GSNP Graduate Student Prize and Liquid Crystals: Smectics

Presentations

• Random Packing Density of Platonic Solids

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 11:15 AM – March 15, 2010, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Jessica Baker

    • Department of Physics, Clark University

  • Arshad Kudrolli

    • Department of Physics, Clark University

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• A Bayesian Approach to Detecting Amino Acid Covariance in Multiple Sequence Alignments

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 11:27 AM – March 15, 2010, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Lucy Colwell

    • Harvard University

  • Michael Brenner

    • Harvard University

  • Andrew Murray

    • Harvard University

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• Coarse-grained computational studies of the assembly of viral capsids around a flexible polymer

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 11:39 AM – March 15, 2010, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Oren Elrad

    • Brandeis University

  • Michael Hagan

    • Brandeis University

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• Controlling Elastic Instabilities: From Complex Pattern Formation to Functionality

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 11:51 AM – March 15, 2010, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Elisabetta Matsumoto

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Extending the Scaling Laws of Plasticity

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 12:03 PM – March 15, 2010, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Georgios Tsekenis

    • Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Karin Dahmen

    • Physics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• BREAK

  COFFEE_KLATCH

  March 15, 2010, 12:15 PM – March 15, 2010, 12:39 PM

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• Investigation of B7 Liquid Crystal Undulation Texture

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 12:39 PM – March 15, 2010, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • D. Chen

  • M.A. Glaser

  • J.E. Maclennan

  • N.A. Clark

    • Department of Phyasics, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

  • E. Korblova

  • D.M. Walba

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

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• Discovery of a novel smectic-C* liquid crystal phase with six-layer periodicity

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 12:51 PM – March 15, 2010, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Shun Wang

    • University of Minnesota

  • LiDong Pan

    • University of Minnesota

  • Ronald Pindak

    • NSLS, BNL

  • Zengqiang Liu

    • St. Cloud State University

  • Tinh Nguyen

    • Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, CNRS, Universite Bordeaux I

  • Cheng-Cher Huang

    • University of Minnesota

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 15, 2010, 1:03 PM – March 15, 2010, 1:15 PM

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• Polarization modulated orthogonal smectic phases

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 1:15 PM – March 15, 2010, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Chenhui Zhu

  • Renfan Shao

  • Joseph Maclennan

  • Dong Chen

  • Yongqiang Shen

  • Matthew Glaser

  • Noel Clark*

    • Department of Physics, University of Colorado

  • R. Amaranatha Reddy

  • David Walba

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Colorado

  • Per Rudquist

    • Microtechnology and Nanoscience, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

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• Helical nanofilaments and the high chirality limit of smectics-A

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 1:27 PM – March 15, 2010, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Gareth Alexander

    • University of Pennslyvania

  • Elisabetta Matsumoto

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennslyvania

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• Orientational order and topological defects in smectics

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 1:39 PM – March 15, 2010, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Bryan Chen

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Gareth Alexander

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Randall Kamien

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Chromonic liquid crystals and their dispersion in polymers

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 1:51 PM – March 15, 2010, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Xuxia Yao

  • Jung Park

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Polymer, Textile, and Fiber Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

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• Topological defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals

  ORAL

  March 15, 2010, 2:03 PM – March 15, 2010, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Xuxia Yao

  • Alejandro Rey

  • Jung Park

  • Mohan Srinivasarao

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