| Plenary speakers who have already confirmed their participation |
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| Noel Clark, University of Colorado, USA |
Double-Helical Tiled Chain Structure Of The Twist-Bend Liquid Crystal Phase In CB7CB |
| Maria Godinho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal | Cellulose-based liquid crystals for advanced materials |
| Sven Lagerwall, Chalmers University of Technology Göteborg, Sweden | The Rise and Fall of Smectic Liquid Crystals for Commercial Device Applications |
| Serguei Palto, Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography, Russia | Photonic systems based on spatially modulated liquid crystals |
| Nikolay Tsvetkov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia | Vsevolod Konstantinovich Freedericksz - the founder of the Russian school of physics of liquid crystals |
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| Invited speakers who have already confirmed their participation |
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| Fumito Araoka, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan | Reconfigurable Topological Network in a Nematic Liquid Crystal for Tunable Optical Vortex Generation |
| Vladimir Belyakov, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Russia | Localized Modes in Optics of Photonic Liquid Crystals |
| Vladimir Bezborodov, Belarusian State Technological University, Belarus | Supramolecular Chemistry of anisotropic compounds and self-organized processes. Prospects of the development of new materials and devices |
| Alexei Bobrovsky, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia | Photo- and electro-induced orientational processes in LC polymer systems |
| Arne Buesing, Merck, Germany | History and future aspects of liquid crystal materials from an industrial perspective |
| Vladimir Chigrinov, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China | Liquid crystal display and photonics devices: new trends |
| Ingo Dierking, University of Manchester, UK | Graphene Oxide in Thermotropic and Lyotropic Nematic Liquid Crystal Phases |
| Alexey Eremin, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany | On the way to active colloids: photo-driven motion in complex liquid crystalline structures |
| Alberta Ferrarini, University of Padova, Italy | Molecular diffusion in the twist-bend nematic phase: new features from coupling of bent shape and helical environment |
| Oriano Francescangeli, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Italy | Insights into the nematic phase of all-aromatic mesogens |
| Yuriy Galyametdinov , Kazan National Research Technological University, Russia | Lanthanide Containing Metallomesogens: Creation and Properties |
| Helen Gleeson, University of Leeds, UK | Continuing surprises from bent-core liquid crystals |
| John Goodby, University of York, UK | Free Volume, Molecular Grains and Self-Organization |
| Antal Jakli, Kent State University, USA | Assembly driven curvature in chiral nematic liquid crystals |
| Efim Kats, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia | Non-traditional phase transitions in liquid crystals |
| Samo Kralj, University of Maribor, Slovenia | Geometry enforced assemblies of topological defects |
| Emmanuelle Lacaze, Pierre and Marie Curie University, France | Control of smectic topological defects by nematic instabilities for directed assemblies of nanoparticles |
| Jan Lagerwall, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg | Microfluidic Production of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators with Unconventional Shape |
| Jui-Hsiang Liu, National Cheng Kung University, Republic of China (Taiwan) | Imprinting of Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Constructions Via UV-Induced Polymerization |
| Vladimira Novotna, Institute of Physics, Czech Republic | Bent-core liquid crystalline dimers |
| Mikhail Osipov, University of Strathclyde, UK | Orientational order of anisotropic nanoparticles in nematic liquid crystals and diblock copolymers |
| Yuri Panarin, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland | Linear Electrooptic Response in non-Chiral Bent-Core Liquid Crystalline Systems |
| Janusz Parka, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland | Metamaterial Structures with Liquid Crystals - New Concept for Tunable Devices in THz and GHz Range |
| Evgeny Pozhidaev, Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia | Spatial non-uniformities as a main source of electro-optical effects in ferroelectric liquid crystals |
| Giusy Scalia, University of Luxembourg, Luxemburg | Graphene, aligned
carbon nanotube sheets and LC: high performance and multifunctionalities |
| Jose Luis Serrano, University of Zaragoza, Spain | Supramolecules vs Macromolecules in Liquid Crystals Organizations
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| Ralf Stannarius, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany | Smectic Liquid Crystal Films under Microgravity |
| Nelson Tabiryan, University of Central Florida, USA | The Augmented Reality of Liquid Crystal Optics |
| Cesare Umeton, University of Calabria, Italy | Collective Photo-Heating of Nematic Liquid Crystals doped with Gold
Nanoparticles |
| Nadezhda Usol'tseva, Ivanovo State University, Russia | Mesogenic "Push-Pull"-type Discotic Compounds and Heterostructures on their Base |
| Jagdish Vij, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | Temperature and field induced subphases in AFLCs |
| Claudio Zannoni, Universita di Bologna, Italy | Computer Simulations of Liquid Crystals at a Surface |
| Victor Zyryanov, Kirensky Institute of Physics, Russia | Prospects of Ionic-Surfactant Operation Method for LC Electro-Optical Cells |
