Workshop on Banana Liquid Crystals; Boulder, CO; August 21-24, 2002

目前，化学、物理和液晶设备界对一类被称为香蕉液晶的新型液晶材料的兴趣非常高。将于2002年秋季举办的研讨会将由铁电液晶材料研究中心主办，该中心是科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的NSF MRSEC，旨在解决最近出现的重要和及时的研究问题。这将包括讨论和商定一个急需的分类制度，以取代现有的基于发现顺序的公约。这笔资金将用于帮助初级教师、博士后和研究生参加并展示他们自己的研究。液晶界继续对教育和新材料的开发产生直接影响，这些新材料对社会具有重要意义的技术进步。后者包括开发具有很高商业价值的新型电光器件。

Interest in a class of new class of liquid crystal materials referred to as banana liquid crystals is presently very high among the chemistry, physics and liquid crystal device community. A workshop to be held in the Fall of 2002 will be hosted by the Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal Materials Research Center, an NSF MRSEC at the University of Colorado at Boulder to address important and timely research issues that have recently emerged. This will include discussing and agreeing on a much needed classification system to replace the existing convention based on order of discovery. The funds will be used to assist junior faculty, post-docs, and graduate students to attend and present their own research. The liquid crystal community continues to have direct impact on education and the development of new materials for technological advances of high significance to society. The latter include the development of novel electro optic devices of high commercial interest.