Birs- 24w5249: Mathematical Analysis of Soft Matter

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    Tutorial: Liquid crystals in models and in reality

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    Introduction into mathematics of soft matter

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    A free-discontinuity problem for smectic liquid crystals

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    A variational model for 3D features in films/foams

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    Modeling the actuation of liquid crystal elastomer kirigami imprinted with topological defects

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    Patterns of spontaneous polarization in ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals

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    Manifold-constrained free discontinuity problems and Sobolev approximation

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    Domain walls in hard and soft ferroelectrics

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    Defect Patterns of Landau-de Gennes Energy Minimizers in Three-Dimensional Slabs

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    Asymptotic Limit of the Landau-de Gennes Model for Liquid Crystals Around an Inclusion

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    Entire vortex solutions of negative degree for the anisotropic Ginzburg-Landau system

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    Defects in Planar  Nematic Liquid Crystal Films

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    From minimal surfaces to a variational theory of soft shells

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    Two generalizations of Ginzburg-Landau theory on surfaces

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    Coupling across the active/passive liquid crystal interface: flow control and emergent phenomena.

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    Analytical Model for the Velocity of Defects in Two-Dimensional Active Nematics

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    On an Ohta-Kawasaki Model set on the space

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    On the Landau-de Gennes model with planar anchoring and a weak magnetic field

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    Influence of confining surface Gaussian curvature on the winding character of nematic disclination lines

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    Chiral ground states of ferroelectric liquid crystals

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