Seminar List
for period 20 to 26 May
| Tuesday 21 May |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Wilson, S (University of Strathclyde) |
CFM |
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A rigid or elastic plate floating on the free surface of a viscous film: a coupled free boundary and fluid-structure interaction problem | Sem 2 |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Corson, L (Strathclyde) |
MLC |
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Liquid dielectrophoresis and wrinkling on the surface of a fluid layer | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Lin, T-S (Loughborough) |
MLC |
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Hydrodynamic description of thin nematic films | Sem 1 |
| 11:50-12:10 |
Bedford, S (Oxford) |
MLC |
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Chiral nematic minimisation problems, function spaces and competing theories | Sem 1 |
| 12:00-13:00 |
Holm, D (Imperial College London) |
CFM |
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What does the dynamics of complex fluids have to say about geometric mechanics?
| Sem 2 |
| 12:10-12:30 |
Bowick, M (Syracuse) |
MLC |
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Open Problems Session | Sem 1 |
| 13:30-13:50 |
Blow, M (Lisbon) |
MLC |
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Interfacial motion in flexo- and order-electric switching between nematic filled states | Sem 1 |
| 13:50-14:10 |
Nieuwenhuis, M (Oxford) |
MLC |
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A description of the smectic phase using statistical mechanics | Sem 1 |
| 14:10-14:30 |
Lund, R (Bristol) |
MLC |
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Domain wall motion in magnetic nanowires: an asymptotic approach | Sem 1 |
| 16:00-16:20 |
Foldes, R (Minneapolis) |
MLC |
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Boundary-roughness effects in nematic liquid crystals | Sem 1 |
| 16:20-16:40 |
Virga, E (Universitā degli Studi di Pavia) |
MLC |
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Open Problems Session | Sem 1 |
| 16:40-17:00 |
Newton, C (University of Bristol) |
MLC |
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Open Problems Session | Sem 1 |
| Wednesday 22 May |
| 09:00-09:20 |
Hair, W (Strathclyde) |
MLC |
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Thermal effects in liquid crystal layers | Sem 1 |
| 09:20-09:40 |
Ferreiro, C (Bristol) |
MLC |
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Random packing of rods and spheres | Sem 1 |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Taylor, J (Oxford) |
MLC |
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A physical model to predict a ferroelectric nematic phase | Sem 1 |
| 10:00-10:20 |
To, T (Southampton) |
MLC |
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Molecular field theory for biaxial smectic A liquid crystals | Sem 1 |
| 10:50-11:10 |
Käbisch, S (Surrey) |
MLC |
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Modeling Sm-A LCEs with defects | Sem 1 |
| 11:10-11:30 |
Tjhung, E (Edinburgh) |
MLC |
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Designing a crawling cell using soft materials | Sem 1 |
| 11:30-11:50 |
Liu, L (Oxford) |
MLC |
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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) |
MLC |
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Open problems session | Sem 1 |
| 14:20-14:40 |
Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania) |
MLC |
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Open problems Session | Sem 1 |
| 14:40-15:00 |
De Simone, A (SISSA) |
MLC |
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Open Problems Session | Sem 1 |
