Detailed meeting schedule

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Wednesday 21st of March 2018
Pre-conference session e@(LC)2: Liquid Crystal Elastomer Research in Europe
Chairperson: Anshul Sharma
8:00 - 8:50
Registration
8:50 - 9:00
Welcome and opening of e@(LC)2
9:00 - 9:30
9:30 - 10:00
Rudolf Zentel (invited), Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Actuating liquid crystalline particles
10:00 - 10:20
Danqing Liu, Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Morphing surfaces formed in liquid crystal network under the electric field
10:20 - 10:40
Irena Drevenšek-Olenik, University of Ljubljana & J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peculiar Behaviour of Holographic Gratings in Light-Sensitive Liquid-Crystalline Elastomers
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 - 12:20
cancelled
Dirk Broer (invited), Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands
Oscillatory Dynamics in Liquid Crystal Network Films and Coatings
Unfortunately this presentation is cancelled due to illness.
  
12:50 - 13:50
Walking lunch in the poster area for e@(LC)2 session participants & registration for GLCC18@Lux participants
  
13:50 - 14:00
Welcome and opening of GLCC18@Lux
Session 1
Chairperson: Kirsten Harth
14:00 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 - 15:10
Alexey Eremin, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Photo-manipulation of the director field in nematic and twist-bend nematic droplets
15:10 - 15:30
Christian Bahr, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Disclinations, Hedgehogs, and Other Structures in Flowing Liquid Crystals
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:20 - 16:40
Marco Mazza, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
Hydrodynamic cavitation in Stokes flow of anisotropic fluids
16:40 - 17:00

Andraž Rešetič, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thermomechanical functionalization of conventional rubber
17:00 - 20:00
Session 2: Poster session enhanced with wine and beer reception (including 'finger food')
Thursday 22nd of March 2018
Session 3
Chairperson: Anupam Sengupta
9:30 - 9:50
9:50 - 10:10
Dharmendra Pratap Singh, Universite du Littoral Cote d’Opale, Calais, France
Orientation of 4-n-octyl-4'-cynobiphenyl molecules on graphene oxide surface
10:10 - 10:30
Margarita Kurochkina, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Behaviour of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots in LC matrix
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:20
11:20 - 11:40
Kathrin Sentker, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany
Self-Assembly of Discotic Rings and Nanowires in a Liquid Crystal Confined in Nanopores
11:40 - 12:00
Tilen Potisk, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Rheological properties of a ferromagnetic nematic liquid crystal
12:00 - 12:20
Karin Koch, University of Köln, Germany
Efficient ferronematic coupling with polymer brush particles
12:20 - 14:00
Walking lunch in the poster area
Session 4
Chairperson: Hakam Agha
14:30 - 14:50
Heinz Kitzerow, University of Paderborn, Germany
Switchable plasmonic surfaces
14:50 - 15:10
Maria P. De Santo, University of Calabria and CNR-Nanotec, Rende, Italy
Temperature tunable lasing from dye doped chiral microdroplets encapsulated in a thin polymeric film
15:10 - 15:30
Alexander Lorenz, Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
Localized, field induced defect formation and manipulation in hybridized LCs
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Session 5
Chairperson: Marco Mazza
16:00 - 16:30
Soo-Young Park (invited), Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
Smart Molecular-Spring Photonic Droplet and Shell
16:50 - 17:10
17:10 - 17:30
Silvio Poppe, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Formation of complex LC phases by catechol based bolapolyphiles
17:30 - 17:50
18:00 - 19:00
DFKG annual meeting
20:00 - ...
Conference dinner
Friday 23rd of March 2018
Session 6
Chairperson: Sabine Laschat
9:00 - 9:30
Tanya Ostapenko (invited), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-organization, Göttingen, Germany
Dynamic Responses of Quasi-One Dimensional Free-Standing Liquid Crystal Structures
9:30 - 9:50
Kirsten Harth, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Dynamics of Point Defects in Free-Standing Smectic Films
9:50 - 10:10
Christoph Klopp, Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany
Hydrodynamics of droplet lattices in quasi 2D free-standing liquid crystal films
10:10 - 10:30
Friederike Knecht, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Search for new lyotropic smectic C* materials
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

Session 7
Chairperson: Christina Schütz
11:00 - 11:45
Alfred Saupe prize award and lecture by laureate: Prof. Wim de Jeu
11:45 - 12:05
Sabine Laschat, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Tailoring Columnar Self-Assembly by Soft Sulfur Interactions
12:05 - 12:25
12:45 - 13:00
Closing and farewell