Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop

Emergent Phenomena and Functional Materials

Workshop timetable

Wednesday, October 5	Tutorials Department of Physics, Ivan Franko University of Lviv 6, Kyryla i Mefidiya str.
	Registration, opening and first session Main building of Ivan Franko University of Lviv 1, Universytetska str.
	Reception House of Scientists 1, Lystopadovogo Chynu str.
Thursday, October 6	Oral and poster sessions Main building of Ivan Franko University of Lviv 1, Universytetska str.
Friday, October 7	Oral sessions and closing Lviv City Hall 1, Rynok sq.

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Workshop program

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Invited lectures

Abbott Nicholas, University of Wisconsin,
Title: Diffusion of colloids at liquid crystalline interfaces
Alexander Gareth, University of Warwick, UK
Title: Applied topology in liquid crystals
Allender Dave, Kent State University, USA
Title: Landau theory examination of the anisotropic susceptibility: ﬁeld, temperature and ﬂuctuation eﬀects for a nematogen
Andrienko Denis, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Germany
Title: Discotic liquid crystals and their use in photovoltaic applications
Chien Liang-Chy, Kent State University, USA
Title: Nanoparticles mediated liquidCrystal blue phases
Clegg Paul, University of Edinburgh, UK
Title: Colloidal particles in a cholesteric liquid crystal
Fukuda Jun-ichi, Natl Inst Advanced Industrial Science & Technology, Japan
Title: Skyrmions and other exotic defect structures in a confined chiral liquid crystal
Gorecka Ewa, University of Warsaw, Poland
Title: Temperature controlled liquid crystalline polymorphism of gold nanoparticles
Ilnytskyi Jaroslav, Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, NAS Ukraine
Title: Microphase separation driven morphologies in nanopatterned pores
Lavrentovich Oleg, Kent State University, United States
Title: Electrically controlled colloidal dynamics in liquid crystals
Lebovka Nikolai, Institute of Biocolloidal Chemistry, NAS Ukraine
Title: Aggregation and percolation phenomena in hydrid colloidal dispersions
Lisetski Longin, Institute for Scintillation Materials, NAS Ukraine
Title: Dispersions of carbon nanotubes in liquid crystals: a physical picture of aggregate formation
Loudet Jean-Christophe, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Title: Self-assembled capillary arrows
Muševič Igor, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Title: Interactions and topology of chiral nematic colloids
Palffy-Muhoray Peter, Kent State University, USA
Title: Modeling the dynamics of liquid crystalline systems
Pergamenshchik Viktor, Korea University, Korea
Title: The abc of the elastic multipoles and their interaction.
Ravnik Miha, University of Oxford, UK
Title: 2D and 3D blue phase colloidal crystals
Reshetnyak Victor, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: Effective dielectric function and Frederiks transition in ferroelectric liquid-crystal nanosuspensions
Smalyukh Ivan, University of Colorado, Bolder, United States
Title: Complex-shaped plasmonic nanoparticles in liquid crystals
Sokolowski Stefan, Universytet Marii-Curie Sklodowskiej, Poland
Title: Fluids in contact with surfaces modified by tethered chains
West John, Kent State University, USA
Title: Conformational effects on the temperature dependence of helical twisting power
Žumer Slobodan, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Title: Colloids stabilized by nematic braids: some topological and geometrical aspects

Tutorial lectures

Lev Bohdan, Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics, NAS Ukraine
Title: Understanding of colloidal liquid crystals: Theory and experiment
Bilyy Rostyslav, Institute of Cell Biology, NAS Ukraine
Title: Life and scientific achievements of Prof. Julius Planer
Rovenchak Andrij, Ivan Franko University of Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Marian Smoluchowski's work at the University of Lviv (1899 – 1913)

Contributed talks

Brodin Alexander, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Title: Anomalous Brownian motion of colloidal particles in a nematic environment
Chernyshuk Stanislav, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Title: Theory of elastic interaction between colloidal particles in the nematic cell in the presence of an electric or magnetic field
Pająk Grzegorz, Jagiellonian University; and the University of Strathclyde, Poland
Title: The role of dipole–dipole correlations on biaxial ordering in the bent–core liquid crystals
Perepelytsya Sergiy, Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ukraine
Title: Possible mechanism of formation of anisotropic textures in DNA films
Wójcik Michał, Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland
Title: Soft matter made of hard spheres: Synthesis of liquid crystalline hybrid materials
Yaroshchuk Oleg, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Title: Memory type colloids based on liquid crystals and carbon nanotubes

Poster presentations

Blavatska Viktoria, Institute for condensed matter physics, Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Shapes of macromolecules in porous environments: field theoretical renormalization group approach
Boyarchuk Nina, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Title: Photoaligning of liquid crystals on inorganic surface of chalcogenide glassy films
Burylov Sergei, Institute of Transport Systems and Technologies, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Title: Magnetic twist Fredericksz transition in a rectangular nematic cell
Kleshchonok Andrii, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: Necessary conditions of the modulated structure formation in the filled nematics
Kołpaczyńska Milena, University of Warsaw, Poland
Title: Synthesis and characterization of H-shaped liquid crystals
Kravtsiv Ivan, Institute for condensed matter physics, Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Maier-Saupe nematogenic fluid: integral equation and field theory approachec
Kurioz Yuriy, Institute of Physics, Ukraine
Title: Polarization diffraction gratings in liquid crystals cells with chalcogenide glassy surfaces
Ledney Mykhailo, National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: The influence of light beam's narrowness on the hysteresis of Freedericksz transition in a nematic cell

Title: The spatial-periodic threshold structure of director in a nematic cell with periodic anchoring energy
Lisetski Longin, Institute for Scintillation Materials, NAS Ukraine
Title: Helical twisting in nematic-cholesteric mixtures with photoactive components
Nastishin Yuriy, Institute of Physical Optics, Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Elastisity in homeotropically aligned lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal studied with magnetic field Freedericksz transition
Holovatch Yurij, Institute for condensed matter physics, Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Shapes of macromolecules in porous environments: field theoretical renormalization group approach
Pevnyi Mykhailo, Kent State University, United States
Title: Modelling smectic layers in confined domains
Puterova Zita, Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland
Title: Rod-like mesogens containing thiophene unit
Sufin Marcin, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
Title: Dynamics of the interior molecular structure AFLC with partly fluorinated tail
Tarnavskyy Oleksandr, National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine
Title: Hysteresis of light induced Freedericksz transition in a nematic cell with finite anchoring energy

Title: Coupled modes theory for a planar nematic waveguide with spatial periodic anchoring energy above the Freedericksz transition threshold
Usatenko Zoryana, Institute for condensed matter physics, Lviv, Ukraine
Title: Monomer density profiles for polymer solution in semi-infinite space containing big colloidal particles