Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Progress in Probing Molecular Ordering
Discussion Leader: Shuang Zhou (Harvard University, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Gregor Posnjak (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
"Hidden Constellations and Polyvalent Topological Charges in Chiral Nematic Droplets"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Miroslaw Salamonczyk (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Phases Without a Positional Order: Mysterious Nematics"
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 - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Spherical Cholesterics / Innovating Liquid Crystals for New Materials
Discussion Leader: Marianne Prevot (Kent State University, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Teresa Lopez-Leon (CNRS / ESPCI Paris, France)
"Spherical Cholesterics"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:35 pm
Jody Lugger (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Homeotropic-Aligned, Near-1-nm, Nanoporous Polymer Membranes Based on Discotic Liquid Crystals"
8:35 pm - 8:40 pm
Discussion
8:40 pm - 9:00 pm
Anshul Sharma (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
"Electrospun Mats of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Core Fibers for Tensile Sensing"
9:00 pm - 9:05 pm
Discussion
9:05 pm - 9:25 pm
Lin Li (Kent State University, USA)
"Homochiral Nanofilament Phases"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Advances in Liquid Crystal Theory
Discussion Leader: Maxim Lavrentovich (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
9:00 am - 9:25 am
Christopher Burke (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
"Modeling Intra-Domain Textures and Chirality Transfer in Block Copolymer Melts with Polar and Nematic Segment Ordering"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:55 am
Sarah Gray (Durham University, United Kingdom)
"Studying Lyotropic Phase Behaviour, from a Molecular Point of View, with Dissipative Particle Dynamics"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:25 am
Daniel Beller (Harvard University, USA)
"Stripe Distortions Connect Boojums and Focal Conic Domains Across the Nematic-Smectic A Phase Transition"
10:25 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:55 am
Ziga Kos (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"Modelling of Interacting Active-Passive Nematic Emulsions"
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 - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel Discussion
Discussion Leader: Nicholas Tito (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Advice for Careers in Liquid Crystals Research
Timothy Atherton (Tufts University, USA)
Verena Gortz (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Timothy Wilkinson (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Shu Yang (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
