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International Conference on Liquid Crystals gathers specialists from all over the world at FCT NOVA

25-07-2022

The 28th edition of the International Conference on Liquid Crystals (ILCC2022), which gathers at FCT NOVA School of Science and Technology ( FCT NOVA) academics, experts and in the field, started on July 24.

This edition, that takes place in hybrid format (face-to-face and online) counted with two public lectures and with the invited speakers Nicholas Abbott, Cornell University; John Ball, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh; Dirk Broer, Eindhoven University of Technology; Agnes Buka, Wigner Research Centre for Physics; Timothy Bunning, United States Air Force; Luiz R. Evangelista, Maringá State University;Frank Giesselmann,University of Stuttgart; Helen Gleeson,University of Leeds;John W. Goodby,University of York; Ewa Górecka,University of Warsaw;Alain Goriely.University of Oxford; Linda Hirst,University of California; Tomiki Ikeda,Chuo University; Corrie T. Imrie, University of Aberdeen;Emmanuelle Lacaze, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris; Oleg Lavrentovich, Kent State University;Wei Lee, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University;Tom Lubensky, University of Pennsylvania; Mark MacLachlan, University of British Columbia; Cristina Marchetti, University of California Santa Barbara; Peter Palffy-Muhoray, Kent State University; Igor Muševič, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana;Pawel Pieranski, Paris-Sud University; Francesc Sagués, Barcelona University, Silvia Vignolini, Cambridge University;Hiroshi Yokoyama, Kent State University; Claudio Zannoni, University of Bologna and Slobodan Zumer, University of Ljubljana.

Since 1965, when the first ILCC was organised at Kent State University, all ILCC meetings have been outstanding events in which the liquid crystal community comes together to  bring up the latest discoveries and ideas.

The event was organised by FCT NOVA, in partnership with the Portuguese Liquid Crystal Society, The International Liquid Crystal Society, University of Lisbon and Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa.

More information about the program here.

Mais informações sobre o programa