Date: 19 - 25 July - 2006 - Erice ITALY

13th Workshop

Colloids, Interfaces and Liquid Crystals

Directors:
I. Musevic, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, S. Zumer


 

Schedule

 

July 19

 

afternoon:  Arrival

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

 

July 20

 

9.00 – 9.15

                    

 

Welcome

9.15 – 10.15

 H. Lekkerkerker

Life at Ultra low Interfacial Tension: The Interface of Demixed Colloid-Polymer Mixtures and the Isotropic Nematic Interface in Suspensions of Colloidal Platelets

10.15 – 11.00

Y. Reznikov

Diluted colloids of nano-ferroelectric particles

 in liquid crystals

11. 00 – 11.30

    

Coffee break

11.45 – 12.30

M.P. Allen

Simulation of inhomogeneous liquid crystals

 

lunch break

 

 

 

15.4516.30

P. Ziherl

Colloids on smectic films.

16.30 – 17.15

R. Stannarius

2D Dispersions - liquid inclusions in smectic free standing films

17.15 – 17.45

 

Coffee break

17.45 – 19.15

 

Poster session

 

July  21

 

 9.00 – 10.00

D. Weitz

Defect structure in thin shells of liquid crystal

10.00 – 10.45

O. Lavrentovich

Elasticity- and anchoring-mediated interactions of particles and topological defects at the surface and in the bulk of liquid crystals.

10.45 – 11.15

 

Coffee Break

11.1512.00

J-C.  Loudet

Wetting of micrometer-sized ellipsoids

12.00 – 12.45

H. Stark

Wetting Phenomena in Liquid Crystal Colloids

 

lunch break

 

 

 

15.45 – 16.30

P. Lettinga

Exploring the phase behavior of rod dispersions using external fields

16.30 – 17.00 

F. Mantegazza

Anomalous orientation of charged rod-like colloidal particles in external electric fields.

17.00 – 17.30

 

Coffee break

17.3018.00

R. Berardi

A Computer Simulation Study of the Formation of

Liquid Crystal Nanodroplets from a Homogeneous Solution

18.0018.30

S. Varga

Phase behaviour of nail-shaped hard particle fluids

18.3019.00

G. Cinacchi

Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of thin and thick  hard spherocylinders

 

July 22

 

9.00 – 19.00

 

Excursion  to Selinunte and Mozia

 

July 23

 

 9.00 – 10.00

H. Yokoyama

 

10.00 – 10.45

M. Telo da Gama

Surface effects in nematics: interfaces, decorated surfaces and colloids  

10.45 – 11.15

    

Coffee break

11.15 – 12.00

M. Skarabot

Two-dimensional Nematic Colloidal Crystals Self-assembled by Topological Defects

12.00 – 12.45

S. Zumer

Simulations of colloidal lattices confined to thin nematic layers

 

lunch break

 

 

 

15.45 – 16.30

U. Zammit

Specific heat spectrospcopy in liquid crystal phase transitions with disorder

16.30 – 17.00

L.R. Evangelista

Ionic contribution to the electric current in an electrolytic cell submitted to an

external voltage.

 

17.15 – 17.45

 

Coffee break

17.45 – 18.15

M. Ravnik

Self assembled colloidal structures in nematics confined to a capillary

18.15 – 18-45

Y. Yang

Optical trapping of colloids in liquid crystals

20.30 

Social Dinner

 

 

July 24

 

 9.00 – 9.45

E. Terentjev

Defects and textures in thin films of liquid crystalline polymers

9.4510.15

V. Sastry

Isotropic-nematic transition in liquid-crystalline elastomers :  A non-Boltzmann Monte Carlo study

10.15 – 10.45

G. Raos

Computer experiments on the non-linear viscoelasticity of filled elastomers

10.45 – 11.15

 

Coffee break

11.15 – 11.45

N. Silvestre

Elliptic inclusions in smectic -C  films

11.45 – 12.15

S.V. Shiyanovskii

The particle interaction in liquid crystals: beyond the permanent multipole expansion

12.15 – 12.45

C. Anquetil

Anchoring of liquid crystals on self assembled monolayers

 

lunch break

 

 

 

15.4516.10

F. Tombolato

Molecular model for the chiral nematic phase of dispersions of M13 virus.

16.10 – 16.35

A. Arcioni

Electron Spin Resonance studies of order and dynamics in complex liquid crystal systems

16.35 – 17.00

 

 

 

 

Coffee Break