According to the general interest on chirality and polarity in liquid crystalline materials, the meeting will cover the following topics:

• Design and synthesis of new materials
• Physical properties of chiral and highly polar liquid crystals
• Structures of chiral and polar mesophases
• Bent-core and other polar liquid crystal systems
• Induction of chirality in liquid crystalline materials
• Novel tilted smectic phases (Ferri-, Antiferro-, TGB, de Vries SmA, etc.)
• Ferro-, Antiferro-electric, and V-shaped switching
• Theory and modelling of chiral and polar mesophases
• Surface interactions and alignments
• Linear, non-linear & electro-optical properties
• Display technologies: addressing, alignment, switching
• Nondisplay applications: switching, data processing, telecommunication, etc