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Central Fall Sectional Meeting
Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
October 2-4, 2015 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1112
Associate secretaries:
Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu
Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals
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Saturday October 3, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals, I
Room 503, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
Changyou Wang, Purdue University wang2482@purdue.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Discussion. -
8:30 a.m.
Weak Anchoring for 2D Liquid Crystals.
Stan Alama, McMaster University
Lia Bronsard*, McMaster University
Bernardo Galvão Sousa, University of Toronto
(1112-35-671) -
9:00 a.m.
Scalings and Limits of the Landau-deGennes Model for Nematic Liquid Crystals.
Eugene Gartland*, Kent State University
(1112-35-511) -
9:30 a.m.
Some techniques to decouple the computations of phase field model of complex fluids.
Xiaofeng Yang*, University of South Carolina
(1112-65-666) -
10:00 a.m.
A model of polydisperse nematics.
Ibrahim Fatkullin*, University of Arizona
Valeriy Slastikov, University of Bristol
(1112-35-554) -
10:30 a.m.
Minimizers of the Landau-de Gennes energy around a spherical colloid particle.
Stan Alama*, McMaster University
Lia Bronsard, McMaster University
Xavier Lamy, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
(1112-35-667)
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8:00 a.m.
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Saturday October 3, 2015, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals, II
Room 503, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
Changyou Wang, Purdue University wang2482@purdue.edu
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2:30 p.m.
Line Defects in a Modified Ericksen Model.
Robert Hardt*, Rice University
(1112-76-468) -
3:00 p.m.
Bifurcation in smectic A liquid crystals at the critical magnetic field.
Andres Contreras*, NMSU
Carlos Garcia-A, UNAM
Carlos Garcia-C., UCSB
Sookyung Joo, Old Dominion University
(1112-35-552) -
3:30 p.m.
Sawtooth profile of smectic A liquid crystals.
Sookyung Joo*, Old Dominion University
Carlos J. Garcia-Cervera, University of California, Santa Barbara
Tiziana Giorgi, New Mexico State University
(1112-35-255) -
4:00 p.m.
A Multiphasic Complex Fluids Model for Cytokinesis of Eukaryotes.
Jia Zhao*, University of South Carolina
Qi Wang, University of South Carolina
(1112-76-547) -
4:30 p.m.
Decoupled energy stable schemes for phase-field models of two-phase complex fluids.
Jie Shen*, Purdue University
(1112-65-238)
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2:30 p.m.
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Sunday October 4, 2015, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Mathematical Analysis and Computation of Nematic Liquid Crystals, III
Room 503, Mundelein Center
Organizers:
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
Changyou Wang, Purdue University wang2482@purdue.edu
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8:00 a.m.
Discussion. -
8:30 a.m.
Dimension reduction for the Landau-de Gennes model in planar nematic thin films.
Peter Sternberg*, Indiana University
Dmitry Golovaty, University of Akron
Alberto Montero, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
(1112-74-110) -
9:00 a.m.
Gradient Flow of Chevron Structures in Liquid Crystal Cells.
Lidia Mrad*, Purdue University
Daniel Phillips, Purdue University
(1112-35-347) -
9:30 a.m.
On Collisions of Hard Nematic Particles.
Mark Wilkinson*, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
(1112-70-265) -
10:00 a.m.
Electroosmosis in nematic liquid crystals.
Dmitry Golovaty*, The University of Akron
(1112-35-551) -
10:30 a.m.
Avoiding local minima in chiral liquid crystals by a theoretically informed Monte Carlo: drops, complex geometries and interfaces.
Julio C Armas-Perez, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Jose A Martinez-Gonzalez, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Xiao Li, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Juan P Hernandez-Ortiz*, Department of Materials, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Paul F Nealey, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
Juan J de Pablo, Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago
(1112-82-589)
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8:00 a.m.
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