| 8:00-8:45 am | Posters put up. |
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| 8:45-9:25 AM | David Allender | |
| 9:25-10:05 AM | Matthias Lehmann | V-Shaped Shape Persistent Mesogens Synthesis and Structure-Property Relationship |
| 10:05-10:45 AM | Veena Prasad | Elegant Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic Materials |
| 10:45-11:15 AM | Refreshment break | |
| and posters | ||
| 11:15-12:15 PM | Panel discussion: | |
| Allender, Lehmann, | ||
| Prasad |
| 1:45-2:25 PM | Bharat Acharya | Effect of molecular form factor on x-ray diffraction from bent-core liquid crystals: Existence of a biaxial nematic phase |
| 2:25-3:05 PM | Shin-Woo Kang | Unusual Supramolecular Associations of Phasmidic Type Carboxlic Acid: Formation of Bent-core Dimeric Mesogen and Its Mesophasic Behaviors |
| 3:05-3:45 PM | Alberto Marini | Molecular Order in a Biaxial Nematic phase of A131 bent-core Liquid Crystal by a combined DFT and 13C Solid State NMR approach |
| 4:15-5:15 PM | Panel discussion: | |
| Acharya, Kang, Marini |
| 8:45-9:25 AM | Helen Gleeson | Measurements of biaxial order parameters and their temperature dependence in a series of bent-core nematogens |
| 9:25-10:05 AM | Min-Sang Park | Raman Scattering Study of Orientation order parmeters in Thermotropic Biaxial Nematic LC |
| 10:05-10:45 AM | Lech Longa | Bent-Core Systems: from Biaxial Nematic to Chiral Tetro-Biaxial Nematic Phase |
| 10:45-11:15 AM | Refreshment break, | |
| and posters | ||
| 11:15-11:55 AM | Epifanio Virga | Mean-field models for biaxial nematic liquid crystals |
| 11:55-1:25 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:25-2:25 PM | Panel Discussion: | |
| Gleeson, Park, | ||
| Longa, Virga |
| 2:25-3:05 PM | Noel Clark | Macroscopic Ferroelectric Polar Order in an Orthorhombic Smectic Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Phase |
| 3:05-3:45 PM | E-Joon Choi | Polar Smectic A Phase of Bent-Shaped Molecule with Acute Subtended Angle |
| 3:45-4:15 PM | Refreshment break | |
| and posters | ||
| 4:15-5:15 PM | Panel discussion | |
| and Conclusion: | ||
| Clark and Choi |