Liquid Crystal Modelling and Display Applications Workshop
Liquid Crystal Modelling and Display Applications Workshop
24 - 25 August 2011
RI 0.48 Gibson Building, Oxford
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This interdisciplinary two-day workshop will focus on new modelling strategies, experimental techniques and engineering advances in the field of liquid crystal science. There will be separate themed sessions with talks by leading experts in the liquid crystal community. We aim to foster new collaborations between academia and industry and bring together different liquid crystal research groups across disciplines.
Invited speakers:
- Prof John Ball University of Oxford, "The eigenvalue constraints on the Q-tensor"
- Dr Keith Daly University of Southampton, "An accurate and efficient Q-tensor-based method for liquid crystal alignment away from defects"
- Dr Ingo Dierking University of Manchester, "Determining the Landau potential of ferroelectric liquid crystals to model the electro-optic behaviour of surface stabilised FLC displays"
- Prof Stephen Evans University of Leeds, "When four circles kiss : Alignment at Chemically Patterned Surfaces When four circles kiss: Alignment at Chemically Patterned Surfaces"
- Dr Anibal Fernandez University College London, "Finite element modelling of liquid crystal devices"
- Dr Chong Luo University of Oxford, "Bistable liquid crystal device and switching under electric field"
- Dr Stephen Morris University of Cambridge, "High contrast fast-switching liquid crystal displays based upon hypertwisted chiral nematics"
- Prof Nigel Mottram University of Strathclyde, "Anisotropy in the Natural Environment"
- Dr Vasily Oganesyan University of East Anglia, "Coarse-grained and Atomistic Simulations of Liquid Crystals: Bridging the gap between Molecular Dynamics and Experiment"
- Prof Soumyendu Raha Indian Institute of Science, "Solution of Radial-Hedegehog BVP by DAE-a method through optimization"
- Dr Alison Ramage University of Strathclyde, "Efficient iterative solvers for saddle-point problems in liquid crystal modelling"
- Dr Miha Ravnik University of Oxford, "Blue phase colloidal crystals: 2D and 3D"
- Prof Iain Stewart University of Strathclyde, "Continuum Model for Smectic A Liquid Crystals"
- Prof Epifanio Virga University of Pavia, "Geometry of Defects of Nematic Shells"
- Dr Arghir Zarnescu University of Oxford, "Specific Tensorial Features in the Modelling of Nematic Liquid Crystals"
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