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
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
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
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
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
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
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)