I-CAMP 2008
Boulder International Workshop
Light-Controlled Liquid Crystal Complex Adaptive Materials - LC2CAM
August 6 - August 10, 2008
Conference Chairs: Noel A. Clark & Ivan I. Smalyukh University of Colorado at Boulder
The Boulder LC2CAM International Workshop will enable researchers working at the forefronts of materials science & optics to discuss the emerging uses of light for control of ordered soft materials and advances in the use of liquid crystals to control light. Workshop topics include:
- Laser trapping and manipulation in liquid crystals
- Tunable and frequency-selective negative-index media
- Light-induced phase transitions
- Nonlinear optics of liquid crystals
- Lasing in liquid crystals
- Light-controlled surface anchoring phenomena
- Confocal, multiphoton fluorescence, and CARS microscopy of liquid crystals
- Liquid crystals for solar cells and light harvesting
- Holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals
- Light-controlled liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers
- Optics of colloidal and nanostructured systems
- Sensors and wavefront control devices
The Boulder LC2CAM Workshop will bring together both prominent & junior scientists. Participation of students & postdoctoral fellows is strongly encouraged, and up to 20 fellowships will be awarded to support travel of early-career scientists. The presentations will be webcasted in real time and, in addition to the on-site audience, registered participants around the World will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Invited speakers:
- Dick J. Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology and Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Marcus Cicerone, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
- Harry Coles, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
- Scott Davis, Vescent Photonics, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK
- Eric Dufresne, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Linda Hirst, University of California at Merced, Merced, California, USA
- Stephen Jacobs, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
- Istvan Janossy, Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary
- Sajeev John, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Satyendra Kumar, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
- Igor Musevic, J. Stefan Institute and University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
- Sergio Restaino, Naval Research Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
- Sin-Doo Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- Thomas Mason, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Robert McLeod, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Yuen-Ron Shen, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Ophelia Tsui, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Scientific Program
Wednesday, August 6, 2008 Pre-Workshop Tutorials, Outreach & Early-Career Program
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
8:00-8:30 am: Registration, Duane Physics G-1B31
8:30 am: Opening Remarks, Noel Clark & Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 8:45 am: Liquid Crystals: Optical Properties and Light Driven Effects (Invited Overview Lecture), Satyendra Kumar, Kent State University & the National Science Foundation, USA | View Video Archive | 9:15 am: Adaptive Photonic Crystals (Invited Tutorial/Research Lecture), Sajeev John, University of Toronto, Canada | View Video Archive | View Video Archive | 10:15 am: Light Induced Structural Color Change and Dynamics of Isotropic Smectic Blue Phase (Contributed Talk), Jun Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan | View Video Archive | 10:35 am: Polychromatic liquid crystal laser arrays (Contributed Talk), Philip Hands, University of Cambridge, UK | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 10:55 to 11:10 am
11:10 am: Photo-Induced Structures in Biological Membranes (Invited Lecture), Linda Hirst, University of California at Merced, USA | View Video Archive | 11:50 am: Polymorphism of Liquid Crystal Anchoring Induced by Phase Transitions of a Photoisomerizable Surfactant at the Nematic/Aqueous Interface (Contributed Talk), Daniel Schwartz, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 12:10 pm: International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) (Highlight Presentation), Daniel Cox, University of California at Davis, USA | View Video Archive |
Lunch Break, Restaurants on the Hill or UMC, 12:30 to 2:00 pm
12:40 pm: Careers in Academia, Industry, National Labs, & Beyond: Job searching, CV writing, and Interviewing, Cori Shaff, Career Services, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA 1:30 pm: Discussion
2:00 pm: Optical Trapping and Manipulation (Invited Lecture), Kishan Dholakia, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK | View Video Archive | 2:40 pm: Manipulation of Disk-Shaped Islands and Direct Measurement of Elastic Interaction Forces Between Islands on Freely Suspended Smectic Films (Contributed Talk), Cheol Park, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 3:00 pm: Manipulation of Nanowires in Liquid Crystals (Contributed Talk), Clayton Lapointe, University of Colorado at Boulder and Johns Hopkins University, USA
Workshop Photo Session & Coffee Break, Physics Lawn & Duane Physics G-1B31, 3:20 to 3:50 pm
3:50 pm: Optical Manipulation of Nematic Colloids: Wires, Superstructures and 2D Crystals (Invited Lecture), Igor Musevic, J. Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 4:30 pm: Imaging Colloidal Particle Induced Topological Defects in a Nematic Liquid Crystal by Using Third-Harmonic Generation Microscopy (Contributed Talk), Masahito Oh-e, Liquid Crystal Nano-system Project, Japan Science & Technology Agency, Ibaraki, Japan 4:50 pm: Confocal Raman Mapping of Colloidal Particles in Smectic A Liquid Crystals (Contributed Talk), Ebru Buyuktanir, Kent State University, USA | View Video Archive | 5:10 pm: Fluorescence Confocal Polarising Microscopy Imaging of Micro-Spheres in Liquid Crystals (Contributed Talk), Sharon Jewell, University of Exeter, UK | View Video Archive |
Workshop Dinner Reception, Location: Millennium Hotel, Thursday 5:30 to 9:00 pm
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Friday, August 8, 2008
8:30 am: Optics of Metamaterials (Invited Tutorial/Research Lecture), Y. Ron Shen, University of California at Berkeley, USA | View Video Archive | 9:30 am: Metal Nanocluster Metamaterials (Contributed Talk), Qi Wu, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 9:50 am: Nanoimprint Alignment of Liquid Crystals (Contributed Talk), Youngwoo Yi, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 10:10 am: Nature Photonics (Highlight presentation), Rachel Pei Chin Won, Nature Publishing Group, Japan | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 10:30 to 10:45 am
10:45 am: Red-Green-Blue 2D Tunable Liquid Crystal Laser Devices and Displays (Invited Lecture), Harry Coles, University of Cambridge, UK | View Video Archive | 11:25 am: Emissive Bent-Core Liquid Crystals (Contributed Talk), Nandiraju VS Rao, Assam University, India | View Video Archive | 11:45 am: Spatial Self-Organization and Self-Alignment of Fluorescent Nanoparticles by Liquid Crystal Elasticity and Defects (Contributed Talk), Dennis Gardner, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | Lunch Break, Restaurants on the Hill or UMC, 12:05 to 2:00 pm
2:00 pm: Introduction to Liquid Crystal Clad Waveguides: A New EO Architecture That Enables Unprecedented Devices (Invited Tutorial/Research Lecture), Scott Davis, Vescent Photonics | View Video Archive | 3:00 pm: Using Spatial Light Modulators for Generation and Control of Multiple Nondiffracting Beams(Contributed Talk), Tomas Cizmar, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK | View Video Archive | 3:20 pm: 3D Modulated Optical Crystals as Computer-Generated Volume Holograms (Contributed Talk), Rafael Piestun University of Colorado at Boulder | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 3:40 to 3:50 pm
Pearl Street Tour & Dinner (not provided) in Downtown Boulder, Friday 5:30 to 9:00 pm
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
8:30 am: Nonlinear Optical Properties of Azo-Dye Doped Liquid Crystals (Invited Lecture), Istvan Janossy, Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Hungary | View Video Archive | 9:10 am: Azo-Bridged Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals Incorporating Chromophores along Their Polar Axes and Measurement of Second-Harmonic Generation (Contributed Talk), Yongqiang Zhang, Displaytech Inc. | View Video Archive | 9:30 am: Efficient Photoactive Chiral Nematic Twist Agents (Contributed Talk), James Rego, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA | View Video Archive | 9:50 am: Rewritable Optical Memory Based on Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals in Binary Grating (Invited Lecture), Sin-Doo Lee, Seoul National University, Korea | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 10:30 to 10:50 am
10:50 am: Liquid Crystal Alignment by Optical Interference and its Application in Making Polarization-Independent Phase Diffraction Gratings (Invited Lecture), Ophelia Tsui, Boston University, USA | View Video Archive | 11:30 am: Local Photo-Reorientation of a Liquid Crystal Using a Laser Focused on an Azo Dye-Based Monolayer(Contributed Talk), Yue Shi, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA | View Video Archive | 11:50 am: Optical Studies of Sub-monolayer Dye Films for Photo-Alignment (Contributed Talk), Joseph Dahdah, Colorado School of Mines, USA | View Video Archive |
Lunch Break, Restaurants on the Hill or UMC, 12:10 to 1:40 pm
1:40 pm: Liquid Crystal Networks Controlled by Light: Optics, Mechanics and Complex Patterning (Invited Lecture), Dick Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands | View Video Archive | 2:20 pm: POLICRYPS Structures and Applications (Contributed Talk), Luciano De Sio, University of Calabria, Italy | View Video Archive | 2:40 pm: Fast-Switching Electro-Optical Films Based on Polymer Encapsulated Liquid Crystal and Carbon Nanotubes (Contributed Talk), Lu Lu, Kent State University, USA | View Video Archive | 3:00 pm: Next Generation Nematic Liquid Crystal Devices Based on Polymer Stabilized Networks (Technical Review), Robert Ramsey, Meadowlark Optics, USA | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 3:20 to 3:40 pm
Pearl Street Tour & Dinner (not provided) in Downtown Boulder, Saturday 5:30 to 9:00 pm
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
8:30 am: Microrheology (Invited Tutorial/Research Lecture), Tom Mason, University of California at Los Angeles, USA | View Video Archive | 9:30 am: The Effect of Shear on Colloidal Aggregation and Gelation Studied Using Small-Angle Light Scattering(Contributed Talk), Tahereh Mokhtari , Kansas State University, USA | View Video Archive |
Coffee Break, Duane Physics G-1B31, 9:50 to 10:00 am
10:00 am: Modeling of Nematic Braids: Assembly of Colloidal Superstructures for Optical Materials (Invited Lecture), Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia 10:40 am: Modeling of Cholesteric Photonic Structures (Contributed Talk), Yves Lansac, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder and Universite Francois Rabelais 11:00 am: Soft Spheres Make More Mesophases (Contributed Talk), Matt Glaser, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
11:20 am: Concluding Remarks, Noel Clark & Ivan Smalyukh, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Rocky Mountain Tour (Lunch in Estes Park, Colorado), Sunday 11:30 am to 7:00 pm
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