MONDAY, July 5, 2004
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8:30-9:00
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Opening of the ILCC 2004
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9:00-10:00
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Plenary lecture
V. Percec: Supramolecular dendritic liquid crystals as biological mimics
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10:00-10:20
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Coffee break
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10:20-10:50
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SYN-I1 Tschierske
Exciting new mesophase morpholgies formed by T-shaped facial amphiphilic triblock molecules
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STR-I1 Gorecka
Polarization modulated lamellar and columnar banana phases
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COL-I1 Bellini
Phase behavior of water-in-5CB microemulsions
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10:50-11:10
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SYN-O1 Serrano
Ionic thermotropic liquid crystal dendrimers
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STR-O1 Pelzl
Evidence for a field-induced switching of chirality in ferroelectric and
antiferroelectric 'banana-phases'
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COL-O1 Wood
Laser manipulation of colloids within liquid crystalline media
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11:10-11:30
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SYN-O2 Lincker
Synthesis and characterization of highly luminescent pi-conjugated liquid crystalline materials
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STR-O2 Jákli
Facts and speculations about the optically isotropic banana liquid crystals
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COL-O2 Yada
Direct evaluation of anisotropic interparticle interactions in nematic colloids with a laser trapping method
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11:30-11:50
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SYN-O3 Lemieux
Ferroelectric liquid crystals with fluoro-substituted and heterocyclic fluorenone and fluorenol cores
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STR-O3 Osipov
On the origin of tilt and the chiral structure in bent-core smectic phases. A molecular model
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COL-O3 Lapointe
Elastic interactions and the manipulation of colloidal wires in a nematic solvent
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11:50-12:00
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Break
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12:00-12:20
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SYN-O4 Nishiyama
Molecular design controlling smectic stability and clinicity
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STR-O4 Rosenblatt
Order and elasticity in lamellar liquid crystalline phases
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COL-O4 karabot
Unusual laser trapping
and manipulation of colloidal particles in a nematic liquid crystal
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12:20-12:40
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SYN-O5 Szydlowska
Fullerene derivatives as photoconducting liquid crystals
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STR-O5 Taylor
Long-range interlayer interactions in ferroelectric liquid crystals
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COL-O5 Fernandez-Nieves
Bragg diffraction based on liquid crystal drops: light polarization sensitive and non-sensitive switches
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12:40-13:00
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SYN-O6 Allard
Liquid-crystalline TTF-fullerene dyads
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STR-O6 Panarin
Structures and properties of de Vries phases
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COL-O6 Wang
Light propagation in two dimensional liquid crystal devices with periodic structures near the wavelength of light
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13:00-15:00
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Lunch time
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15:00-15:30
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SYN-I2 Wilson
Atomistic simulations of liquid crystals
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STR-I2 Lavrentovich
Defects and patterns in liquid crystals: insights through the fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy
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COL-I2 Kato
Liquid crystalline physical gels: self-organized functional soft materials
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15:30-15:50
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SYN-O7 M. Pivnenko
Liquid crystal blue phase of wide temperature range
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STR-O7 Lacaze
Evolution of smectic deformations with decreasing film thickness
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COL-O7 Mitov
Fingerprint self-assembly of metallic nanoparticles in a cholesteric LC
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15:50-16:00
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Break
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16:00-16:20
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SYN-O8 M. P. Neal
Calculations of molecular chirality
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STR-O8 C. Meyer
How do defects transform at the nematic-smectic A phase transition?
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COL-O8 Reznikov
Diluted ferroelectric suspension of nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystal
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16:20-16:40
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SYN-O9 Laschat
Tetraphenylethene-derived columnar liquid crystals and their oxidative photocyclization
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STR-O9 C. Jones
Patterns of smectic A layer compressional stress obtained on cooling a bookshelf cell from the nematic
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COL-I3 Zeng
Self-assembled micellar liquid quasicrystals
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16:40-17:00
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SYN-O10 Mehl
Rod and discs containing liquid crystals with multiple levels of order
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STR-O10 Srinivasarao
Spatially periodic alignment of liquid crystals by patterned photopolymerization
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17:00-17:30
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Tea break
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17:30-18:30
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P. Kirsch: 100 years of liquid crystals at Merck
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TUESDAY, July 6, 2004
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8:00-8:50
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Tutorial lecture
M. Pfeiffer: Liquid crystals on silicon (LCOS) microdisplays
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9:00-10:00
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Plenary lecture
N. A. Clark: Liquid crystals: Chirality, polarity, and frustration
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10:00-10:20
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Coffee break
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10:20-10:40
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SYN-I3 Kumar
Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Phase in Banana Liquid Crystals
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STR-O11 Yamamoto
Photonic liquid crystals in chiral twin/monomer commensurate mixture
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SURF-O1 Chien
Photo-embossed prismatic polymers for liquid crystal gratings
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10:40-11:00
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SYN-I4 Samulski
NMR Observations of Biaxiality in Thermotropic Nematic Liquid Crystals
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STR-O12 Monobe
Anisotropic change of liquid-crystal domains by polarized infrared laser irradiation for columnar mesophases
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SURF-O2 Komitov
Surface mediated switching of liquid crystals
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11:00-11:20
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SYN-O11 Saalwaechter
The first thermotropic biaxial nematic phase in a liquid-crystalline side-chain polymer
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STR-O13 J. P. F. Lagerwall
Chameleon-like behavior in a chiral twin-mesogen polar liquid crystal: rod-shaped when nematic, bent-shaped when smectic
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SURF-O3 Warenghem
Local reorientation of liquid crystals using domain manipulation of ferroelectric BaTiO3 thin films
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11:20-11:40
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SYN-O12 Fodor-Csorba
Novel liquid crystalline ADMET polymers with banana main chain mesogens
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STR-I3 Zannoni
Simple molecular models for the simulation of complex liquid crystals
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SURF-I1 Crawford
Electrically switchable mesoscale lattices: From phontonic crystals to quasi-crystal lattices
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11:40-11:50
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11:50-12:00
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Break
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12:00-12:20
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SYN-O13 Lacey
Synthesis and electro-optical evaluation of some novel chiral heterocyclic liquid crystalline materials exhibiting ferro- and antiferroelectric phases
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STR-O14 Sprunt
One nanosecond photon correlation spectroscopy on smectic liquid crystal films
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SURF-O4 Scharf
Liquid crystal alignment on chemical nanopatterns. Control over azimuthal and polar alignment
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12:20-12:40
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SYN-O14 Coleman
Structure of the B7 phase: undulated layers and half-layer steps
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STR-O15 Chao
Thickness-dependent smectic-A-smectic-C* transition in chiral smectic free-standing liquid-crystal films
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SURF-O5 Shah
Modeling of nematic liquid crystal alignment on patterned substrates
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12:40-13:00
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SYN-O15 Kishikawa
Novel ferroelectric columnar liquid-crystalline compounds: Synthesis of liquid-crystalline ureas and their properties
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STR-O16 Vij
Observation of a biaxial subphase with periodicity other than 3 and 4 smectic layers and the staircase character of the SmCalpha
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SURF-O6 Cipparrone
Surface induced photorefractive effect in undoped liquid crystals
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13:00-15:00
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Lunch time
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15:00-15:10
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MAC-I1 Walba
Electro-optics of the general polar smectic C phase of a NORABOW
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COL-I4 Guillon
Nanostructures from mesomorphic dendritic architectures
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15:10-15:30
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SURF-P039 Sinha
Broadband dielectric spectroscopy of the glass-forming liquid crystal isopentylcyanobiphenyl dispersed with hydrophilic and hydrophobic aerosils
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15:30-15:50
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SURF-O8 Nounesis
The SmA-SmC* phase transition of the liquid crystal CE8 containing dispersed silica nanoparticles
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MAC-O1 Golemme
Photorefractivity in a ferroelectric metallomesogen
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COL-O9 Lev
Theory of interaction and structure formation in liquid crystal colloids and emulsions
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15:50-16:00
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Break
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16:00-16:20
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SURF-O9 Finotello
DNMR study of confined liquid crystal hydrophobic aerosil dispersions
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MAC-O2 Oh-e
Chirality probed by sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy for hellically structured conjugated liquid crystalline polymers
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COL-O10 Kitzerow
Photonic crystals made of macroporous silicon and liquid crystals
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16:20-16:40
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SURF-O10 Evangelista
Adsorption-desorption phenomenon and kinetic equation at interfaces in liquid crystalline systems
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MAC-O3 Funahashi
Ionic and electronic charge carrier transport in liquid crystals
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COL-011 Sluckin
Magnetic field response in ferronematic cells
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16:40-17:00
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Tea break
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17:00-19:30
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POSTER SESSION 1
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21:00
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Concert
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THURSDAY, July 8, 2004
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8:00-8:50
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Tutorial lecture
D. J. Broer: Liquid crystal optical films for LCD enhancement
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9:00-10:00
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Plenary lecture
F. Livolant: Supramolecular ordering of isolated nucleosome core particles
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10:00-10:20
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Coffee break
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10:20-10:50
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APPL-I1 Penterman
Paintable liquid crystal displays: principles and mechanism of photo-enforced stratification in a photoreactive liquid crystal system
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BIOL-I1 Tabe
Condensed molecular motor with chiral propeller
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POLY-I1 Pleiner
Elasticity of nematic side chain elastomers
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10:50-11:10
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APPL-O1 Uchiyama
Novel design method of retardation films for a high contrast LCD in wide viewing angle range
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BIOL-O1 Figueiredo Neto
Tetragonal structure induced by wetting at the interface between a solid substrate and a lyotropic inverse sponge phase
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POLY-O1 Martinoty
Mechanical properties of mono-domain side chain nematic elastomers and gels
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11:10-11:30
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APPL-O2 Naemura
Comparative study of director responses in IPS and VA modes based upon physical properties of practical LC materials
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BIOL-O2 Pieranski
New faceting phenomena in lyotropic liquid crystals
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POLY-O2 Noirez
Earth-quake dynamics in liquid-crystal polymers under flow
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11:30-11:50
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APPL-O3 Chigrinov
Modeling and optimization of liquid crystal displays
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BIOL-O3 Picken
A direct observation by WAXS of reorientation in supramolecular liquid crystal induced by magnetic field
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POLY-O3 Nobili
Topological defects and cracks in nematic nanotube gels
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11:50-12:00
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Break
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12:00-12:20
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APPL-O4 S. Kobayashi
Dielectric properties and electro-optic characteristics of TN-LCD doped with metal nanoparticles exhibiting frequency modulation response accompanying fast response
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BIOL-O4 Lorman
Order in high density DNA mesophases
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DYN -O1 Kothe
Probing director fluctuations in liquid crystals by transverse nuclear spin relaxation
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12:20-12:40
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APPL-O5 O'Neill
Electroluminescent liquid crystals
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BIOL-P025 Spindler
Different pretransitional behavior of deoxy- and guanosine 5'-monophosphate
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DYN-O2 Madhusudana
Influence of director fluctuations on the electric field phase diagrams of nematic liquid crystals
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12:40-13:00
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APPL-O6 Hermann
Liquid crystal photonic band gap fibers
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BIOL-O6 Kumar
Discotic-decorated gold nanoparticles
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DYN-O3 Svenek
Fluctuation modes and instabilities of nematic disclination lines
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13:00-15:00
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Lunch time
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15:00-15:10
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POLY-I2 Warner
Photo-responsive nematic elastomers
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15:10-15:30
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APPL-O7 I. Kobayashi
Trends in alignment film materials for liquid crystal displays
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DYN-O4 Stannarius
Electrically driven dissipative patterns studied by laser diffraction
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15:30-15:50
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APPL-O8 Rasing
Magnetic field alignment of liquid crystals for display applications
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DYN-O5 Popa-Nita
Waves at the nematic-isotropic interface: The generalized dispersion relation
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POLY-O4 T. Ikeda
Precisely direction-controllable bending of cross-linked liquid-crystalline polymer films by light
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15:50-16:00
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Break
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16:00-16:20
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APPL-O9 J.-H. Kim
Fine bistable device of nematic liquid crystal realized on orientational surface patterns
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DYN-O6 Buka
Electroconvection in nematics with positive dielectric and negative conductivity anisotropy
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POLY-O5 Stumpe
Light-induced preparation of polymer films characterized by anisotropic fluorescence
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16:20-16:40
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APPL-O10 Yaroshchuk
The multimode LC alignment on the substrates obliquely treated with plasma flux
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DYN-O7 Okuzono
A phenomenological model of photo-induced traveling waves in liquid-crystalline Langmuir monolayers
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POLY-O6 Bobrovsky
Light-responsive multifunctional cholesteric polymer systems
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16:40-17:00
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APPL-O11 Kikuchi
Kerr effect like electro-optical switching of polymer-stabilized blue phases
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DYN-O8 Jewell
The dynamic properties of dual-frequency HAN cells
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POLY-O7 Photinos
Phase transitions and dielectric anisotropy of LC dimers: Towards a molecular theory of supermesogen self-organisation
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17:00-17:10
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Tea break
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17:10-19:30
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POSTER SESSION 2
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20:00
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Conference dinner
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FRIDAY, July 9, 2004
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8:00-8:50
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Tutorial lecture
S. Roosendaal: AM liquid crystal displays
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9:00-10:00
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Plenary lecture
H. Yokoyama: Orientational surface patterning: A route to free energy engineering of surface alignment
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10:00-10:20
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Coffee break
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10:20-10:30
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APPL-I2 Coles
From nanostructured liquid crystals to electro-optic devices and lasers
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DYN-I1 Selinger
Acoustic realignment of nematic liquid crystals: Experiment and theory
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10:30-10:50
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SURF-O11 Francescangeli
Light-induced molecular adsorption at solid-liquid crystal interfaces
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10:50-11:10
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SURF-O12 de Lozar
The corkscrew instability of a Fréedericksz domain wall in a nematic liquid crystal
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APPL-O12 Takezoe
Lasing from novel structures with cholesteric liquid crystal films
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DYN-O9 Blanc
Mechanisms controlling the microplasticity of smectics resolved by optical microscopy
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11:10-11:30
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SURF-O13 Jánossy
Director gliding on soft polymer layers
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APPL-O13 Palffy-Muhoray
Density of states and photon statistics in cholesteric liquid crystal lasers
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DYN-O10 Marenduzzo
Lattice-Boltzmann simulations of cholesteric liquid crystal hydrodynamics: Permeative flows and blue phase rheology
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11:30-11:50
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SURF-O14 Bisi
Mechanics of order reconstruction in nematic liquid crystals
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APPL-O14 Ozaki
Laser action and electrical wavelength-tunability in chiral liquid crystals
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DYN-O11 Martins
Transient shear stress response after flow start-up and flow reversal in low molecular weight liquid crystals
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11:50-12:00
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Break
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12:00-12:20
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Closing of the ILCC 2004
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