The Mathematics of Liquid Crystals

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Photo-elastomers

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2013 51:19


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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Active Nematics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2013 44:40


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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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