DCMP/DCOMP Prize Session

Presentations

• Curvature, chirality, and polar symmetry in liquid crystals

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2006, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2006, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Robert Meyer

    • Brandeis University

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• Liquid Crystal Phases of Molecular Bananas: Polarity and Chirality as Broken Symmetries

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2006, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2006, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Noel Clark

    • University of Colorado
    • LCMRC and Univ of Colorado
    • U. of Colorado
    • Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 USA

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• Generating Coherent Phonons and Spin Excitations with Ultrafast Light Pulses

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2006, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Roberto Merlin

    • Physics, The University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040

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• Berry Phases and Curvatures in Electronic-Structure Theory.

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2006, 1:03 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • David Vanderbilt

    • Rutgers University

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