March 13, 2007
Kent State to host NSF Ferroelectrics Workshop June 19-28

From June 19-28 Kent State University will host a workshop titled: Ferroelectric Phenomena in Liquid Crystals. The Workshop is sponsored by the National Science Foundation Focused Research Group. This is the second of three planned workshops organized by this group.

Antal Jakli, Professor of Chemical Physics at the Liquid Crystal Institute and Eugene Gartland, Professor of Mathematics are the local organizers of the workshop.

To find more information about and/or register for the workshop please visit: http://ferro-workshop.lci.kent.edu. Students can request for travel and accomodation support. Non-student participants can attend by paying the $50 registration fee online.

The main topics of the workshop include: fluid fibers (banana, lyotropic); liquid crystal elastomers; defects and their visualization, with emphasis on ferroelectric materials.

The objectives of the Workshop comprise both education and research. The goal of the educational component is to expose graduate students (from both the mathematical and the physical sciences) to several aspects of liquid crystals related to the three topics above, from the points of view of both physics and mathematics. The main research objective is to foster a lively exchange between the participating physicists and mathematicians on the concerned topics.

http://ferro-workshop.lci.kent.edu