Liquid crystals in their various mesophases are technologically important electro-optic materials, as they possess many unique and useful physical and optical properties. They are now widely used in various optoelectronic display, beam/image, and optical information processing systems. Liquid crystals also possess extraordinarily large nonlinear optical responses, which are now finding an ever increasing usage in practical devices and systems ranging in response times from subpicosecond to seconds, covering a wide spectral range from near UV to infrared. In recent years, innovation in nanofabrication and development of plasmonic nanostructures have also led to the emergence of liquid crystalline metamaterials that possess new unique functionalities and properties that hold high promises for applications in advanced optical and photonic devices/systems. 

This conference provides a forum for presentations of research results on all aspects of liquid crystal material and optical sciences and technologies. The emphasis is on new, novel, or unique liquid crystalline materials, optical properties and phenomena, and their applications in display, information, and image processing systems, electro-optics and nonlinear optics.