Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2009 APS March Meeting

Volume 54, Number 1

Monday–Friday, March 16–20, 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Session Index

Session X15: Liquid Crystals II	Show Abstracts
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:18PM - 3:30PM		X15.00005: Behavior of Focal Conic Defects in Shear Flow Sourav Chatterjee, Shelley Anna Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:18PM - 4:30PM		X15.00010: Maier-Saupe Theory of Nematics in 4D Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Xiaoyu Zheng Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:54PM - 5:06PM		X15.00013: Aggregation Properties of the Chromonic Liquid Crystal Benzopurpurin 4B Christopher McKitterick, Peter Collings Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract
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 Preview Abstract

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2009 APS March Meeting

Volume 54, Number 1

Monday–Friday, March 16–20, 2009; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Session Index

Session X15: Liquid Crystals II

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