Room: Grand Auditorium

09:30-10:20

T1 – “Design of New Functional Liquid Crystals” T. Kato.

Coffee Break

10:40-11:30

T2 – “Photodeformable Liquid Crystal Polymers and Bioinspired Soft Actuators” Y. Yu.

Break

11:40-12:30

T3 – “Colloidal Liquid Crystals” J. Lagerwall.

12:30-13:00

Chair: Pedro Sebastião

Public Lecture I – “The Odyssey of Liquid Crystals” M. Mitov.

Lunch

14:30-15:20

T4 – “Modelling Liquid Crystals at Mesoscopic Scale: Structure and Light” M. Ravnik.

Break

15:30-16:20

T5 – “New Trends in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals” A. Figueiredo Neto.

Coffee Break

16.30-17.20

T6 – “From Windows to Mars: New Applications of Liquid Crystals” I. Smalyukh.

17.30-18:00

Chair: Pawel Pieranski

Public Lecture II – “Liquid crystals untamed: what interest for the science of light?” E. Brasselet.

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18.30-20:00

Room:  Room Ágora and Library

Welcome Reception, musical group performance anTUNIA (Ágora Room) and Liquid Crystal Art Exhibition Opening (Library)