SPIE Best Paper Awards I-CAMP•11

David Seč, Nuria Petit Garrido, Volodymyr Borshch and Kirsty Walls were awarded the SPIE Best Paper I-CAMP•11 award for their posters presentations at the I-CAMP summer school poster sessions in Montevideo, Buenos-Aires and Corrientes, respectively. Their presentation has been selected for the Best Paper Award based on the rankings given by the Invited Speakers and local organizers at the respective poster sessions. They received the Award Certificate, a check and the complementary SPIE membership (free of charge).

Montevideo Session

David Seč
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Defect structures in cholesteric droplets"

Buenos-Aires Session

Nuria Petit Garrido
University of Barcelona, Spain
"Healing of defects at the interface of 2D and 3D orientationally ordered soft matter systems"

Corrientes Session

Volodymyr Borshch
Kent State University, United States
"Induced biaxial order vs fluctuations quenching: the effect of strong electric fields on negative dielectric anisotropy nematic liquid crystal"

Kirsty Walls
University of Glasgow, Scotland
"Nanophotonic devices for digital imaging utilising a genetic algorithm search method"