Igor Musevic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"Optic and Electric Field Manipulation of Nematic Colloids" |
Ivan Smalyukh
(Kent State University, USA)
"Laser Tweezing of Colloidal Particles, Defects, and Director Structures in Liquid Crystals" |
Goran Ungar (University of Sheffield, UK)
"Many Faces of Order from Tapered Mesogens" |
Randy Kamien (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
"The Geometry and Topology of Smectics" |
Slobodan Zumer
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
"Modeling of Constrained Nematic Order: from Defects to Colloidal Structures" |
Nick Abbott (University of Wisconsin, USA)
"Amplification of Biological Interactions using Liquid
Crystals" |
John Goodby (University of York, UK)
"Transmission and Amplification of Information and Properties
in Nanostructured Liquid Crystals"
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Hajime Tanaka
(University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Ordering Kinetics of Anisotropic Soft Matter:
Novel Mechanisms of Pattern Selection" |
Tomiki Ikeda (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Photoresponsive Behavior of Photochromic Liquid-Crystalline Polymers" |
Julie Kornfield
(California Institute of
Technology, USA)
"Nematic Elastomers by Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers" |
