{"id":1357,"date":"2020-11-27T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:51:09","slug":"date-for-the-diary-blcs-annual-training-workshop-january-7-8-2021-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Date for the diary: BLCS Annual Training Workshop: January 7-8, 2021 online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='content-column two_fifth'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1213\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/epsrc-300x120.png\" alt=\"EPSRC logo\" width=\"203\" height=\"86\" \/><\/div><div class='content-column three_fifth last_column'>The next workshop in the British Liquid Crystal Society (BLCS) Annual Training Workshops series will be held on an <em>online platform<\/em> on 7-8 January 2021.<\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div>The two-day event will include a mixture of \u201clive\u201d and pre-recorded lectures, discussion hours and modelling training sessions, and a mini-symposium. The workshop is intended for early-stage researchers (primarily PhD students, but also post-doctoral research associates and researchers in industry, relatively new to the field of liquid-crystal research, irrespective of their academic disciplines). The workshop when held in traditional setup can offer only limited number of places.<\/p>\n<p>For further details and to register your interest please download this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BLCS_ATW_Jan2021_annoucement.docx\">Expression of Interest form<\/a>. Note the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">extended deadline for expressions of interest is 16th December 2020<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme<\/strong><br \/>\nThe final programme will be made available here in due course. The list of speakers confirmed so far is as follows:<\/p>\n<div class='content-column one_half'><ul>\n<li>Dr\u00a0Dwaipayan Chakrabarti<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Cliff Jones<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Apala Majumdar<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Georg Mehl<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Nigel Mottram<\/li>\n<li>Dr Mamatha Nagaraj<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><div class='content-column one_half last_column'><ul>\n<li>Prof. Jon Preece<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Ivan Smalyukh<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Gordon Tiddy<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Mark R. Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Julia Yeomans<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Marjolein Dijkstra<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div><div class='clear_column'><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day event will include a mixture of \u201clive\u201d and pre-recorded lectures, discussion hours and modelling training sessions, and a mini-symposium. The workshop is intended for early-stage researchers (primarily PhD students, but also post-doctoral research associates and researchers in industry, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/?p=1357\">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-1357","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\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blcs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}