Tuesday, May 23
MS20
Liquid Crystals: Mathematical and Numerical Aspects - Part III of III
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room: Liberty B
For description, see Part I, MS6; For Part II, see MS13.
Organizers: Maria-Carme Calderer
Pennsylvania State University, USA
Eugene C. Gartland, Jr.
Kent State University, USA
- 10:00-10:25 Homogenization of the Ginzburg-Landau Functional with a Surface Energy Term
- Leonid Berlyand, University of Akron, and Pennsylvania State University, USA
- 10:30-10:55Modeling of Nematic Liquid Crystal in Composites
- Quan Shen, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
- 11:00-11:25 Minimal Surfaces, Topological Defects and All That
- Randall D. Kamien, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- 11:30-11:55 Fine Structure of Defects in Nematic Liquid Crystals
- Eugene C. Gartland, Jr., Organizer