Atelier: Ordre partiel dans les matériaux - analyse, simulations et sujets connexes

21 au 30 juin 2016

Programme

 

Le mardi 21 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Inscription et café croissants
Salle(s) Atrium


Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Alejandro Rey
(McGill University)
Biological plywoods: Self-assembly, structure, and surface shapes
Résumé
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Jean-Christophe Nave
(McGill University)
Numerical challenges in solving interface and boundary problems on regular Cartesian grids
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - I
15:00 - 16:00
Patricia Bauman
(Purdue University)
Regularity and eigenvalue properties of minimizers for Maier-Saupe energies in liquid crystals
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
16:30 - 17:30
Lukas Döring
(RWTH Aachen University)
Hopf solitons in a toy model for ferromagnets
Résumé

 

Le mercredi 22 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants
Salle(s) Atrium


Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - II
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Shawn Walker
(Louisiana State University )
A structure preserving discretization for the Ericksen model with colloidal effects and external fields
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario)
Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - I
Résumé
15:00 - 16:00
Xavier Lamy
(MPI)
Defects in nematic colloids and surface anchoring
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium

 

Le jeudi 23 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants
Salle(s) Atrium


Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier)
Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - III
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Apala Majumdar
(University of Bath)
Uniaxial versus biaxial character of Landau-de Gennes minimizers in three dimensions
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario)
Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - II
Résumé
15:00 - 16:00
Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
(Durham University)
Orientational order on curved flexible substrates
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
16:30 - 17:30
Dmitry Golovaty
(The University of Akron)
Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model of nematic films on surfaces
Résumé

 

Le lundi 27 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
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Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario)
Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - III
Résumé
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Daniel Phillips
(Purdue University)
Defects in smectic C liquid crystals
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University)
Mini-course: Chromonic and living liquid crystals
15:00 - 16:00
James Feng
(The University of British Columbia)
Modeling cell intercalation during germ-band extension of Drosophila embryo
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
16:30 - 17:30
Michael Hagan
(Brandeis University)
Unexpected ordered phases in active matter systems
Résumé

 

Le mardi 28 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants
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Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University)
Mini-course: Statics and dynamics of colloids in LCs
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Dehua Wang
(University of Pittsburgh)
Global existence and regularity of solutions for the active liquid crystal system
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Xiaoyu Zheng
(Kent State University)
Vorticity driven dynamics in nematic liquid crystals
Résumé
15:00 - 16:00
Martin Robinson
(University of Oxford)
Bifurcation analysis and multiscale modelling of a bistable liquid crystal device
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
16:30 - 17:30
Rolf Ryham
(Fordham University)
Calculating energy barriers and activation states for steps of fusion
Résumé

 

Le mercredi 29 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants
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Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University)
Mini-course: Twist-bend liquid crystal structures
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Cyrill Muratov
(University Heights, NJIT)
Low density phases in geometric and phase field models of uniformly charged liquids
Résumé
12:00 - 14:00
Pause-déjeuner
14:00 - 15:00
Ihsan Ata Topaloglu
(McMaster University)
Small volume fraction limit of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem
Résumé
15:00 - 16:00
Apala Majumdar
(University of Bath)
The well order reconstruction solution for nematic liquid crystals
Résumé
16:00 - 16:30
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
16:30 - 17:30
Sourav Mondal
(University of Oxford)
Particle dynamics in nematic liquid flows
Résumé

 

Le jeudi 30 juin 2016

09:00 - 09:30
Café croissants
Salle(s) Atrium


Salle(s) de réunion : 1035

09:30 - 10:30
Daniel A. Beller
(Harvard University)
Nematic disclination loops in the presence of sharp-edged colloids and boundaries
Résumé
10:30 - 11:00
Pause-café
Salle(s) Atrium
11:00 - 12:00
Peter Palffy-Muhoray
(Kent State University)
Density functional theory for nematics at high densities
Résumé

12:00
Fin de l'atelier