Sunday, May 26th
14:30 – 15:00 REGISTRATION
15:00 – 15:10 WELCOME
15:10 – 15:40 Francesco SIMONI, “Angle inducing dramatic changes of optical properties: Heliconical versus Planar Cholesterics”
15:40 – 16:00 Gaetano ASSANTO, “Nematicon-based isolators”
16:00 – 16:20 Antonio D’ALESSANDRO, “Guided wave liquid crystals devices for biophotonic applications”
16:20 – 16:40 Francesca PETRONELLA, “Thermo-plasmonic controlled metasurface for liquid crystal-based tunable optical filters and biosensing”
16:40 – 17:10 COFFEE BREAK
17:10 – 17:30 Federica ZACCAGNINI, “Thermoplasmonic control of a chiral liquid crystal reflector using an array of gold nanorods”
17:30 – 17:50 Filippo CARDANO, “Large-scale unitary maps based on spin-orbit photonic quantum walks”
17:50-18:10 Paola SAVARESE, “Realizing non-Hermitian dynamics with structured light and dichroic liquid-crystal metasurfaces”
18:10-18:30 Francesco Di COLANDREA, “Recent advances in liquid-crystal spin-orbit technologies”
19:30 Cena al Pub Metamonte
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Monday, May 27th
8:30 – 9:00 Claudio ZANNONI, “Modelling liquid crystals: some personal recollections”
9:00 – 9:20 Gregor SKAČEJ, “Photo-responsive Liquid Crystal Elastomers: A Molecular Monte Carlo Study”
9:20 – 9:50 Giacomo SAIELLI, “Effect of Water on the Properties of Ionic Liquid Crystals: a Computer Simulation Study”
9:50 – 10:10 Mario CIFELLI, “2H NMR and computational studies of orthoconic antiferroelectric liquid crystals”
10:10-10:40 COFFEE BREAK.
10:40 – 11:00 Federico CAIMI, “Microconfinement as a tool for the investigation of ferroelectric nematics”
11:00 – 11:20 Tommaso BELLINI, “Ferroelectric nematics are not dielectric materials with large permettivity”
11:20 – 11:40 Raouf BARBOZA, “Explosive electrostatic instabilities of ferroelectric nematic capillary bridges”
11:40 – 12:00 Fulvio BISI, “Assessment of polar nematic phases through group projection”
12:00-14:00 LUNCH
14:00 – 14:20 Annamaria ZALTRON, “Engineered Lithium Niobate Surfaces for Light-driven Actuation of Water Droplets”
14:20 – 14:40 Stefano MARNI, “Optical control of ferroelectric droplets on ferroelectric solids”
14:40 – 15:10 Bruno ZAPPONE, “Phase frustration and pattern formation in smectic films at the transition from the nematic phase”
15:10 – 15:30 Camilla PARMEGGIANI, “3D Pinting Liquid Crystalline Networks: from Macro to Micro”
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK.
16:00 – 16:20 Premio “Daniela Pucci”
16:20 – 17:30 Assemblea soci SICL
18:00 – 21:30 PORTONOVO
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Tuesday, May 28th
8:30 – 8:50 Valentina DOMENICI, “Soft-soft composites based on liquid crystalline elastomers: shape-memory and reprocessability of new 3D objects”
8:50-9:10 Alberta FERRARINI, “The elasticity of lyotropic nematic liquid crystals”
9:10-9:30 Tommaso P. FRACCIA, “Liquid and liquid crystal multiphase associative phase separations in oligomeric DNA and cationic peptide solutions”
9:30-9:50 Silvia PAPARINI, “Singular Twist Waves in Chromonic Liquid Crystals”
9:50-10:10 Cristiano DE MICHELE, “In-silico self-assembly of DNA mononucleotides”
10:10-10:40 COFFEE BREAK
10:40-11:00 Filippo MARINELLO, “Electrowetting and Surface Tension of Chromonic Liquid Crystals”
11:00-11:20 Lorenza SPINA, “Chiral Induction in Chromonic Sunset Yellow”
11:20-11:40 CONCLUDING REMARKS, GREETINGS & LUNCH