OLC2025

Fumito Araoka

RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (Japan)

Presentation title: Chiral optics and nonlinear optics in the helical nanofilament template system

Alexej Bubnov

Czech Republic

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Presentation title: Multifunctional photo-active liquid crystalline materials

Marcel G. Clerc

Universidad de Chile (Chile)

Susete Nogueira Fernandes

Portugal

NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon

Presentation title: From Structure to Security: Cellulose Nanocrystals as Platforms for Circularly Polarized Luminescent Materials

Morten Andreas Geday

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)

Presentation title: Tunable high-power liquid crystal lenses

Antal Jákli

Kent State University (United States)

Presentation title: Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal microlens arrays

Mirosław A. Karpierz

Warsaw University of Technology (Poland)

Presentation title: Nonlinear propagation of optical vortices in nematic liquid crystals

Kenji Katayama

Japan

Chuo University

Presentation title: Illumination-induced solute uptake in liquid crystal droplets: The role of cyanobiphenyl-type excimers

Shunsuke Kobayashi

Tokyo University of Science, Yamaguchi (Japan)

Presentation title: Asymmetric optically compensated LCDs such as IPS, FFS, ECB, VA, and FLC that generate extra phase advancement in their switching angles accompanying temporal effects

Michal Kohout

Czech Republic

University of Chemistry and Technology Prague

Presentation title: On the road to chiral photoactive liquid crystals

Matthias Lehmann

University of Würzburg (Germany)

Presentation title: Roof-shaped nematogens with optimum molecular biaxiality—A new avenue towards the real thermotropic biaxial nematic phase?

Danqing Liu

Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)

Presentation title: Interactive liquid crystal polymers for haptics and optics

Liana Lucchetti

Università Politecnica delle Marche (Italy)

Presentation title: Optical poling of ferroelectric liquids

Hiap Liew Ong

USA

Syndiant, Inc.Syndiant, Inc., TX (United States)

Presentation title: Optical Field Induced Frist-Order Bistable Transitions in a Nematic Liquid Crystal

Muklesur Rahman

Aliah University, Newtown Campus (India)

Presentation title: Electric field effects on the ferroelectric nematic phase

Miha Ravnik

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Presentation title: Control of light by liquid crystal structures and profiles

Atsushi Shishido

Japan

Institute of Science TokyoTokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

Presentation title: Two-dimensional molecular alignment patterning by scanning light

Bahman Taheri

AlphaMicron, Inc., OH (United States)

Presentation title: e-Tint guest-host liquid crystals for light control in AR/XR applications。

Rebecca Walker

University of Aberdeen (United Kingdom)

Presentation title: Chirality and the ferroelectric nematic phase

Tomasz R. Woliński

Poland

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics

Presentation title: LC-enhanced beam steering for terahertz photonics

Dong Ki Yoon

Korea

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

Presentation title: Expanding the Color Gamut through Wavelength-Selective Polarization Modulation in Chiral Liquid Crystals

Hiroyuki Yoshida

Japan

Kwansei Gakuin University

Presentation title: Conferring Wavelength Selectivity in Transmissive Liquid Crystal Diffractive Optical Elements