Mathematical Analysis of Soft Matter
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Daniel Beller, Johns Hopkins University
Monday Jul 1, 2024 09:02 - 09:46
Tutorial: Liquid crystals in models and in reality
Arghir Zarnescu, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
Monday Jul 1, 2024 09:46 - 10:39
Introduction into mathematics of soft matter
Giacomo Canevari, Università di Verona
Monday Jul 1, 2024 15:16 - 16:13
A free-discontinuity problem for smectic liquid crystals
Michael Novack, Carnegie Mellon University
Monday Jul 1, 2024 16:15 - 16:59
A variational model for 3D features in films/foams
Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Lincoln University of Missouri
Monday Jul 1, 2024 16:59 - 17:59
Modeling the actuation of liquid crystal elastomer kirigami imprinted with topological defects
Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 08:45 - 09:35
Patterns of spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals
Bianca Stroffolini, University of Naples Federico II
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 09:35 - 10:26
Manifold-constrained free discontinuity problems and Sobolev approximation
Maxim Lavrentovich, Worcester State University
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 10:46 - 11:36
Domain walls in hard and soft ferroelectrics
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 13:03 - 13:53
Defect Patterns of Landau-de Gennes Energy Minimizers in Three-Dimensional Slabs
Dominik Stantejsky, McMaster University
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 13:53 - 14:45
Asymptotic Limit of the Landau-de Gennes Model for Liquid Crystals Around an Inclusion
Xavier Lamy, University of Toulouse
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 15:07 - 15:52
Entire vortex solutions of negative degree for the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau system
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
Tuesday Jul 2, 2024 15:55 - 16:49
Defects in Planar Nematic Liquid Crystal Films
Epifanio Virga, University of Pavia
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 08:46 - 09:35
From minimal surfaces to a variational theory of soft shells
Peter Sternberg, Indiana Univeristy
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 09:37 - 10:27
Two generalizations of Ginzburg-Landau theory on surfaces
Jordi Ignes-Mulol, University of Barcelona
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 13:46 - 14:35
Coupling across the active/passive liquid crystal interface: flow control and emergent phenomena.
Cody Schimming, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 15:51 - 16:41
Analytical Model for the Velocity of Defects in Two-Dimensional Active Nematics
Lorena Aguirre Salazar, Lakehead University
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 16:41 - 17:29
On an Ohta-Kawasaki Model set on the space
Dean Louizos, McMaster University
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 20:07 - 20:19
On the Landau-de Gennes model with planar anchoring and a weak magnetic field
Jane Bernadette Denise Garcia, Johns Hopkins University
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 20:20 - 20:34
Influence of confining surface Gaussian curvature on the winding character of nematic disclination lines
Priyanka Kumari, kent state university
Wednesday Jul 3, 2024 20:34 - 20:44
Chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals
Daniel Sussman, Emory University
Thursday Jul 4, 2024 08:45 - 09:31
Flows, flocking, and unusual hydrodynamics in active and living soft matter
Francesc Sagues, Universitat de Barcelona
Thursday Jul 4, 2024 09:36 - 10:20
New theoretical insights and rheological measurements from modified formulations of the AN microtubule/kinesin system
Louise Head, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday Jul 4, 2024 10:51 - 11:34
Interplay of active nematic defects and flow structures
Lisa Tran, Utrecht University
Friday Jul 5, 2024 08:45 - 09:37
Controlling the assembly of molecular and colloidal liquid crystals
Federico Luigi Dipasquale, Università degli studi di Napoli "Federico II"
Friday Jul 5, 2024 09:39 - 10:33
Biaxiality vs uniaxiality in Landau-de Gennes minimisers in 2D discs
