OLC2025

Timothy J. Bunning

Air Force Research Laboratory (United States)

Liang-Chy Chien

Kent State University (United States)

Presentation title: Photoaligned and polymer-protected liquid crystal spatial light modulators

Malgosia Kaczmarek

University of Southampton

Presentation title: Integrated Light-Addressable Liquid Crystal Systems: Addressing Barriers for Smart, Energy-Efficient Optical Components

Oleg D. Lavrentovich

Kent State University (United States)

Presentation title: Polarization patterns of ferroelectric nematics

Michel Mitov

CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur (France)

Presentation title: Cholesteric optical tags with complex twist

Antônio Matins Figueiredo Neto

University of São Paulo (Brazil)

Presentation title: Anisotropic nonlinear optical response of sunset yellow chromonic nematic lyotropic liquid crystal

Kristiaan Neyts

Belgium

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Presentation title: Optical Properties and Applications of Chiral Liquid Crystal Gratings

Wiktor A. Piecek

Poland

Military University of Technology

Presentation title: Liquid crystal tuned microcavities – a universal platform for generation of Bose-Einstein condensates and microlasers

Victor Reshetnyak

Ukraine

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Presentation title: Maier-Saupe theory generalization for LC elastomers and ferroelectric nematics

Francesco Simoni

Italy

Università Politecnica delle MarcheUniversità Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona (Italy)

Presentation title: Holographic structures with liquid crystals

Aloka Sinha

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India)

Ivan I. Smalyukh

University of Colorado Boulder (United States)

Presentation title: Liquid crystalline order and time-periodic dynamics guided by unstructured light

Nelson V. Tabiryan

BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. (United States)

Presentation title: Space exploration enabled by optics of liquid crystals

Jun Yamamoto

Kyoto University (Japan)

Presentation title: Dynamic heterogeneity in soft matter

Hiroshi Yokoyama

Kent State University (United States)

Presentation title: Reformulating the 4X4 matrix method from the Pancharatnam-Berry phase perspective

Slobodan Žumer

Slovenia

University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute

Presentation title: Topological soft matter: selected examples of use in optics and photonics