Registration and welcome Coffee

Welcome address by:

E. ABI-AAD / R. AMARA (Vice President Research, ULCO)
A. DAOUDI (Director UDSMM)
D. SCHNEIDER (Director POLE MTE)
D.P. SINGH (Organizing Committee)

Session Chair

A. Hadj. Sahraoui

Planary Talk : Topological metadefects in cholesterics

Pawel Pieranski, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France

Invited Talk: Design of Smart Materials using Liquid Crystallinity

Young-ki Kim, POSTECH, South Korea (online)

Coffee Break

Session Chair

D. Schneider

Invited Talk: Quantum Rods and Their Application in Displays and Lighting Devices

Abhishek Srivastava, HKUST, Hong Kong (online)

Invited Talk: Liquid Crystal Plasmonics: From Active Metasurfaces to Pathogen Detection
Luciano DE SIO, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (online)

Keynote Talk: Active Nematics for Autonomous Microfluidics
Teresa LOPEZ-LEON, ESPCI, Paris (online)

Lunch Break

Session Chair

F. Delattre

Keynote Talk: (Tribo)-Electret Kinetic Energy Harvesting
Philippe BASSET, Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris

Invited Talk: Highly Efficient Fluorescence based Chemosensor for Ultralow Level detection of Explosive materials
Atul CHASKAR, ICT, India

Invited Talk: Energy Migration, Upconversion in Rare Earth Doped Nanostructures
John CAPOBIANCO, Concordia University, Canada (online)

Coffee Break

Session Chair

M. Depriester

Invited talk: The role of Green Quantum Dots in the Development of Sustainable Environmental and Energy Applications

Rafik Naccache, Concordia University, Canada (online)

Introductory Talk on Franco-Quebéc Scientific cooperation

Stephanie LEGOUPY (Consulat general de France à Québec) (online)