Linked titles lead to the abstract (pdf file). Closer to the workshop, the full program will be available for download as a single file.
Session i: Liquid crystals in and from living matter and in medicine
Wednesday May 27
- Françoise Livolant
How to use the bacteriophage system to analyze the structure and
phase transitions of DNA in and out of the capsid
- Tommaso Bellini
Liquid-Crystallization of Ultrashort DNA and RNA Oligomers: a Phase Behavior Rich in Challenges for Soft-Matter Science - Yves Bouligand
Unsolved problems in liquid crystal defects and textures, with examples from both synthetic matter and biological systems - Katarina Edwards
Nanodisks and Nuclisomes - from model membranes to targeted drug delivery
Session ii: Drops, bubbles, tubes, foams and films
Wednesday May 27 - Thursday May 28
- David Quéré
Pearl drops - Ralf Stannarius
Liquids in one and two dimensions - Owe Orwar
Molecule-By-Molecule Nanoassembly in Dynamic Liquid Films - Robert Hołyst
Collective rotations on surfaces, stable boolaamphiphile monolayers overcoming collapse, incorporation of large objects into LC lyotropic phases, motion of ions in LCs - Ulf Olsson
Shear Induced Formation of Multi-Lamellar Vesicles (“Onions”) - Annette Meister
The Formation of Square Lamellae by Self-Assembled Symmetric Single-Chain Bolaamphiphiles
Session iii: Colloidal liquid crystals and liquid crystal colloids
Thursday May 28
Session iv: Liquid crystals for new functional materials, organic electronics and photovoltaics
Thursday May 28 - Friday May 29
- Carsten Tschierske
Complexity in Liquid Crystal Self Assembly - Mary O'Neill
Semiconducting nematic liquid crystals: properties and devices
Session v: Liquid crystals in sensors, actuators and novel optic and electrooptic devices
Friday May 29
- Mark Warner
Switching an (improper) ferro-electric SmC* elastomer - Ingo Dierking
Polymer modified fluid ferroelectrics - Per Rudquist
On the balance between ferroelectric and antiferroelectric order; mono-, bi-, and tristable liquid crystals - Helen Gleeson
Electro-optic effects in reduced symmetry liquid crystals
Background
The case for an exploratory workshop
Goals & prospects
Meeting strategy
The venue
LC Lab Bandol
The speakers
24 world-class scientists from eight European countries
The program
Titles and abstracts
The organizers
