Skyrmions in Liquid Crystals

Program

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September 9

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10h50: Opening

11h00: "From baby skyrmions to knotted chiral meta matter" - Ivan Smalyukh - U Colorado Boulder, USA & International Institute for Sustainability with Knotted Chiral Meta Matter, WPI-SKCM2, Japan

12h00: Lunch

14h00: "Challenges on building a particle-based model of active liquid-crystal skyrmions" - Cristóvão Dias - University of Lisbon, Portugal

15h00: "Interfaces of scalar and active nematic fluids" - Margarida Telo da Gama - University of Lisbon, Portugal

16h00: Coffee break

16h30: "Control and microfluidic transport of skyrmions in the presence of magnetic fields" - Jordi Ignés -  University of Barcelona, Spain

17h30-18h: Posters

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September 10

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10h00: "Playing with rheology in a new formulation of the microtubule/kinesin active nematic system" - Francec Sagués - University of Barcelona, Spain

11h00: "Collective variable approach for skyrmion dynamics" - Mykola Tasinkevych - Nottingham Trent University, UK

12h00: Lunch

14h00: "Let’s twist again: Achiral Hard Bananas Assemble Double-Twist Skyrmions and Blue Phases" - Marjolein Dijkstra - University Utrecht, Netherlands

15h00: "Liquid crystal skyrmions in shear flows" - Rodrigo Coelho - University of Lisbon, Portugal

16h00: Coffee break

16h30:  "Scale and conformal invariance in active flows" - Nuno Araújo - University of Lisbon, Portugal

17h30-18h: Posters

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September 11

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10h00: "Illuminating Disorder: Optical Properties of Complex Plasmonic Assemblies" - Thomas Truskett - University of Texas at Austin, USA

11h00: "Percolation and high density percolation in binary mixtures of patchy particles" - José Tavares - ISEL, Portugal

12h00: Closing session