Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments

1 Classification of defects in liquid crystals.- 2 Alignment tensor versus director description in nematic liquid crystals.- 3 Liquid crystal colloidal dispersions.- 4 Computer simulations and defects in confined liquid crystal lattice models.- 5 Molecular simulations and theory of planar interfaces and defects in nematic liquid crystals.- 6 Topological defect behavior in a quenched nematic liquid crystal.- 7 Restoring forces on nematic disclinations.- 8 Challenges in the dynamics of point defects.- 9 Numerical simulation of elastic anisotropy in nematic liquid crystalline polymers.- 10 Computer Simulations and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of Structures in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.- 11 Defects and Undulation in Layered Liquid Crystals.- 12 Liquid crystals under shear: role of defects.- 13 Numerical simulation of defects in quasicrystals.