| 8:30 | Registration | |
| 8:45 | Opening ceremony | |
| Chair: Mojca Vilfan | ||
| 9:00 | Tommaso Bellini Polarization of FNLC and electric field propagation in microchannels | |
| 9:30 | Liana Luccheti FNLCs droplets confined between lithium niobate substrates | |
| 10:00 | Péter Salamon Interfacial instabilities in ferroelectric nematics controlled by electric fields | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Antal Jákli | ||
| 11:00 | Jonathan Selinger Do Ferroelectric Nematics Love or Hate Splay? | |
| 11:30 | Alenka Mertelj Splay deformation and antiferroelectric nematic phase | |
| 12:00 | Yu-Tung Hsiao Lateral electric field switching in photo-aligned and rubbed ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal cells | |
| 12:30 | Inge Nys Exploration of the nematic and ferroelectric nematic phase in DIO: alignment and E-field effects George Cordoyiannis Amended phase diagram of RM734/DIO mixtures and evidence for an intermediate phase in RM734 Matija Lovšin Patterning of 2D second harmonic generation active arrays. Andrej Petelin dtmm: a simulation toolbox for POM and SHG imaging - towards AI-assisted director reconstruction | |
| 13:00 | Lunch (IJS Menza) | |
| Chair: Martin Čopič | ||
| 15:00 | Noel Clark Frustration and Reentrant isotropy in the Ferroelectric Nematic Realm | |
| 15:30 | Pierre Nacke The variations of polar and antipolar order in ferroelectric nematics | |
| 16:00 | Aitor Erkoreka Dielectric spectroscopy of polar nematic liquid crystals | |
| 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Péter Salamon | ||
| 17:00 | Nataša Vaupotič Do ferroelectric nematics really have a huge dielectric permittivity? | |
| 17:30 | Vladimira Novotna Twisted domains in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals | |
| 18:00 | Jeffrey Everts Electric double layers in nematic liquid crystals: in- and out-of-equilibrium effects | |
Programme
The length of all lectures is 25+5 minutes including discussion. We strongly advise for strict timekeeping as it will be essential for the smooth running of the workshop and we kindly ask you for your help with it. Lectures must be in English.
Additionally, we are planning elevator pitch sessions to facilitate interaction with all participants, with presenting time limited to 5 minutes. In this case presentations will need to be uploaded to the workshop computer to ensure smooth and efficient transition between pitch speakers.
Timetable:
Detailed timetable:
| Chair: Slobodan Žumer | ||
| 9:00 | Oleg Lavrentovich Periodic states of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals | |
| 9:30 | Yu Zou Electric-polarization topologies of achiral and chiral ferroelectric nematics in confined spaces | |
| 10:00 | Matjaž Humar Tuneable entangled photon pair generation in ferroelectric nematics | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Rebecca Walker | ||
| 11:00 | Richard J. Mandle Polar Liquid Crystals: New Materials and Phase Types | |
| 11:30 | Damian Pociecha Spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking in polar fluid – heliconical ferroelectric nematic phase | |
| 12:00 | Matthias Lehmann Polar Biaxial Nematogens on the Way to become Ferroelectric. | |
| 12:30 | Calum J. Gibb Chemical Structure Spaces of polar LC Phases Jordan Hobbs Novel Polar Smectic Phases Ewan Cruickshank Structural modifications to RM734 Tomas Landovsky Synthesis of potential ferroelectric nematogens with nitrogen-based electron donating group | |
| 13:00 | Lunch (IJS Menza) | |
| Chair: Liana Luccheti | ||
| 15:00 | Antal Jákli Self-assembly properties and electromechanical effects of ferroelectric nematic materials. | |
| 15:30 | Peter Medle-Rupnik Viscous mechano-electric effect in ferroelectric nematics | |
| 16:00 | Alexey Eremin Magnetic liquid crystal nanocomposites from ferronematics to ferroelectric magnets | |
| 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Jan Lagerwall | ||
| 17:00 | Marcell Máthé Active state and optical manipulation of polar nematic droplets | |
| 17:30 | Qi-Huo Wei Topological Structures of Domain Walls in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals | |
| 19:00 | Workshop Dinner – Gostilna Čad | |
| Chair: Matthias Lehmann | ||
| 9:00 | Rebecca Walker Structure-property relationships in ferroelectric nematogens | |
| 9:30 | Yaohao Song Design of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal materials with highly rigid mesogens | |
| 10:00 | Miha Ravnik Neural network applications for light and material control in nematics | |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Chair: Nataša Vaupotič | ||
| 11:00 | Hiroya Nishikawa Ferroelecrtric fluid synthesis factory: Ferroelectric-nematic, -smectic, -heliconical nematic, -helielectric smectic etc. | |
| 11:30 | Mojca Čepič Can the triad chirality, polarity and tilt manifest in chiral polar nematics? | |
| 12:00 | Federico Caimi & Stefano Marni Further results on confined ferroelectric nematics & Optical control of ferroelectric droplets on ferroelectric solids | |
| 12:30 | Alexander Jarosik Behaviour of ferroelectric nematic filaments in oscillating fields Natalia Podoljak Polar nematic phases with enantiotropic ferro- and antiferroelectric behaviour. Tom Ott Ferroelectric Nematic Phase in RM734 Mixtures Peter Marinko Simulation of a ferroelectric nematic | |
| 12:50 | Closing | |
| 13:00 | Lunch (IJS Menza) | |
| 15:00 | Lab visits/Disc. Time | |
| 16:30 | Coffee break | |