Sunday
Trends in Liquid Crystal Research
Discussion Leader: David Litster
- 7:30- 8:30 PM: John Goodby - "Liquid Crystals, all things bright and beautiful."
Moderator: Dave Walba
- 8:30- 9:30 PM: Poster Preview (oral presentations)
Monday
Instabilities and Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: Oleg Lavrentovich
- 9:00- 9:45: Robert B. Meyer - "Dynamics of a nematic liquid crystal in a rotating magnetic field -- new results on solitons and pattern formation"
- 9:45-10:30: John Ho - "Electron-Diffraction Studies of Hexatic Behavior and Surface-Freezing in Liquid-Crystal Films".
- 10:30 - 11:00: break for coffee
Defects in Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: Ron Pindak
- 11:00-11:30: P. Richetti - "The Lamellar Phase and its Phase transition Probed with Surface Force Microscopy"
- 11:30-12:00: Holger Stark - "Topological defects, interactions, and chaining in nematic emulsions"
- 12:00 -12:30: P. Poulin - "Colloidal Suspensions in Nematic Solvent"
4:30 - 6:00 Social Event
Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: S. Zumer
- 7:30-8:15 PM: Claudio Zannoni - "Computer Simulations and the Molecular Design of Liquid Crystals"
- 8:15-9:00 PM: Axel Killian - "Feature Extraction and Visualization in the Simulation of Nematics and
Cholesterics"
Moderator: Dave Walba
- 9:00 - 9:30 PM: Poster Previews (oral presentations)
Tuesday
Photo Chemistry and Physics Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: Paul Drzaic
- 9:00- 9:45: Satyendra Kumar - "Study of linear-photopolymerized alignment layers by x-ray reflectivity and atomic force microscopy"
- 9:45-10:30: Gary Schuster - "Chirooptical Triggers for Liquid Crystal Switches"
- 10:30 - 11:00: break for coffee
Displays and waveguides
Discussion Leader: Peter Collings
- 11:00-11:45: Tatsuo Uchida - "Recent trend of high performance liquid crystal displays"
- 11:45-12:30: Roy Sambles - "Optical Waveguide studies of Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals"
4:30 - 6:00 Posters
6.00 Dinner
Unususal structures of molecules and films
Discussion Leader : CC Huang
- 7:30-8:15: Virgil Percec - " Molecular, Macromolecular and Supramolecular Liquid Crystals with Complex Architecture"
- 8:15-9:00: Pawel Pieranski - "Smectic Films : Isospectral Drums and Quantum Billiards"
Moderator: Dave Walba
- 9:00- 9:30 PM: Poster Preview (oral presentations)
Wednesday
Theoretical Aspects of Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: Tom Lubensky
- 9:00- 9:45: Frank Leslie - "Nematic Theory from Different Perspectives"
- 9:45-10:30: Hiroshi Yokoyama - "Liquid crystals at a surface: continuum theory, pattern formation, and nonlinear dynamics."
- 10:30 - 11:00: break for coffee
Materials developments in liquid crystals
Discussion Leader: Luz Martinez-Miranda
- 11:00-11:45: R. Shashidhar - "New developments in materials for Liquid Crystal Displays"
- 11:45-12:30: Tim J. Bunning - "Nanometer-sized LC Domains: A Route Towards Switchable Diffractive Optics?".
4:30 - 6:00 Posters
6:00 Dinner
Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals
Discussion Leader: Noel Clark
- 7:30-8:15: Igor Musevic - "Observation of Polarization Noise in Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals".
- 8:15-9:00: Hideo Takezoe - "Polar Liquid Crystalline Order in Achiral Systems"
- Moderator: Dave Walba
- 9:00- 9:30 PM: Poster Preview (oral presentations)
Thursday
Twist grain boundary phases
Discussion Leader: Paul Keyes
- 9:00- 9:45: Philippe Barois - "Recent advances in experimental studies of TGBc phases"
- 9:45-10:30: Brigitte Pansu - "Experimental evidences of the existence of TGB Blue Phases "
- 10:30 - 11:00: break for coffee
Growth and Synthesis of Crystal Structures
Discussion Leader: Dave Allender
- 11:00-11:45: Joe Maclennan - "Wulff construction for growing domains: relating domain shape to growth velocity anisotropy"
- 11:45-12:30: Piotr Kaszynski - "Boron Clusters: New Building Blocks for Liquid Crystals"
4:30 - 6:00 Posters
6.00 Dinner
Liquid Crystals and Biology
Discussion Leader: Dave Van Winkle
- 8:00-9:00: Helmut Strey - "Chirality, Structure and Free Energy of DNA Liquid Crystals"
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