The 2021 British Liquid Crystal Annual Training Workshop
- Dates
- Thursday 7 January (12:00) - Friday 8 January 2021 (17:00)
The next workshop in the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) Annual Training Workshops series will be held on an online platform on 7-8 January 2021.
The two-day event will include a mixture of “live” and pre-recorded lectures, discussion hours and modelling training sessions, and a mini-symposium. The workshop is intended for early-stage researchers (primarily PhD students, but also post-doctoral research associates and researchers in industry, relatively new to the field of liquid-crystal research, irrespective of their academic disciplines). The workshop when held in traditional setup can offer only limited number of places.
The BLCS Annual Training Workshops are intended to provide education and training for the next generation of researchers in the highly interdisciplinary area of liquid-crystal research, highlighting its recent advances in the wider context of soft and biological matter. This long-running series of workshops was reinvigorated when it was held at the University of Birmingham for the first time in 2020, with the inclusion of a mini-symposium “Liquid-Crystal Research in the 2020s”. The mini-symposium will be focused on discussing emerging questions and open problems in liquid-crystals research and at its interfaces.
Expressions of interest
Expressions of interest for attending the BLCS Annual Training Workshop to be held online on 7-8, January 2021 should be emailed to blcs-atw@contacts.bham.ac.uk by December 16, 2020 in the prescribed format given below. There is no registration fee for accepted participants.
British Liquid Crystal Annual Training Workshop - expression of interest form (Word doc)
Programme
The final programme will be made available here in due course. The list of speakers confirmed so far is as follows:
Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti | University of Birmingham
Prof Marjolein Dijkstra | Utrecht University
Prof Cliff Jones | University of Leeds
Prof Apala Majumdar | University of Strathclyde
Prof Georg Mehl | University of Hull
Prof Nigel Mottram | University of Strathclyde
Dr Mamatha Nagaraj | University of Leeds
Prof Jon A. Preece | University of Birmingham
Prof Ivan I. Smalyukh | University of Colorado at Boulder
Prof Gordon Tiddy | University of Manchester
Prof Mark R. Wilson | Durham University
Prof Julia Yeomans | University of Oxford
Scientific organising committee
Sponsors and partners
British Liquid Crystal Society
EPSRC 
UK Fluids Network
University of Birmingham
Contact us
For all enquiries about the BLCS Annual Training Workshops, please email at blcs-atw@contacts.bham.ac.uk.