{"id":1211,"date":"2019-10-21T10:14:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T09:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2019-11-18T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T11:22:23","slug":"date-for-the-diary-blcs-annual-training-workshop-january-8-10-2020-in-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Date for the diary: BLCS Annual Training Workshop: January 8-10, 2020 in Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='content-column two_fifth'><a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/chemistry\/news\/events\/2020\/british-liquid-crystal-society-annual-training-workshops.aspx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1213\" src=\"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/epsrc-300x120.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/div> <div class='content-column three_fifth last_column'>We are pleased to announce that a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/\">British Liquid Crystal Society<\/a> (BLCS) Annual Training Workshops will be organised at the University of Birmingham, being funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK.<\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div>The workshops are intended to provide education and training for the next generation of researchers in the highly interdisciplinary area of liquid-crystal research, highlighting its recent advances in the wider context of soft and biological matter.<\/p>\n<p>The next workshop in this series will be held at the University of Birmingham from the 8<sup>th<\/sup> to the 10<sup>th<\/sup> January, 2020. The three-day event will start at noon on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> and finish in the late afternoon of the 10<sup>th<\/sup><sub>,<\/sub> and will include lectures, practical training sessions and the mini-symposium. The workshop is intended for early-stage researchers (primarily PhD students, but also post-doctoral research associates and researchers in industry, who are relatively new to the field of liquid-crystal research, irrespective of their academic disciplines) and can offer limited number of places.<\/p>\n<p>Expressions of interest in the prescribed format (see the attachment <a href=\"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/BLCS_ATW_Jan2020_Announcement_1.pdf\">HERE <\/a>for details) are currently invited for attending\u00a0the BLCS Annual Training Workshop to be held in January 2020. Please email your expression of interest to <a href=\"mailto:blcs-atw@contacts.bham.ac.uk\">blcs-atw@contacts.bham.ac.uk<\/a> by <strong>November 22, 2019<\/strong>. Accepted participants will be notified in due course. The workshop website can be viewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/chemistry\/news\/events\/2020\/british-liquid-crystal-society-annual-training-workshops.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The workshops are intended to provide education and training for the next generation of researchers in the highly interdisciplinary area of liquid-crystal research, highlighting its recent advances in the wider context of soft and biological matter. The next workshop in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}