Professor Randall Kamien
University of Pensylvania – U.S.A.
Professor Sriram Ramaswamy
Indian Institute of Science – India
Title: Active liquid crystals: order, fluctuations, flow, defects and chirality

Professor Sung Tae Shin
Korea University, Sejong Campus – Korea
Professor Maria Blanca Ros
Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón – University of Zaragoza/CSIC – Spain
Professor Robin Selinger
Advanced Materials & Liquid Crystal Institute , Kent State University – U.S.A.
Title: Morphing Liquid Crystal Elastomer Coatings: A Machine Learning Approach to Inverse Design