Molecular Physics of Liquid Crystals: Recollections and Perspectives

A meeting to celebrate G.R. Luckhurst 60th birthday

Erice 6-8 May 1999

ILCS Course Directors: T.J. Sluckin and C. Zannoni

Organising Committee: D. Dunmur, P. Pasini, G.F. Pedulli,

T.J. Sluckin, C. Zannoni

Program

Afternoon
Arrival
Registration
Dinner
  
21-23
Marsala Reception
 E. Majorana Center, S. Rocco
  • May 7
    •
    Session chairman:
    G.F. Pedulli
     

     

    		 
    9.00-9.50
    Keynote Lecture
    		 G.W. Gray Some early materials observations worth revisiting
    9.50-10.15
    R. W. Date,
    D.W. Bruce
    		 An approach to the thermotropic biaxial nematic phase via mixtures of salicylidamato metal complexes: suppression of phase separation in rod/disk mixtures using Lewis acid/Lewis base interactions?
    10.15-10.40
    		C. Imrie Oligomeric liquid crystals
    10.40-11.00
    		  Coffee break
    Session chairman:
    J.L. Serrano
    		    
    11.00-11.50
    Keynote Lecture
    		 K. Praecfke Mesogens made to measure
    11.50-12.15
    G.H. Mehl, K.J.Toyne,
    J.W. Goodby
    		 Biomaterials, dendrimers, macrocycles, multipodes. The way forward?
    12.15-12.50
    D. Guillon, P. Masson
    		 Thermotropic ionic polymers

    lunch break

    Session chairman:
    R. Dong
    		    
    15.00-15.50
    Keynote Lecture
    		 J.W. Emsley NMR of liquid crystals: How far have we come and how far is there to go?
    15.50-16.15
    		G. Kothe NMR of collective motions in liquid crystals
    16.15-16.40
    C.A. Veracini,
    M. Geppi et al.
    		 Structure ordering and dynamics in smectics and chiral smectic phases studied by 2H and 13C NMR.
    16.40-17.00
    		  Coffee break
    Session chairman:
    BA Timimi
    		    
    17.00-17.25
    J. Seddon,
    R.H. Templer,
    P. Duesing, O. Ces,
    J. Erbes, R. Winter
    		 High pressure X-ray studies of lyotropic liquid crystals
    17.25-17.50
    R. M. Richardson,
    I.W. Hamley,
    G.R. Luckhurst,
    F. Santo, B.A. Timimi
    		A small angle Neutron Scattering study of orientational order in the smectic and nematic phases of a thermotropic liquid crystal.
    17.50-19.15
    POSTERS
    		 The posters will be displayed for all the time of the Workshop in the room where the coffee is served
  • May 8
    •
    Session chairman:
    G.J. Moro
    		    
    9.00-9.50
    Keynote Lecture
    		 C. Zannoni Computer simulations of liquid crystals. Answers or questions?
    9.50-10.15
    Y. Levine,
    A. Polimeno
    		 Looking for treasure in lipid systems: Lattice and off-lattice models
    10.15-10.40
    A. Ferrarini,
    G.J. Moro
    		 Structure and order of nematic phases on the basis of shape-dependent pair interactions
    10.40-11.00
    		  Coffee break
    Session chairman:
    P. Pasini
    		    
    11.00-11.50
    Keynote Lecture
    T.J. Sluckin
    		 Liquid crystals at surfaces: anchoring, orientational wetting and related phenomena
    11.50-12.15
    S. Picken,
    L. Noirez,
    G.R. Luckhurst,
    S.M. Fan
    		 Orientational order and chain statistics in nematic polymer solutions
    12.15-12.40
    J. Stelzer,
    R. Berardi,
    C. Zannoni
    		 Flexoelectric Effect for Model Pear Shaped Molecules from Monte Carlo Simulations
    12.40-13.15
    POSTERS
    		 The posters will be displayed for all the time of the Workshop in the room where the coffee is served

    lunch break

    Session chairman:
    G. R. Van Hecke
    		   
    15.10-16.00
    Keynote Lecture
    A.F. Martins,
    A. Polimeno
    		 Magnetohydrodynamic flow patterns in the nematic phase as probed by NMR.
    16.00-16.25
    A. Sugimura
    		 Surface-induced director orientation in a thin nematic liquid crystal slab
    16.25-16.45
    		  Coffee break
    Session chairman:
    D.A. Dunmur
    		    
    16.45-17.35
    Keynote Lecture
    D. J. Tildesley
    		 The role of hydrodynamic interactions in the formation of block copolymer microphase formation.
    17.35-18.00
    P. Styring, S. Todd,
    J.A. King
    		 Hybrid quantum mechanics-molecular dynamics in the elucidation of molecular structure in ferroelectric liquid crystals
    18.00-18.30
    G.R. Luckhurst
    		 Concluding Remarks
         
    20.00
    		   SOCIAL DINNER

     

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