Workshop programme
Programme details
- Programme
- Poster contributions
- List of keynote speakers
- List of invited speakers
- Full list of participants
Programme
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Session |
Chair |
Thur |
Speaker |
Title |
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Majumdar |
8.50 |
Introduction |
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Theory |
Mottram |
9.00 |
Virga |
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10.00 |
Majumdar |
Defects in nematic liquid crystals - uniaxiality versus biaxiality |
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10.30 |
Biscari |
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11.00 |
coffee/posters |
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Theory |
Chapman |
11.30 |
Stewart |
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12.30 |
Sonnet |
Continuum theory for biaxial nematics desrcibed by two order parameter tensors |
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13.00 |
Bisi |
Steric contributions to ordering potentials in nematic liquid crystals |
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13.30 |
lunch/posters |
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Related areas |
H Ockendon |
14.30 |
Yeomans |
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15.00 |
Sluckin |
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| Elston |
15.30 |
Discussion/wine |
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17.00 |
end |
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Session |
Chair |
Fri |
Speaker |
Title |
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Analysis |
9.00 |
Liu |
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10.00 |
Robbins |
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10.30 |
coffee/posters |
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Applications |
J Ockendon |
11.00 |
Rey |
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12.00 |
Zannoni |
Computer simulations of liquid crystals: displays and beyond |
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12.30 |
Brown |
Sidewall control of multistable azimuthal nematic liquid crystal alignment |
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13.00 |
lunch/posters |
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Numerical |
Dellar |
14.00 |
Zumer |
3D assemblies of colloidal particles in homogeneous and inhomogeneous nematics |
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15.00 |
Newton |
Developing hierarchical finite element methods for modelling bistable liquid crystal devices |
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15.30 |
coffee/posters |
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16.00 |
Wilson |
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16.30 |
Cleaver |
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Sluckin |
17.00 |
Discussion/wine |
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18.00 |
closing remarks |
Poster contributions
| Contributor | Title |
| Lawrence Seddon |
Computing the wavespeed of Soliton-like solutions in SmC* Liquid Crystals |
| Andrew Davidson |
Ion effects in liquid crystal cells |
| Tine Porenta |
Effects of flexoelectricity in nematic liquid crystal colloids |
| Keith Daly |
A fast centre manifold based algorithm to determine steady state liquid crystal alignment |
| Fernando Costa |
Uniqueness in the Freedericksz transition with week anchoring |
| Tung To |
Biaxial Nematics formed from Flexible Molecules |
| Flynn Castles |
Fast-switching flexoelectric display with high contrast |
| Giuseppe Lombardo |
Numerical investigation of frustrated nematic liquid crystal system by using Q tensor model |
| Basang Tsering Xiao | Inverse problems of liquid crystals |
Keynote speakers
- Epifanio Virga, University of Pavia, Italy
- Chun Liu, Penn State University, USA
- Iain Stewart, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Alejandro Rey, McGill University, Canada
Invited speakers
- Mark Wilson, University of Durham, UK
- Claudio Zannoni, University of Bologna, Italy
- Carme Calderer, University of Minnesota, USA
- Andre Sonnet, University of Strathclyde, UK
- Paolo Biscari, University of Milan, Italy
- Fulvio Bisi, University of Pavia, Italy
- Chris Newton, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
- Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford, UK
- Doug Cleaver, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
- Tim Sluckin, University of Southampton, UK
- Carl Brown, Nottingham Trent University, UK
- Jonathan Robbins, University of Bristol, UK
- Apala Majumdar, University of Oxford, UK
Participants
A full list of participants can be found here.