Partial Order: Mathematics, Simulations and Applications

January 25 - 29, 2016

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 25, 2016

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Ping Sheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

Determining hydrodynamic boundary condition from equilibrium fluctuations*
PDF Presentation

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Daniel Phillips (Purdue University)

Defects in Smectic C Liquid Crystals

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Epifanio Virga (Università di Pavia)

Drops of twist-bend nematic liquid crystals
PDF Presentation

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Arghir Zarnescu (University of Sussex)

Liquid crystal inertia in the Qian-Sheng model
PDF Presentation

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Tao Huang (NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai)

Finite time singularity of the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension three
PDF Presentation

5:00 - 6:30 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Duvan Henao Manrique (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Biaxiality near defects in nematic equilibria at low temperatures

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Linda Cummings (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Modeling free surface flow of nematic liquid crystal
PDF Presentation

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Paul Atzberger (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Approaches for Lipid Bilayer Membranes
PDF Presentation

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Mathematical Modeling of Incommensurate Materials


Thursday, January 28, 2016

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
Miha Ravnik (University of Ljubljana)

Topology of active and passive nematic defects

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
L Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Folded matter: from origami to the brain

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:20
Patrick Dondl (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

Motion of interfaces in random media: pinning and some applications

3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:35
Chun Liu (Penn State University)

Complex Fluids in Biological Environments

4:45 - 5:00 Break
5:00 - 5:50

Friday, January 29, 2016

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
John Ball (University of Oxford)

Planar discontinuities for liquid crystals
PDF Presentation

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Xu Yang (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))

Pathway-based mean-field models for E. coli chemotaxis
PDF Presentation

12:30 Conclusion