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
Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado Boulder
Monday Jul 1, 2024 10:55 - 11:52
Knotted Chiral Meta 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
