Oral presentations
The programme of oral presentations is given on the programme page, and titles are given below.
The lecture hall will have a laptop and data projector installed, and we would prefer it if speakers could provide their talk on a USB key to be uploaded onto the conference laptop to save time between presenattions. If other audio-visual facilities are required then please contact Nigel Mottram as soon as possible.
Poster presentations
Poster presentations will be after the oral contributions on Tuesday 3rd April, immediately before the conference dinner in the Barony Hall (see programme).
Poster boards will large enough to accomodate an A0 poster in portrait orientation (84cm wide × 119cm high), or an A1 poster in landscape orientation (84cm wide x 60cm high).
Posters can be set-up in the Barony Hall (see map) on Monday 2nd April between 5.30pm and 7pm.
Poster presenation titles are included at the bottom of this webpage.
Oral presentation titles
| Session 1: | |||
| Carl | Brown | Nottingham Trent Univ | Azimuthal nematic liquid crystal alignment - with and without sidewalls |
| Benjamin | Outram | Univ of Oxford | Flexoelectric and dielectric in-plane switching behaviour of Grandjean liquid crystal structures |
| Damian | Gardiner | Univ of Cambridge | Short pitch polymer stabilised chiral nematic liquid crystals: from displays to switchable diffraction gratings |
| Session 2: | |||
| Tanniemola | Liverpool | Univ of Bristol | Active liquid crystals : microscopics, hydrodynamics and rheology |
| Adam | Rigby | Univ of Manchester | Simulation of phase transitions for a fused-disc model |
| Keith | Daly | Univ of Southampton | Efficient Q–tensor modelling of liquid crystal alignment in and around defects |
| Session 3: | |||
| John | Goodby | Univ of York | Structure and topology in the utilisation of form and function |
| Linan | Tian | Univ of Manchester | Bent core nematic liquid crystals with a twist |
| Ana | Ferreira | Univ of Cambridge | Design and investigation of photoactive liquid-crystalline silsesquioxanes |
| Session 4: | |||
| Alejandro | Rey | McGill University, Canada | Capillary models for liquid crystal fibers, membranes, films, and drops |
| Andre | Sonnet | Univ of Strathclyde | Biaxial nematics: Two-director numerical algorithm With tensorial symmetry |
| Tiffany | Wood | Univ of Edinburgh | Colloidal structure in a thermotropic nematic solvent |
| Session 5: | |||
| GW Gray | Award Lecture | ||
| Grzegorz | Pajak | Univ of Strathclyde | Molecular description of the electroclinic effect in the smectic A phase |
| Flynn | Castles | Univ of Cambridge | Polar electro-optic switching in blue phase I |
| Jill | Miscandlon | Univ of Strathclyde | Instabilities in smectic A liquid crystals with director tilt on the boundaries |
| Session 6: | |||
| BLCS | Young Scientist | ||
| Ingo |
Dierking | Univ of Manchester | A novel family of rod-like mesogens without flexible chains |
| Craig | MacDonald | Univ of Strathclyde | An adaptive moving mesh method applied to a one-dimensional order reconstruction problem in Q-tensor theory |
| Session 7: | |||
| Richard | Bushby | Univ of Leeds | Developing themes in discotic liquid crystal research |
| Bai Jia | Tang | Univ Hull | Synthesis and Characterization of the self-assembly of mesogen coated gold nanoparticles |
| Sarabjot | Kaur | Univ of Manchester | Anomalous dielectric permittivity measurements in bent-core nematic liquid crystals |
| Session 8: | |||
| Tim | Wilkinson | Univ of Cambridge | Towards liquid crystal based metamaterials |
| Simon | Siemianowski | Merck Chemicals | Microsecond switching of a smectic banana phase: The 'Ideal Display Mode' |
| Alex | Robertson | Univ of Bristol | Colloidal liquid crystalline phase behavior of cylindrical block copolymer micelles |
| John | Lydon | Univ of Leeds | Feat of Clay - mesophases of colloidal mineral particles |
Poster presentation titles
| Ziauddin | Ahmed | Univ of Hull | Novel rigid geometry liquid crystalline molecules |
| Faleh Zafer | Al-Qahtani | Univ of Hull | Synthesis and investigation of rod-shaped mesogens functionalized with ethylenoxy chains |
| Muralidhar Reddy | Billa | Univ of Hull | Direct heteroarylation: A modern synthetic tool for the synthesis of liquid crystalline organic semiconductors |
| Keith | Daly | Univ of Southampton | Magnetite nanorod-nematic liquid crystal suspensions |
| Ingo | Dierking | Univ of Manchester | Combining different methods to stabilize blue phases [I] |
| Philip | Hands | Univ of Cambridge | Compact, inexpensive and widely-tuneable liquid crystal lasers |
| Kirsty | Holdsworth | Univ of York | Liquid crystalline elastomer particles of controllable size and shape |
| Nicholas | Kasch | Univ of Manchester | Stabilisation of liquid crystalline blue phases by adding short-chain polystyrene |
| Srinivas Reddy | Komandla | Univ of Hull | Carbosilane end-group fluoroterphenyls as potential ferroelectric host materials |
| Harry | Liu | Univ of Manchester | Elastic constants of bent core liquid crystals |
| Aloir Antonio | Merlo | Univ of Hull | Synthesis and mesomorphic properties of segmented 3,5-disubstituted 4,5-dihydroisoxazole benzoates |
| Harry | Milton | Univ of Manchester | Modelling of refractive liquid crystal lenses using a multigrid algorithm |
| Vasily | Oganesyan | Univ of East Anglia | Molecular dynamics and EPR spectroscopic studies of 8CB liquid crystal |
| Mikhail | Osipov | Univ of Strathclyde | Molecular theory of phase separation in nematics doped with nanoparticles |
| Malik | Qasim | Univ of Cambridge | The effect of fluorine substitutions and linkage on bimesogen liquid crystals |
| Viswanath | Reddy | Univ of Hull | The design, synthesis and properties of a novel mesogenic cyanoether ferroelectric liquid crystalline dopant |
| Benjamin | Snow | Merck Chemicals | Flexoelectric displays using chiral nematic liquid crystals |
| Tim | Spencer | Sheffield Hallam Univ | Zenithal Bistable Device: Comparison of modelling and experiment |
| David | Stewart | Univ of York | Supermolecular liquid crystals based on carborane clusters |
| Maria-Gabriela | Tamba | Univ of Hull | Nematic-nematic phasse transitions of binary mixtures containing gold nanoparticles and symmetric dimeric molecules |
| Stephen | Taylor | Univ of East Anglia | Molecular dynamics and EPR spectroscopy on the glassy state of ortho-terphenyl |
| Kiyoaki | Usami | Osaka Sangyio Univ | Electric field effects in the optically isotropic bent-core liquid crystal phase |
| Chris | Welch | Univ of Hull | Synthesis and investigation of the mesomorphic behaviour of novel thiophene based nematic materials |
| Mark | Wilson | Durham University | Simulation insights into structure and thermodynamics of self-assembly in chromonic liquid crystals |
| Mark | Wilson | Durham University | Simulation techniques for the study of self-organisation and self-assembly in liquid crystal systems |
| Ming-Huei | Yen | Univ of Sheffield | Hexagonal close packed structure in the binary mixtures of alkali metal (Na, Rb) salts of trialkoxygallates and n-paraffin C19H40 |
| Zhao-peng | Zhang | Univ of Manchester | Polarised Raman Spectroscopy Measurements of Liquid Crystal Order Parameters |