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Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications (GL109) 12-16 June 2006  •  Dayton, Ohio USA Conference Chairs: Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ.; Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State Univ.; Ivan I. Smalyukh, Kent State Univ.; Bahman Taheri, AlphaMicron, Inc. Program Committee: Philip J. Bos, Kent State Univ.; Timothy J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab.; Stephen Z. Cheng, Univ. of Akron; Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves, Univ. de Almeria (Spain); Helen F. Gleeson, Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom); Mark T. Gruneisen, Air Force Research Lab.; Antal I. Jakli, Kent State Univ.; Tamas Kosa, AlphaMicron, Inc.; Igor Musevic, Univ. of Ljubljana (Slovenia); Vasyl Nazarenko, Instytut Fizyki (Ukraine); Maurizio Nobili, Univ. Montpellier II (France); Jonathan Selinger, Naval Research Lab. and Kent State Univ.; Kenneth D. Singer, Case Western Reserve Univ.; Edward A. Watson, Air Force Research Lab.; Shin-Tson Wu, College of Optics and Photonics/Univ. of Central Florida; Deng-Ke Yang, Kent State Univ. Advisory Committee: Giancarlo Abbate, Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) and INFM (Italy); Hui Cao, Northwestern Univ.; Satyendra Kumar, Kent State Univ.; Paul F. McManamon III, Air Force Research Lab.; Paras N. Prasad, SUNY/Univ. at Buffalo; Nelson V. Tabirian, BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co.; Marc Warenghem, Univ. d’Artois (France) and CNRS (France); Boris Y. Zel’dovich, College of Optics and Photonics/Univ. of Central Florida Unique properties of liquid crystals, especially the strong sensitivity to external fields, allow one to control their structure and properties which opens numerous possibilities for technological applications. The advances in the liquid crystal research enabled the explosive growth of information technologies. Nowadays, the highquality displays, non-mechanical beam steering devices, tunable photonic crystals, and switching elements in optical telecommunication networks hardly can be imagined without liquid crystals. The liquid crystals composed of or doped with nano-sized particles are of a great interest for emerging new applications such as the	tunable and frequency selective negative index media. The technological developments are closely related to a number of interesting problems in basic science of liquid crystals. Moreover, many biological systems posses ordered selforganized molecular structures resembling those observed in liquid crystals. The conference on liquid crystals will provide a forum for discussion of ideas at the frontier of liquid crystal science and technology. The main goal of the conference is to enable the researchers working at the forefront of optics, engineering, and materials science to discuss the current state and to explore promising future applications of liquid crystals, including beam steering, telecommunications, photonic crystals, nano-science, biodetection, drug delivery, etc. The conference will bring together prominent scientists as well as postdoctoral fellows and students and will offer them the opportunity to present experimental, computational, and theoretical results. Presentation type will be determined by the program committee as oral presentations, or as posters, based on the information supplied in the abstract. The onepage abstracts should allow the program committee to understand what the authors plan to present. Conference topics include: holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals photonic crystals and liquid crystals chemical synthesis and physical properties of new liquid crystalline materials liquid crystal polymers and elastomers surface and bulk effects in liquid crystals lyotropic liquid crystals, colloidal, and nanostructured systems topological defects and patterns sensors and wavefront control devices biological aspects of liquid crystals liquid crystal displays (including flexible displays) molecular self-assembly and new phases composite systems with liquid crystalline components tunable and frequency selective negative index media.
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Monday 12 June Joint Session with Conference GL101: Laser Sources and Enabling Materials and GL107: High Peak Power and Average Power Lasers SESSION 1 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Mon. 8:20 to 10:00 am Novel Lasing Media Chair: Bahman Taheri, AlphaMicron, Inc. 8:20 am: Lasing in polymer dispersed liquid crystals and liquid crystal infiltrated random media (Invited Paper), D. S. Wiersma, S. Gottardo, S. Cavalieri, S. Mujumdar, European Lab. for Non-linear Spectroscopy (Italy) [GL109-53] 8:50 am: Light controllable structural changes and tuning of lasing in chiral liquid crystals (Invited Paper), P. V. Shibaev, L. R. Sanford, P. Rivera, Fordham Univ.; V. A. Belyakov, L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics [GL109-43] 9:20 am: Photonic crystal lasers from holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals (H-PDLCs), R. Jakubiak, Air Force Research Lab.; V. P. Tondiglia, L. V. Natarajan, R. L. Sutherland, Science Applications International Corp.; P. F. Lloyd, UES, Inc.; R. A. Vaia, T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-05] 9:40 am: Random lasing in multidomain cholesteric liquid crystals, M. F. Moreira, M. Gu, O. D. Lavrentovich, B. Taheri, P. Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State Univ. [GL109-52] Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:20 am Joint Session with Conference GL102: Aerospace Application SESSION 2 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Mon. 10:20 am to 12:30 pm Flexible Liquid Crystal Devices for Aerospace, Automotive, and Other Applications Chair: Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State Univ. 10:20 am: Flexible displays (Invited Paper), J. L. West, Kent State Univ. [GL109-73] 10:50 am: Ferroelectric liquid crystal polymer-dispersion technologies for flexible displays (Invited Paper), H. Fujikake, H. Sato, T. Murashige, Japan Broadcasting Corp. (Japan) [GL109-28] 11:20 am: A review of advances in flexible cholesteric LCDs (Invited Paper), A. A. Khan, I. Shiyanovskaya, E. N. Montbach, D. Davis, T. L. Schneider, F. Nicholson, N. Miller, D. W. Marhefka, T. Ernst, J. W. Doane, Kent Displays, Inc. [GL109-56] 11:50 am: Liquid crystal digital mirror and discomfort glare reduction, Y. Borenstein, AlphaMirror [GL109-54] 12:10 pm: High-performance active liquid crystalline shutters for stereo computer graphics and other 3D technologies, V. Sergan, T. Sergan, California State Univ./Sacramento; B. MacNaughton, MacNaughton Inc. [GL109-63] Lunch Break 12:30 to 1:30 pm SESSION 3 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Mon. 1:30 to 3:00 pm Keynote Session: Tunable Photonic Crystals Chair: Tamas Kosa, AlphaMicron, Inc. 1:30 pm: Cholesteric blue phases as photonic crystals (Invited Paper), H. J. Coles, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-74] 2:00 pm: Liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers (Invited Paper), T. T. Alkeskjold, Danmarks Tekniske Univ. (Denmark) [GL109-13] 2:30 pm: Liquid crystals based tunable polymer photonic crystals (Invited Paper), T. Kyu, Univ. of Akron [GL109-61] Coffee Break 3:00 to 3:20 pm SESSION 4 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Mon. 3:20 to 5:20 pm Keynote Session: Ordered Nanostructures Chair: Oleg D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. 3:20 pm: Electrooptical properties of FLC/carbon nanotube dispersions and of polymer dispersed FLCs: a comparison (Invited Paper), W. Haase, F. Podgornov, Technische Univ. Darmstadt (Germany) [GL109-62] 3:50 pm: Dispersions of carbon nanotubes (Invited Paper), C. Zakri, Univ. Bordeaux 1 (France) [GL109-65] 4:20 pm: Active photonic nanomaterials: from disordered to periodic structures (Invited Paper), H. Cao, Northwestern Univ. [GL109-67] 4:50 pm: Cracks and topological defects in nematic nanotubes gels (Invited Paper), M. F. Islam, Carnegie Mellon Univ. [GL109-60] Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter Meeting Conv. Ctr. Room 305 · Monday, 6:00 to 7:30 pm Tuesday 13 June Plenary Session Conv. Ctr. Theater Tues. 8:00 am to 12:00 pm Chair: James G. Grote, Air Force Research Lab. 8:00 am: Photonics research at NASA Glenn, W. Whitlow, Jr., NASA Glenn Research Ctr. [GL200-01] 8:30 am: Magnetic properties of natural and modified DNA, J. Jin, Korea Univ. (South Korea) [GL200-02] 9:00 am: Photonics research at the Air Force Research Lab., T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL200-03] 9:30 am: Innovative partnerships between government, academia, and the private sector: perspectives from Battelle, R. Rosen, Battelle Memorial Institute [GL200-04] Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:30 am 10:30 am: Interference, coherence, and polarization, E. Wolf, Univ. of Rochester and College of Optics and Photonics/Univ. of Central Florida [GL200-07] 11:00 am: Nanostructured liquid crystals for photonic applications, H. Yokoyama, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Japan) [GL200-05] 11:30 am: Nonlinear materials for infrared nonlinear optics, G. C. Bhar, Vivekananda Univ. (India) [GL200-06] SESSION 5 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Tues. 1:00 to 3:00 pm Beam Steering and Wavefront Control Chair: Vassili Sergan, California State Univ./Sacramento 1:00 pm: Optical phased array technology state of the art (Invited Paper), P. F. McManamon, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-37] 1:30 pm: Diffractive wavefront control with programmable spatial light modulator technology, M. T. Gruneisen, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-75] 2:00 pm: Liquid crystal based decentered lens arrays, J. Shi, Kent State Univ.; P. F. McManamon, Air Force Research Lab.; P. J. Bos, Kent State Univ. [GL109-72] 2:20 pm: Optimization of transparent conducting oxides for infrared beam steering applications, J. D. Perkins, M. F. A. M. van Hest, M. P. Taylor, C. W. Teplin, D. S. Ginley, National Renewable Energy Lab. [GL109-04] 2:40 pm: Modeling and performance limits of large aperture high-resolution wavefront control system based on liquid crystal spatial light modulator, X. Wang, ChemImage Corp.; P. J. Bos, Kent State Univ. [GL109-69] Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm SESSION 6 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Tues. 3:20 to 5:30 pm Computer Simulations in Liquid Crystal Science and Technology Chair: Mark T. Gruneisen, Air Force Research Lab. 3:20 pm: Finite element simulation of liquid crystal elastomers (Invited Paper), R. L. B. Selinger, J. V. Selinger, B. Mbanga, Kent State Univ. [GL109-66] 3:50 pm: Liquid crystalline properties from Monte-Carlo simulation of Gay-Berne like systems, W. Jozefowicz, L. Longa, Jagiellonski Univ. (Poland) [GL109-76] 4:10 pm: Lattice modeling of liquid crystal elastomers (Invited Paper), G. Skacej, Univ. v Ljubljani (Slovenia); C. Zannoni, Univ. degli Studi di Bologna (Italy) [GL109-42] 4:40 pm: Numerical investigation of electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transitions in liquid-crystal films (Invited Paper), E. C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I. I. Smalyukh, Kent State Univ.; T. Kosa, B. Taheri, AlphaMicron, Inc. [GL109-47] 5:10 pm: An alternative description of multidimensional optics in liquid crystals and uniaxial media solved by operators and sparse linear systems, S. Tang, J. R. Kelly, Kent State Univ. [GL109-20] Posters Tues. 5:30 to 6:30 pm. Visible light initiated thiol-ene-based reflection HPDLCs, J. M. Wofford, Air Force Research Lab.; L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, Science Applications International Corp.; T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-06] Kerr effect of low melting nematic liquid crystals with negative dielectric anisotropy, A. Ghanadzadeh Gilani, Gilan Univ. (Iran); H. Tajalli, Univ. of Tabriz (Iran); R. S. Dabrowski, Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Poland); H. Khoshsima, Univ. of Tabriz (Iran) [GL109-15] Optical trapping in nematic and lamellar liquid crystals, I. I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ.; A. V. Kachynski, A. N. Kuzmin, P. N. Prasad, SUNY/Univ. at Buffalo [GL109-49] Fast achromatic polarization rotator based on 45 degrees twisted cells filled with dual-frequency nematic liquid crystal, O. P. Pishnyak, A. B. Golovin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. [GL109-25] Linear shearing in HPDLC thiolene reflection gratings, V. P. Tondiglia, Science Applications International Corp.; L. V. Natarajan, T. J. Bunning, R. L. Suterland, P. F. Lloyd, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-09] A new approach to flexoelectric measurements in bent-core liquid crystals, J. E. Harden, Jr., B. Mbanga, Kent State Univ.; N. Eber, K. Fodor-Csorba, Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Szilardtestfizikai es Optikai (Hungary); A. I. Jakli, Kent State Univ. [GL109-58] Resolution in optically addressed spatial light modulators based on dye-doped liquid crystals, O. Trushkevych, N. Collings, W. A. Crossland, T. D. Wilkinson, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-80] Noise suppression in liquid crystal beam steering devices, A. G. Georgiou, M. Komarcevic, W. A. Crossland, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-81] Toward optimization of liquid crystal lasers, A. D. Ford, S. M. Morris, M. N. Pivnenko, C. Gillespie, H. J. Coles, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-85] Thermal lens effect as a probe for studying modifications of low-density lipoproteins, S. L. G?mez, M. Jurado, G. Tonini, A. Monteiro, E. Sanchez, F. Oliveira Rios, Univ. de Sao Paulo (Brazil); P. Boschcov, Univ. Federal de Sao Paolo (Brazil); A. M. Figueiredo Neto, M. Gidlund, Univ. de Sao Paulo (Brazil) [GL109-86] Nonresonant random lasing in chiral liquid crystals, S. M. Morris, A. D. Ford, M. N. Pivnenko, H. J. Coles, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-87] The controller for two-terminal photosensor with thermal compensation of transfer function, M. Hladun, Lviv Polytechnic National Univ. (Ukraine) [GL109-88] Switchable two-dimensional gratings based on electric field-induced undulations in cholesterics, B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. [GL109-89] Wednesday 14 June SESSION 7 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Wed. 8:20 to 10:00 am Surface and Bulk Effects Chair: Ivan I. Smalyukh, Kent State Univ. 8:20 am: Anchoring and gliding of a nematic liquid crystal on orienting photopolymers (Invited Paper), M. Nobili, K. Antonova, M. Nespoulous, Univ. Montpellier II (France); O. Buluy, Institute of Physics (Ukraine); C. Blanc, Univ. Montpellier II (France); Y. A. Reznikov, Institute of Physics (Ukraine) [GL109-44] 8:50 am: Mechanical responses in liquid crystal polymer networks by temperature, light, and pH (Invited Paper), D. J. Broer, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands) and Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands); K. D. Harris, C. Van Oosten, C. W. M. Bastiaansen, Technische Univ. Eindhoven (Netherlands); J. Lub, Philips Research Labs. (Netherlands); M. E. Sousa, G. P. Crawford, Brown Univ. [GL109-50] 9:20 am: Bistable analogous linear electro-optical effect, ultrafast giant field-induced biaxiality, and wide-range blue phase in novel bent-core liquid crystals, A. I. Jakli, Kent State Univ. [GL109-30] 9:40 am: Photo-induced dichroism of photochromic dye-liquid crystal mixtures, L. Su, L. Sukhomlinova, V. H. Bodnar, B. Taheri, T. Kosa, AlphaMicron, Inc. [GL109-48] Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:20 am SESSION 8 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Wed. 10:20 am to 1:10 pm Keynote Session: Self-Assembly in Biology and Biotechnological Applications Chair: Antal I. Jakli, Kent State Univ. 10:20 am: Structure and dynamics of liquid crystalline pattern formation in drying droplets of DNA (Invited Paper), G. C. L. Wong, O. Zribi, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ.; J. Butler, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [GL109-70] 10:50 am: Self-assembly of biopolymers with a twist (Invited Paper), Z. Dogic, Harvard Univ. [GL109-26] 11:20 am: Liquid crystallinity as a probe of the internal structures of filamentous bacteriophage (Invited Paper), M. Green, S. Tomar, Polytechnic Univ.; L. A. Day, The Public Health Research Institute [GL109-71] 11:50 am: Shape selection in self-assembled chiral membranes: new mechanism based on the flexoelectric effect (Invited Paper), J. V. Selinger, Z. Lu, R. L. B. Selinger, Kent State Univ. [GL109-64] 12:20 pm: Utilizing tunable liquid crystal technology in a new device to measure total blood hemoglobin noninvasively and detect anemia (Invited Paper), J. W. McMurdy III, Brown Univ.; G. D. Jay, S. Suner, Rhode Island Hospital; G. P. Crawford, Brown Univ. [GL109-45] 12:50 pm: Optical amplification of liquid crystal distortion detects microorganisms, C. J. Woolverton, Kent State Univ. [GL109-59] Thursday 15 June Joint Session with Conference GL108: Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications SESSION 9 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Thurs. 8:20 to 10:00 am Liquid Cyrstal Polymer Composites, Suspensions, and Emulsions Chair: Timothy J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. 8:20 am: Laser manipulation of droplets and particles in liquid crystals (Invited Paper), H. F. Gleeson, M. R. Dickinson, The Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom); T. A. Wood, Univ. of Bristol (United Kingdom) [GL109-29] 8:50 am: Nematic drops: defects, electro-optics, and ordered structures (Invited Paper), A. Fernandez de las Nieves, Univ. de Almer?a (Spain) and Harvard Univ.; D. Link, RainDance Technologies, Inc. and Harvard Univ.; D. A. Weitz, Harvard Univ. [GL109-33] 9:20 am: Reverse-mode holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystals incorporating monofuntional liquid crystal acrylate monomers, A. M. Urbas, E. R. Beckel, V. P. Tondiglia, L. V. Natarajan, T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-08] 9:40 am: Electrooptic properties of holographic polymer-stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals, E. R. Beckel, Air Force Research Lab.; L. V. Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, R. L. Sutherland, Science Applications International Corp.; M. C. Ingram, T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-07] Coffee Break 10:00 to 10:20 am Joint Session with Conference GL108: Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications SESSION 10 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Thurs. 10:20 am to 12:20 pm Nanostructured and Doped Photonic Materials Chair: Helen F. Gleeson, The Univ. of Manchester (United Kingdom) 10:20 am: Nonlinear transmission and switchable reversed diffraction in dye-doped liquid crystals (Invited Paper), D. R. Evans, G. Cook, M. A. Saleh, J. L. Carns, Air Force Research Lab.; S. Serak, N. V. Tabiryan, BEAM Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. [GL109-55] 10:50 am: Numerical calculations of the magnetic susceptibility of cut gold nanorings, J. R. Neal, P. Palffy-Muhoray, B. Taheri, Kent State Univ. [GL109-51] 11:10 am: Ferroelectric nanoparticles in liquid crystals, F. Li, J. L. West, Kent State Univ.; A. V. Glushchenko, Univ. of Colorado at Colorado Springs; C. I. Cheon, Hoseo Univ. (South Korea); Y. A. Reznikov, Institute of Physics (Ukraine) [GL109-23] 11:30 am: Holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals doped with montmorillonite clay (Invited Paper), T. Tsai, Y. Chang, Chung Yuan Christian Univ. (Taiwan) [GL109-41] 12:00 pm: Polymer-dispersed liquid crystals containing nanocrystals of oxides doped with rare earths, S. J. Klosowicz, Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Poland) [GL109-19] Lunch Break 12:20 to 1:20 pm SESSION 11 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Thurs. 1:20 to 3:10 pm Charge Transport and Dynamic Processes in Smectic and Columnar Liquid Crystals Chair: Alberto Fernandez de las Nieves, Univ. de Almeria (Spain) 1:20 pm: What can be the highest charge carrier mobility in liquid crystals? (Invited Paper), J. Hanna III, A. Ohno, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) [GL109-17] 1:50 pm: Carrier transport in columnar liquid crystals (Invited Paper), K. D. Singer, Case Western Reserve Univ. [GL109-32] 2:20 pm: Radiation-induced trapping and charge transport in a smectic liquid crystal (Invited Paper), B. Ellman, Kent State Univ. [GL109-77] 2:50 pm: Filamentary optical singularities in multiphase liquids, A. Adamczyk, Politechnika Warszawska (Poland) [GL109-40] Coffee Break 3:10 to 3:30 pm SESSION 12 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Thurs. 3:30 to 5:40 pm Electro-Optics Chair: Maurizio Nobili, Univ. Montpellier II (France) 3:30 pm: Application of liquid crystal devices in electro-optical imaging systems (Invited Paper), E. A. Watson, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-35] 4:00 pm: Wave guiding with liquid crystals (Invited Paper), K. Neyts, H. J. Desmet, J. Beeckman, R. G. Baets, Ghent Univ. (Belgium) [GL109-27] 4:30 pm: Structural optimization in the planar circuit-type liquid crystal phase shifter (Invited Paper), T. Nose, S. Yanagihara, M. Honma, Akita Prefectural Univ. (Japan) [GL109-36] 5:00 pm: Fast switching twisted dual-frequency nematic cell, A. B. Golovin, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. [GL109-03] 5:20 pm: Directed vertical alignment liquid crystal display with enhanced brightness, high contrast ratio, and fast switching, M. Gu, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. [GL109-11] Career Workshop Conv. Ctr Room 305 · 6:00 to 7:00 pm The workshop will include presentations on "Conducting a Successful Job Search" and "Curriculum Vitae Writing", as well as an informal discussion. It is of a special interest for young professionals such as students and postdoctoral researchers. The workshop is organized and sponsored by the Great Lakes Regional Chapter. Friday 16 June SESSION 13 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Fri. 8:00 to 10:10 am Structures, Patterns, and Defects Chair: Jonathan V. Selinger, Kent State Univ. 8:00 am: Electroconvection patterns and their decay in nematic liquid crystals (Invited Paper), N. ?ber, A. Buka, Magyar Tudom?nyos Akad?mia Szil?rdtestfizikai ?s Optikai (Hungary); W. Pesch, L. Kramer, Univ. Bayreuth (Germany) [GL109-57] 8:30 am: The origin of self-assembled helical supra-molecular structures in achiral biphenyl carboxylic acid liquid crystalline compounds (Invited Paper), S. Z. D. Cheng, Univ. of Akron [GL109-34] 9:00 am: Dynamics of evolution of disclinations in cholesteric liquid crystals (Invited Paper), D. Yang, F. Zhang, C. I. Braganza, T. Palermo, Kent State Univ. [GL109-68] 9:30 am: Dynamics of smectic C cylinders, R. Pratibha, A. Semwal, N. V. Madhusudana, Raman Research Institute (India) [GL109-39] 9:50 am: Electric-field-induced undulations in softly anchored cholesteric liquid crystals, B. I. Senyuk, I. I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, Kent State Univ. [GL109-18] Coffee Break 10:10 to 10:30 am SESSION 14 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Fri. 10:30 am to 1:00 pm Electro-Optic and Photonic Materials Chair: Deng-Ke Yang, Kent State Univ. 10:30 am: Liquid crystalline polymers and elastomers (Invited Paper), P. T. Mather, Case Western Reserve Univ. [GL109-78] 11:00 am: High-birefringence nematics for spatial light modulators (Invited Paper), L. Chien, Kent State Univ. [GL109-79] 11:30 am: Total reflection of cholesteric liquid crystals (Invited Paper), S. A. Holmstrom, Univ. of Tulsa; E. R. Beckel, Air Force Research Lab. and Anteon Corp.; V. P. Tondiglia, Air Force Research Lab. and Science Applications International Corp.; T. J. Bunning, Air Force Research Lab. [GL109-46] 12:00 pm: Electro-optical Kerr effect of new tolane-based nematic liquid crystals, A. Ghanadzadeh Gilani, Gilan Univ. (Iran); H. Tajalli, Univ. of Tabriz (Iran); R. S. Dabrowski, Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna (Poland) [GL109-14] 12:20 pm: Electrically tunable chiral materials for spatial light modulators, S. Lu, A. B. Golovin, L. Chien, Kent State Univ. [GL109-24] 12:40 pm: The effects of external applied voltage on the nonlinear refractive index and the birefringence of a dye-doped nematic layer, H. Tajalli, Univ. of Tabriz (Iran); A. Ghanadzadeh Gilani, Gilan Univ. (Iran); A. Jafari, Univ. of Tabriz (Iran) [GL109-16] Lunch Break 1:00 to 2:00 pm SESSION 15 Conv. Ctr. Room 305 Fri. 2:00 to 3:30 pm Optical Imaging, Trapping, and Other Applications Chair: Antoni Adamczyk, Politechnika Warszawska (Poland) 2:00 pm: Applications and opportunities with molecular chemical imaging (Invited Paper), K. O. Schafer, W. H. Hutchison, T. C. Voigt, X. Wang, ChemImage Corp. [GL109-125] 2:30 pm: Spatial light modulators: dynamic tailored landscapes for optical sorting, G. F. Milne, D. R. Burnham, K. Dholakia, D. McGloin, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom) [GL109-84] 2:50 pm: Holographic optical manipulation of airborne particles, D. R. Burnham, M. D. Summers, D. Rudd, D. McGloin, Univ. of St. Andrews (United Kingdom) [GL109-83] 3:10 pm: Wide temperature range blue phases in dimeric liquid crystals, M. N. Pivnenko, H. J. Coles, Univ. of Cambridge (United Kingdom) [GL109-82]

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