11th Workshop on:
Phase
Transitions in Liquid Crystals:
effects of surfaces and ferroelectric subphases
Directors:
E. Gorecka, M. Marinelli, P. Pasini
Workshop Objective
The Objective of the Workshop
is to provide a state of the art account of the rapidly evolving field of
Liquid Crystal Phases, Phase Transitions and Surface Related Phenomena, paying
particular attention to the interdisciplinary aspects of the various topics.
A special emphasis will be placed on the effects of surfaces on phase transitions,
including nano- and meso- confinement and on the study of the phase transitions
of the structures found in some novel classes of compounds, like smectic subphases
in ferroelectric liquid crystals. The Workshop will bring together specialists
in phase transitions and physics of liquid crystals, both theorists and experimentalists.