Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 APS March Meeting

Monday–Friday, March 13–17, 2006; Baltimore, MD

Session Index

Session U21: Liquid Crystals I	Show Abstracts
Sponsoring Units: DFD Chair: P. Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University Room: Baltimore Convention Center 318

Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:00AM - 8:12AM		U21.00001: Aggregation in Two Dye Systems That Form Chromonic Liquid Crystals Peter J. Collings, Viva R. Horowitz, Michelle R. Tomasik Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:12AM - 8:24AM		U21.00002: Orientational order of an ideal rodlike nematic: Rewriting the theory of nematic liquid crystals? Edward Samulski, Louis Madsen, Theo Dingemans Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:24AM - 8:36AM		U21.00003: Interlayer interactions in ferroelectric liquid crystals Mehdi Hamaneh, Philip Taylor Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:36AM - 8:48AM		U21.00004: The B4 phase: layer curvature driven by frustrated intralayer packing L.E. Hough, D. Kruerke, C.D. Jones, H.T. Jung, J. Zasadzinski, G. Heppke, J. Rabe, W. Stocker, E. Korblova, D. Walba, N.A. Clark Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 8:48AM - 9:00AM		U21.00005: Polarization-Enhanced Interaction between Islands on Freely-Suspended Smectic C* Liquid Crystal Films Apichart Pattanaporkratana Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:00AM - 9:12AM		U21.00006: Riverbottom texture: Patterns of compressional stress in an SSFLC cell Christopher D. Jones, David A. Coleman, Noel A. Clark, Michael D. Wand Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:12AM - 9:24AM		U21.00007: Random Lasing in Multidomain Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Michele Moreira, Mingxia Gu, Oleg Lavrentovich, Bahman Taheri, Peter Palffy-Muhoray Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:24AM - 9:36AM		U21.00008: Wavelength Hopping in Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Lasers Michele Moreira, Christopher Bailey, Wenyi Cao, Bahman Taheri, Peter Palffy-Muhoray Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:36AM - 9:48AM		U21.00009: Poisson-bracket formulation of the dynamics of polar liquid crystals William Kung, M. Cristina Marchetti, Karl Saunders Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:48AM - 10:00AM		U21.00010: Finite Element Elastodynamics Studies of Shape Evolution in Liquid Crystal Elastomers Robin Selinger, Badel Mbanga, Jonathan Selinger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:00AM - 10:12AM		U21.00011: Temperature Dependence of Acousto-Optic Effect in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Cell Steven Sundbeck, Anthony Malanoski, Brian Weslowski, Devanand Shenoy, Jonathan Selinger Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:12AM - 10:24AM		U21.00012: Elliptic Phases: A Study of the Nonlinear Elasticity of Twist- Christian Santangelo, Randall Kamien Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:24AM - 10:36AM		U21.00013: Calorimetric study of aligned liquid crystal + aerosil F. Cruceanu, G. S. Iannacchione, D. Liang, R. L. Leheny Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:36AM - 10:48AM		U21.00014: Disordering Effects in Smectic -- Aerosil Gels* Vishal Pandya, Daniele Finotello Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 16, 2006 10:48AM - 11:00AM		U21.00015: The Effect of Aerosil Network on Smectic A-Reentrant Nematic Liquid Crystal Mehmet Ramazanoglu, Simon Larochelle, Robert J. Birgeneau Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2006 APS March Meeting

Monday–Friday, March 13–17, 2006; Baltimore, MD

Session Index

Session U21: Liquid Crystals I

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