Defects and Distortions of Layered Complex Fluids
Videos from BIRS Workshop
Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania
Monday Oct 3, 2022 10:32 - 11:41
Tutorial: Introduction to smectics
Jonathan Selinger, Kent State University
Monday Oct 3, 2022 14:20 - 14:57
Goals for Smectic Theory
Mohamed Amine Gharbi, University of Massachusetts Boston
Monday Oct 3, 2022 15:29 - 16:11
Hierarchical assembly of smectic defects at 3D printed curved geometries
Lisa Tran, Utrecht University
Monday Oct 3, 2022 16:12 - 16:51
Helfrich-Hurault-like undulations in cholesterics induced by anchoring transitions
Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sorbonne Université
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 09:03 - 10:40
Tutorial: Experimental methods
Jean De Dieu Niyonzima, Sorbonne University
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 13:05 - 13:33
Topological defects in thin smectic films
Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sorbonne Université
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 13:39 - 14:20
Smectic topological defects and nanoparticles
Francesca Serra, University of Southern Denmark
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 14:21 - 15:00
Smectic microlenses with a twist
Patrick Farrell, University of Oxford
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 15:30 - 16:17
Discretisation of a Q-tensor model for smectic-A liquid crystals
Tyler Shendruk, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 16:17 - 16:58
Dislocations, Disclinations and Quarter-charge Structures in 2D Lamellar Fluids
René Wittman, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Tuesday Oct 4, 2022 16:59 - 17:42
Topology of orientational defects of smectic colloidal liquid crystals in extreme confinement
Alison Ramage, University of Strathclyde
Wednesday Oct 5, 2022 09:40 - 10:12
A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Modelling Defects in Liquid Crystals
Abdalaziz Hamdan, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
Wednesday Oct 5, 2022 10:49 - 11:27
Mixed finite-element methods for smectic A liquid crystals
Bruno Zappone, University of Calabria
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 09:02 - 09:43
Phase frustration and intermediate state in thin smectic films
Teresa Lopez-Leon, ESPCI Paris, PSL Research University
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 09:43 - 10:12
Filling a sphere with a layered liquid crystal: dilation, dislocations or anchoring violation?
Nigel Motram, University of Glasgow
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 10:50 - 11:37
Wetting and dewetting transitions for layered nematic liquid crystal-isotropic liquid systems
Shawn Walker, Louisiana State University
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 13:01 - 13:42
Optimal Control of the Landau-de Gennes Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals
James Jackaman, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 13:42 - 14:22
Finite-element modelling of Fréedericksz transition in Smectic C Liquid Crystals
Sean Hare, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 14:23 - 14:59
Reversibility of Focal Conics Near the Cholesteric-Smectic Phase Transition
Daniel Beller, Johns Hopkins University
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 15:29 - 16:09
Defects at the smectic-A-to-nematic phase transition: How far can we get with Landau-de Gennes?
Timothy Atherton, Tufts University
Thursday Oct 6, 2022 17:01 - 17:34
Smectics in moveable boundaries
