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Smectics and distorted nematics: analytics, numerics, and experiments

Les Houches, 18-22 May 2026

Organizing comittee :
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Emmanuelle Lacaze (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, CNRS/Sorbonne University, France)
- Hartmutwen (Department of Physics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
 Lia Bronsard (Dept of Math and Stats, McMaster university, Hamilton, Canada )
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 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)

Posters list

Elshad Allahyarov (Department of Physics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH, USA) :
Smectic ordering of rods on spherical surfaces

Rabab Zehra (Laboratoire Charles Coulomb, University de Montpellier, France) :
Striped nematic texture: A low K33 effect

Bianca Stroffolini (Department of Mathematics, University of Naples Federico II, ITALY) : 
A variational model for two dimensional ferronematic

Umberto Zerbinati (University of Oxford, UK) : 
Time harmonic nematoacoustics: The nematic Helmholtz-Korteweg equation

Benjamin Bode (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) : 
Open book decompositions in smectic liquid crystals

Paul Severino (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, USA) : 
Topological Interaction of Point and Line Defects in Smectics

Emmanuel Flores (Tufts University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Medford , USA) : 
Modeling Smectic Phases: Finite Element Approaches Using Morpho

Dawei Wu (Peking University, China) : 
Constructing the Q-tensor model from the molecular model through entropy decomposition

XINTAO ZHENG (INSP, Sorbonne University,Paris, France) :
Stabilizing Blue-Phase Liquid Crystals Using Gold Nanoparticles

Muyan Zhou (INSP, Sorbonne University,Paris, France) : 
Structure of Assemblies of Nanospheres Confined in  Smectic Liquid Crystal Defects

Kamlesh Joshi (LOMA – CNRS, University of Bordeaux, Talence, France) :
Dimensionality effects in the annihilation of nematic umbilics

Dean Louizos (School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, USA) :
Asymptotics for Minimizers of Landau-de Gennes with a Magnetic Field and Tangential Anchoring

Alexander Houston (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK) :
Fundamental Distortions in Active Liquid Crystals

Jaydeep Mandal (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India) :   
Phase behavior and defect structure of soft rods on a sphere

 

 

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