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1 International School of Liquid Crystals 15 th Workshop Liquid Crystal Phases and Nano-Structures A Workshop to celebrate ten years of the International Liquid Crystal School and Claudio Zannoni 60 th birthday E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice 27 October 1 November 2008 Directors of the Workshop: Director of the School: P. Pasini and S. Žumer C.Zannoni Sponsors: Italian Liquid Crystal Society, INSTM-CRIMSON, E4 Computer Engineering
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3 International School of Liquid Crystals 15 th Course Liquid Crystal Phases and Nano-Structures A Workshop to celebrate ten years of the International Liquid Crystal School and Claudio Zannoni 60 th birthday Erice, 27 October 1 November 2008 Schedule 27 October afternoon: Arrival 21.15: Welcome Reception at the Marsala Lecture Hall (S. Rocco) 28 October Welcome G.R. Luckhurst Thermotropic Biaxial Nematics: An Enduring Challenge? S. Zumer Superstructures in nematic colloids C.A. delange Evolutionary strategies for solving extremely complicated NMR spectra of solutes in nematic solvents A.F. Martins Recent advances in the study of the dynamics of confined nematic liquid crystals with defects and boundary inhomogeneities Coffee Break and Posters M. Copic Nematic fluctuations and semi-soft elasticity in liquid crystal elastomers A. Ferrarini An atomistic model for the elastic constants of nematics M. Wilson Simulation studies of structure and organisation in chromonic phases and macromolecular liquid crystals M. Bates Computer simulation of columnar phases in T and X shaped bolaamphiphiles D. Cleaver Computer simulation of ordered fluids and soft solids Coffee break and posters R. Berardi Computer simulations of biaxial nematics O.D. Lavrentovich Dynamics of liquid crystal colloids studied by 3D microscopy
4 29 October D. Photinos Poly-domain to mono-domain phase transitions and field-induced macroscopic biaxial order in nematics E.T. Samulski The biaxial nematic phase in nonlinear oxadiazole mesogens D. Bruce From Simulation to Synthesis in the Search for the Biaxial Nematic Phase G. Mehl 3-D ordering of mesogen covered gold nanoparticles Coffee Break and Posters H. Yokoyama Nanostructured surfaces for tailored anchoring of liquid crystals M. Marinelli Disorder effects at the HexB-SmA transition in 65OBC Liquid Crystal C. Tschierske Complexity in liquid crystals D. Guillon Nanostructured dendritic architectures A. Sugimura Deuterium NMR study of the director dynamics for a low molar mass nematic Coffee break and posters H. Takezoe Vibrational Circular Dichroism in Spontaneously Chiral Segregated Domains of Ester Molecules E. Burnell What can NMR divulge about the ordering potential in nematic and smectic A liquid crystals? E4 com Technical presentation 30 October I.C. Khoo Nanostructured Liquid Crystalline Optical Metamaterials G. Abbate Complex photonic structures in soft materials F. Nicoletta Electro-optical properties of liquid crystal dispersions C. Umeton POLICRYPS Structures and Applications Coffee Break and Posters T. Bellini Liquid crystallization and phase separation in concentrated solution of ultrashort DNA and RNA oligonucleotides G. Assanto Robust spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals: light trapping, routing and steering Excursion
5 31 October G. Vroege Goethite nanorods and their modifications: extraordinary mineral liquid crystals G. Celebre About the nature and the role of long-range orientational interactions in nematic mesophases L. Muccioli Physical properties of n-cyanobiphenyls from Molecular Dynamics simulations L.A. Madsen Understanding and Controlling Anisotropy in Ionic Polymer Membranes and Micellar Solutions Coffee Break and Posters M. Osipov Microscopic mechanisms of the tilt, biaxiality and ferroelectric ordering in smectic liquid crystals G. Moro Director fluctuations in ordered phases and transverse magnetization relaxation Y. Geerts Discotic liquid crystals : from synthesis to thin film patterning F. Biscarini Organic field effect transistors revisited: from charge tunneling devices to label-free transducers T.J. Sluckin Models of ferroelectric nematic colloidal behaviour Coffee break and posters G. Skacej Controlling surface defect valence in colloids C. Zannoni Concluding remarks Social Dinner November 1 Departure
6 International School of Liquid Crystals 15 th Course Liquid Crystal Phases and Nano-Structures A Workshop to celebrate ten years of the International Liquid Crystal School and Claudio Zannoni 60 th birthday Erice, 27 October 1 November 2008 Posters [ 1 ] G. Cordoyiannis, D. Apreutesei, G. H. Mehl, C. Glorieux, and J. Thoen [ 2 ] J.C. Dias, R. Teixeira de Souza, R. Atasiei, A.L. Alexe-Ionescu, C. Dascalu [ 3 ] Fangyong Yan, Christopher Adam Hixson, and David J. Earl Absence of any thermal signature of the Nu-Nb phase transition in high-resolution calorimetry of a liquid crystalline organo-siloxane tetrapode with a Nb phase REORIENTATION EFFECT ON THE CURRENT- VOLTAGE CHARACTERISTICS OF A NEMATIC CELL Self-Assembled Chiral Superstructures Composed of Rigid Achiral Molecules and Molecular Scale Chiral Induction by Dopants [ 4 ] K. Geese, M. Prehm, C. Tschierske Bent core molecules with thiophene units [ 5 ] A. Lehmann, M. Prehm, F. Liu, G. Ungar, C. Tschierske [ 6 ] Jan Leys, Joke Allemeersch, Marnik Bercx, Christ Glorieux, and Jan Thoen Novel complex mesophases by bolaamphiphilic terphenyl derivatives Aerosil dispersed cyanobiphenyls: results from dielectric spectroscopy on 9CB and 10CB [ 7 ] J. S. Lintuvuori, M. R. Wilson Statistical temperature molecular dynamics simulations of self-organising fluids [ 8 ] Isabella Miglioli, Corrado Bacchiocchi, Alberto Arcioni, Ilaria Vecchi, Kashma Rai, Adam Fontecchio, and Claudio Zannoni Order and dynamics inside H-PDLC nanodroplets: an ESR spin probe study [ 9 ] Yu. P. Panarin, K. L. Sandhya, V. P. Panov, J. K. Vij [ 10 ] D. Sordi, V. Guglielmotti, S. Orlanducci, E. Tamburri, F. Toschi, M.L. Terranova, M. Lucci, D. Passeri [ 11 ] C. A. R. Yednak, E. K. Lenzi, and L. R. Evangelista Study of de Vries properties in Antiferroelectric Smectic Liquid Crystals Aligned Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Thermotropic Polymer Liquid Crystals: Preparation and Characterization DIRECTOR PROFILE OF A NEMATIC LBETWEEN TWO CONCENTRIC CILINDERS IN WEAK AND STRONG ANCHORING SITUATIONS
Posters. International School of Liquid Crystals 15 th Workshop. E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice 27 October 1 November 2008
International School of Liquid Crystals 15 th Workshop Liquid Crystal Phases and Nano-Structures A Workshop to celebrate ten years of the International Liquid Crystal School and Claudio Zannoni 60 th birthday
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