TUTORIAL SPEAKERS
- Mikhail Osipov University of Strathclyde (UK)
Molecular theory of liquid crystal ordering in rod-coil diblock copolymers
- Slobodan Žumer University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Topological soft matter: from confined and colloidal nematics to blue phases
PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Frank Gießelmann Universität Stuttgart (Germany)
New aspects of chirality in lyotropic liquid crystals
- Ewa Górecka University of Warsaw (Poland)
Multi-level chirality in liquid crystals formed by achiral molecules
- Małgosia Kaczmarek University of Southampton (UK)
Smart, hybrid liquid crystal devices
- Kristiaan Neyts Ghent University (Belgium)
Liquid Crystal TV and OLED TV: issues and opportunities
- Lech Longa Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Nematic twist-bend and related nematic structures: from simulations to mesoscopic models
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Riccardo Barberi Universitàdella Calabria (Italy) (CANCELED)
- Vladimir Bezborodov Belarusian State Tecnological Uniersity (Belarus) (CANCELED)
- Oleksandr Buchnev University of Southampton (UK)
Controlling Nanoscale Motion and Deformations in Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems with Nematic Liquid Crystals
- Timothy Bunning Air Force Research Laboratory (USA)
LC/Polymer Thin Films with Novel Optical Properties
- Vladimir Chigrinov Foshan University (China) (CANCELED)
- Ingo Dierking University of Manchester (UK)
Effects of particles in liquid crystal defects and defect phases
- Alexander Emelyanenko Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia)
Molecular Mechanisms Responsible for the Smectic Layer Formation, Elasticity and Nonuniformity of the Order Parameters
- Dean Evans Air Force Research Laboratory (USA)
Ferroelectric nanoparticles: how they work and their role in liquid crystal applications
- Araoka Fumito RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (Japan)
Electrically-Controllable Dynamic Solitons in Nematics
- Zbigniew Galewski University of Wroclaw (Poland)
Chiral mesogenic phases of azobenzene derivatives
- Tigran Galstian Laval University (Canada)
Liquid crystals in biology
- Anatoliy Glushchenko University of Colorado (USA)
Liquid Crystals / Polymer Composites for Fast Electro-Optical Response
- Maria Godinho New University of Lisbon (Portugal)
Twist-bend Cellulose-based Ribbons
- Antal Jakli Kent State University (USA)
Low voltage driven large bending of ionic liquid crystal elastomers
- Mirosław A. Karpierz, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Vortex beam propagation in nonlocal nonlinear soft matter
- Michal Kohout University of Chemistry and Technology (Czech Republic)
Chirality matters: The effect of enantiomeric impurities on physical properties of chiral liquid crystals
- Peter Kopcansky Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovak Republic)
Ferronematics- liquid crystal based sensors of magnetic field
- Samo Krajl University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Topological defects in nematic liquid crystals: playground of fundamental physics
- Wei Lee National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan)
Color tuning in a cholesteric soft superstructure by means of pseudo-dielectric relaxation
- Matthias Lehmann University of Würzburg (Germany)
Intrinsic Void as a Design Tool for Complex Liquid Crystals
- Andrzej Miniewicz Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)
Complex refractive index and order parameter study in phototropic azobenzene-based single component liquid crystals
- Antonio M. F. Neto University of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Experimental Conditions for the Stabilization of the Lyotropic Biaxial Nematic Mesophase
- Vladimira NovotnaThe Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Lactic acid derivatives: unusual mesomorphic behavior and nanotube formation in the crystalline phase
- Jose Manuel Oton Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)
Liquid crystal spiral diffractionlenses
- Paweł Perkowski Military University of Technology (Poland)
Dielectric spectroscopy of condensed matter. How to overcome the parasitic effects?
- Paweł Pierański Université Paris-Sud (France)
Story of Liquid Crystals in Poland
- Victor Reshetnyak Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine)
Using cholesteric liquid crystals to tune Tamm plasmons
- Blanca Ros University of Zaragoza (Spain)
TEG-decorated bent-core molecules: Liquid crystalline and further supramolecular possibilities
- Giusy Scalia, University of Luxemburg (Luxemburg)
Alignment and functionalities of liquid crystals with carbon nanotubes
- Jose Luis Serrano University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Semiconductor and luminescent materials based on supramolecular liquid crystal organizations
- Marzena Tykarska Military University of Technology (Poland)
Helical structure of liquid crystalline SmC*A phase tested by spectroscopic methods
- Piotr Wasylczyk University of Warsaw (Poland)
Small scale, light-driven robots with liquid crystal elastomer muscles: caterpillars, snails and what's next.
- Tomasz Woliński Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)
Liquid crystals infiltrated photonic crystal fibers doped with metallic nanoparticles for enhanced electric field tunability
- Nataša Vaupotič University of Maribor (Slovenia)
Complex helicoidal structure of layered phases made of achiral molecules
- Slobodan Žumer University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Half-skyrmion lattices in blue phases confined to thin layers by uniform and patterned surfaces