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Session B12: GSNP Graduate Student Prize and Liquid Crystals: Smectics

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Sponsoring Units: GSNP DFD
Chair: Susan Coppersmith, University of Wisconsin, and Luz J. Martinez-Miranda, University of Maryland
Room: B110-B111


Monday, March 15, 2010
11:15AM - 11:27AM

 B12.00001: Random Packing Density of Platonic Solids
Jessica Baker , Arshad Kudrolli

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Monday, March 15, 2010
11:27AM - 11:39AM

 B12.00002: A Bayesian Approach to Detecting Amino Acid Covariance in Multiple Sequence Alignments
Lucy Colwell , Michael Brenner , Andrew Murray

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Monday, March 15, 2010
11:39AM - 11:51AM

 B12.00003: Coarse-grained computational studies of the assembly of viral capsids around a flexible polymer
Oren Elrad , Michael Hagan

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Monday, March 15, 2010
11:51AM - 12:03PM

 B12.00004: Controlling Elastic Instabilities: From Complex Pattern Formation to Functionality
Elisabetta Matsumoto , Randall Kamien

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Monday, March 15, 2010
12:03PM - 12:15PM

 B12.00005: Extending the Scaling Laws of Plasticity
Georgios Tsekenis , Karin Dahmen

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Monday, March 15, 2010
12:15PM - 12:39PM

 B12.00006: BREAK


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Monday, March 15, 2010
12:39PM - 12:51PM

 B12.00007: Investigation of B7 Liquid Crystal Undulation Texture
D. Chen , M.A. Glaser , J.E. Maclennan , N.A. Clark , E. Korblova , D.M. Walba

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Monday, March 15, 2010
12:51PM - 1:03PM

 B12.00008: Discovery of a novel smectic-C* liquid crystal phase with six-layer periodicity
Shun Wang , LiDong Pan , Ronald Pindak , Zengqiang Liu , Tinh Nguyen , Cheng-Cher Huang

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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:03PM - 1:15PM

 B12.00009: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:15PM - 1:27PM

 B12.00010: Polarization modulated orthogonal smectic phases
Chenhui Zhu , Renfan Shao , Joseph Maclennan , Dong Chen , Yongqiang Shen , Matthew Glaser , Noel Clark* , R. Amaranatha Reddy , David Walba , Per Rudquist

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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:27PM - 1:39PM

 B12.00011: Helical nanofilaments and the high chirality limit of smectics-A
Gareth Alexander , Elisabetta Matsumoto , Randall Kamien

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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:39PM - 1:51PM

 B12.00012: Orientational order and topological defects in smectics
Bryan Chen , Gareth Alexander , Randall Kamien

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Monday, March 15, 2010
1:51PM - 2:03PM

 B12.00013: Chromonic liquid crystals and their dispersion in polymers
Jung Park , Xuxia Yao , Mohan Srinivasarao

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Monday, March 15, 2010
2:03PM - 2:15PM

 B12.00014: Topological defects of lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals
Xuxia Yao , Alejandro Rey , Jung Park , Mohan Srinivasarao

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