The 2011 Gordon Conference on Liquid Crystals will provide a venue for intellectual and enlightening discussions of ideas at the emerging and frontier of liquid crystal science and technology. The coverage of this conference will be extremely broad with topics including chemical synthesis and physical properties characterization of new, low-molecular weight, polymeric and elastomeric liquid crystalline materials, composites of liquid crystal with nanostructured materials and systems, biological materials and self-assembled systems where liquid crystal concepts and ordering are important, theory, modeling and simulation of biological, nanostructured and self-assembled systems, liquid crystals as electro-optic, photonic and sensing materials applications, future trends in liquid crystal based information displays, electronic books, and energy generation/harvesting devices.

The participants will include invited speakers representing both academia and industry with a wide range of expertise in the topic areas. The group of participants will also include a good number of junior scientists and graduate students, who will be given the opportunity to present posters and join in the enlightening discussion. Free time and evening sessions will provide the opportunity to foster networking between students and junior researchers, to make connections with many of the leading scientists from a wide variety of fields, and to establish exciting collaborations.