Fall 2009
September 2 | Prof. Ji-Ping Huang, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, "Physics Meets Economics: Econophysics" [View Abstract] |
September 16 | Prof. Martin Bier, Department of Physics, East Carolina University, NC, "The Biological Significance of the Lipid Bilayer's Melting Transition" [View Abstract] |
September 23 | Prof. Slobodan Zumer, Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, "Colloidal Superstructures in Achiral and Chiral Nematic Phases" [View Abstract] |
September 30 | Prof. Scott Milner, Department of Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, PA, "Crystal-Melt Interfaces, Rotator Phases, and Nucleation in Polyethylene" [View Abstract] |
October 8 (Thursday, 4:00 PM) |
Prof. Stephen Morris, Department of Physics,
University of Toronto, "Icicles, Washboard Road and Meandering Syrup"
[View
Abstract] Note: This is a joint colloquium with the Department of Physics |
October 21 | Prof. Thein Kyu, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH, "Photopolymerization Induced Phase Transitions in Holographic Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals and Photonic Crystals" [View Abstract] |
October 28 | Dr. Gareth Alexander, University of Pennsylvania, "Periodic Structures in Chiral Liquid Crystals" [View Abstract] |
November 17 (Tuesday, 3:30 PM) |
Dr. Kyoungweon Park, Air Force Research Lab, Nanostructured and Biological Materials Branch, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, "Colloidal strategies to synthesize architecturally and functionally complex nanoparticles" [View Abstract] |
December 2 | Dr. Dan Savin, University of Southern Mississippi, School of Polymers and High Performance Materials, "Interfacial curvature effects in polypeptide-based block copolymer assemblies" [View Abstract] |
December 9 | Dr. Hartmut Lowen, Institute for Theoretical Physics II - Soft Matter, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, "Colloidal liquid crystals under external and internal drives" [View Abstract] |
Spring 2009
January 26 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Dr. Charles Reichhardt, Los Alamos National
Laboratory, NM,
"Using Colloids to Explore Complex Matter with Competing
Interactions" |
January 28 | Prof. Monica Olvera de la Cruz, Northwestern University, IL, "Nano-Patterns in Gels of Charged Chains" [View Abstract] |
February 2 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Dr. Cynthia Reichhardt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM, "Local Probes of Melting, Decoupling, and Jamming Transitions" [View Abstract] |
February 4 | Prof. Judit E. Puskas, University of Akron, "Novel Carbon Nanocomposite Biomaterials" [View Abstract] |
February 11 | Prof. Matthew Glaser, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, "Soft Shoulders and Cluster Phases: Novel Colloidal Paths to Liquid Crystallinity" |
February 18 | Prof. Sergij Shiyanovskii, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, "Theoretical Diversity of Liquid Crystals: Problems, Models and Methods" [View Abstract] |
February 23 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Prof. Victor Reshetnyak, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, "Theoretical Modeling of Heterogeneous Liquid Crystal Systems" |
February 25 | Dr. Matt Lynch, Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Suspending Particles in Complex Fluids" [View Abstract] |
March 11 | Prof. Ophelia Tsui, Department of Physics, Boston University, "Liquid Crystal Alignment Control by Frustrated Boundary" [View Abstract] |
March 30 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Prof. Changhuei Yang, Department of Electric Engineering and Bioengineering, California Institute of Technology, "Novel Optical Approaches for Biomedical Applications - From Dime-Size Microscopes to Time-Reversal Based Suppression of Tissue Turbidity" [View Abstract] |
April 6 (Monday, 1:00 PM) |
Prof. Wim H. de Jeu, Director of X-ray Facility, Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "On the subtleties of smectic layer ordering" [View Abstract] |
April 13 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Prof. Rajeswari Kasi, Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science & Chemistry Department, University of Connecticut, "Self-Assembling Polymers: Ordering on Multiple Length Scales" [View Abstract] |
April 15 | Prof. Hyuk Yu, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin - Madison, "Polymer Surface Functionalization and Endovascular MRI Applications" |
April 22 | Prof. Michael Hu, Department of Marketing, Kent State University, "Artificial Neural Networks, Strategic Alliances and Consumer Research" [View Abstract] |
April 29 | Prof. Royce Zia, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, "New Surprises in Driven Systems with Two Species" [View Abstract] |
Fall 2008
September 10 |
Dr. Hiroshi Yokoyama, National Institute of
Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
"Nano-Craft of Liquid Crystal Surface Alignment: Theory and
Implementation" |
September 24 | Prof. Igor Sokolov, Department of Physics and Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, "Liquid Crystal Template Self-Assembly of Nanoporous Particles: Shape Control and the Applications" [View Abstract] |
September 26 (Friday, 12 noon) |
Dr. David Siegel, Givaudan Flavors Corporation,
Cincinnati, OH, "Membrane Fusion: just a passing phase" Note: This is a joint seminar with Department of Biological Sciences. |
October 6 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Dr. Ivan Dozov, Vice President for Research and Development, Nemoptic, Magny les Hameaux, France, "Weak anchoring and anchoring breaking in liquid crystals: Basic Physics and Applications" |
October 15 | Prof. Paul Cremer, Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, "Using Supported Bilayers as a Separation Matrix for Proteomics" |
October 22 | Prof. Cheng Sun, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University, "Optical Metamaterials - From concept to the experimental demonstration" |
Oct. 27 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Dr. A. Schönle, Department of NanoBiophotonics,
Max Planck Institute, Germany, "Fluorescence Nanoscopy Through
Optical Switching"
[View Abstract]
|
November 5 |
Prof. Peixuan Guo, Dane and
Mary Louise Miller Endowed Chair in Biomedical Engineering,
|
November 17 (Monday, 4:00 PM) |
Prof. Margaret W. Frey, Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, "Formation and functions of high surface area fabrics" [View Abstract and Bio] |
November 19 | Prof. Nongjian Tao, Department of Electrical Engineering & School of Materials Research, Arizona State University, "Molecular Electronics and Sensors" |
December 3 | Prof. Michael Rubinstein, John P. Barker Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Physics of a Lung: A Simplified View of Airway Surface Layer of a Lung" [View Abstract] |
December 10 |
Prof. Nader Engheta,
H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor of
Electrical and Systems Engineering,
and
Professor of Bioengineering,
|
Summer 2008
June 11 |
Prof. Yuriy Reznikov, Institute of
Physics, Kiev, Ukraine, "Ferroelectric colloids in nematic liquid
crystals"
|
Monday, July 7 |
Prof. Sir John Ball, Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford, UK, "Remarks on Q-tensor theory" |
August 4 Monday 4:00 PM |
Dr. Sharon A. Jewell, School of Physics,
University of Exeter, UK, “Metamaterials, microstructures and
microscopy Some recent research topics in liquid crystal optics”
|
Spring 2008
Jan. 14 |
Dr. Shanju Zhang, School
of Polymer, Textile and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Technology, "Liquid Crystalline Self-Assembly in Bio and
Nano Materials"
[View Abstract]
|
Jan. 16 |
Dr. Chanjoong Kim,
Department of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University, "Perturbed Dynamics of Soft
Materials: Colloidal glasses and gels under stress"
[View Abstract]
|
To be rescheduled |
Prof. Michael Shelley, Lilian and George Lyttle
Professor of Applied Mathematics, Courant Institute,
Note: This |
Jan. 30 |
Dr. Ruben Ramos Garcia, National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico, “Nonlinear phase contrast microscope using dye-doped liquid crystals” |
Feb. 4 |
Prof. B. Zalar,
Department of Solid
State
Physics,
J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia,
"Some
current topics in liquid crystal elastomer research: deuteron NMR study
of paranematic-nematic transition criticality and piezoresistivity of
nanoparticle-reprocessed networks |
Feb. 6 |
Prof. Richard J. Spontak, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, “Molecular Design of Nanostructured Block Copolymers as a Route to High-Performance Electroelastomers” |
March 5 |
Prof. Linda Hirst, Department of Physics, Florida State University, "Controlling liquid crystalline phases in the lipid bilayer" |
March 7 12:00 PM (Friday) |
Prof. Kenji Urayama,
|
March 19 |
Prof. Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory,
|
March 26 |
Prof. Alexander G. Petrov, Director
of the Institute of
|
April 2 |
Prof. Vladmir M. Agranovich,
The NanoTech Institute, The
|
To be rescheduled |
Prof. Sasha Govorov, Department of Physics, Ohio University,
“Optical properties of coupled
semiconductor and metal nanocrystals: Exciton-plasmon interaction and
nonlinear effects” |
April 16 | Prof. Matthew A. Glaser, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, “Nanophase segregation and frustration: chirality, splay, and curvature in bent-core smectics” |
April 30 |
Prof. Paul Goldbart,
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May 7 |
Prof. Robert H. Austin,
|
Fall 2007
Sept. 12 |
Prof. Christopher Gorman, Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, "Dendrimers and Patterned Surfaces: Electron Transfer 'to' and ‘through’ for Molecular Electronics" |
Oct. 10 |
Prof. Lorenzo Marrucci, The National Institute for Nuclear Physics, Naples, ""Spinning" and "twisting" a light beam and other wavefront-shaping tricks performed by suitably patterned liquid crystals" |
Oct. 31 |
Prof. Ting Zhu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Modeling Hyperelastic Crystals" |
Nov. 7 |
Prof. Randall D. Kamien, Vicki and William Abrams Professor in Natural Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, "On the Stability of Large Angle Grain Boundaries" |
Nov.
19
NOTICE: Monday (4:00) |
Prof. Sahraoui Chaieb, Department
of Mechanical Science and Engineering,
|
Nov.
26 NOTICE: Monday (4:00) |
Dr. Bharat Acharya, Platypus Technologies,
|
Dec. 5 | Dr. Rafael Verduzco, Oak Ridge National Lab, "Self-assembled Liquid Crystal Gels" |
Dec. 12 |
Prof. L. Jay Guo, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan, "Nanoimprint technology and its application in polymer based photonic devices" |
Spring 2007
January 17. |
Prof. Coleen Pugh, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH. Title: Architectural Effects in Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers |
January 24. |
Dr. Eric Sirota, Corporate Strategic Research, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Annandale, NJ Title: The Physics of Asphaltenes |
January 31. |
Prof. Royce Zia, Department of Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Title: American Football, Barber Poles, and Clouds: Pattern Formation in Biased Diffusion of Two Species |
February 21. |
Prof. Noel Clark, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Title: Living Polymerization and Liquid Crystal Condensation of Nanoscale DNA |
February 28. |
Dr. Ronald Pindak, National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY Title: Using Synchrotron X-Ray Techniques to Determine the Complex Structures Exhibited by Liquid Crystal Molecules and Explore their Rich Phase Behavior |
April 4. |
Joint Seminar with Department of Philosophy Prof. Caroline Whitbeck, Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science, Department of Philosophy, and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Title: Research Conduct and Misconduct: Stories from the Online Ethics Center |
April 11. |
Prof. Evgenii Narimanov, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Title: Recent Progress in Negative Index Materials and Subwavelength Imaging |
April 25. |
Prof. Greg Huber, Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT Title: The Soft Geometry of Phospholipid Membranes: From Tethers to the Endoplasmic Reticulum |
May 2. |
Prof. Timothy Sluckin, Faculty of Mathematical Studies, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Title: Theories of Biaxial Liquid Crystals |
Fall 2006
September 27. |
Dr. Zvonimir Dogic, Rowland Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Title: Self-Assembly of Biopolymers with a Twist |
October 4, at 3:15. |
Prof. Xiaoyu Zheng, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH Title: Effective Property Characterization of Nano-Composites from Homogenization and Percolation Theory |
October 11. |
Dr. Alberto Fernandez-Nieves, Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Title: Defect Structures in Nematic Liquid Crystal Shells |
October 18. |
Prof. Roger Quinn, Biologically Inspired Robotics Laboratory, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Title: Running, Jumping, Climbing and Flying Robots Inspired by Animals |
October 25. |
Prof. Mark Robbins, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD Title: Deformation of Glassy Materials: Yield, Strain Hardening, Crazing and Fracture |
November 1. |
Prof. Alex Levine, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, CA Title: The Mechanics of Semiflexible Networks: Implications for the Cytoskeleton |
November 8. |
Prof. Alex Travesset, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA Title: The Hydrophobic Effect and the Phase Diagram of Non-ionic Multiblock Polymers in Water |
November 15. |
Joint Seminar with College of Arts & Sciences and Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematical Sciences, and Computer Science Prof. Jearl Walker, Department of Physics, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH Title: The Flying Circus of Physics |
Friday, December 1. |
Prof. Dirk Broer, Philips Research Laboratories and Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Title: Polymers in Motion: From Painted Displays to Artificial Muscles |
December 6. |
Dr. Jawad Naciri and Dr. Christopher Spillmann, Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC Title: To be announced |
Spring 2006
January 18. |
Dr. Congjun Wang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Title: Chemical Means towards Controlling the Electronic Properties of Nanoscale Materials |
January 25. |
Prof. Jiyu Fang, Department of Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Title: 1D Soft Nanomaterials Based on Molecular Self-Assembly: From Lipid Tubules to Peptide Tapes |
February 1. |
Dr. Qi-Huo Wei, Applied NanoBioscience Center and Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Title: Soft Matter Confined in Low Dimensions |
February 8. |
Prof. Michael Escuti, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Title: Reactive and Switchable Liquid Crystal Polarization Gratings for Ultra-Efficient Displays and Diffractive Optics |
February 15. |
Dr. Leiming Li, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX Title: Nanomaterials and Biomaterials: Preparation, Manipulation, and Characterization |
Thursday, February 16, |
Joint Seminar with Departments of Physics and Mathematical Sciences Prof. Gerhard Dangelmayr, Department of Mathematics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO Title: Globally Coupled Ginzburg Landau Equations for Electroconvention in Nematic Liquid Crystals |
Monday, February 27, |
Dr. Pavel Kossyrev, Division of Engineering, Brown University, Providence, RI Title: Intriguing Plasmonic Nanostructures Integrated with Soft Matter Materials |
Monday, March 6, |
Dr. Viatcheslav Berejnov, Physics Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Title: A Soft Condensed Matter View on Protein Crystallization |
April 19. |
Dr. Michi Nakata, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Title: Liquid Crystal Phases of Nanoscale Duplex DNA |
May 3. |
Prof. Morton Denn, Levich Institute for Physico-Chemical Hydrodynamics, City College of New York/CUNY, New York, NY Title: Interfacial Coupling in Suspensions of Liquid Crystalline Droplets in a Flexible Polymer Matrix |
Fall 2005
September 7. |
Prof. Stephen Cheng, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron, Akron, OH. Title: The Origin of Self-Assembled Helical Supra-Molecular Structures in Achiral Biphenyl Carboxylic Acid Liquid Crystalline Compounds |
September 21. |
Dr. Sergey Lopatnikov, Center for Composite Materials, University of Delaware, Newark, DE. Title: Liquid Crystals as "Smart Solvents" for Nanotechnology: Theoretical Background |
September 28. |
Prof. David Stroud, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Title: Optical Properties of Nanoscale Materials |
October 12. |
Prof. Vladimir A. Belyakov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia Title: Structure Transformation of Confined Chiral Liquid Crystals Influenced by Surface Anchoring and Thermal Fluctuations |
October 19. |
Joint Seminar with College of Arts & Sciences Dr. John Rumble, Information International
Associates, Gaithersburg, MD |
November 2. |
Prof. David Statman, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA Title: Photo-Induced Reorientation of Dyed Liquid Crystals: Bulk and Surface Effects |
November 16. |
Prof. Kenneth Singer, Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Title: Carrier Transport in Columnar Liquid Crystals |
November 30. |
Seminar of the KSU Student Chapter of the Materials Research Society Hugh Wonderly, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH Title: Inkjet Printing |
December 14. |
Double Seminar Dr. David Kessler, Engineering Physics Laboratory, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY Title: LCOS Applications in Printing, Digital Cinema and Autostereoscopic Displays Dr. Jehuda Greener, Engineering Physics Laboratory, Eastman Kodak, Rochester, NY Title: The Optical Properties of Polarizer Films for LCD Display: A Viscoelastic Modeling Framework |
Spring 2005
January 19. |
Prof. Lech Longa, Department of Statistical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. Title: Correlations in chiral liquid crystals |
January 26. |
Prof. Kaushik Bhattacharya, Department of Mechanics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Title: Electromechanical properties of ferroelectric ceramics |
February 2. |
Dr. Alexei Boulbitch, Department for Biophysics
E22, Technical University Munich, Germany |
February 9. |
Prof. John Lowengrub, Department of Mathematics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA Joint Seminar with Department of Mathematics Title: Theory and simulation of crystal growth |
February 23. |
Prof. Antonio Figueiredo Neto, Complex Fluids Group, Institute of Physics, Universtity of Sao Paulo, Brazil Title: Characterization of native and oxidized human low-density lipoproteins by the Z-Scan technique |
March 2. |
Prof. Shu Yang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Title: Controlling light in three dimensions: from creation of 3D photonic structures to dynamic tuning of soft MEMS |
March 30. |
Prof. Jian-Min (Jim) Zuo, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Title: Atomic Structure and Growth of Carbon Nanotubes |
April 13. |
Dr. Katalin Fodor-Csorba, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics,
Hungary Academy of Sciences,
Title: New ester type monomeric banana-shaped liquid crystals and their polymers |
May 4. |
Prof. Liming Dai, Department of Materials Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH Title: Optoelectronic polymers and aligned carbon nanotubes |
May 16.* |
Dr. Konstantine Kaznatcheev, Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada Title: Pattern formation in simple liquid interfaces |
June 3.* |
Dr. T. Narayanan, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France Joint Seminar with Department of Physics Title: Micellar self-assembly in the millisecond time scale |
2005 Liquid Crystal Day
Speakers:
Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Selinger, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Shunsuke Kobayashi, Science University of Tokyo
To find out more, register or submit an abstract
visit:
Fall 2004
September 8. |
Dr. Veena Prasad, Centre for
Liquid Crystal Research, A new dimension
in bent-core liquid crystals: Photoresponsive
and electrically switchable mesophases |
September 22. |
Prof. Norbert Fruehauf, Chair of Display Technology, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Display Research at the Chair of Display Technology |
October 6. |
Prof. Michael Widom, Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA The search for spontaneously magnetized fluids |
October 20. |
Prof. Robin Selinger, Department of Physics, Catholic University, Washington, DC Patterning of topological defects in soft and hard condensed matter |
November 3. |
Prof. Tigran Galstian, Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada Photoinduced birefringence: The contribution of discotic defects |
November 10. |
Dr. Augustine Urbas, Air Force Research Laboratory/MLPJ, Dayton, OH Photo-optic Holographic Polymer/ Liquid Crystal Structures |
November 23. |
Prof. Slobodan Zumer, Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Title: Phase Transitions in Constrained Liquid Crystalline Systems: Porous Media, Elastomers and Emulsions |
December 1. |
Prof. Gerald R. Van Hecke, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California Title: Intermolecular Interaction or Why Love a Phase Diagram * The special seminar is sponsored by outreach program |
Spring 2004
January 21. |
Prof. Liu
Jun, Sandia National Laboratories,
Multiscale self-assembly approaches for
functional nanomaterials |
January 28. |
Professor Maria
Helena Figueiredo Godinho,
Materials Science,
University of New Shear-Induced
Order Effects in Urethane/Urea Elastomers |
February 4. |
Dr. Zohar Nussinov,
Glassy behavior
in geometrically frustrated liquids and the inverse glass
problem |
February 18. |
Dr. Jonathan V.
Selinger, Center for Bio/Molecular Science
and Engineering, Naval Research Laboratory,
Chirality and Molecular Order in Polymers,
Liquid Crystals and Lipid Microstructures |
February 20. |
Professor
Michael Shelley, Courant Institute of Mathematical
Bending and
Moving: Bodies interacting with fluids |
February 25. |
Professor Dr.
Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto,
Complex Fluids Group, Instituto de
Física, Universidade
de Săo Paulo, Săo
Paulo, SP, Brazil Determination of
the Soret coefficient in magnetic fluids: thermophobic and thermophilic materials |
March 3. |
Excitations in
DNA like molecules |
March 10. |
Ingrid A.
Rousseau, Shape Memory of
New Siloxane-based Liquid Crystalline Elastomers |
March 31. |
Professor Myong-Hoon Lee, Department of Polymer Science and
Technology, A New Photoalignable Polyimide with High Photosensitivity |
April 7. |
Professor Istvan Janossy, Research
Institute for Reorientation of
liquid crystals on soft polymer layers |
April 14. |
Prof. Roland Netz,
Current Topics in Soft Matter
Theory |
April 21. |
Dr. Jürgen Schmidtke, Physikalisches Institut,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet, Freiburg, Germany Photonic
properties of cholesteric liquid crystals |
May 5. |
Dr. Nándor Éber,
Research Institute for
Electro-convection in homeotropic nematics |
May12. |
Dr. Channabasaveshwar Yelamaggad, Centre for Liquid Crystal Research, Bangalore, India
A “Peelable Banana-shaped” Mesogen: A First Low Molar Mass Monodispersive Bent-Rod Dimer Exhibiting the Biaxial Nematic and Smectic A
Phase |
June 3. |
Prof. Dirk J. Broer, Philips Research Laboratories, Research Group 'Polymers and Organic Chemistry Polymer
morphologies controlled by light – light controlled by polymer
morphologies |
2004 Liquid Crystal Day
Speakers:
Noel A. Clark,
Peter J. Collings,
John H. Erdmann, Hana Microdisplays, Inc.
To find out more, register or submit an abstract
visit:
http://www.lcd.kent.edu/lcd2004/
Previous
Seminars
Fall 2003
September 11.* |
Dr. Hirotsugu Kikuchi, Department of Applied
Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Phase Behavior
and Optical Properties of Polymer-stabilized Cholesteric Blue Phase |
October 8. |
Dr. Paul F. McManamon, Infrared Sensors , Wright- Patterson AFB, OH Optical Phased
arrays moving towardphased arrays of phased
arrays Some pictures about his visit: |
October 22. |
Dr. Mohammad Islam, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Nematic nanotubes
gels |
October 29. |
Dr. Malgorzata Kujawinska,
Institute of Micromechanics and Photonics, Warsaw University of
Technology, Novel 3D
objects. Measurements and imaging methods: Why we need
SLM? |
November 5. |
Dr. Sarah Keller, Dept. Of Chemistry University Of Washington, Seattle, Wa Spheres that break out in
spots: Immiscible phases in membranes of lipids and
cholesterol |
November 12. |
Prof. Anselm C. GRIFFIN, The
|
November 19. |
Dr. Yashodhan
Hatwalne,
Raman Research Institute,
|
December 3. |
Prof. Carme Calderer,
School of
Mathematics, University of Minnesota, Joint Seminar
with Math department |
December 10. |
Prof. Peter
Halevi, Instituto
Nacional De Astrofisica, Theory on Liquid
crystals and Photonic band-gap (tentative title) |
December 17. |
S.T. Wu, Tunable liquid
crystal photonic devices |
Spring 2003
January 15. |
Prof. Phil
Castellano, Department of Chemistry, Center
for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green State University |
January 29. |
Dr. Brian DiDonna, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Pennsylvania, Smectic phases with cubic symmetry: the splay
analog of the blue phase |
February 5. |
Prof. Alex Seed, Dept. of Chemistry, Kent State University
|
February 12. |
Prof. Maurizio
Nobili, Universite
Montpelier II/CNRS, France |
February 26. |
Prof. R.K.P. Zia, Physics Department, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Non-equilibrium
statistical Mechanics:a growing frontier of
“pure and applied” theoretical physics |
March 12. |
Prof. Jun Zhang, Department of Physics, Courant Institute, NYU Joint Seminar with Department of
Physics Playful flexible
structures in moving fluid |
April 2. |
Prof. Hui Cao, Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University Lasing in
Disordered Media |
April 11.* |
Prof. Sajeev John,
Department of Physics, University of Toronto Photonic
Band Gap Materials:
Semiconductors of Light |
April 30. |
Prof. Carme Calderer,
School of Mathematics, University of
Minnesota,
Joint Seminar
with Math department Mathematical
modeling of ferroelectric phase transitions |
May 7. |
Prof. Daniel
Phillips, Department of
Mathematics, Purdue University |
May 16. |
Prof. Shunsuke Kobayashi, Liquid Crystal Institute,
Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi, Japan |
May 29.* |
Prof. Lachezar Komitov,
Chalmers University, Dynamic
anchoring of Liquid Crystals: Path to new applications |
Fall 2002
August 28 |
Sebastian Rauch, Technical University, Berlin,
Germany |
Sept. 3 |
Professor C.L. Khetrapal, Postgraduate
Medical Research Institute |
Sept. 18 |
Dr. Mary E. Neubert, Liquid Crystal
Institute, Kent State University |
Oct. 9 |
Drs. Laurence Kiernan, Oliver Petitpiere and Markus Hauser, European Patent
Office |
Oct. 16 |
Dr. R. Pratibha, Raman
Research Institute, Bangalore, India |
Nov. 6 |
Dr. Ken Werner, President, Nutmeg Consultants |
Nov. 13 |
Greg Wilson, Assoc. VP, Technology Transfer & Economic
Development |
Nov. 20 |
Dr. Warren Herman, Laboratory for Physical Sciences,
|
Spring 2002
February 6 |
Professor Isabel Carvalho, Department of Physics, PUC-Rio, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil |
February 20 |
Dr. Antal Jakli, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State
University |
February 27 |
Dr. Ranganathen Shashidhar, CBMSE NRL, Center for Bio/Molecular
Science and Engineering, |
March 13 |
Prof. Kenneth D. Singer, Department of Physics,
Case Western Reserve University |
March 20 |
Prof. Alex K-Y. Jen,University of
Washington |
April 3 |
Professor Christopher Woolverton, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Kent
State University |
April 10 |
Professor Gregory Crawford, Division of
Engineering, Brown University |
Fall 2001
seminars
September 5 |
Prof.V.A.Belyakov, Landau
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia |
September 12 |
Prof. Ru-Pin Chao Pan, Dept. of Electrophysics, national Chiao Tung University,
Taiwan |
October 31 |
Leo Holmberg, Senior LAN Administrator, Kent State
University |
November 7 |
Prof. Rolfe G. Petschek, Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve
University |
November 14 |
Prof. Paul Keyes, Department of Physics & AstronomyWayne State UniversityDetroit, MI |
November 28 |
Dr. Michael Wand, VP, Materials Research, Displaytech, Inc., Longmont, CO |
December 5 |
Dr. Paul Keyes, Department of Physics & Astronomy,Wayne State University,Detroit, MI |
December 12 |
Drs. Deborah Barnbaum and
Michael Byron, Asst. Professors of Philosophy,Kent State University |
Spring
2001
January 24 |
Dr. Mary Neubert,
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University |
February 2 |
Dr. Andrea J. Liu, University of California, Los
Angeles |
February 28 |
Dr. Primoz Ziherl, University of Pennsylvania |
March 14 |
Dr. John L. West, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University |
April 4 |
Joint LCI/Math Seminar |
April 11 |
Dr. Edward F. Kelley, National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) |
April 25 |
Dr. Barbara Frisken,
Harvard University |
May 2 |
Dr. Nicholas L. Abbott, University of Wisconsin,
Madison |
May 9 |
Dr. Robert Pelcovits,
Brown University |
May 30 |
Dr. Tigran Galstian, Laval University, Quebec |
June 21 (Thurs.)* |
Dr. Hideo Takezoe,
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo |
Fall
2000
September 8 (Friday) |
Dr. Deven Parghi, Technical University Berlin,
Germany |
September 27 |
Dr. Michael Fisch,
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University |
October 11 |
Professor Greg Forest, Univ. of North
Carolina |
October 20 (Friday)* |
Dr. Jun-ichi Hanna,
Imaging Science and Engineering Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo,
Japan |
October 25 |
Professor Michael Shelley, The Courant
Institute, NYU |
November 3 (Friday)* |
Dr. Joe Maclennan,
University of Colorado, Boulder |
November 8 |
Prof. Pierre Toledano,
European Synchrotron Facility, Grenoble, France
and Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Picardis, Amiens,
France |
November 15 |
Dr. Takeji Hashimoto,
Department of Polymer Chemistry, |
November 28 (Tues.)* |
Prof. Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania |
November 29 |
Dr. Mark Warner, Cavendish Laboratory,
Cambridge, England |
Spring 2000 Seminars
February 9 |
Dr. Suhaila Maluf Shibli, Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de São
Paulo |
February 23 |
Prof. Michael J. Shelley, Courant Institute, New
York University |
March 1 |
Dr. Akihiro Mochizuki, Displaytech, Inc., Longmont, CO |
March 8 |
Dr. Helen Gleeson, Department of Physics and
Astronomy, Schuster Laboratory, The University of Manchester,
UK |
March 15 |
Cancelled |
March 23* |
Prof. Werner Mormann,
Siegen University, Germany |
March 30* |
Prof. Timothy.M. Swager, Department of Chemistry, M I T, Cambridge,
MA |
April 5 |
Dr. M. Copic,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
April 12 |
Dr. David A. Weitz,
Harvard University |
April 19 |
Prof. Jack Kelly, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent
State University |
April 26 |
Tomohiro Ishikawa, Chemical Physics Program,
Kent State University |
May 3 |
Dr. M.P. Valignat,
College de France, Paris |
May 11* |
Prof. Y.R.Shen,
University of California at Berkeley |
May 12* |
Dr. M. Schadt, Rolich, Basel, Switzerland |
May 31 |
Dr. Daniel Kruerke,
Iwan-N.-Stranski Institut, Technische Universitat, Berlin, Germany |
Fall 1999
Seminars
September 8 |
Dr. Istvan Janossy, Research Institute for Solid State
Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary |
September 15 |
Dr. Bostjan Zalar, Jozef Stefan
Institute, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
September 22 |
2:00 - 3:00p.m. 3:30p.m. |
September 29 |
Prof. Epifanio G.
Virga, University of Pavia |
October 13 |
Professor Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto,
University of Sao Paulo |
October
26 |
Professor Steven Forrest, Princeton
University |
November 3 |
Dr. Nelson V. Tabiryan, BEAM Corporation |
November 17 |
Dr. Geetha G. Nair,
Centre for Liquid Crystal Research |
November 18 |
Dr. Doina Manaila, University Politehnica, Bucuresti,
Romania |
November 23 |
Professor Gregory S. Crawford, Brown
University |