Invited speakers

C. Batiaansen. TUE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

"CHIRAL-NEMATIC MATERIALS IN SECURITY AND SENSORS"

N. Clark. University of Colorado, USA.

"POLARIZATION ELASTICITY"

R. Dabrowski. Military University of Technology of Varsovia, Polland.

"NEW ORTHOCONIC ANTIFERROELECTICS USEFUL FOR APPLICATIONS"

A. Eremin. University of Magdeburg. Germany.

"NOVEL TYPES OF SWITCHABLE MATERIALS: QUADRATIC ELECTROCLINIC EFFECT AND MULTISTAGE SWITCHING IN “BANANA” SMECTICS"

C. Folcia. Universidad del País Vasco, Spain.

"Second harmonic generation in liquid crystals: State of the art"

P. Gautier. Lyxys, S.A., France.

"FAST LIQUID CRYSTAL SHUTTERS FOR ANTI-BLOOMING APPLICATIONS"

T. Hegmann. University of Manitoba, Canada.

"CHIRAL DOPANT AND BENT-CORE lC-CAPPED GOLD NANOPARTICLES AS DOPANTS fOR NEMATIC AND SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS"

H. Kitzerow. University of Paderborn, Germany.

"NEW CHALLENGES IN BLUE PHASES AND RELATED DEFECT STRUCTURES"

P. Rudquist. Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

"ON CHIRAL SMECTICS WITHOUT A NEMATIC PHASE; FROM DE VRIES SmA TO TRI-STABLE LIQUID CRYSTALS"

H. Takezoe. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

"GIANT OPTICAL ACTIVITY FROM NANO-SEGREGATED ACHIRAL ROD-LIKE MOLECULES IN THE B4 STRUCTURE OF ACHIRAL BENT-CORE MOLECULES"

C. Tschierske. Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.

"NEMATIC PHASES OF BENT-CORE MESOGENS"