Date for the diary: BLCS Annual meeting April 2026

Images says University of Warrick in a purple font.

This year the Annual Meeting of the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) will be held at the University of Warwick from morning on Tuesday 14th April 2026 until mid-afternoon on Thursday 16th April 2026.

As always, the BLCS Annual Meeting welcomes researchers from all career stages across all areas of liquid crystals research, but is traditionally aimed at providing a platform especially for early career researchers – PhD students as well as postdoctoral researchers – so that they can present their work to an expert audience.

For more details and submitting your abstract please refer to the conference pages.

The registration will open soon. Announcements will be made periodically through BLCS Notices.

For queries regarding the conference, please contact the conference organiser Dr Oksana Trushkevych at o.trushkevych(at)warwick.ac.uk

The 2026 call for BLCS Prizes and Medals

The G.W. Gray Medal
The G.W. Gray Medal

We are delighted to announce the opening of the 2026 call for the BLCS Prizes and Medals.

The British Liquid Crystal Society is calling for nominations for the below listed awards. All nominations must be sent to the Secretary (contact details in attached advert) by Friday 20th February 2026. Please see the BLCS website for full rules and eligibility for these awards.

  • G.W. Gray Medal
  • C. Hilsum Medal
  • BLCS Young Scientist Prize

Please see the advert and the BLCS website for full rules on each award here.