The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals

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Liquid crystals have a multitude of applications, notably those in flat panel display technology, which has fundamentally impacted modern life. From a theoretical point of view, liquid crystals offer a unique opportunity for the study of partial order, as

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Conclusions from Liquid Crystal Defects and their Geometry, Active and Solid Liquid Crystals, and Related Systems Workshop

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2013 25:35

Ball, J Friday 28 June 2013, 11:30-11:45

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Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Light

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 15, 2013 42:50

Palffy-Muhoray, P (Kent State University) Friday 28 June 2013, 16:00-16:45

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Kinetics of Light-Induced Patterning in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2013 41:56

Copic, M (University of Ljubljana) Friday 28 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

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Responsive Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks & Hydogels

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2013 47:09

Broer, D (Eindhoven University of Technology) Friday 28 June 2013, 14:00-14:45

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Science Policy Forum

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 53:44

Huppert, J (Member of Parliament for Cambridge) Friday 05 July 2013, 14:00-15:15

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Flashing Flexodomains and Electroconvection Rolls in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 15:05

Salamon, P (Wigner Research Centre for Physics) Friday 05 July 2013, 12:15-12:30

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Visualizing Induced Fluid Flows around a Sphere in Isotropic and Nematic Liquids

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 13:58

Lazo-Martinez, I (Kent State University) Friday 05 July 2013, 12:00-12:15

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Photonic Liquid Crystal Fiber Interferometer

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 8:59

Poudereux Sánchez, D (Technical University of Madrid) Friday 05 July 2013, 11:45-12:00

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Iridescent Films from Cellulose Nanocrystals

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 15:44

Dumanli, A.G (University of Cambridge) Friday 05 July 2013, 11:30-11:45

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Probing Liquid Crystal Elastomer Structure with Polarized Light Scattering

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 16:55

Pevnyi, M (Kent State University) Friday 05 July 2013, 11:00-11:15

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Modelling Light Propagation Through Radial-Director Liquid Crystal Waveguides

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 11:36

Cancula, M (University of Ljubljana ) Friday 05 July 2013, 11:15-11:30

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NMR Studies of DNA Aligned in DMPC/DHPC/CS Bicelle Mixtures

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 14:57

Kozlyuk, N (University of California, Irvine) Friday 05 July 2013, 10:15-10:30

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Towards an Optical Nano-Laboratory in a Liquid Crystal Defect

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 15:17

Ackerman, P (University of Colorado at Boulder) Friday 05 July 2013, 10:00-10:15

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Self-Assembled Nanoparticle-Ligand Optical Metasurfaces

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 12:45

Fontana, J (Naval Research Laboratory ) Friday 05 July 2013, 09:45-10:00

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The Excluded Volume of Convex Bodies

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2013 51:10

Virga, E.G (University of Pavia ) Friday 05 July 2013, 09:00-09:45

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Photo-elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2013 51:19

Warner, M (University of Cambridge) Friday 28 June 2013, 11:00-11:30

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Liquid Crystals History

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2013 70:00

Sluckin, T (University of Southampton) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 16:45-17:30

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Photo-Actuation in LC Glass

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 42:01

Modes, C (Rockefeller University) Friday 28 June 2013, 09:45-10:30

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Three-dimensional liquid crystalline superstructures for photonics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 42:51

Ravnik, M (University of Ljubljana) Friday 28 June 2013, 09:00-09:45

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Colloidal Doping of Cholesterics and Blue Phases

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 47:22

Cates, M (University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 09:45-10:30

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Topological colloids and particle-induced defects in liquid crystals

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 46:20

Smalyukh, I (University of Colorado) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 09:00-09:45

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Nematic braids: Effects of chirality and confinement

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 49:00

Zumer, S (University of Ljubljana) Monday 24 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

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Textures and Topology in Liquid Crystals

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 46:54

Alexander, GP (University of Warwick) Monday 24 June 2013, 14:00-14:45

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Exotic defect structures in a strongly confined chiral liquid crystal

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 40:50

Fukuda, J (AIST) Monday 24 June 2013, 12:00-12:45

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Pure and Applied Focal Conics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 60:00

Kamien, R (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 24 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

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Liquid crystal defects, a critical overview

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 3, 2013 54:55

Kleman, M (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris) Monday 24 June 2013, 09:45-10:30

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Reconfigurable assemblies of active, auto-chemotactic gels

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 47:55

Balazs, A (University of Pittsburgh) Thursday 27 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

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Modelling Smectic Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 42:44

Adams, J (University of Surrey) Thursday 27 June 2013, 11:45-12:30

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Fluctuations and nonlinear elasticity of nematic elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 45:28

Xing, X (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Thursday 27 June 2013, 11:00-11:45

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Topological Defects in Nematic Elastomers, Gels and Membranes

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 42:52

Uchida, N (Tohoku University) Thursday 27 June 2013, 09:45-10:30

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Hard and soft elasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 45:49

Biggins, J (University of Cambridge) Thursday 27 June 2013, 09:00-09:45

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Stretching of Polydomain and Monodomain Nematic Elastomers: Experimental Study

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 47:48

Urayama, K (Kyoto Institute of Technology) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

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Liquid Crystal elastomers: microstructures and active shape control

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 43:55

DeSimone, A (SISSA) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 14:00-14:45

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Curvature potentials for defects on nematic shells

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 51:29

Virga, E (Università degli Studi di Pavia) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 11:45-12:30

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Avenues to Active Shape Control in Nematic Solid Sheets

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 43:49

Modes, CD (Rockefeller University) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 11:00-11:45

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Hyperbolic geometry in liquid crystalline interfaces

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 44:09

Giomi, L (SISSA) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 09:45-10:30

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Chiral symmetry breaking in confined nematics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 45:17

Vitelli, V (Universiteit Leiden) Wednesday 26 June 2013, 09:00-09:45

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Rice, Locusts and Chemical Waves: A Hydrodynamic Theory of Polar Active Smectics

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2013 51:18

Toner, J (University of Oregon) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 16:00-16:45

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Hierarchical active matter: from extensible bundles to active gels, streaming liquid crystals and motile emulsions

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2013 44:29

Dogic, Z (Brandeis University) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 14:45-15:30

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Active Nematics

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2013 44:40

Yeomans, J (University of Oxford) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 14:00-14:45

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Polar Active LCs: Non-equilibrium steady states and fluctuations

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2013 45:59

Liverpool, T (University of Bristol) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 11:45-12:30

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Modelling actomyosin droplets, and their consequences for cell motility

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2013 43:20

Marenduzzo, D (University of Edinburgh) Tuesday 25 June 2013, 11:00-11:45

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Rigidity, Zero Modes, States of Self Stress, and Surface Phonons in Periodic and Diluted Periodic Networks near their Instability Limit

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 25, 2013 71:00

Rothschild Visiting Professor Tom Lubensky (University of Pennsylvania) Monday 24 June 2013, 16:00-17:00

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Self assembly of fd viruses

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2013 69:00

Pelcovits, B (Brown University Providence, Rhode Island) Thursday 13 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

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Endotoxin-Induced Ordering Transitions in Liquid Crystalline Droplets

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2013 73:00

Abbott, N (University of Wisconsin-Madison ) Thursday 13 June 2013, 16:00-17:30

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Existence and uniqueness of the radial hedgehog in Landau-de Gennes model

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2013 48:11

Nguyen, L (Princeton University) Tuesday 11 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

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The geometric elastic theory of fluid membrane vesicles with a liquid crystal model: the Helfrich model of lipid bilayers and its applications to soft matter

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 14, 2013 69:00

Ou-Yang, Z (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Thursday 06 June 2013, 11:00-12:00

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Landau weak crystallization theory of main phase transition in membranes

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2013 52:15

Kats, E (Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics) Tuesday 28 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

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Photorefractive effect and two beam energy exchange in hybrid liquid crystal cells

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2013 42:21

Pinkevych, I (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) Thursday 23 May 2013, 12:00-13:00

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Energies and Shear Moduli in Nematic Elastomers

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2013 64:00

DeSimone, A (SISSA) Thursday 23 May 2013, 11:00-12:00

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Open Problems Session

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2013 30:13

Lubensky, T (University of Pennsylvania) Wednesday 22 May 2013, 14:20-14:40

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