Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: Self Assembly and Supramolecular Liquid Crystals
7:40 pm - 8:25 pm
"Manual Handling of Molecular Machines, DNAs and Cells at Dynamic Interfaces"
8:25 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:20 pm
"Novel Self Assembly in Bent Core Liquid Crystals"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Biological and Medical Applications of Liquid
Crystals
9:00 am - 9:35 am
"Assembly in Neuronal Systems by Intrinsically Disordered Protein Tau"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am
"Cholesteric Micro-Mirrors in the Carapace of Beetle Chrysina gloriosa "
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 am
"Cellular Delivery of Liquid Crystal Nanoparticles"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
"Orientational Phase Transitions: From Nematics to Capsid Assembly"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Liquid Crystals and Nanomaterials
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Functional Hybrid Nano Materials"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Self-Assembled Structures in Liquid Crystal Microdroplets and Fibers"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Thermotropic and Lyotropic Liquid Crystals with Graphene Oxide"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:35 am
"Washing Away Oily Streak Defects in the Sm-A Phase with Soapy Streaks in the Sm-C Phase"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am
"Probing Liquid Crystal Helices with Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering: From B4, NTB to Blue Phase and Beyond"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 am
"Understanding 'de Vries-Like' Liquid Crystals — Recent Developments"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
"Liquid Crystalline Boron Compounds: How Serendipity Turned Cross Coupling Reagents into New Mesogens"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Liquid Crystal Materials at the Mesoscale
7:30 pm - 8:00 pm
"Shape Evolution in Liquid Crystals"
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:40 pm
"Dynamic and Reversible Tuning of Nanoparticle Assemblies in the Topological Defects of Liquid Crystals"
8:40 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:20 pm
"Molecular Self-Assembly in Topological Defects"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:35 am
"Taming Reactive Mesogens for Nanoscale-Period Bragg Polarization Gratings, and the Exciting Opportunities Thereof"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am
"Liquid Crystal Nanophotonics"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 am
"Large Aperture Liquid Crystal Based Lenses"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:20 pm
"Toward Molecular Engineering of Liquid Crystal Elasticity"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Young Investigator Presentations
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
"Metastability in Nematic Liquid Crystal Shells"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
"Modeling Intra-Domain Textures and Chirality Transfer in Block Copolymer Melts with Polar and Nematic Segment Ordering"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
"Skyrmions in Liquid Crystals: Phase Diagrams and Dynamics"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
"Self-Assembly Strikes Back: The Multifaceted Response to Photopolymerization in Liquid Crystal Shells"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
"Use of Biocompatible, Biodegradable and Responsive 3D LCE Foams for the Design of Human Brain 3D Model Tissue"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
"Dynamic Surface Topographies Driven by Electric Field"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
9:00 am - 9:35 am
"Synthesis and Properties of Responsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Particles"
9:35 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 10:20 am
"Packing, Curvature and Optimal Maps: Lifting 2D Sheets into 3D Structures"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:35 am
"Patterning and Processing Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Active Materials"
11:35 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 12:00 pm
"Mesogen-Coated Nanoparticles in Self-Organized Helical Superstructures for the Development of Adaptive Windows"
12:00 pm - 12:05 pm
Discussion
12:05 pm - 12:20 pm
"Watson-Crick Duplex Stacking of Nucleobase Monomers: Liquid Crystal Ordering of Mononucleoside Triphosphates in Aqueous Solution"
12:20 pm - 12:25 pm
Discussion
12:25 pm - 12:30 pm
General Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Keynote Session: LC Nano Composites
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm
"LC Nanocomposites: Tuning the LC-NP Surface Interactions"
8:15 pm - 8:25 pm
Discussion
8:25 pm - 9:10 pm
"Colloidal Liquid Crystal in Spherical Confinement"
9:10 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Closing Remarks
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure