Schedule for: 17w5059 - Partial Order in Materials: at the Triple Point of Mathematics, Physics and Applications
Beginning on Sunday, November 26 and ending Friday December 1, 2017
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MST (UTC-7).
| Sunday, November 26 | |
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| 16:00 - 17:30 | Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Informal gathering (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110)) |
| Monday, November 27 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ Breakfast is served daily between 7 and 9am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Station Manager (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Session Chair: Pingwen Zhang (TCPL 201) |
| 09:01 - 09:10 | Welcome remarks by Apala Majumdar (TCPL 201) |
| 09:10 - 09:55 | Oleg Lavrentovich: Liquid crystals to command dynamics of bacteria and colloids (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:20 - 11:05 | Len Pismen: Chemical patterning and actuation of nematic elastomers (TCPL 201) |
| 11:05 - 11:30 | Joel Cawte: Surface Instabilities in Nonlinear Elasticity (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ Lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Guided Tour of The Banff Centre ↓ Meet in the Corbett Hall Lounge for a guided tour of The Banff Centre campus. (Corbett Hall Lounge (CH 2110)) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 14:20 - 17:30 | Session Chair: Oleg Lavrentovich (TCPL 201) |
| 14:20 - 15:05 | Carme Calderer: New Scaling Properties of Liquid Crystal Flow (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Changyou Wang: On the hydrodynamics of biaxial nematics (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Jie Xu: Onsager-theory-based tensor model for nematic phases of bent-core molecules (TCPL 201) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Rongfang Zhang: Global Existence and Regularity for the Active Liquid Crystal System (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Tuesday, November 28 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Session Chair: Carme Calderer (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Dirk Aarts: Directed self-assembly of Janus rods (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Yong Yu: Global instabilities in nematic liquid crystal flows (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Session Chair: Apala Majumdar (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Jeff Z. Y. Chen: Self-consistent field theory of liquid-crystal polymers: review and outlook (TCPL 201) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Hui Zhang: Numerical simulation for wormlike chains in two-dimensional confinement (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Giacomo Canevari: The Well Order Reconstruction Solution for nematic liquid crystals in square (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Edward Rolls: Multiscale modelling of mesoscopic polymer dynamics (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Wednesday, November 29 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Session Chair: Jeff Z. Y. Chen (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Apala Majumdar: Multistability for Liquid Crystal Systems (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Marco Barchiesi: Cohesive behaviour arising in homogenization of Mumford-Shah type functionals (TCPL 201) |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Yiwei Wang: Topological defects in liquid crystal colloids (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Banff National Park) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Thursday, November 30 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 11:30 | Session Chair: Changyou Wang (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | John Ball: An exterior problem in the Oseen-Frank theory (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Francesco De Anna: Global well-posedness for dynamical models of nematic liquid crystals (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Lidong Fang: Connecting molecular model to continuum model -- a multiscale study for liquid (TCPL 201) |
| 11:30 - 13:30 | Lunch (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Session Chair: John Ball (TCPL 201) |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Daniel Phillips: Remarks on Constrained Minimum Problems (TCPL 201) |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Bianca Stroffolini: Omega-minimizers versus regularity (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:30 - 16:15 | Tuoc Phan: Gradient estimates of weak solutions of quasi-linear parabolic equations with... (TCPL 201) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Zhifei Zhang: Local minimizer and De Giorgi's type conjecture for the isotropic-nematic interface (TCPL 201) |
| 17:30 - 19:30 | Dinner (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Friday, December 1 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Apala Majumdar: Round-table discussion (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Checkout by Noon ↓ 5-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (BIRS Coffee Lounge, TCPL and Reading Room) until 3 pm on Friday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 12 noon. (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre) |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room) |
