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Rationale
This
symposium is organized by two NSF Sponsored International Research
Experience for Student (IRES) programs with Principal Investigators
Antal Jakli at the Kent State University, Ohio and David Statman
at the Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, and by the Complex Fluid Department
of the Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics of the
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, which is the main host institution
of
these NSF programs. The symposium will provide an ideal occasion for all the 7 US students
spending their Summer in Europe and the collaborating European participants
(the Otto Von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany and the Universidade
Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) to present and discuss their results and to
understand the greater picture where their work belong to. This meeting
will also provide a relaxing environment where the students can informally
talk to the supporting international participants, and learn about their
scientific work, and their cultural backgrounds.
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Organizers:
I.
Jánossy, (Research Institute for Solid State Physics and
Optics, Budapest),
A. Jákli,
Liquid Crystal Institute and Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary
Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, U.S.A.)
D. Statman, (Department of Physics, Allegheny College, PA , U.S.A.)
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Program:
July
8: 2PM: Tutorials (Chair: Antal Jákli) |
| 2:00 - 2:40 PM |
Oleg
Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University,
Kent, USA – Liquid Crystals: Basics and recent advances |
| 2:40
- 3:20 |
Werner
Pesch, University of Bayreuth, Germany: - Why
is Rayleigh –Bénard
convection still interesting? |
| 3:20 - 4:00 |
Ágnes
Buka, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest,
Hungary: - Electroconvection in liquid crystals
is unavoidable |
| 4:00 - 4:30 |
Coffee Break
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| 4:30 - 5:10 |
István
Jánossy,
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest,
Hungary – Overview of nonlinear
optics in liquid crystals - photo |
| 5:10 - 5:50 |
Helena Godinho, University of New Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, - Liquid
Crystalline Cellulosic Networks |
| 5:50 - 6:30 |
Alexey Eremin, University of Magdeburg, Germany, - Structure and
mechanical properties of liquid crystal fibers |
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July
9: 9AM: NSF-IRES programs (Chair: I. Jánossy) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM |
David
Statman, Department of Physics, Allegheny College, Meadville,PA,
USA - NSF IRES Undergraduate Research in Optics and Materials - Home
and Abroad: Goals, subjects, players - photo |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Andrea
Charbonnel, Department of Physics, Allegheny College, PA, Meadville,USA
- The Impact of Azo Dyes on Complex Fluids - photo |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Mark Bordo and Brandi Kautz, Department of Physics, Allegheny College,
PA, Meadville, USA - Electroconvective Patterns in Nematic Liquid
Crystals |
| 10:30 - 10:50 |
Daniel Brennan, Department of Physics, Allegheny College, PA, Meadville,
USA - Shear induced phenomena in granular materials |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Antal
Jákli,
Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA
- Collaborative Research in Europe on Liquid Crystals
(CRELIC-IRES): : Goals, subjects, players… - photo |
| 11:50 AM - 12:10 PM |
Tanya
Ostapenko, Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent,
OH, USA - Dynamic Image Analysis of bent-core nematics - photo |
| 12:10 - 12:30 |
Ricky
Gibson, Department of Physics, California State University, xxx,
CA, USA – Mechanical Properties of fluid fibers - photo |
| 12:30 - 12:50 |
Christopher
Culbreath: Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent,
OH, USA – Nanoparticles in Electrospun Liquid Crystal
Celluloses - photo |
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July
10: 9 AM Research talks (Chair: David Statman) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM |
Nándor Éber:
Research Institute for Solid State and Optics, Budapest, Hungary – Electroconvection
in nematic mixtures of bent-core and calamitic molecules - photo |
| 9:30 - 9:50 |
Peter
Salamon, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics,
Budapest,
Hungary – Dielectric properties of a nematics containing
bent-core molecules - photo |
| 9:50 - 10:20 |
Tibor
Toth-Katona, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics,
Budapest,
Hungary –Cross-linked mesogens - photo |
| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Attila Bóta:
Research Institute for Chemistry, Budapest, Hungary –Lyotropic systems as nanoreactors |
| 10:50 - 11:20 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Maja
Stojadinovic, Dusanka Obadovic, Department of Physics, Faculty
of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia, - X-ray Diffraction
Studies of Thermotropic Liquid Crystals |
| 11:50 AM - 12:20 PM |
Tamás Börzsönyi,
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest,
Hungary – Shear zone refraction
and deflection in layered granular materials |
| 12:20 - 12:40 |
Balázs Szabó,
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest,
Hungary – Temporal fluctuations
of avalanche size and particle velocity in inclined granular layers |
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