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International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference 2025

Programme

Tentative Programme

Monday 11.8
(14 talks)
8:00-8:45 Registration & morning coffee
8:45-10:40 Session 1 (chair)
08:45-09:00 Opening words (Arri Priimägi and Hao Zeng)
09:00-09:30 Keynote lecture 1
09:30-09:55 Invited talk 1
09:55-10:15 Contributed talk 1
10:15-10:40 Invited talk 2
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Session 2 (chair)
11:10-11:35 Invited talk 3
11:35-12:00 Invited talk 4
12:00-12:20 Contributed talk 3
12:20-12:40 Contributed talk 4
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:20 Session 3 (chair)
14:00-14:25 Invited talk 5
14:25-14:45 Contributed talk 4
14:45-15:10 Invited talk 6
15:10-15:30 Contributed talk 5
15:30-17:00 Coffee Break + poster session
17:00-17:45 Session 4 (chair)
17:00-17:20 Contributed talk 6
17:20-17:45 Invited talk 7
18:45 Bus leaving to
city reception
Tuesday 12.8
(16 talks)
08:00-08:45 Registration & morning coffee
08:45-10:40 Session 5 (chair)
08:45-09:15 Keynote lecture 2
09:15-09:40 Invited talk 8
09:40-10:00 Organizing committee 1
10:00-10:20 Organizing committee 2
10:20-10:40 Organizing committee 3
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Session 6 (chair)
11:10-11:35 Invited talk 9
11:35-12:00 Invited talk 10
12:00-12:20 Contributed talk 7
12:20-12:40 Contributed talk 8
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:25 Session 7 (chair)
14:00-14:20 Contributed talk 9
14:20-14:40 Contributed talk 10
14:40-15:00 Contributed talk 11
15:00-15:25 Invited talk 11
15:25-17:00 Coffee Break + poster session
17:00-18:15 Session 8 (chair)
17:00-17:20 Contributed talk 12
17:20-17:40 Contributed talk 13
17:40-18:00 Contributed talk 14
Wednesday 13.8
(10 talks + panel discussion)
08:00-08:45 Morning coffee
08:45-10:40 Session 9 (chair)
08:45-09:15 Keynote lecture 3
09:15-09:40 Invited talk 12
09:40-10:00 Organizing committee 4
10:00-10:20 Organizing committee 5
10:20-10:40 Organizing committee 6
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Session 10 (chair)
11:10-11:35 Invited talk 13
11:35-12:00 Invited talk 14
12:00-12:20 Contributed talk 15
12:20-12:40 Contributed talk 16
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 11 (chair)
14:00-14:30 Keynote lecture 4
14:30-15:30 Panel discussion
15:30-17:00 Coffee Break + poster session
18:30 Boat leaving for
cruise and conference dinner
Thursday 14.8
(13 talks)
08:00-09:00 Morning coffee
08:45-10:40 Session 13 (chair)
08:45-09:15 Keynote lecture 5
09:15-09:40 Invited talk 15
09:40-10:00 Contributed talk 17
10:00-10:20 Contributed talk 18
10:20-10:40 Contributed talk 19
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Session 14 (chair)
11:10-11:35 Invited talk 16
11:35-12:00 Invited talk 17
12:00-12:20 Cnotributed talk 20
12:20-12:40 Contributed talk 21
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Session 15 (chair)
14:00-14:25 Invited talk 18
14:25-14:50 Invited talk 19
14:50-15:10 Contributed talk 22
15:10-15:30 Contributed talk 23
17:30 Bus leaving to
sauna evening
Friday 15.8
(6 talks)
09:00-09:45 Morning coffee
09:45-11:20 Session 16 (chair)
09:45-10:15 Keynote lecture 6
10:15-10:40 Invited talk 20
10:40:11:00 Contributed talk 24
11:00-11:20 Contributed talk 25
11:20-11:50 Coffee break
13:00-15:00 Session 16 (chair)
11:50-12:15 Invited talk 21
12:15-12:40 Invited talk 22
12:40-13:00 Closing ceremony
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

Program committee

Devin Roach

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Oregon State University (OSU), USA. Dr. Roach’s research interests focus on applying artificial intelligence to develop additive manufacturing approaches for diverse types of materials including thermosets, soils, or metals. He is also interested in developing and manufacturing smart/active materials such as shape memory polymers and liquid crystal elastomers for biomedical devices, soft robotics, and energy harvesting devices.

Morgan Barnes

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University College London, UK. Barnes’ work spans chemistry, mechanics, and manufacturing to develop responsive shape-shifting polymers for soft robotics, biomedical devices, and microfluidics applications. She combines theory and experiment for the quantitative design of smart materials including switchable biomimetic instabilities and strong soft-robotic grippers.

Jiu-an Lv

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Westlake University, China. Dr. Jiu-an Lv’s research interest focuses on photodeformable liquid crystal polymer materials and their application in functional devices. The research directions include but are not limited to the following: 1) Design and preparation of novel deformable liquid crystal polymer materials; 2) Design and fabrication of flexible smart device; 3) Development and application of novel optomicrofluidics technologies.

Mingchao Zhang

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National University of Singapore. The research focus is on the exploration and development of multiscale, multifunctional smart structures and materials with the remarkable ability to sense, actuate, and adapt to various physical and chemical stimuli. The aim is to rationally design versatile materials, and manufacture intelligent devices for soft robotics, wearable electronics, microelectromechanical systems, optics, and biomedical and healthcare applications.

Tayler S. Hebner

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Purdue University, Indiana, USA. In the Hebner Lab, they develop synthetic soft matter systems with stimuli-responsiveness to replicate dynamic, responsive, adaptive behavior of live matters. Using a combination of polymer physics, chemistry, and biology, they focus on understanding the underlying principles of these dynamic systems and building a toolbox for the design of responsive polymers for soft robotics, medical devices, and tissue engineering.

Hamed Shahsavan

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Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interest is the development of a variety of soft, stimuli-responsive, and programmable materials. In addition, he is interested in emerging fabrication strategies for the manufacturing of small-scale mobile robots and devices, such as direct laser writing, and micro-scale 4D printing.

Invited panel discussion participants

Eugene Terentjev

Eugene Terentjev

 

Professor of Polymer physics at the University of Cambridge (UK)

Fellow and director of studies in natural sciences at Queens’ College.

Jan Lagerwall

Jan Lagerwall

 

Professor in Physics at the Physics & Materials Science Research Unit

of the University of Luxembourg

Ivan Smalyukh

Ivan Smalyukh (Photo by Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado)

 

Professor of Physics at the Department of Physics and Soft Materials Research Center,

University of Colorado Boulder, USA

Helen Gleeson

Professor Helen F. Gleeson

 

Cavendish Professor of Physics

at University of Leeds, UK