LMS-DOS Meeting on Anisotropic Materials

Durham, 30 June & 1 July 2022

This meeting will be held at the Mathematical Sciences & Computer Science Building, Durham University in Room MCS2068 on Thursday 30th June 2022 and Friday 1st July 2022. Food and refreshments during lunch and coffee break will be in Room MCS0014. Questions can be directed to the organisers: Prof Halim Kusumaatmaja (Durham University, halim.kusumaatmaja@durham.ac.uk) and/or Prof Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde, apala.majumdar@strath.ac.uk).

Schedule for Thursday, 30 June 2022

12.00 - 13.00: Lunch

13.00 - 13.45: Apala Majumdar (University of Strathclyde), "Solution Landscapes of Thin Nematic Systems"

13.45 - 14.30: Andrew Krause (Durham University), "Pattern Formation in Stratified and Heterogeneous Domains”

14.30 - 14.50: Sourav Patranabish (IIT Delhi), "Cybotactic clusters of bent-core nematic liquid crystals - theory and experiments"

14.50 - 15.15: Coffee Break

15.15 - 16.00: Halim Kusumaatmaja (Durham University), “Colloidal Assemblies on Curved Surfaces: From Spheres to Tori and Cones”

16.00 - 16.20: Jack Paget (Loughborough University), “A complex tensor model for smectic layering"

16.20 - 16.40: Ijuptil Joseph (University of Glasgow), "Instabilities in a Planar-Aligned Active Liquid Crystal"

16.40 - 17.00: Jesús Enrique MacÍas Durán (UNAM Mexico), " Multiparticle collision dynamics simulations of active nematic liquid crystals"

Schedule for Friday, 1 July 2022

10.00 - 10.45: Tyler Shendruk (University of Edinburgh), "Coarse-grained, particle-based models for active nematic fluids"

10.45 - 11.30: Stephen Morris (University of Oxford), "3D Laser Sculpturing in Liquid Crystal Devices"

11.30 - 12.00: Coffee Break

12.00 - 12.45: Devesh Mistry (University of Leeds), "How hierarchies of anisotropy in liquid crystal elastomers influence mechanics"

12.45 - 13.05: Joe Pollard (Durham University), "The Topological Classification of Disclination Lines in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals"

13.05 - 14.30: Closing & Lunch

Funding: We ackowledge financial support from the London Mathematical Society and the Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.

Slides: A number of speakers have made their slides available. They are posted below.