16th 

European

Conference

on Liquid 

Crystals

July 10 - 14

University of Calabria - Rende (CS) - Italy

16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals


July 10 - 14

University of Calabria - Rende (CS) - Italy



European Conferences on Liquid Crystals (ECLC) are the traditional forums of European scientists working in the interdisciplinary field of Liquid Crystals, Soft Anisotropic Materials and now also Active Matter, bringing together specialists from academic and industrial research centers across the world. This traditional Conference dates back to 1991. In the 21th century they were held in Germany (Halle, 2001), Spain (Jaca, 2003), Italy (Sesto, 2005), Portugal (Lisbon, 2007), France (Colmar, 2009), Slovenia (Maribor, 2011), Greece (Rodos, 2013) and United Kingdom (Manchester, 2015), Russia (Moscow, 2017) and Poland (Wrocław, 2019). After a forced stop, due to Covid pandemic, the 16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals restarts on 2023 at the University of Calabria in Rende (Italy) from 10th to 14th of July 2023.



European Conferences on Liquid Crystals (ECLC) are the traditional forums of European scientists working in the interdisciplinary field of Liquid Crystals, Soft Anisotropic Materials and now also Active Matter, bringing together specialists from academic and industrial research centers across the world. This traditional Conference dates back to 1991. In the 21th century they were held in Germany (Halle, 2001), Spain (Jaca, 2003), Italy (Sesto, 2005), Portugal (Lisbon, 2007), France (Colmar, 2009), Slovenia (Maribor, 2011), Greece (Rodos, 2013) and United Kingdom (Manchester, 2015), Russia (Moscow, 2017) and Poland (Wrocław, 2019). After a forced stop, due to Covid pandemic, the 16th European Conference on Liquid Crystals restarts on 2023 at the University of Calabria in Rende (Italy) from 10th to 14th of July 2023.

Topics

Confined and Self-assembled systems - Sustainable and Biological materials - Complex and Chiral LC Phases - Ferroelectric Nematics - Active Matter - LCs in Photonics - Responsive and Reactive LCs - Exotic Phenomena with LCs - Design and Synthesis of LC Materials - Theory and Simulations of LC Systems - Innovative Technologies - Topology and Defects - Other topics related to LCs.

Plenary Speakers

Roberto Bartolino

Professor of Applied Physics and Pioneer of the Soft Matter Group  and Liquid Crystal Laboratory at Rende
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Francesco Simoni

Full Professor of Physics at Università Politecnica delle Marche in Ancona, Italy
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Epifanio Virga

Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Pavia, Italy
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Nelson Tabiryan

CEO of Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Corporation (BEAM Co.)
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Confirmed Keynote Speakers

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Gaetano Assanto, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Italy
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Etiennne Brasselet, Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine, France
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Morten Andreas Geday, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
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Emmanuelle Lacaze, Sorbonne Universitè, UPMC - Institut des Nanosciences de Paris, France
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Teresa Lopez-Leon, (ESPCI Paris), France
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Richard Mandle, University of Leeds, UK
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Miha Ravnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Albert P.H.J. Schenning, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands       
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Jacek Szczytko, University of Warsaw, Poland
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Elisabeta Ildyko Szerb, “Coriolan Dragulescu” Institute of Chemistry, Romanian Academy

Confirmed Invited Speakers

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Tommaso Bellini

Università degli Studi di Milano “La Statale”, Italy

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Alberto Concellón

Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain

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Simon Čopar

University of Ljubljana & Jožef Stefan Institutes, Slovenia

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Luciano De Sio

Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

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Alexey Eremin

Institut für Physik (IfP), University of Magdeburg, Germany

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Luiz Roberto Evangelista

Departamento de Física, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Maringá, Brazil

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Susete Maria Brazão Nogueira Fernandes

Nova University Lisbon, Portugal

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Tommaso Fraccia

ESPCI Paris, France

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Ewa Górecka

University of Warsaw, Department of Chemistry, Poland

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Antal Jakli

Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute, USA

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Rafał Kowerdziej

Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Poland

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Oleg Lavrentovich

Kent State University, Liquid Crystal Institute, USA

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Daniele E. Lucchetta

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

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Liana Lucchetti

Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy

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Joseph MacLennan

University of Colorado, USA

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Alenka Mertelj

Jožef Stefan Institute, IJS, Complex Matter, Slovenia

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Sara Nocentini

LENS - European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, Italy

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Vladimíra Novotná

FZU Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

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Eva Otón

Military University of Technology, Poland

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Victor Yu. Reshetnyak

“Taras Shevchenko” National University of Kyiv, Ukraine

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Ivan Smalyukh

University of Colorado, Boulder, USA

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Eric Grelet

Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, Centre de Recherche Paul-Pascal, Bordeaux, France
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Venue

The 16th edition of the European Conference of Liquid Crystals (ECLC) will be held at the University of Calabria in Rende (Italy) from 10th to 14th of July 2023. With its dynamic environment due to the presence of lively Unical Campus, Rende represents a very convenient site to enjoy the many beauties of Calabria which has been recently declared by TIME magazine one of the world top 50 destinations to visit. The University of Calabria or Unical was established in 1968 with the aim of rooting in this area a strategic resource for the development of Calabria, capable of creating prospects for cultural, social and economic growth for its students and their families. Unical is well positioned in the international rankings as a top University.

Chairman

Prof. Riccardo Cristoforo Barberi
International Advisory Board
Anca Luiza Alexe Ionescu (Romania) 
Riccardo Cristoforo Barberi (Italy) 
Roberto Bartolino (Italy) 
Tommaso Bellini (Italy) 
Alexej Bubnov (CZ) 
Vladimir G Chigrinov (Hong Kong) 
Gabriella Cipparrone (Italy) 
Alessandra Crispini (Italy) 
Antonio D’Alessandro (Italy) 
Ingo Dierking (UK) 
Luiz Roberto Evangelista (Brasil) 
Alberta Ferrarini (Italy) 
Mauro Ghedini (Italy) 
Maria Helena Godinho (Portugal) 
Ridha Hamdi (Tunisia) 
Philip Hands (UK) 
Antal Jákli (USA) 
Samo Kralj (Slovenia) 
Emmanuelle Lacaze (France) 
Oleg Lavrentovich (USA) 
Ioannis Lelidis (Greece) 
Teresa Lopez-Leon (France) 
Liana Lucchetti (Italy) 
Yordan Marinov (Bulgaria) 
Andrew Master (UK) 
Nigel Mottram (UK) 
Kristiaan Neyts (Belgium) 
Susete Nogueira Fernandes (Portugal) 
Jose Manuel Oton (Spain) 
Janusz Parka (Poland) 
Paolo Pasini (Italy) 
Gia Petriashvili (Georgia) 
Alexander G. Petrov (Bulgaria) 
Pawel Pieranski (France) 
Victor Reshetnyak (Ukraine) 
Peter Salamon (Hungary) 
José Luis Serrano (Spain) 
Francesco Simoni (Italy) 
Elisabeta Ildyko Szerb (Romania) 
Uroš Tkalec (Slovenia) 
Cesare Umeton (Italy) 
Epifanio Virga (Italy) 
Claudio Zannoni (Italy) 
Slobodan Zumer (Slovenia)
Laschat Sabine (Germany)

International Advisory Board

Anca Luiza Alexe Ionescu (Romania) 
Riccardo Cristoforo Barberi (Italy) 
Roberto Bartolino (Italy) 
Tommaso Bellini (Italy) 
Alexej Bubnov (CZ) 
Vladimir G Chigrinov (Hong Kong) 
Gabriella Cipparrone (Italy) 
Alessandra Crispini (Italy) 
Antonio D’Alessandro (Italy) 
Ingo Dierking (UK) 
Luiz Roberto Evangelista (Brasil) 
Alberta Ferrarini (Italy) 
Mauro Ghedini (Italy) 
Maria Helena Godinho (Portugal) 
Ridha Hamdi (Tunisia) 
Philip Hands (UK) 
Antal Jákli (USA) 
Samo Kralj (Slovenia) 
Emmanuelle Lacaze (France) 
Oleg Lavrentovich (USA) 
Ioannis Lelidis (Greece) 
Teresa Lopez-Leon (France)
Liana Lucchetti (Italy) 
Yordan Marinov (Bulgaria) 
Andrew Master (UK) 
Nigel Mottram (UK) 
Kristiaan Neyts (Belgium) 
Susete Nogueira Fernandes (Portugal) 
Jose Manuel Oton (Spain) 
Janusz Parka (Poland) 
Paolo Pasini (Italy) 
Gia Petriashvili (Georgia) 
Alexander G. Petrov (Bulgaria) 
Pawel Pieranski (France) 
Victor Reshetnyak (Ukraine) 
Peter Salamon (Hungary) 
José Luis Serrano (Spain) 
Francesco Simoni (Italy) 
Elisabeta Ildyko Szerb (Romania) 
Uroš Tkalec (Slovenia) 
Cesare Umeton (Italy) 
Epifanio Virga (Italy) 
Claudio Zannoni (Italy) 
Slobodan Zumer (Slovenia)
Laschat Sabine (Germany)

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Local Organizing Committee

Roberto Caputo - Marco Castriota - Antonio De Luca - Maria P. De Santo - Pasquale Pagliusi - Iolinda Aiello - Nicolas Godbert - Massimo La Deda - Federica Ciuchi - Roberto Termine - Giuseppina De Luca - Cesare Oliviero Rossi - Amerigo Beneduci

Important dates:

- Abstract submission deadline: Extended to April 15th
- Decision on submission: April 23rd
- Early Registration  deadline: May 22th

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