| 17:00 | Welcome reception & Registration |
Programme
All lectures will be held either on-site with online streaming or online and with streaming in the Lecture hall. The Local Organising Committee will work hard to ensure smooth transitions and interactivity between all participants.
The length of lectures is 40 minutes for Plenary, 30 minutes for Invited and 20 minutes for Orals including discussion*. Strict timekeeping will be essential for the smooth running of this conference and we kindly ask you for your help with it. Lectures must be in English.
Additionally, elevator pitch sessions are planned for Poster contributions to facilitate interaction with online participants, with presenting time limited to 3 minutes.
Detailed instructions are available here.
*In the case that we are forced to go fully online due to a worsening of pandemic situation, lecture length will be adapted to a newer fully online schedule. We kindly ask for your understanding.
Final timetable:
Detailed timetable:
| 8:00 | Registration | |
| 8:50 | Opening ceremony | |
| Chair: Alenka Mertelj | ||
| 9:20 | PL1: Richard Mandle An Unexpected Discovery of a New Nematic Phase | |
| 10:00 | O1: Mingjun Huang How far can we push the length limit of rod mesogens for ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals? | |
| 10:20 | Poster Pitch Session: Kazuyuki Hiraoka, Pierre Nacke, Federico Caimi | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Alberta Ferrarini | ||
| 11:00 | I1: Satoshi Aya Topology and electro-optic properties of ferroelectric nematic materials | |
| 11:30 | O2: Nerea Sebastián Investigations of the nematic to ferroelectric nematic transition | |
| 11:50 | O3: Peter Salamon Droplets and inverse droplets of a polar nematic material in electric fields | |
| 12:10 | Poster Pitch Session: Marcell Máthé, Josu Martinez-Perdiguero, Marouen Chemingui, Andrej Petelin | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Hajnalka Nadasi | ||
| 14:00 | I2: Carsten Tschierske Chirality synchronization in fluids by network formation | |
| 14:30 | O4: Matthias Lehmann Design of polar subphthalocyanine star mesogens for photoconductive materials – alignment, photophysical and electronic properties | |
| 14:50 | O5: Alberto Concellón Electric-Field-Induced Chirality in Columnar Liquid Crystals | |
| 15:10 | Poster Pitch Session: Jakub Karcz, Barbora Jansová, Michal Šmahel, Magdalena Urbańska, Mohamed Alaasar | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Alexey Eremin | ||
| 16:00 | I3: Ivan Smalyukh Pseudo-polar orientational order in monoclinic nematics | |
| 16:30 | O6: Gregory Smith Existence of the B-Form DNA helix in nanoDNA liquid crystals and its variation due to aggregate assembly | |
| 16:50 | Poster Pitch Session: Peter Tipping, Giovanni Nava, Daniel Budaszewski, Melani Potrč | |
| 17:20 | On-site Poster Session | |
| 19:00 | End of Day 1 | |
| Chair: Kristiaan Neyts | |
| 9:00 | I4: Jan Lagerwall Enabling technological revolutions with the endless potential of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) |
| 9:30 | O7: Inge Nys Surface induced metastable chiral liquid crystal structures with hysteresis switching |
| 9:50 | O8: Natalia Podoliak Smectic A layers undulations manifested through the stripe textures in achiral liquid crystals |
| 10:10 | Poster Pitch Session: Marcell Máthé, Vitaly Sutormin, Yu Wang |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Slobodan Žumer | |
| 11:00 | I5: Oleg Lavrentovich Optics and material properties of oblique helicoidal cholesterics |
| 11:30 | O9: Migle Stebryte Forward diffraction by chiral liquid crystal gratings with inclined helical axis |
| 11:50 | O10: Wojciech Tomczyk Flexopolarization and its role in the formation of twist-bend nematic phase: bridging theory and experiment |
| 12:10 | Poster Pitch Session: Olena Iadlovska, Olga Strzeżysz, Vitaly P. Panov |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| Chair: Peter Salamon | |
| 14:00 | I6: Antal Jákli Multiple ferroelectric nematic phases of a highly polar liquid crystal compound |
| 14:30 | O11: Žiga Gregorin Dynamics of domain formation in a ferromagnetic liquid |
| 14:50 | Poster Pitch Session: Tommaso Bellini, Mojca Vilfan, Sergey Pasechnik, Peter Salamon, Xi Chen, Michely Rosseto |
| 15:20 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Martin Čopič | |
| 16:00 | O12: Joseph Maclennan Experimental studies of the structure and phase behaviour of two ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals |
| 16:20 | PL2: Noel Clark Antiferroelectric Smectic Ordering as a Prelude to the Ferroelectric Nematic: Introducing the Smectic Z Phase |
| 17:20 | Online Poster Session (in Gather.town) |
| 19:00 | End of Day 2 |
| Chair: Nataša Vaupotič | |
| 9:00 | PL3: Ewa Górecka Photonic band gap in achiral liquid crystals – a twist on a twist |
| 9:40 | I7: Dong Ki Yoon Light-driven fabrication of helical nanostructures for optical applications |
| 10:10 | O13: Jun-ichi Fukuda Simulation study of twin boundaries in cholesteric blue phase |
| 10:30 | Poster Pitch Session: Nataša Vaupotič, Hyewon Park, Yun-Seok Choi |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Miha Ravnik | |
| 11:10 | O14: Simon Čopar Chiral topological states in flowing achiral nematics |
| 11:30 | O15: Guilhem Poy Optical solitons and chirality-enhanced nonlinear optical response in frustrated cholesterics |
| 11:50 | O16: Liana Lucchetti Pitch tuning induced by optical torque in heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals |
| 12:10 | Poster Pitch Session: Matevž Marinčič, Urban Mur, Cheng Long, Sławomir Pieprzyk, Dina Jukić |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | End of Day 3 |
| Chair: Matthias Lehmann | |
| 9:00 | PL4: Fumito Araoka Mixtures of Polar Columnar Liquid Crystals – Does the Domain Size Effect Improve the Switching Speed? |
| 9:40 | I8: Goran Ungar Liquid crystal phase of counter-rotating staircases – A case of antiferrochirality |
| 10:10 | O17: Xiangbing Zeng Molecular Origin of Spontaneous Macroscopic Chirality in Bicontinuous Cubic and Non-cubic Phases |
| 10:30 | Poster Pitch Session: Nika Kralj, Dorota Dardas, Tetiana Yevchenko |
| 10:40 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Jan Lagerwall | |
| 11:10 | I9: Surajit Dhara Smectic-like rheology and pseudolayer compression elastic constant of a twist-bend nematic liquid crystal |
| 11:40 | O18: Maria Helena Godinho Cellulose-based composites for colour-changing structural powders and inks |
| 12:00 | O19: Per Rudquist Confinement, twist elasticity and intrinsic chirality in micellar lyotropic nematic liquid crystals: A delicate balancing act |
| 12:20 | Poster Pitch Session: Irena Drevenšek Olenik, Peter Medle Rupnik, Vladimira Novotna, Paweł Perkowski, Patricija Hribar Boštjančič |
| 12:40 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Online Poster Session (in Gather.town) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Mojca Čepič | |
| 16:00 | I10: Alberta Ferrarini Molecular features and polar nematic order |
| 16:30 | O20: Davide Revignas How shape polarity and concavity of mesogens affect Frank elastic constants |
| 16:50 | O21: Jonathan Selinger Director Deformations, Geometric Frustration, and Modulated Phases in Liquid Crystals |
| 17:10 | O22: Dina Jukić Chiral polar bent-shape system: Why do gaps appear between certain relaxation modes? |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner |
| Chair: Oleg Lavrentovich | |
| 9:00 | PL5: Sofia Kantorovich The effects of particle shape on the self-assembly |
| 9:40 | I11: Alexey Eremin Magnetic Tilting in Nematic Liquid Crystals driven by Self-Assembly |
| 10:10 | O23: Melvin Küster Ferromagnetic nematics in rotating and oscillating magnetic fields |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
| Chair: Simon Čopar | |
| 11:00 | I12: Vladimir Chigrinov Photoaligned ferroelectric liquid crystals: new electrooptical modes |
| 11:30 | O24: Mikhail Osipov Competition between ferroelectric ordering and elastic instability in polar nematic LCs. Why the ferromagnetic state may be stable while the ferroelectric one is not. |
| 11:50 | O25: Oxana Prishchepa Periodic structures of linear defects in cholesteric layer with conical-planar anchoring under electric field |
| 12:10 | Closing Ceremony |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | End of the conference |
Photo by Mojca Vilfan