| Saturday |
| 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | Liquid Crystals Up Close |
| Discussion Leader: Lisa Tran (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 3:45 pm - 4:00 pm | Shuang Zhou (Kent State University, USA)
"Director Distortion Reduces Molecular Order of Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal on Large Scales" |
| 4:00 pm - 4:05 pm | Discussion |
| 4:05 pm - 4:20 pm | Yu Xia (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Direct Mapping of Local Director Field of Nematic Liquid Crystals at the Nano-Scale" |
| 4:20 pm - 4:25 pm | Discussion |
| 4:25 pm - 4:30 pm | General Discussion |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Keynote Talk / Kinetic Liquid Crystals |
| Discussion Leader: Xiaoguang Wang (University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Oleg Lavrentovich (Kent State University, USA)
"Liquid Crystal Enabled Electrokinetics" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:15 pm | Discussion |
| 8:15 pm - 8:35 pm | Katherine Macri (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
"Studying Receptor-Mediated Liposome Fusion Kinetics at Aqueous/Liquid Crystal Interfaces" |
| 8:35 pm - 8:40 pm | Discussion |
| 8:40 pm - 9:00 pm | Yogesh Kumar Murugesan (University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
"Fast Q-Tensor Algorithm for Modeling Flow of Nematic Liquid Crystals" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:25 pm | Koen Nickmans (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands)
"Light-Responsive Liquid Crystals for Nanolithography" |
| 9:25 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Sunday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 11:00 am | Colloids and Liquid Crystals |
| Discussion Leader: Daniel Beller (Harvard University, USA) |
| 9:00 am - 9:25 am | Henriëtte Bakker (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
"Quantitative Real-Space Analysis of a Binary Smectic Liquid Crystal Phase Composed of Colloidal Silica Rods and Spheres" |
| 9:25 am - 9:30 am | Discussion |
| 9:30 am - 9:55 am | Louis Kang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"Roles of Entropy and Chirality in Depletion-Induced Colloidal Membranes" |
| 9:55 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:25 am | Heberth Diestra-Cruz (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico)
"Colloid-in-Liquid Crystal Composites with Tunable Hierarchical Microstructures" |
| 10:25 am - 10:30 am | Discussion |
| 10:30 am - 10:55 am | Mahdi Roohnikan (McGill University, Canada)
"Hydrogen Bond Stabilized Nanoparticle-Liquid Crystal Composites" |
| 10:55 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 12:30 pm | Poster Session |
| Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Mentorship Component: Career Panel Discussion |
| Discussion Leader: Francesca Serra (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | Panel Discussion |
| "Careers and Research Prospectives in Liquid Crystals" |
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- Robin Selinger (Kent State University, USA)
- Nelson Tabiryan (Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Corp., USA)
- David Weitz (Harvard University, USA)
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| 2:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Evaluation Period |
| Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms |
| 3:00 pm | Seminar Concludes |
