Schedule for: 22w5159 - Defects and Distortions of Layered Complex Fluids
Beginning on Sunday, October 2 and ending Friday October 7, 2022
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
Sunday, October 2 | |
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16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
20:00 - 22:00 | Informal gathering (TCPL Foyer) |
Monday, October 3 | |
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07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff ↓ (TCPL 201) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Scott MacLachlan: Welcome and Goal Setting ↓ (TCPL 201) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
10:45 - 11:45 | Randall Kamien: Tutorial: Introduction to smectics (TCPL 201) |
11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
13:00 - 14:00 | Guided Tour of The Banff Centre ↓ (PDC Front Desk) |
14:00 - 14:20 | Group Photo ↓ (TCPL Foyer) |
14:20 - 15:00 | Jonathan Selinger: Goals for Smectic Theory (Online) |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
15:30 - 16:10 | Mohamed Amine Gharbi: Hierarchical assembly of smectic defects at 3D printed curved geometries (TCPL 201) |
16:10 - 16:50 | Lisa Tran: Helfrich-Hurault-like undulations in cholesterics induced by anchoring transitions (TCPL 201) |
17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
Tuesday, October 4 | |
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07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Emmanuelle Lacaze: Tutorial: Experimental methods ↓ (TCPL 201) |
10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
10:45 - 11:45 | Scott MacLachlan: Tutorial: Finite Element Methods (TCPL 201) |
12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
13:00 - 13:40 | Jean De Dieu Niyonzima: Topological defects in thin smectic films (Online) |
13:40 - 14:20 | Emmanuelle Lacaze: Smectic topological defects and nanoparticles (TCPL 201) |
14:20 - 15:00 | Francesca Serra (TCPL 201) |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
15:30 - 16:10 | Patrick Farrell: Discretisation of a Q-tensor model for smectic-A liquid crystals (TCPL 201) |
16:10 - 16:50 | Tyler Shendruk: Dislocations, Disclinations and Quarter-charge Structures in 2D Lamellar Fluids (TCPL 201) |
16:50 - 17:30 | René Wittman: Topology of orientational defects of smectic colloidal liquid crystals in extreme confinement (TCPL 201) |
17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
Wednesday, October 5 | |
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07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
09:00 - 09:40 | Apala Majumdar: Solution Landscapes for Nematic Liquid Crystals in Confinement and Some Generalisations to Smectics (Online) |
09:40 - 10:20 | Alison Ramage: A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Modelling Defects in Liquid Crystals (Online) |
10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
10:50 - 11:30 | Abdalaziz Hamdan: Mixed finite-element methods for smectic A liquid crystals (Online) |
11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
Thursday, October 6 | |
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07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
09:00 - 09:40 | Bruno Zappone: Phase frustration and intermediate state in thin smectic films (Online) |
09:40 - 10:20 | Teresa Lopez-Leon: Filling a sphere with a layered liquid crystal: dilation, dislocations or anchoring violation? (Online) |
10:20 - 10:50 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
10:50 - 11:30 | Nigel Motram: Wetting and dewetting transitions for layered nematic liquid crystal-isotropic liquid systems ↓ (Online) |
11:30 - 13:00 | Lunch ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
13:00 - 13:40 | Shawn Walker: Optimal Control of the Landau-de Gennes Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals (TCPL 201) |
13:40 - 14:20 | James Jackaman: Finite-element modelling of Fréedericksz transition in Smectic C Liquid Crystals (TCPL 201) |
14:20 - 15:00 | Sean Hare: Reversibility of Focal Conics Near the Cholesteric-Smectic Phase Transition (TCPL 201) |
15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
15:30 - 16:10 | Daniel Beller: Defects at the smectic-A-to-nematic phase transition: How far can we get with Landau-de Gennes? (TCPL 201) |
16:10 - 16:50 | Randall Kamien: Dislocations and disclinations in two and three dimensions. (TCPL 201) |
16:50 - 17:30 | Timothy Atherton: Smectics in moveable boundaries (TCPL 201) |
17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
Friday, October 7 | |
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07:00 - 08:45 | Breakfast ↓ (Vistas Dining Room) |
09:00 - 10:00 | Scott MacLachlan: Wrap Up Discussions ↓ (TCPL 201) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
10:30 - 11:00 | Checkout by 11AM ↓ (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
11:00 - 12:00 | Scott MacLachlan: Wrap Up Discussions II ↓ (TCPL 201) |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |