Keynote Speakers
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
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Malgosia Kaczmarek
UK
University of Southampton

Presentation title: Integrated Light-Addressable Liquid Crystal Systems: Addressing Barriers for Smart, Energy-Efficient Optical Components
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Oleg D. Lavrentovich
USA
Kent State University

Presentation title: Polarization patterns of ferroelectric nematics
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Michel Mitov
France
CNRSCNRS, Université Côte d'Azur (France)

Presentation title: Cholesteric optical tags with complex twist
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Antônio Matins Figueiredo Neto
Brazil
University of São Paulo, Institute of PhysicsUniversity of São Paulo (Brazil)

Presentation title: Anisotropic Nonlinear Optical Response of Sunset Yellow Chromonic Nematic Lyotropic Liquid Crystal
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Kristiaan Neyts
Belgium
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Presentation title: Optical Properties and Applications of Chiral Liquid Crystal Gratings
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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
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Victor Reshetnyak
Ukraine
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Presentation title: Maier-Saupe theory generalization for LC elastomers and ferroelectric nematics
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Francesco Simoni
Italy
Università Politecnica delle MarcheAccompanying person

Presentation title: Holographic structures with liquid crystals
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Aloka Sinha
India
Indian Institute of Technology DelhiIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (India)

Presentation title: Liquid crystals for light scattering devices and surface metrology
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Ivan I. Smalyukh
University of Colorado Boulder (United States)

Presentation title: Liquid crystalline order and time-periodic dynamics guided by unstructured light
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Jun Yamamoto
Japan
Kyoto University

Presentation title: Dynamic heterogeneity in soft matter
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Hiroshi Yokoyama
USA
Kent State University

Presentation title: Reformulating the 4X4 matrix method from the Pancharatnam-Berry phase perspective
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Slobodan Žumer
Slovenia
University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute

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