School of Mathematics & Statistics

BLCS2023: Programme

 

Conference Booklet now available: BLCS2023 Conference Booklet

Abstracts Booklet: BLCS2023 Abstracts Booklet 

 

Locations:

All talks and poster sessions, as well as coffee and lunch, will be held in the Sir Charles Wilson Building.

The Conference Dinner will be held in the Ferguson Room (within One A The Square), in the Main Building of the University of Glasgow.

Presentation instructions:

• Talks: contributed talk slots are 20 minutes long which should include time for questions. We advise speakers to plan for 15 minute talks. Invited and Prize talks are within a 40 minute slot.  
• Posters: poster boards will be 91cm wide and 210cm tall, which is sufficient for an A0 poster in portrait orientation or an A1 poster in landscape orientation. The poster boards will be available throughout the conference and presenters are asked to put their poster up as soon as they arrive.  

Programme summary: 

Invited Speakers

     

Sturgeon Lecture: Dr Francesca Serra, University of Southern Denmark

Title: Faults that are rich are fair: the many beauties of liquid crystal defects

Invited Lecture: Prof. Sabine Laschat, University of Stuttgart

Title: Making light with liquid crystals: Luminescent LCs via ionic self-assembly and supramolecular interactions

Invited Lecture: Dr Angela Mihai, University of Cardiff

Title: Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers

Invited Lecture: Dr Tim Atherton, Tufts University

Title: Surfing, sweeping and assembly of particles by a moving liquid crystal phase boundary 

 

Contributed talks: