Birs- 22w5159: Defects and Distortions of Layered Complex Fluids

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    Tutorial: Introduction to smectics

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    Goals for Smectic Theory

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    Hierarchical assembly of smectic defects at 3D printed curved geometries

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    Helfrich-Hurault-like undulations in cholesterics induced by anchoring transitions

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    Tutorial: Experimental methods

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    Topological defects in thin smectic films

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    Smectic topological defects and nanoparticles

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    Smectic microlenses with a twist

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    Discretisation of a Q-tensor model for smectic-A liquid crystals

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    Dislocations, Disclinations and Quarter-charge Structures in 2D Lamellar Fluids

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    Topology of orientational defects of smectic colloidal liquid crystals in extreme confinement

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    Solution Landscapes for Nematic Liquid Crystals in Confinement and Some Generalisations to Smectics

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    A Moving Mesh Finite Element Method for Modelling Defects in Liquid Crystals

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    Mixed finite-element methods for smectic A liquid crystals

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    Phase frustration and intermediate state in thin smectic films

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    Filling a sphere with a layered liquid crystal: dilation, dislocations or anchoring violation?

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    Wetting and dewetting transitions for layered nematic liquid crystal-isotropic liquid systems

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    Optimal Control of the Landau-de Gennes Model of Nematic Liquid Crystals

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    Finite-element modelling of Fréedericksz transition in Smectic C Liquid Crystals

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    Reversibility of Focal Conics Near the Cholesteric-Smectic Phase Transition

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