| SUNDAY |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | KEYNOTE SESSION |
| Discussion Leader: David Walba (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
| 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm | Mary Neubert (Kent State University)
"Thirty Years of Liquid Crystal Synthesis" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
| MONDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | BENT CORE LIQUID CRYSTALS |
| Discussion Leader: David Walba (University of Colorado at Boulder) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Noel Clark (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Banana Phase Structures: Twist and Splay" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Gerhard Pelzl (Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenburg)
"Latest Developments in the Field of Bent-Core Mesogens" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | MODELING AND SIMULATIONS |
| Discussion Leader: Robin Selinger (Catholic University) |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Matt Glaser (University of Colorado at Boulder)
"Hypercomplex Fluids by Soft Aversion" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Alberta Ferrarini (Università di Padova)
"Modeling of Chiral Induction in Liquid Crystals" |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | MAGNETISM IN LIQUID CRYSTALS |
| Discussion Leader: Robert Meyer (Brandeis University) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Piotr Kaszynski (Vanderbilt University)
"All Organic Paramagnetic Liquid Crystals: New Challenges" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Wolfgang Haase (Darmstadt University of Technology)
"Magnetism of Paramagnetic Liquid Crystals" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| TUESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CHIRALITY IN LIQUID CRYSTALS: THEORY AND EXPERIMENTS |
| Discussion Leader: Randy Kamien (University of Pennsylvania)
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| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Mikhail Osipov (University of Strathclyde)
"Two-Dimensional Chirality and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Columnar Phases and Monolayers" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Jonathan Selinger (U.S. Naval Research Lab)
"Chiral and Antichiral Order in Liquid Crystals and Related Materials" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Mark Green (Polytechnic University)
"Stumbling Around the Mysteries of Structural Chirality and the Cholesteric State Leads to Some Potentially Useful Things" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Atsushi Yoshizawa (Hirosaki University)
"Molecular Organization via Core-Core Interactions in Smectic Liquid Crystals" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | NEW MOLECULAR DESIGNS |
| Discussion Leader: Georg Mehl (University of Hull) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Daniel Guillon (Université de Strasbourg)
"Structural Insight in Liquid Crystalline Dendrimers" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | José Luis Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza)
"Molecular Morphology and Mesomorphism in Dendrimers: A Competition Between Rods and Discs" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
| WEDNESDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 10:30 am | PHOTONICS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS |
| Discussion Leader: Philip Bos (Kent State University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Peter Palffy-Muhoray (Kent State University)
"Lasing in Liquid Crystalline Photonic Band Gap Materials" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Timothy Bunning (USAF Research Laboratory)
"Active Photonic Structures Formed Using Ordered and Disordered Nanoscale PDLC Composites" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | LIQUID CRYSTAL-POLYMER COMPOSITES |
| Discussion Leader: John West (Kent State University) |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Dick Broer (Philips Research Laboratories)
"Complex Polymer Morphologies Controlled by Light - Light Controlled by Complex Polymer Morphologies" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Allan Guymon (University of Iowa)
"Polymer Nanostructure Development in Liquid Crystals" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | SURFACES AND CONFINED SYSTEMS |
| Discussion Leader: R. Shashidhar (U.S. Naval Research Lab) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Chuck Rosenblatt (Case Western Reserve University)
"Liquid Crystals at Nanopatterned Surfaces" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Slobodan Zumer (University of Ljubljana)
"Defect Dynamics in Nematics and Smectics; Annihilation, Backflow Effects, and Decay" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| THURSDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | SELF-ASSEMBLY IN LIQUID CRYSTALS |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Dyer (Southern Illinois University) |
| 9:00 am - 9:45 am | Takashi Kato (University of Tokyo)
"Self-Assembly of Functional Liquid Crystals Through Intermolecular Interactions" |
| 9:45 am - 10:30 am | Geraldine Bazuin (Université Laval)
"Polymeric Liquid Crystals from Supramolecular Assembly" |
| 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:45 am | Richard Bushby (University of Leeds)
"Maximizing the Conductivity of Liquid Crystals" |
| 11:45 am - 12:30 pm | Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University)
"Enforced Stacking in Overcrowded Arenes" |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | LIQUID CRYSTAL DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Mark Spector(U.S. Naval Research Lab) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:15 pm | Roy Sambles (University of Exeter)
"Liquid Crystal Dynamics Using Optical Guided Mode" |
| 8:15 pm - 9:00 pm | Wim de Jeu (FOM Institute AMOLF)
"Smectic Membranes in Motion: Probing the Dynamics of Smectic Fluctuations by X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Poster Previews |
| 9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
| FRIDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Depart |
