Workshop programme

Programme details

Programme

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Session	Chair	Thur	Speaker	Title
	Majumdar	8.50	Introduction
Theory	Mottram	9.00	Virga	Steric effects on intermolecular forces
		10.00	Majumdar	Defects in nematic liquid crystals - uniaxiality versus biaxiality
		10.30	Biscari	Backflow dynamics of nematic defects
		11.00	coffee/posters
Theory	Chapman	11.30	Stewart	Modelling smectic A liquid crystals
		12.30	Sonnet	Continuum theory for biaxial nematics desrcibed by two order parameter tensors
		13.00	Bisi	Steric contributions to ordering potentials in nematic liquid crystals
		13.30	lunch/posters
Related areas	H Ockendon	14.30	Yeomans	Active nematics
		15.00	Sluckin	Ferronematic and ferroelectric colloidal liquid crystals
	Elston	15.30	Discussion/wine
		17.00	end



Session	Chair	Fri	Speaker	Title
Analysis		9.00	Liu	Energetic Variational Principle in Complex Fluids
		10.00	Robbins	The Onsager model for biaxial nematics
		10.30	coffee/posters
Applications	J Ockendon	11.00	Rey	Flow and texture modeling of liquid crystalline materials
		12.00	Zannoni	Computer simulations of liquid crystals: displays and beyond
		12.30	Brown	Sidewall control of multistable azimuthal nematic liquid crystal alignment
		13.00	lunch/posters
Numerical	Dellar	14.00	Zumer	3D assemblies of colloidal particles in homogeneous and inhomogeneous nematics
		15.00	Newton	Developing hierarchical finite element methods for modelling bistable liquid crystal devices
		15.30	coffee/posters
		16.00	Wilson	Simulation studies of structure and organisation in chromonic phases and macromolecular liquid crystals
		16.30	Cleaver	Mesh-free methods for liquid crystal simulation
	Sluckin	17.00	Discussion/wine
		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.