Liquid Crystal Theory and Modelling: Discussion Meeting

29th – 30th October 2009, at St Anne's College, Oxford

Jointly organised by Dr Apala Majumdar (Oxford) and Professor Nigel Mottram (Strathclyde)

Funded by the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics and the London Mathematical Society

This two-day discussion meeting consisted of six themed sessions: three sessions focussing on the mathematical modelling and the theoretical foundations of liquid crystals; one session on the numerical simulation of liquid crystalline systems; one session on mathematical theories for related areas such as colloids and biological materials; and one session on liquid crystal applications in industry.

The organisers would like to thank all participants for an extremely interesting and successful meeting.  

Keynote speakers

• Professor Epifanio Virga, University of Pavia, Italy
• Professor Chun Liu, Penn State University, USA
• Professor Iain Stewart, University of Strathclyde UK
• Professor Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Professor Alejandro Rey, McGill University, Canada

Programme

The final programme, list of talks, posters and participants can be found by following this link.

Electronic versions of some of the talks and posters will be added to the programme page in the near future.

A record of the various discussions at the meeting will also be included at a later date. 

Bursaries

The London Mathematical Society provided specific funding for postgraduate students to attend the meeting. The successful bursary applicants were: Lawrence Seddon (Strathclyde), Tine Porenta (Ljubljana), Keith Daly (Southampton), Tung To (Southampton), Flynn Castles (Cambridge), Basang Tsering Xiao (Oxford), Mark Wilkinson (Oxford).

Journal issue

A special issue of the European Journal of Applied Mathematics is planned, and will include selected presentations from invited lectures.