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Session X15: Liquid Crystals II

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Sponsoring Units: DFD
Chair: Peter Collings, Swarthmore College
Room: 316


Thursday, March 19, 2009
2:30PM - 2:42PM

X15.00001: The Taming of the Screw: Nonlinear Interactions in Smectic Liquid Crystals
Elisabetta Matsumoto , Gareth Alexander , Randall Kamien

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
2:42PM - 2:54PM

X15.00002: Coalescence Dynamics Analysis Of Islands In Smectic A Freely Suspended Films
Zoom Nguyen , Cheol Park , Joseph Maclennan , Matthew Glaser , Noel Clark

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
2:54PM - 3:06PM

X15.00003: Orientational fluctuation study in nematic liquid crystals by high speed micrograph
Beom-Jin Yoon , Min Sang Park , Jung O. Park , Mohan Srinivasarao

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
3:06PM - 3:18PM

X15.00004: Modeling twisted distortions in nematic elastomers
Vianney Gimenez , Badel Mbanga , Fangfu Ye , Jonathan Selinger , Robin Selinger

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
3:18PM - 3:30PM

X15.00005: Behavior of Focal Conic Defects in Shear Flow
Sourav Chatterjee , Shelley Anna

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
3:30PM - 3:42PM

X15.00006: Polarization current as evidence of local anticlinic correlations in de Vries smectics
Z. V. Smith , P. D. Beale , R.-F. Shao , L. Wang , D. M. Walba , N. A. Clark , M. A. Glaser

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
3:42PM - 3:54PM

X15.00007: A one order parameter tensor description of biaxial nematic liquid crystals
Xiaoyu Zheng , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
3:54PM - 4:06PM

X15.00008: Elasticities and viscosities of a lyotropic chromonic nematic liquid crystal
Krishna Neupane , Yuri Nastishin , Alan Baldwin , Oleg Lavrentovich , Samuel Sprunt

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:06PM - 4:18PM

X15.00009: Reflection and transmission coefficients of a cholesteric liquid crystal film with a negative dielectric coefficient
Sabrina Relaix , Wenyi Cao , Peter Palffy-Muhoray

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:18PM - 4:30PM

X15.00010: Maier-Saupe Theory of Nematics in 4D
Peter Palffy-Muhoray , Xiaoyu Zheng

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:30PM - 4:42PM

X15.00011: Statistical mechanics of the flexoelectric effect in nematic liquid crystals
Subas Dhakal , Jonathan V. Selinger

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:42PM - 4:54PM

X15.00012: Aggregates in Chromonic Liquid Crystal Phases of Aqueous Solutions of Sunset Yellow*
Leela Joshi , Shin-Woong Kang , Dena Mae Agra-Kooijman , Satyendra Kumar

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
4:54PM - 5:06PM

X15.00013: Aggregation Properties of the Chromonic Liquid Crystal Benzopurpurin 4B
Christopher McKitterick , Peter Collings

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
5:06PM - 5:18PM

X15.00014: Generalized Nematohydrodynamic Boundary Conditions with Application to Bistable Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Displays
Angbo Fang , Tiezheng Qian , Ping Sheng

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Thursday, March 19, 2009
5:18PM - 5:30PM

X15.00015: Soft Micro- to Nanolithography Using Highly Periodic Smectic Liquid Crystal Defects
Hee-Tae Jung , Yun Ho Kim , Dong Ki Yoon , Hyeon Su Jeong

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