Invited Lectures

Pawel Perkowski (Institute of Applied Physics, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland):

“Dielectric spectroscopy of the chiral smectic phases. How does the racemization process influence the dielectric response of the anticlinic smectics?”

Peter Collings (Department of Physics & Astronomy, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.):

"Chromonic Liquid Crystals:  Always Dynamic and Almost Always Chiral"

Lech Longa (Department of Statistical Physics, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland):

“Chiral symmetry breaking in nematics”

Pawel Pieranski (Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Université Paris-Sud, France):

“Flexo-electricity and electro-osmosis in the dowser texture”

Ewa Górecka (Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland):

“Multilevel chirality of liquid crystalline structures made of achiral molecules”