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Session W21: Liquid Crystals III

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: P. Collings, Swarthmore College
Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318


Thursday, March 16, 2006
2:30PM - 2:42PM

 W21.00001: Dielectric Dispersion Effects in Liquid Crystals.
Oleg Lavrentovich , Ye Yin , Mingxia Gu , Sergij Shiyanovskii

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
2:42PM - 2:54PM

 W21.00002: Using micro-focus synchrotron X-ray diffraction to probe textured liquid crystal samples
Ronald Pindak , Brandon Chapman , Ruiting Wang , Ishtiaque Syed , Giovanni Carbone , Charles Rosenblatt , Michi Nakata , Christopher Jones , Noel Clark , Shin-Woong Kang , Satyendra Kumar , Julie Cross

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
2:54PM - 3:06PM

 W21.00003: Impurity Induced Cross-over from Continuous to First-order Nematic-to-Smectic A Phase Transitions in a Liquid Crystal.
Jan Thoen , Katleen Denolf , Bert Van Roie , Christ Glorieux

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
3:06PM - 3:18PM

 W21.00004: Phase morphology of a disk-sphere dyad molecule.
Li Cui , Jeffrey Collet , Lei Zhu

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
3:18PM - 3:30PM

 W21.00005: Excitation-Enhanced Optical Reorientation in Pure Liquid Crystalline Materials
Thai V. Truong , Yuen-Ron Shen

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
3:30PM - 3:42PM

 W21.00006: Effect of disorder on a nematic-smectic A phase transition
Simon Larochelle , Mehmet Ramazanoglu , Robert J. Birgeneau

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
3:42PM - 3:54PM

 W21.00007: Observation of polarization current accompanying smectic A electroclinic reorientation
Renfan Shao , Lixing Wang , Christopher D. Jones , David A. Coleman , Duong Nguyen , Michi Nakata , Joseph E. Maclennan , Per Rudquist , David M. Walba , Noel A. Clark

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
3:54PM - 4:06PM

 W21.00008: Defects in liquid crystal nematic shells
A. Fernandez-Nieves , A.S. Utada , V. Vitelli , D.R. Link , D.R. Nelson , D.A. Weitz

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:06PM - 4:18PM

 W21.00009: Water as a Wetting Agent for Liquid Crystal Films
Ergys Subashi , Rafael Garcia

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:18PM - 4:30PM

 W21.00010: Surface morphology of SiO deposited substrates and alignment of nematic LC*
Leela Joshi , Satyendra Kumar , Riccardo Barberi

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:30PM - 4:42PM

 W21.00011: Crystal Nucleation behavior near gas-liquid spinodal line
Limei Xu , Giancarlo Franzese , Sergey V. Buldyrev , H. E. Stanley

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:42PM - 4:54PM

 W21.00012: Entropy driven formation of a chiral liquid crystalline phase of helical rods
Zvonimir Dogic , Edward Barry , Zach Hensel , Michael Shribak , Rudolf Oldenbourg

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
4:54PM - 5:06PM

 W21.00013: Dynamics of Director Fluctuations in Confined and Filled Liquid Crystals.
Edwin Arroyo , Sarmistha Basu , Fouad Aliev

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
5:06PM - 5:18PM

 W21.00014: Micro-focus synhrotron X-ray diffraction study of novel mesomorphic porphyrin derivatives
Shin-Woong Kang , Lanfang Li , Quan Li , Michi Nakata , Brandon Chapman , Ronald Pindak , Satyendra Kumar

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
5:18PM - 5:30PM

 W21.00015: Stochastic Rotation Dynamics: generalizations and applications for non-ideal fluids, binary mixtures and colloids
Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel Kroll

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