Scientific Program 2013
The I-CAMP school will take the form of a summit, bringing together prominent scientists as well as students and postdoctoral fellows. The meeting will explore current state and emerging new frontiers at the interface of materials science, nanoscience, and optics/photonics, whereas the Outreach Forum held in conjunction with it will allow the researchers to share their experience and advances in conducting outreach and disseminating scientific knowledge. Summer school organization will adhere to the Fraunfelder rules; we will assure that there will be enough time for discussion, and the speakers will be specifically asked to emphasize the open/emerging questions and unsolved problems. The focus will be on recent advances at the interface between materials physics and optics that promise to open up conceptually novel directions of research. The I-CAMP will enable researchers working at the forefronts of materials science, nanoscience, and optics to discuss the emerging uses of light for control and study of materials as well as the advances in the use of materials to control light. Being at the nexus of materials science, soft condensed matter physics, chemistry, optics, and photonics, the workshop theme is inherently interdisciplinary.
There will be several poster sessions and best poster personal award for each of the poster session sponsored by SPIE. Poster boards 3.5 ft (width) x 3 ft (height) in size will be provided.
Summer School List of Topics
- Liquid crystals as an arena to study low-dimensional topology
- Liquid crystal defects and their applications in singular optics
- Opto-mechanics of liquid crystal polymers and elastomers
- Laser trapping and manipulation in liquid crystals
- Tunable and frequency-selective negative-index media
- Light-induced phase transitions
- Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals
- Light-controlled surface anchoring phenomena
- Confocal, multiphoton fluorescence, CARS and SRS microscopy of liquid crystals
- Holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals
- Liquid crystals for solar cells and light harvesting
- Light-controlled liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers
- Optics of colloidal and nanostructured systems
- Sensors and wavefront control devices
- 3D Optics and Displays
- Blue Phase Materials, Devices and Applications
- Liquid Crystal Lasers
- Liquid Crystals in Holographic and Stereoscopic Systems
- Instabilities and Pattern Formation
- Laser Beam Steering and Optical Switching
- Liquid Crystal Based Metamaterials
- Liquid Crystal Polymers, Elastomers and Gels
- Liquid Crystal Based Semiconductors
- Liquid Crystals in Sensing and Biosensing
- Novel Phenomena in Liquid Crystal and Nano Composites
- Optics of Lyotropic and Bio-relevant Anisotropic Material
- Photoalignment of Liquid Crystals
- Microfluidics and Optofluidics
- Solitons in Anisotropic Materials
Invited Speakers:
- Nicholas L. Abbott, University of Wisconsin at Madison, United States
- Michael Allen, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
- Philip J. Bos, Kent State University, United States
- Dick Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Carl Brown, Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom
- Flynn Castles, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Noel Clark, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
- Harry Coles, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Martin Čopič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Stephen Cowling, University of York, United Kingdom
- Bill Crossland, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Mark Dennis, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
- Ramin Golestanian, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- John Goodby, University of York, United Kingdom
- Torsten Hegmann, Kent State University, United States
- Linda S. Hirst, University of California at Merced, United States
- Randall Kamien, University of Pennsylvania, United States
- Samo Kralj, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University, United States
- Lech Longa, Jagiellonian University, Poland
- Alexander Lorenz, University of Paderborn, Germany
- Carl Modes, The Rockefeller University, United States
- Michael Monastyrsky, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Russia
- Stephen M. Morris, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Nigel Mottram, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
- Daniel Needleman, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, United States
- Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University, United States
- Robert Pelcovits, Brown University, United States
- Sriram Ramaswamy, TIFR Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences, India
- Miha Ravnik, INI workshop W4, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Charles Rosenblatt, Case Western Reserve University, United States
- Tim Sluckin, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
- Mohan Srinivasarao, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
- Epifanio G. Virga, University of Pavia, Italy
- David Walba, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
- Mark Warner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Timothy Wilkinson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Alan Windle, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Hiroshi Yokoyama, Kent State University, United States
- Slobodan Žumer, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
