Smectics and distorted nematics: analytics, numerics, and experiments

Les Houches, 18-22 May 2026

Organizing comittee :
- Emmanuelle Lacaze (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, CNRS/Sorbonne University, France)
- Hartmut Löwen (Department of Physics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
-  Lia Bronsard (Dept of Math and Stats, McMaster university, Hamilton, Canada )
- Patrick Farrell (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK and Mathematical Institute, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic)
- Scott MacLachlan (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada)
- Randall David Kamien (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA)
- Timothy James Atherton (Department of Physics and Astronomy,Tufts University, Medford, USA)