October 7

Afternoon:  Arrival

21.15:   Welcome Reception at the Marsala Lecture Hall (S. Rocco)

October 8

   9.00 -  9.20

Welcome

   9.20 -  9.40

N.L. Abbot t

Liquid Crystals at Biomolecular Interfaces

   9.40 - 10.00

F. Simoni

Nonlinear Optics of Liquid Crystals: Overview and Recent Advances

 10.00 - 10.20

Y.H. Geerts

From Liquid Crystals to Crystals

 10.20 - 10.40

J. Ball

An Exterior Problem for Liquid Crystals

 10.40 - 11.00

H. Takezoe

Azodendrimers as A Photoactive Interface for Liquid Crystals

 11.00 - 11.30

Coffee Break

 11.30 - 11.50

C. Umeton

A Command Layer for Anisotropic Plasmonic Photothermal Effects in Liquid Crystal

 11.50 - 12.10

G. Skacej

Elastocaloric Effect in Liquid Crystal Elastomers from Molecular Simulations

 12.10 - 12.30

L.R. Evangelista

Effect of Confinement on Nematic Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations and Elastic Approach

 12.30 - 12.50

M. Ozaki

Carrier Transport and Device Applications of Liquid-Crystalline Non-Peripheral Octaalkylphthalocyanine  

Lunch Break

 15.30 - 15.50

J. Goodby

Stacking The Dishes and the Bowls

 15.50 - 16.10

I.C. Khoo

Uncanny Photonic Possibilities with Liquid Crystalline Photonic Crystals

 16.10 - 16.30

T. Ikeda

Photomobile Polymer Materials: Toward Light-Driven Micro Soft Robots

 16.30 - 16.50

J. Wang

Multi-Functional Photonic Crystals

 16.50 - 17.10

A. d’Alessandro

Low Power Photonic Devices Based on Electrically Controlled Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Poly(Dimethylsiloxane)

 17.10 - 17.30

Coffee break

 17.30 - 17.50

I. Yokoyama

Generating and Manipulating Disclination Lines by Topologically Patterned Surface Alignment

 17.50 - 18.10

M. Wilson

Self-Assembled Nanostructures Formed from Chromonic Mesogens: Insights from Molecular Simulations at Atomistic and Coarse-Grained Levels

 18.10 - 18.30

F. Biscarini

Organic Bioelectronics, Anisotropy, Ions: how Claudio’s Teaching is Important in Unforeseen Scenarios 30 Years After

October 9

  9.00 -   9.20

T. Bellini

Nematics with Quenched Disorder: The Scientific History of a Collaboration

  9.20 -   9.40

J. Cornil

UNIBOlar Transport in Supramolecular Architectures  

  9.40 - 10.00

E. Burnell

NMR of Orientationally Ordered Short-Chain Hydrocarbons

10.00 - 10.20

M.H. Godinho

Cellulose-Based Chiral Structures

10.20 - 10.40

O.D. Lavrentovich

Electrically Powered 3d Solitary Waves or Director Bullets in Nematics

10.40 - 11.10

Coffee break

11.10 - 11.30

C.T.  Imrie

The Twist-Bend Nematic Phase: Structure-Property Relationships

11.30 - 11.50

A. Pietropaolo

Targeting the Polymer Self-Assembling through Nanoscale Simulations and Chirality Indexes

11.50 - 12.10

D. Photinos

Atomistic Simulations of Nematic Phases Formed by Cyano-Biphenyl Dimers

12.10 - 12.30

V. Reshetnyak

Using Liquid Crystals to Control Surface Plasmons  

Lunch break

15.30 - 15.50

P. Pallfy-Muhoray

Contributions of Repulsive and Attractive Interactions to Nematic Order

15.50 - 16.10

V.S.S. Sastry

Crossover Phenomena in 2-Dimensional Liquid Crystal Models

16.10 - 16.30

T.J.  Sluckin

Distorsions, Dislocations, Disclinations: Historical Remarks on Defects in Solids and Liquid Crystals.

16.30 - 16.50

S. Zumer

Skyrmion Lattices Stabilized in Thin BP Films by Patterned Surfaces

16.50 - 17.20

Coffee break

17.20 - 17.40

G. Celebre

LXNMR Lab at the University of Calabria: Conformational Studies, Molecular Field Models, Computer Simulations...When Liquid Crystals Crossed Our Lives (many years ago) and What We Are Doing Now

17.40 - 18.10

A.G. Vanakaras

Entropy Driven Spontaneous Mirror Symmetry Breaking

in 2D Systems Composed of Achiral Particle

18.10 - 18.30

C. Zannoni

Concluding Remarks

20.00

                                                 Social Dinner

October 10

Departure