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Tuesday, June 21, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Registration and Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Alejandro Rey
(McGill University) Biological plywoods: Self-assembly, structure, and surface shapes | Abstract |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Jean-Christophe Nave
(McGill University) Numerical challenges in solving interface and boundary problems on regular Cartesian grids | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier) Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - I |
15:00 - 16:00
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Patricia Bauman
(Purdue University) Regularity and eigenvalue properties of minimizers for Maier-Saupe energies in liquid crystals | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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16:30 - 17:30
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Lukas Döring
(RWTH Aachen University) Hopf solitons in a toy model for ferromagnets | Abstract |
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier) Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - II |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Shawn Walker
(Louisiana State University ) A structure preserving discretization for the Ericksen model with colloidal effects and external fields | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario) Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - I | Abstract |
15:00 - 16:00
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Xavier Lamy
(MPI) Defects in nematic colloids and surface anchoring | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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Thursday, June 23, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Radu Ignat
(Université Paul Sabatier) Mini-course: Stability of point defects for nematic liquid crystals - III |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Apala Majumdar
(University of Bath) Uniaxial versus biaxial character of Landau-de Gennes minimizers in three dimensions | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario) Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - II | Abstract |
15:00 - 16:00
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Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
(Durham University) Orientational order on curved flexible substrates | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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16:30 - 17:30
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Dmitry Golovaty
(The University of Akron) Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model of nematic films on surfaces | Abstract |
Monday, June 27, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Registration and Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Colin Denniston
(University of Western Ontario) Mini-course: Colloidal aggregates in liquid crystals - III | Abstract |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Daniel Phillips
(Purdue University) Defects in smectic C liquid crystals | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University) Mini-course: Chromonic and living liquid crystals |
15:00 - 16:00
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James Feng
(The University of British Columbia) Modeling cell intercalation during germ-band extension of Drosophila embryo | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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16:30 - 17:30
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Michael Hagan
(Brandeis University) Unexpected ordered phases in active matter systems | Abstract |
Tuesday, June 28, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University) Mini-course: Statics and dynamics of colloids in LCs |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Dehua Wang
(University of Pittsburgh) Global existence and regularity of solutions for the active liquid crystal system | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Xiaoyu Zheng
(Kent State University) Vorticity driven dynamics in nematic liquid crystals | Abstract |
15:00 - 16:00
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Martin Robinson
(University of Oxford) Bifurcation analysis and multiscale modelling of a bistable liquid crystal device | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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16:30 - 17:30
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Rolf Ryham
(Fordham University) Calculating energy barriers and activation states for steps of fusion | Abstract |
Wednesday, June 29, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Oleg Lavrentovich
(Kent State University) Mini-course: Twist-bend liquid crystal structures |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Cyrill Muratov
(University Heights, NJIT) Low density phases in geometric and phase field models of uniformly charged liquids | Abstract |
12:00 - 14:00
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Lunch break
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14:00 - 15:00
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Ihsan Ata Topaloglu
(McMaster University) Small volume fraction limit of a nonlocal isoperimetric problem | Abstract |
15:00 - 16:00
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Apala Majumdar
(University of Bath) The well order reconstruction solution for nematic liquid crystals | Abstract |
16:00 - 16:30
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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16:30 - 17:30
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Sourav Mondal
(University of Oxford) Particle dynamics in nematic liquid flows | Abstract |
Thursday, June 30, 2016 |
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09:00 - 09:30
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Coffee & Croissants
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Room(s) Atrium
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Meeting room(s) : 1035 |
09:30 - 10:30
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Daniel A. Beller
(Harvard University) Nematic disclination loops in the presence of sharp-edged colloids and boundaries | Abstract |
10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee break
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Room(s) Atrium
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11:00 - 12:00
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Peter Palffy-Muhoray
(Kent State University) Density functional theory for nematics at high densities | Abstract |
12:00
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Closure of the workshop
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