Boulder Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials
Conference Chairs: Noel A. Clark & Ivan I. Smalyukh
Early-Career Program
- Graduate students and postdocs are strongly encouraged to attend and present at the workshop.
- Up to 20 travel fellowships are available to partially defray the travel and lodging expenses of young researchers.
- We will strive to provide inexpensive housing for the junior scientists participating in the workshop.
- A special Career Development Program for early-career scientists is planned (including presentations on CV writing & job searching skills).
- Best Student Presentations Prizes in both oral & poster categories will be awarded;
- Students and postdocs at the Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center of University of Colorado will be actively involved in organizing the workshop.
- We will hold poster sessions & will strive to provide an ideal setting for interactions between senior & junior scientists.
- We strongly encourage the workshop participants to develop collaborations and take advantage of the ICAM-I2CAM exchange awards in order to pursue research projects related to the topics of this ICAM Workshop.
Outreach Forum
The workshop will be held in conjunction with an Outreach Forum, which will allow the researchers to share their experience and advances in conducting outreach and disseminating scientific knowledge. All lectures will be completely open to public and advertized as such. The industrial partners of the CU Materials Research Center will be asked to exhibit their products during the breaks and poster sessions (we expect to have at least 10-15 industrial partners participating in the exhibition); this, hopefully, will further attract young scientists and students. We will strive to have undergraduate students attending some of the lectures, and especially the poster session, where they could interact with graduate students, postdocs, and senior researchers in a setting that is ideal the exchange of knowledge. There will be no required registration fee for this workshop in order to promote participation by young scientists and general public. However, the Workshop web page and the web-based registration form will ask for voluntary contribution to defray the cost of workshop organization.
