- Former undergraduate students and research assistants in the group, Dennis gardner and Bethany Wilcox, join 蜜糖直播 Physics graduate program. Congratulations!!!
- Postdoc Dongki Yoon, PhD students Zhiyuan Qi, Angel Martinez, Mike Varny, 聽and visiting scientists Oksana Truskevych, Ivan Klevets, David Engstrom, and Trirup Dutta join the group. Welcome!!!
- Inter-Continental Advanced Materials for Photonics I-CAMP'09 (organized by Ivan Smalyukh, Ron Shen, and Sailing He) is taking place in four cities (Hangzhou, Shanghai, Qingdao, and Beijing) in China:
- Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy (FCPM) texture of fluorescent bent-core liquid crystal obtained by Rajdeep Deb is featured as a liquid crystal beauty picture of the month on the web page of the
- PSSM 2008 workshop in Lviv, Ukraine, organized by Ivan Smalyukh and Andrij Trokhymchuk:
- Congratulations to Dennis, Rajdeep, Pegah, Bethany & Rahul for receiving SPIE scholarships.
- The Division of Materials Research at the National Science Foundation has awarded Ivan Smalyukh a five-year
- Dennis Gardner's striking photo of a blue phase has been selected as the January 2009 ILCS liquid crystal picture. The polarizing microscopy texture of cholesteric Blue Phase and Dennis Gardner as photographer are featured on the web page of the
- View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals glow,
- Our paper on alignment of bacteria is featured in the
- Our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures is featured in the
- We are now in the 蜜糖直播 Energy Initiative Directory:
- Visiting scientist Dr. Ramarao Pratibha and students Yi-Ting Song and Bethany Wilcox join the research group. Welcome.
- Photo and Video Archives of the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder are now available online:
- Dr. Clayton Lapointe joins the research group. His work will focus on self-assembly of lithoparticles in LCs (conducted in collaboration with Prof. Mason from UCLA). Welcome.
- CARS microscopy textures of liquid crystals from our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures are featured on the cover page of the latest issue of
- University of 蜜糖直播 SPIE student Chapter now has a new web page:
- Vising scientist Suman Anand from India joins the Research group. Welcome!
- Chris Twombly and Pegah Naemi have received research fellowships to conduct summer research projects on nano-structured liquid crystals in the Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India.
- Rahul Trivedi, Pegah Naemi, and Dennis Gardner receive fellowships from to participate in the SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego (August 10-14, 2008)
- Ivan Smalyukh receives the University of 蜜糖直播 Innovation Seed Grant award
- Ivan Smalyukh receives the NSF-DARPA PTAP award
- Chris Twombly and Dennis Gardner receive 2008 SPIE scholarships
- Ivan Smalyukh receives the University of 蜜糖直播 JFDA award
- Dennis receives the SMART research fellowship of University of 蜜糖直播; Chris and Pegah receive ICAM travel fellowships to aprticipate in the ILCC2008 conference in Korea and a Summer School in Croatia, respectively
- Dennis Gardner, Chris Twombly, and Pegah Naemi initiate organization of SPIE student chapter at 蜜糖直播-Boulder
- Prof. Smalyukh is teaching a conference short course , at SPIE Optics and Photonics Conference in San Diego, August 10-14, 2008
- Postdoctoral Fellow, graduate research assistant, and visiting scientist positions to do research in soft condensed matter physics are available in Smalyukh Research Lab; for details see the announcement
- Dennis Gardner receives the Second Best Paper Award from the Optical Society of America (OSA) for his presentation 鈥淥rientationally Ordered Soft Matter for Photonic Applications.鈥� at the National Annual Conference, February 20-24
- Ivan Smalyukh and Noel Clark organize a Workshop on light-controlled liquid crystalline complex adaptive materials, LC2CAM, August 7-10, 2008
- Prof. Smalyukh is teaching a conference short course , at Photonics West 2008
- Our research group joins the NIH-supported
- Pegah Naemi receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Photonic structures in liquid crystals and their applications." Congratulations!
- Condensed Matter Physics Seminar presentation by Prof. Smalyukh 鈥淟aser-controlled molecular orientation patterns in liquid crystals & their imaging with CARS microscopy," Department of Physics, University of 蜜糖直播 at Boulder, November 1, 2007
- Our paper "Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) polarized microscopy of three-dimensional director structures in liquid crystals" is published by Applied Physics Letters,
- Prof. Smalyukh Participates in the
- Chris Twombly receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Opticall patterning of three-dimensional structures in liquid crystals"
- Dennis Gardner receives the UROP Research Assistantship to conduct research project "Periodic structures in cholesteric liquid crystals for temperature sensing and photonic applications"
- I. Smalyukh receives Travel Grant of the
- Paper on laser trapping of defects was featured on the cover of
- Cover page image of ; image of a liquid crystalline pattern formed by DNA from our article
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by
- I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) was featured by the V.J. of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Issue 16 (2005)
- I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Let. 90, 085503 (2003) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2003)
- I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E, 66, 051703 (2002) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 4, Issue 10 (2002)
- Phillip Espinasse, Liquid Crystal Imaging goes 3D,
- Patricia E. Cladis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., , 41 (18), 3505 (2002); see also
- Ingo Dierking, , CHEMPHYSCHEM 2, 663-664 (2001)