach, R (Universität Hamburg) | |
| Informal workshop on Groups, Orbits and Bifurcation III | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 11 February | ||
| 15:00-17:00 | Longa, L (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) | |
| Introduction to Density Functional Theory of Liquid Crystals | DS | |
| Tuesday 12 February | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Kralj, S (University of Maribor) | |
| Stabilization of liquid crystalline structures exhibiting topological defects | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 14 February | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Dawes, J | |
| Informal workshop on groups, orbits and bifurcation | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 19 February | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Zhilinskii, B (Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale) | |
| Symmetry breaking and symmetry defects. Invariant theory applications | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 20 February | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Chillingworth, D (University of Southampton) | |
| Informal workshop on shear flow | DS | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Longa, L (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) | |
| Introduction to Density Functional Theory of Liquid Crystals II | DS | |
| Thursday 21 February | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Copic, M (Univerza v Ljubljani) | |
| Soft Bend Elastic Constant and Transition to a Modulated Nematic Phase | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 26 February | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Bauman, P (Purdue University) | |
| Analysis and stability of bentcore liquid crystal fibers | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 28 February | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Mottram, N (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Decoupling the Ericksen-Leslie equations | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 05 March | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Gibbons, G (University of Cambridge) | |
| Liquid crystals and general relativity | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 07 March | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Cleaver, D (Sheffield Hallam University) | |
| Liquid crystals at patterned substrates | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 12 March | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Zarnescu , A (University of Sussex) | |
| Mathematical problems of the Q-tensor theory of nematics | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 13 March | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Praetorius, S (Technische Universität Dresden) | |
| The (Liquid-Crystal) Phase-Field-Crystal model - Derivations and Applications | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Zarnescu, A | |
| Coarsening and Q-tensors for nematics (a mathematician's perspective) | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 14 March | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Löwen, H (Universität Düsseldorf) | |
| Liquid crystals described within the phase-field crystal model | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 18 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Ball, J (University of Oxford) | |
| Satisfaction of the eigenvalue constraints on the $Q$-tensor | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Frenkel, D (University of Cambridge) | |
| The physics of unphysical simulations | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Evans, B (University of Bristol) | |
| Density Functional Theory for Hard-Body Models of Liquid Crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | Berardi, R (Università di Bologna) | |
| Coarse-grained modelling and computer simulations of liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Cates, M (University of Edinburgh) | |
| Active liquid crystals and the origins of cellular locomotion | Sem 1 | |
| 14:50-15:40 | Vanakaras, A (University of Patras) | |
| Biaxial Nematics: Symmetry and Hierarchical Domain Structure | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:50 | Belli, S (Utrecht University) | |
| Brick-by-brick stabilizing the Biaxial Nematic Phase | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 19 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Gartland Jr., EC (Kent State University) | |
| Liquid Crystal Director Models with Coupled Electric Fields | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Majumdar, A (University of Bath) | |
| Modelling a planar bistable device on different scales | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Mottram, N (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Modelling planar bistable devices: from Q-tensor to director models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | Muller, EA (Imperial College London) | |
| SAFT force fields for coarse-grained MD simulations | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 20 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Dijkstra, M (Universiteit Utrecht) | |
| Glassy dynamics, spinodal fluctuations, and nucleation in suspensions of colloidal hard rods and plates | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Masters, A (University of Manchester) | |
| Simulations of model biaxial particles | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Galindo, A (Imperial College London) | |
| Phase behaviour in mixtures of unixial hard particles: biaxiality and confinement | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | Virga, E (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | |
| Different flavours of the mean-field theory | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Longa, L (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski) | |
| Lebwohl-Lasher models of liquid crystals: from quadrupolar to spontaneously induced chiral order | Sem 1 | |
| 14:50-15:40 | Muccioli, L (Università di Bologna) | |
| Atomistic molecular dynamics simulations of cyanobiphenyls: A test bench for liquid crystal theories | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:50 | Ilnytskyi, J (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) | |
| Microphase separation driven transitions in macromolecular liquid crystals by computer simulations | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 21 March | ||
| 09:00-09:50 | Ravnik, M (University of Oxford/Ljubljana) | |
| Design of liquid crystal superstructures: geometry, topology, flow, and mesophase | Sem 1 | |
| 09:50-10:40 | Schoen, M (Technische Universität Berlin) | |
| Isotropic-polar phase transition in an amphiphilic fluid | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:50 | Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) | |
| Modeling Multi-component Liquid Crystal Systems | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:40 | de Pablo, J (University of Wisconsin-Madison) | |
| Directed assembly in liquid crystals. Nanoparticles and nanodroplets | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:50 | Skacej, G (University of Ljubljana) | |
| Molecular modeling of liquid crystal elastomers | Sem 1 | |
| 14:50-15:40 | Selinger, J (Kent State University) | |
| The Round Table Discussion | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 28 March | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Osipov, M (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Foundations and derivations of the popular molecular theories of nematics including Maier-Saupe, Onsager and Density functional ones | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 02 April | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Dennis, M (University of Bristol) | |
| Disclinations & Biaxiality in Light | Sem 2 | |
| Wednesday 03 April | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Fatkullin, I (University of Arizona) | |
| Projection-operator formalism, BBGKY hierarchy, and kinetic equations. Part I | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 04 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Tabe, Y (Waseda University) | |
| Orientational and hydrodynamic motions in chiral liquid crystalline films induced by transmembrane flow | Sem 2 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Liarte, D (Universidade de São Paulo) | |
| Elementary statistical models for nematic transitions in liquid-crystalline systems | Sem 2 | |
| Friday 05 April | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Fatkullin , I (University of Arizona) | |
| Projection-operator formalism, BBGKY hierarchy, and kinetic equations. Part 2 | Sem 2 | |
| Monday 08 April | ||
| 10:00-11:00 | Kinderlehrer, D (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Remarks about the Janossy effect | Satellite | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Bauman, P (Purdue University) | |
| Analysis of Disclination-Line Defects in Liquid Crytals | Satellite | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) | |
| Modeling the Dynamics of Liquid Crystalline Systems | Satellite | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Wilkinson, M (University of Oxford) | |
| Eigenvalue Constraints and Regularity of Q-tensor Navier-Stokes Dynamics | Satellite | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Joo, S (Old Dominion University) | |
| Field instabilities of Smectic A liquid crystals in 2D and 3D | Satellite | |
| Tuesday 09 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Zhang, P (Peking University) | |
| 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) | |
| Tangent unit-vector fields: nonabelian homotopy invariants, the Dirichlet energy and their applications in liquid crystal devices | Satellite | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Slastikov, V (University of Bristol) | |
| On stability of radial hedgehog in Landau - de Gennes model | Satellite | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Zarnescu, AD (University of Sussex) | |
| Eigenframe discontinuities, commutators and nematic defects | Satellite | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Liu, Y (Universität Regensburg) | |
| Wellposedness of a Coupled Navier-Stokes/Q-tensor System | Satellite | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Henao, DA (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) | |
| Radial symmetry and biaxiality in nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| Wednesday 10 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Capdeboscq, Y (University of Oxford) | |
| An inverse problem arising from polarimetric measurements of nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Marchetti, MC (Syracuse University) | |
| Spontaneous flows and defect proliferation in active nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Biscari, P (Politecnico di Milano) | |
| Anisotropic elasticity and relaxation in nematic liquid crystals | Satellite | |
| Thursday 11 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Seguin, B (McGill University) | |
| Derivation of the Balance Laws for Liquid Crystals using Statistical Mechanics | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Walkington, N (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Numerical Approximation of the Ericksen Leslie Equations | Satellite | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Calderer, M-C (University of Minnesota) | |
| Liquid crystal phases of biological networks: models and analysis | Satellite | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Hong, M-C (University of Queensland) | |
| Some results on the existence of solutions to the Ericksen-Leslie system | Satellite | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Wang, C (University of Kentucky) | |
| Some recent results on analysis of nematic liquid crystal flows | Satellite | |
| Friday 12 April | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | De Simone, A (SISSA) | |
| Mechanical response and microstructures in liquid crystal elastomers: small vs large strain theories | Satellite | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Liverpool, T (University of Bristol) | |
| Polar Active Liquid Crystals : microscopics, hydrodynamics and rheology | Satellite | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Phillips, D (Purdue University) | |
| Analysis of defects in minimizers for a planar Frank energy | Satellite | |
| Tuesday 16 April | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Ignat, R (Université Paris-Sud 11) | |
| Line defects in a variational model related to liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Kats, E (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) | |
| Landau Theory for ''Mendeleev's'' Tables of Polar Smectic Structures | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 17 April | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Teixeira, P (ISEL and Universidade de Lisboa) | |
| Liquid crystal foam | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | D'Alessandro, G (University of Southampton) | |
| Using slow manifolds to model liquid crystals in Q-tensor theories | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 23 April | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Telo da Gama, M (Universidade de Lisboa) | |
| Nematics: how do they wet ? | Sem 2 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Sluckin, T (University of Southampton) | |
| Ferronematic and ferroelectric liquid crystal colloids | Sem 2 | |
| Thursday 25 April | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Robbins, J (University of Bristol) | |
| Equivariant normal forms via the Moser trick | Sem 2 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Stewart, I (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Continuum model for smectic A liquid crystals | Sem 2 | |
| Tuesday 30 April | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Bowick, M (Syracuse University) | |
| Facets of Order in Liquid Crystalline Vesicles | Sem 1 | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Warner, M (University of Cambridge) | |
| Two and half liquid crystal motors | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 02 May | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Osipov, M (University of Strathclyde) | |
| Molecular-statistical theory of surface anchoring of LCs. Fundamental problems | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lavrentovich, O (Kent State University) | |
| Statics and dynamics of colloidal particles in liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 07 May | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Barnett, S (University of Strathclyde) | |
| The Enigma of Optical Momentum | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Zannoni, C (Università di Bologna) | |
| Molecular organizations in the bulk and close to surfaces | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Smalyukh, I (University of Colorado at Boulder) | |
| Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals dictated by topologically nontrivial confinement and colloids | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 09 May | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Joo, S (Old Dominion University) | |
| New numerical scheme and simulations for undulations in smectic A liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Yeomans, J (University of Oxford) | |
| Active nematics: the role of defects | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 14 May | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Copic, M (Univerza v Ljubljani) | |
| Effect of flow on nematic fluctuations in a slab | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 16 May | ||
| 12:00-13:00 | Liverpool, TB (University of Bristol) | |
| Soft active matter - liquid crystalline order, rheology and oscillations | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 21 May | ||
| 11:10-11:30 | Corson, L (Strathclyde) | |
| Liquid dielectrophoresis and wrinkling on the surface of a fluid layer | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Lin, T-S (Loughborough) | |
| Hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films | Sem 1 | |
| 11:50-12:10 | Bedford, S (Oxford) | |
| Chiral nematic minimisation problems, function spaces and competing theories | Sem 1 | |
| 12:10-12:30 | Bowick, M (Syracuse) | |
| Open Problems Session | Sem 1 | |
| 13:30-13:50 | Blow, M (Lisbon) | |
| Interfacial motion in flexo- and order-electric switching between nematic filled states | Sem 1 | |
| 13:50-14:10 | Nieuwenhuis, M (Oxford) | |
| A description of the smectic phase using statistical mechanics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:10-14:30 | Lund, R (Bristol) | |
| Domain wall motion in magnetic nanowires: an asymptotic approach | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Foldes, R (Minneapolis) | |
| Boundary-roughness effects in nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-16:40 | Virga, E (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | |
| Open Problems Session | Sem 1 | |
| 16:40-17:00 | Newton, C (University of Bristol) | |
| Open Problems Session | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 22 May | ||
| 09:00-09:20 | Hair, W (Strathclyde) | |
| Thermal effects in liquid crystal layers | Sem 1 | |
| 09:20-09:40 | Ferreiro, C (Bristol) | |
| Random packing of rods and spheres | Sem 1 | |
| 09:40-10:00 | Taylor, J (Oxford) | |
| A physical model to predict a ferroelectric nematic phase | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-10:20 | To, T (Southampton) | |
| Molecular field theory for biaxial smectic A liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 10:50-11:10 | Käbisch, S (Surrey) | |
| Modeling Sm-A LCEs with defects | Sem 1 | |
| 11:10-11:30 | Tjhung, E (Edinburgh) | |
| Designing a crawling cell using soft materials | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-11:50 | Liu, L (Oxford) | |
| The approach to equilibrium for the Ericksen-Leslie system and related questions of Q-tensor theory | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:20 | Sluckin, T (University of Southampton) | |
| Open problems session | Sem 1 | |
| 14:20-14:40 | Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Open problems Session | Sem 1 | |
| 14:40-15:00 | De Simone, A (SISSA) | |
| Open Problems Session | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 23 May | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | DeSimone, A (SISSA) | |
| Energies and Shear Moduli in Nematic Elastomers | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Pinkevych, I (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) | |
| Photorefractive effect and two beam energy exchange in hybrid liquid crystal cells | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 28 May | ||
| 14:00-15:00 | Kats, E (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) | |
| Landau weak crystallization theory of main phase transition in membranes | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 30 May | ||
| 11:00-12:00 | Ball, J (University of Oxford) | |
| Professor Jerry Ericksen interviewed by John Ball. A film of a recent interview of Jerry Ericksen will be shown. | Sem 1 | |
| Monday 24 June | ||
| 09:45-10:30 | Kleman, M (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) | |
| Liquid crystal defects, a critical overview | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Kamien, R (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Pure and Applied Focal Conics | Sem 1 | |
| 12:00-12:45 | Fukuda, J (AIST) | |
| Exotic defect structures in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Alexander, GP (University of Warwick) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Zumer, S (University of Ljubljana) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-17:00 | Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania) | |
| Rothschild Lecture: Rigidity, Zero Modes, States of Self Stress, and Surface Phonons in Periodic and Diluted Periodic Networks near their Instability Limit | Sem 1 | |
| Tuesday 25 June | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Smalyukh, I (University of Colorado) | |
| Topological colloids and particle-induced defects in liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Cates, M (University of Edinburgh) | |
| Colloidal Doping of Cholesterics and Blue Phases | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Marenduzzo, D (University of Edinburgh) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Liverpool, T (University of Bristol) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Yeomans, J (University of Oxford) | |
| Continuum Models of Active Nematics | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Dogic, Z (Brandeis University) | |
| Hierarchical active matter: from beating bundles to active gels, streaming liquid crystals and motile emulsions | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Toner, J (University of Oregon) | |
| Universality for Moving Stripes: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics | Sem 1 | |
| Wednesday 26 June | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Vitelli, V (Universiteit Leiden) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Giomi, L (SISSA) | |
| Hyperbolic geometry in liquid crystalline interfaces | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Modes, CD (Rockefeller University) | |
| Avenues to Active Shape Control in Nematic Solid Sheets | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Virga, E (Università degli Studi di Pavia) | |
| Curvature potentials for defects on nematic shells | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | DeSimone, A (SISSA) | |
| tba | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Urayama, K (Kyoto Institute of Technology) | |
| Stretching of Polydomain and Monodomain Nematic Elastomers: Experimental Study | Sem 1 | |
| Thursday 27 June | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Biggins, J (University of Cambridge) | |
| Hard and soft elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Uchida, N (Tohoku University) | |
| Topological defects in nematic elastomers and membranes | Sem 1 | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Adams, J (University of Surrey) | |
| Modelling Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers | Sem 1 | |
| Friday 28 June | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Ravnik, M (University of Ljubljana) | |
| Three-dimensional liquid crystalline superstructures for photonics (** joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 09:45-10:30 | Dierking, I (University of Manchester) | |
| tba (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Warner, M (University of Cambridge) | |
| Photo-elastomers (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Modes, CD (Rockefeller University) | |
| Modes-photoglass (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Broer, D (Eindhoven University of Technology) | |
| Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks & Hydogels (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 14:45-15:30 | Copic, M (University of Ljubljana) | |
| Kinetics of Light-Induced Patterning in Liquid Crystal Elastomers (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| 16:00-16:45 | Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) | |
| Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light (**joint talk with I-CAMP) | Sem 1 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |