Partial Order: Mathematics, Simulations and Applications - IPAM

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

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Ping Sheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Determining hydrodynamic boundary condition from equilibrium fluctuations*
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Arghir Zarnescu (University of Sussex)
Liquid crystal inertia in the Qian-Sheng model
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Tao Huang (NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai)
Finite time singularity of the nematic liquid crystal flow in dimension three
17:00-18:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Patricia Bauman (Purdue University)
Regularity and Related Properties for Minimizers of Maier-Saupe Energies for Liquid Crystals
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Changyou Wang (Purdue University)
On liquid crystal phase transitions between isotropic and nematic phase states
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jinhae Park (Chungnam National University)
Interface Problems arising in the Landau-de Gennes theory of Liquid Crystals
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Halim Kusumaatmaja (Durham University)
Analyzing the free energy landscapes of soft matter systems

Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Linda Cummings (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
Modeling free surface flow of nematic liquid crystal
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Paul Atzberger (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Fluctuating Hydrodynamics Approaches for Lipid Bilayer Membranes
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Aparna Baskaran (Brandeis University)
Taking a Ginzburg Landau Approach to Active Liquid Crystals

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Apala Majumdar (University of Bath)
Nematic Order Reconstruction Solutions for Square Wells in the Landau-de Gennes theory
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Mitchell Luskin (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Mathematical Modeling of Incommensurate Materials

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:50
Miha Ravnik (University of Ljubljana)
Topology of active and passive nematic defects
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Ivan Smalyukh (University of Colorado Boulder)
Topological Colloids and Dispersed Liquid Crystals: From Theorems to Self-Assembly
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
L Mahadevan (Harvard University)
Folded matter: from origami to the brain

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Patrick Dondl (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Motion of interfaces in random media: pinning and some applications
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:35
Chun Liu (Penn State University)
Complex Fluids in Biological Environments
16:45-17:00
Break
17:00-17:50
Luca Giomi (Leiden University)
Geometry and topology of turbulence in active nematics
Printable Version