| Sunday evening | Session 1 Achiral Polar Smectics |
Discussion Leader: R. Shashidhar
7:30 Noel Clark:
Polar smectics: Fun with films and fibers
8:15 Wolfgang Weillflog:
Relationships between the molecular structure, the phase behavior and physical properties of bent-core liquid crystals
9:00 Poster Previews:
Two minute oral poster trailers with one transparency
| Monday morning | Session 2 Achiral Polar Smectics |
Discussion Leader: Dan Dyer
9:30 Eduardo Soto-Bustamante:
Anti ferroelectricity in achiral liquid crystalline materials
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Mikhail Osipov:
The theory of polar smectics from achiral molecules
11:30 Jagdish Vij:
Ferrielectric subphases in AFLCs using dielectric, pyroelectric, electrooptic and IR techniques
| Monday evening | Session 3 Interfaces and Alignment |
Discussion Leader: Allan Guymon
7:30 Nicholas Abbott:
Orientations of liquid crystals supported on organized monolayers of molecules
8:15 Luz Martinez-Miranda:
Studies of the interfacial structure of smectic liquid crystal films
9:00 Poster Previews
| Tuesday morning | Session 4 LCs and Photochemistry |
Discussion Leader: Tom Lubenski
9:00 Peter Palffy-Muhoray:
Photoaiignment with dye-doped polyimides
9:45 Tomiki Ikeda:
Optical switching and optical image storage by means of photosensitive liquid crystals
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Robert Lemieux:
Using chiral photochromic dopants to photomodulate the spontaneous polarization of ferroelectric liquid crystals
11:45 Satyendra Kumar:
Liquid Crystal Devices and Electrically Controllable Optical Microstructures
Prepared by Phase Separated Composite Films Method
| Tuesday evening | Session 5 LC Polymers |
Discussion Leader: Julie Kornfield
7:30 Paula Hammond:
Supramolecular order and interplay in multiphase side chain liquid crystalline block copolymers
8:15 Andy Griffin:
Liquid Crystals as Auxetic Materials
9:00 Poster Previews
| Wednesday morning | Session 6 Novel LC Design and Applications |
Discussion Leader: Piotr Kaszynski
9:00 Timothy Swager:
Nearest neighbor interactions in liquid crystals: Approaches to frustration and polar order
9:45 Atsushi Yoshizawa:
Novel chirality-dependent phenomena in smectic liquid crystals
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Volkmar Vill:
Carbohydrate liquid crystals
11:45 Douglas Gin:
Creating functional, nanostructured materials using polymerizable liquid crystal assemblies
| Wednesday evening | Session 7 Freely-suspended systems |
Discussion Leader: Bob Meyer
7:30 Charles Rosenblatt:
Liquid and liquid crystalline bridges
8:15 Peter Mach:
Direct measurement of ferri- and antiferro-electTic chiral smectic-C structures by polarized resonant X-ray scattering
9:00 Poster Previews
| Thursday morning | Session 8A Twist Grain Boundary Phases |
Discussion Leader: Philip Boirois
9:00 Laurence Navailles:
Studies on the structure of twist grain boundary phases
9:45 Randy Kamien:
Minimal surfaces, twist grain boundaries and all that
10:30 Coffee Break
| Thursday morning | Session 8B New Analog LCs |
Discussion Leader: Sven Lagerwall
11:00 Per Rudquist:
The phase formerly known as thresholdless antiferroelectric
11:45 Harry Coles:
Flexo electro-optics in perfluorinated organo siloxanes
| Thursday evening | Session 9 LCs in BioSciences |
Discussion Leader: Dave Walba
7:30 Cyrus Safinya:
DNA condensation by cationic lipids: liquid crystals and biomedical applications
8:15 Hans Gruler:
Liquid crystals formed by migrating and interacting amoeboid cells
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