News

Dr. Dong Ki Yoon, a former postdoctoral research associate in the group, is starting as a new faculty member at KAIST, Korea

Ivan Smalyukh is co-organizing the PSSM-2011 workshop in Ukraine, October 5-7, 2011

Dr. Bohdan Senyuk joins the research group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!

Ivan Smalyukh is awarded the 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp/pressroom/11052010
http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/04d5e88b1ba19aad353c269e85dfe214.html

Ivan Smalyukh is co-organizing the I-CAMP'11 school in Argentina-Uruguay, May 28-June 17, 2011: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp2011/

Metamaterial Workshop organized by Ivan Smalyukh, Sailing He, and Xiang Zhang is taking place in Hangzhou, China, April 9-12, 2011: http://icamconferences.org/metamaterial/

Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics I-CAMP'10 (organized by Ivan Smalyukh,and Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop) is taking place in two cities in Australia (Sydney-Brisbane, June 20-July 10, 2010): http://icamconferences.org/i-camp2010/

CIMOPV workshop on organic photovoltaics (organized by Ivan Smalyukh, Sean Shaheen, Garry Rumbles, Paul Burn, Jao Van de Lagemaat, and Paul Meredith) is taking place in Brisbane, Australia, July 1 - July 3, 2010: http://icamconferences.org/cimopv/index.html

International Liquid Crystal Conference ILCC2010: http://www.ilcc2010.uj.edu.pl/

Congratulation! Angel Martinez, Dennis Gardner, and Paul Ackerman receive 2010 SPIE scholarships! Congratulations!!!

Former undergraduate students and research assistants in the group, Dennis gardner and Bethany Wilcox, join CU Physics graduate program. Congratulations!!!

Postdoc Dongki Yoon, PhD students Zhiyuan Qi, Angel Martinez, Mike Varny,  and visiting scientists Oksana Truskevych, Ivan Klevets, David Engstrom, and Trirup Dutta join the group. Welcome!!!

Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics I-CAMP'09 (organized by Ivan Smalyukh, Ron Shen, and Sailing He) is taking place in four cities (Hangzhou, Shanghai, Qingdao, and Beijing) in China: http://icamconferences.org/i-camp/

Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy (FCPM) texture of fluorescent bent-core liquid crystal obtained by Rajdeep Deb is featured as a liquid crystal beauty picture of the month on the web page of the International Liquid Crystal Society.

PSSM 2008 workshop in Lviv, Ukraine, organized by Ivan Smalyukh and Andrij Trokhymchuk: http://www.icmp.lviv.ua/statphys2009/pssm/

Congratulations to Dennis, Rajdeep, Pegah, Bethany & Rahul for receiving SPIE scholarships.

The Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation has awarded Ivan Smalyukh a five-year NSF CAREER Award.

Dennis Gardner's striking photo of a blue phase has been selected as the January 2009 ILCS liquid crystal picture. The polarizing microscopy texture of cholesteric Blue Phase and Dennis Gardner as photographer are featured on the web page of the International Liquid Crystal Society.

View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals glow, Nature Photonics article about the LC2CAM workshop by Rachel Won.

Our paper on alignment of bacteria is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.

Our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics.

We are now in the CU Energy Initiative Directory: http://ei.colorado.edu/index.php?id=180&pid=180&page=EI_Faculty_Affiliates&parent=8

Visiting scientist Dr. Ramarao Pratibha and students Yi-Ting Song and Bethany Wilcox join the research group. Welcome.

Photo and Video Archives of the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder are now available online: http://icam-i2cam.org/conference/lc2cam08/

Dr. Clayton Lapointe joins the research group. His work will focus on self-assembly of lithoparticles in LCs (conducted in collaboration with Prof. Mason from UCLA). Welcome.

CARS microscopy textures of liquid crystals from our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures are featured on the cover page of the latest issue of Optics Express

University of Colorado SPIE student Chapter now has a new web page: http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/spie/

Vising scientist Suman Anand from India joins the Research group. Welcome!

Chris Twombly and Pegah Naemi have received research fellowships to conduct summer research projects on nano-structured liquid crystals in the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.

Rahul Trivedi, Pegah Naemi, and Dennis Gardner receive fellowships from to participate in the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego (August 10-14, 2008)

Ivan Smalyukh receives the University of Colorado Innovation Seed Grant award

Ivan Smalyukh receives the NSF-DARPA PTAP award

Chris Twombly and Dennis Gardner receive 2008 SPIE scholarships

Ivan Smalyukh receives the University of Colorado JFDA award

Dennis receives the SMART research fellowship of University of Colorado; Chris and Pegah receive ICAM travel fellowships to aprticipate in the ILCC2008 conference in Korea and a Summer School in Croatia, respectively

Dennis Gardner, Chris Twombly, and Pegah Naemi initiate organization of SPIE student chapter at CU-Boulder

Prof. Smalyukh is teaching a conference short course SC790: Liquid Crystals: From Fundamentals to Applications, at SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego, August 10-14, 2008

Postdoctoral Fellow, graduate research assistant, and visiting scientist positions to do research in soft condensed matter physics are available in Smalyukh Research Lab; for details see the announcement

Dennis Gardner receives the Second Best Paper Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA) for his presentation “Orientationally Ordered Soft Matter for Photonic Applications.” at the National Annual Conference, February 20-24

Ivan Smalyukh and Noel Clark organize a Workshop on light-controlled liquid crystalline complex adaptive materials, LC2CAM, August 7-10, 2008 LC2CAM: Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials

Prof. Smalyukh is teaching a conference short course SC790: Liquid Crystals: From Fundamentals to Applications, at Photonics West 2008

Our research group joins the NIH-supported CU Biophysics Supergroup and Program

Pegah Naemi receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Photonic structures in liquid crystals and their applications." Congratulations!

Condensed Matter Physics Seminar presentation by Prof. Smalyukh “Laser-controlled molecular orientation patterns in liquid crystals & their imaging with CARS microscopy, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, November 1, 2007

Our paper "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) polarized microscopy of three-dimensional director structures in liquid crystals" is published by Applied Physics Letters, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 151905 (2007)

Prof. Smalyukh Participates in the Optics and Photonics Visiting Lecturer Program

Chris Twombly receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Opticall patterning of three-dimensional structures in liquid crystals"

Dennis Gardner receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Periodic structures in cholesteric liquid crystals for temperature sensing and photonic applications"

I. Smalyukh receives Travel Grant of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM)

Paper on laser trapping of defects was featured on the cover of Optics Express, vol.15, issue 7 (2007)

Cover page image of Physical Review Letters, vol. 96, issue 17; image of a liquid crystalline pattern formed by DNA from our article

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Bioinfo-Online

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by ScienceDaily

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Medical News Today

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by WordPress.com

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by EurekAlert

I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) was featured by the V.J. of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Issue 16 (2005)

I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Let. 90, 085503 (2003) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2003)

I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E, 66, 051703 (2002) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 4, Issue 10 (2002)

Phillip Espinasse, Liquid Crystal Imaging goes 3D, OE Magazine, May 2003, Page 6

Patricia E. Cladis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., A hard look at Soft Matter, 41 (18), 3505 (2002); see also Angew. Chem. 114 (18), 3655 (2002)

Ingo Dierking, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy: Imaging Liquid Crystal Director Fields in Three Dimensions, CHEMPHYSCHEM 2, 663-664 (2001)

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