MLC Seminar List
for period 20 to 26 May
| 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 | |
| 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 | Folds, R (Minneapolis) | |
| Boundary-roughness effects in nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 | |
| 16:20-17:00 | Vigra, E; Newton, C | |
| 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 | Liu, L (Oxford) | |
| The approach to equilibrium for the Ericksen-Leslie system and related questions of Q-tensor theory | 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 | Taylor, J (Oxford) | |
| A physical model to predict a ferroelectric nematic phase | Sem 1 | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Sluckin, T; De Simone, A; Lubensky, T | |
| 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 | |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |