ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

EDUCATION

RESEARCH

HONORS

Awards, grants, and fellowships 2009 NSF CAREER Award 2008 University of Colorado JFDA award 2008 NSF-DARPA PTAP award 2008 ICAM-I2CAM fellowship and exchange award 2008 University of Colorado Innovation Seed Grant award ICAM, AFOSR, ONR, and CU-Boulder conference organization grants for the LC2CAM workshop Travel Grant from the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter, June 2007 2006 Glenn H. Brown Prize, International Liquid Crystal Society 2004-2006 ICAM (Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter) two-year Fellowship 2006 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) Conference organization grant for "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications", 2006 2005 Travel Fellowship of International Institute for Complex and Adaptive Matter (IICAM) 2005 UNESCO "Bio-image" Grant and travel Fellowship 2005 SPIE Grant (as a Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Chapter) The 2003 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering 2002 conference grant of American Physical Society "Opportunities in Biology for Physicists" The International Liquid Crystal Society 2002 MultiMedia Award The 2002 SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering The 2002 Microscopy Society of America - Royal Microscopical Society Scholarship 2001 David B. Smith Fellowship (Kent State University) Focus on Microscopy FOM2001 Travel Scholarship 1998 International Science Foundation (G. Soros) Award recognizing outstanding research Professional achievements and service Chair of the I-CAMP (Inter-Continental Materials for Photonics) summer school (3 weeks, June 28-July 19, 2009) in China: "I-CAMP" Chair of the Planer-Smoluchowski Soft Matter Workshop (PSSM09), June 22, Lviv, Ukraine: "PSSM-09" Organizer and local coordinator of the CU-Boulder Branch of the International Institute for complex Adaptive Matter (I2CAM) Editorial Board Member of the international journal "Advances in Condensed Matter Physics" Referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Nanoscale Research Letters, European Phys. J. E, J. Mol. Liquids, JSTAT, Mol.Cryst.Liq.Cryst., J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, and Langmuir Editorial Board Member of the journal "Advances in Condensed Matter Physics" Advisor of the University of Colorado SPIE student chapter" Member of the Board of Governors of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter (ICAM-I2CAM, http://www.i2cam.org/ )" Member of the Fellowship Committee of the International Institute for Complex Adaptive Matter " Member of the SPIE Regional Chapter Task Force Committee Co-Chair of the "LC2CAM" - International Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystalline Complex Adaptive Materials, Boulder, August 7-10, 2008 Chair of the "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications" conference, Dayton, June 12-16, 2006 Member of the SPIE Scholarships and Grants Committee Program Committee member, Conference GL06-108, "Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications," 13-15 June 2006 Chair of the "Liquid Crystals in optics and Photonics" conference, Kent, OH, October 27-28, 2005 Organizer of the Outreach Day, Science Tours for high school students, and Career Workshop, Western Reserve Academy and Kent State Univ., OH, October 26-28, 2005 Organizing Committee member, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium GLPS2006, Dayton, OH, June 12-16, 2006 Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter (a regional chapter of SPIE for Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Western part of the New York State) Highlights in the scientific literature about our research Narture Materials highlight [Nature Materials 9, 2 (2010).] about our article [C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, Science 326, 1083-1086 (2009)]. D. J. Broer, “Defects dictated,” Nature Materials 9, 99-100 (2010): a News and Views article about our paper published in the same issue [Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010)]. Nature Photonics highlight [Nature Photonics 4, 66 (2010)] about our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Nature Materials 9, 139-145 (2010). “I-CAMP 09 tours China,” By Karie Friedman, ICAMNews, October 2009, http://icam-i2cam.org/icamnews/?p=303 Our paper on alignment of bacteria is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. Nature Photonics, October 2008 issue, article by Rachel P.C. Won about the LC2CAM workshop in Boulder organized by Ivan Smalyukh: "View from LC2CAM: Flowing Crystals Glow". An article “Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example” by By Karie Friedman, ICAMNews, October 2008 issue: "Workshop on Light-Controlled Liquid Crystals Provides Shining Example". Our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures is featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. CARS microscopy textures of liquid crystals from our paper on CARS-PM imaging of LC director structures are featured on the cover page of the latest issue of Optics Express, Volume 16, issue 14 Our paper on laser manipulation of defects is featured on the cover of Optics Express, Volume 15, issue 7 Research highlights on the web page of ICAM: http://www.icam-i2cam.org/?page_id=7 Cover page of the Physical Review Letters, Volume 96, issue 17; image of a liquid crystalline pattern formed by DNA from our article I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Bioinfo-online, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by ScienceDaily, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by Medical News Today, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by WordPress.com, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006) was featured by EurekAlert, see the web page I.I. Smalyukh et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) was featured by the V.J. of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Vol. 12, Issue 16 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Let. 90, 085503 (2003) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Vol. 5, Issue 5 (2003) I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051703 (2002) was featured by the V.J. of Biophysical Research, Volume 4, Issue 10 (2002) Phillip Espinasse, Liquid Crystal Imaging goes 3D, OE Magazine, May 2003, Page 6. Patricia E. Cladis, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., A hard look at Soft Matter, 41 (18), 3505 (2002); see also Angew. Chem. 114 (18), 3655 (2002) Ingo Dierking, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy: Imaging Liquid Crystal Director Fields in Three Dimensions, CHEMPHYSCHEM 2, 663-664 (2001)

TEACHING AND LECTURING

Courses and Conference Short Courses Participation in the Optics and Photonics Visiting Lecturer Program, starting from October 2007 Short Course SC790 "Liquid Crystals: from fundamentals to applications", offered at SPIE conferences and symposia Short Course "Liquid Crystals" co-located with the "Nanophotonics" conference of the Optical Society of America, June 2007, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China Course CPHY 72250 "Liquid Crystal Materials", Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University Course CPHY 72242 "Physical Methods of Materials Characterization" (team-taught), Chemical Physics Interdisciplinary Program, Kent State University, Spring Semester, 2006 Invited guest lectures in the Special Topics Course, Electro-Optics Program, School of Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, Spring Semester, 2007 Plenary and invited conference presentations Conference on Optical Trapping & Optical Micromanipulation (OTOM), San Diego, California, August 1-5, 2010.  23rd International Liquid Crystal Conference ICLC2010, July 11-16, 2010, Krakow, Poland (plenary): www.ilcc2010.uj.edu.pl/  SPIE Liquid Crystal conference XIV, part of the SPIE Annual Meeting “Optics & Photonics,”August 1-4, 2010, San Diego, California. I-CAMP Summer School, June 19-July 11, Sydney-Brisbane, Australia Conference “Emerging liquid crystal technologies,” Photonic West, January 23-28, 2010, San Francisco, CA Conference “Emerging liquid crystal technologies,” Photonic West, Jan 24-29, 2009, San Jose, CA Liquid Crystal Microsymposium at the SIAM meeting on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 11-14, 2008 Conference "Nanophotonics" of the Optical Society of America, June 17-22, 2007, Hangzhou, China Conference "Emerging liquid crystal technologies", Photonic West, Jan 20-25, 2007, San Jose, CA 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC2006, Keystone, CO (plenary) Glenn H. Brown Prize lecture at the 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ICLC-2006, July 2-6, 2006, Keystone, CO 19th International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC2002, 30 June - 5 July, Edinburgh, UK, as a winner of the 2002 International Liquid Crystal Society Multimedia Prize Light and Optics in Biomedicine 2002 (LOB2002), October 23-24, 2002, Warsaw, Poland Invited colloquia and seminars SPIE Lecture “Moving Things With Light without Touching: Laser Tweezers and Laser Shapers,” School of Advanced Optical Technologies at the Friedrich Alexander, University in Erlangen, Bayern, Germany Condensed Matter Physics Seminar "Optically-induced quasiparticles in confined chiral nematic liquid crystals", University of California at Davis, April 8, 2009 Physics Colloquium "Contact-free Optical Manipulation of Micro- and Nano-sized Objects Using Holographic Laser Tweezers", CSU-Sacramento, April 9, 2009 Saturday Physics Series Seminar “Laser Tweezers & Laser Shapers: Moving things without touching," Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 18, 2009 COSI Seminar lecture "Non-contact optical control of multiple defects and structures in liquid crystals using holographic and time-shared optical trapping," Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, February 2, 2009 Physical Chemistry Seminar "Self-Assembly and Multistable Photonic Structures in Light-Controlled Chiral Liquid Crystals ," University of California at Los Angles, October 20, 2008 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar "Laser-controlled molecular orientation patterns in liquid crystals & their imaging with CARS microscopy," Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, November 1, 2007 Seminar, "Tunable self-organized and optically-generated ordered structures for electro-optic and photonic applications," Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, March 26, 2007 Colloquium, "Probing and Controlling Order in Soft Matter," Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 19, 2007 Colloquium, "Colloidal self-organization and optical control of structures in ordered biomolecular and soft materials," Department of Physics, Georgetown University, February 22, 2007 Seminar, "Artificial and natural order in biological systems: from liquid crystalline patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria," Department of Physics, Iowa State University, February 27, 2007 Colloquium, "Non-contact optical control in soft materials: from stretching disclinations to photonic applications," Department of Physics, Syracuse University, February 20, 2007 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, "Elasticity-Mediated Colloidal Interactions and Controlled Self-Assembly in Liquid Crystals," Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, March 20, 2007 Seminar, "Self-organized periodic structures in liquid crystalline biomolecular and soft materials," Department of Physics, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, April 18, 2007 Colloquium, "Probing and Controlling Order in Soft Matter: From Confined Liquid Crystals to Aligned DNA Department of Physics," Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, February 2, 2007 Condensed Matter Physics Seminar, "Elasticity-Mediated Colloidal Interactions and Controlled Self-Assembly in Liquid Crystals," Syracuse University, February 21, 2007 Seminar, "Self-organized structures in biological systems: from periodic patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria," San Francisco State University, February 5, 2007 Seminar, "Polarization-Sensitive Optical Trapping and Imaging of Ordered Structures in Soft Materials," Department of Physics, University of Missouri at Kansas City, January 29, 2007 Seminar, "Tunable ordered structures for photonic and applications," School of Engineering, University of Dayton, Ohio, April 11, 2007 Seminar, "Probing and Controlling Order in Soft and Biomolecular Materials," University of California at Merced, February 7, 2007 Seminar, "Colloidal particles in ordered biomolecular and soft materials: from controlled self-organization to optical manipulation," Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, February 16, 2007 Seminar, "Colloidal self-organization & optical control of structures in ordered biomolecular & soft materials," Department of Physics, Kansas State University, March 1, 2007 Colloquium, "Colloidal interactions & controlled self-assembly in ordered soft & biomolecular materials," Department of Physics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, March 5, 2007 Seminar, "Order in biological systems: from liquid crystalline patterns of DNA to aligned bacteria," Department of Physics, Boise State University, March 15, 2007 Solid State & Optics Seminar, Department of Applied Physics, Yale University, New Haven, February 14, 2007 Seminar, "Ordered structures and patterns of biopolymers and bacteria," Department of Physics, Florida Atlantic University, March 29, 2007 Seminar, "Focused Laser Beams in Liquid Crystals: 3D imaging, trapping, and manipulation," Fordham University, New York, November 9, 2005 Seminar, "Quantitative Study of Defects and Colloidal Interactions in Liquid Crystals Using Laser Tweezers and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy," University of Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, July 15, 2005 Seminar, "Electric-field-induced nematic-cholesteric transition and 3-D director structures in homeotropic cholesteric cells," AlphaMicron Inc., Kent, OH, January 12, 2005 Electro-optics Seminar, "3-D imaging of orientational structures in cholesteric liquid crystals and their electro-optic applications," School of Engineering, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, April 2, 2004 Seminar, "Ordered structures in liquid crystals, anisotropic emulsions and suspensions," Institute for Lasers, Photonics, and Biophotonics, State University of New York at Buffalo, March 12, 2004

RECENT OUTREACH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Participation in the Optics and Photonics Visiting Lecturer Program, starting from October 2007 Organizer of the Outreach Day, Western Reserve Academy, October 26-28, 2005 Organizer and chair of the Career Workshop at Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, June 15, 2006 Chair of the "Liquid Crystal Technology and Applications" conference at the Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, GLPS2006, Dayton, June 12-16, 2006 Plenary lecture, 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ILCC2006, Keystone, CO Teaching a Short Course SC790 "Liquid Crystals: from fundamentals to applications," offered at major conferences and symposia of the International Society for optical engineering (SPIE) Secretary of the Great Lakes SPIE Regional Chapter (a regional chapter of SPIE for Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the Western part of the New York State) Organizing Committee member, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium GLPS2006, Dayton, OH, June 12-16, 2006, see web page Member of the SPIE Scholarships Committee, see web page Chair of the "Liquid Crystals in Optics and Photonics" conference, Kent, OH, October 27-28, 2005 Member of the Regional Chapter Task Force Committee of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Program Committee member, Conference GL06-108, "Nano- and Microphotonics: Materials, Devices, Processing, and Applications," 13-15 June, 2006 Coordinator and organizer of Science Tours for high school students in the International Society for Optical Engineering Seminar "Fast three-dimensional imaging and optical trapping in liquid crystals," Fordham University, November 9, 2005, New York, NY, USA Seminar "Focused Laser beams and liquid crystals: fast 3D imaging and optical trapping," University of Montpellier, July 15, 2005, Montpellier, France Seminar "Geometric frustration and electric-field-induced transition between untwisted and twisted structures in cholesteric liquid crystals," AlphaMicron Inc., OH, January 12, 2005

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

LANGUAGES

English, Ukrainian, Russian, and Polish

PUBLICATIONS

Chapters in books I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Defects, surface anchoring, and tree-dimensional director fields in the lamellar structure of cholesteric liquid crystals as studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, pp. 205-250, In Topology in Condensed matter, M. Monastyrsky (ed.), (Springer, Berlin, 2006) S.V. Shiyanovskii, I.I. Smalyukh, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Computer simulations and fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy of structures in cholesteric liquid crystals, pp.229-270, In Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments, O.D. Lavrentovich, P. Pasini, C. Zannoni, and S. Zumer (eds.), (NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) Articles in refereed journals C. Lapointe, T. Mason, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Shape-controlled colloidal interactions in nematic liquid crystals,” Science 326, 1083-1086 (2009). I.I. Smalyukh, Y. Lansac, N. Clark, R. Trivedi, “Three-dimensional structure and multistable optical switching of Triple Twist Toron quasiparticles in anisotropic fluids.” Nature Mater. 9, 139-145 (2010). I. I. Smalyukh, “Liquid crystals enable chemoresponsive reconfigurable colloidal self-assembly”, Proc. Nat. Acad. U.S.A., accepted (2010). www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1000312107  R. Pratibha, W. Park, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Colloidal gold nanoparticle dispersions in smectic liquid crystals and thin nanoparticle-decorated smectic films,” J. Appl. Phys., accepted (2010). E. C. Gartland, Jr., H. Huang, O. D. Lavrentovich, P. Palffy-Muhoray, I. I. Smalyukh, T. Kosa and B. Taheri, “Electric-Field Induced Transitions in a Cholesteric Liquid-Crystal Film with Negative Dielectric Anisotropy”, J. of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience, accepted (2010). R. Pratibha, K. Park, I. I. Smalyukh, and W. Park, “Tunable optical metamaterial based on liquid crystal-gold nanosphere composites,” Optics Express 17, 19459-19469 (2009). I.I. Smalyukh, J. Butler, J. D. Shrout, M. R. Parsek, and G.C.L. Wong, Elasticity-mediated nematic-like bacterial organization in model extracellular DNA matrix, Phys. Rev. E 78 030701(R) (2008). Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research. S. Anand, R.P. Trivedi, G. Stockdale, and I.I. Smalyukh, “Non-contact optical control of multiple particles and defects using holographic optical trapping with phase-only liquid crystal spatial light modulator”, Proc. SPIE 7232, 723208 (2009).  A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, P.N. Prasad, and I.I. Smalyukh, Realignment-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and three-dimensional imaging in anisotropic fluids, Optics Express 16, 10617-10632 (2008); Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. G.H. Lai, J.C. Butler, O.V. Zribi, I.I. Smalyukh, T.E. Angelini, K. Purdy, R. Golestanian, and G.C.L. Wong, “Self-organized gels in DNA/F-actin mixtures without crosslinkers: entangled networks of nematic domains with tunable density,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 218303 (2008).  A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, P.N. Prasad, and I.I. Smalyukh, Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) polarized microscopy of three-dimensional director structures in liquid crystals, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 151905 (2007) ; Featured in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics. I.I. Smalyukh, D.S. Kaputa, A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, and P.N. Prasad, Optics Express 15, 4359 (2007)  I.I. Smalyukh, A.V. Kachynski, A.N. Kuzmin, and P.N. Prasad, Proc. Nat. Acad. U.S.A. 103, 18048 (2006) I.I. Smalyukh, O.V. Zribi, J.C. Butler, O.D. Lavrentovich, G.C.L. Wong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 177801 (2006)  I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 157801 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh, S. Chernyshuk, B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, V. Nazarenko, O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 117801 (2004)  I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 085503 (2003) I.I. Smalyukh, A. Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, O.D. Lavrentovich, Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 021913 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 477, 23-41 (2007).  I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, N.V. Madhusudana, O.D. Lavrentovich, European Phys. J. E 16, 179 (2005) M. Gu, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 061110 (2006)  N. Gheorghiu, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, J.T. Gleeson, Phys. Rev. E 74, 041702 (2006) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 74, 011712 (2006)  I.I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, S. V. Shiyanovskii, O. D. Lavrentovich, A. N. Kuzmin, A. V. Kachynski, and P.N. Prasad, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 450(1), 79-95 (2006) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Opt. Lett., 30, 349-351 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, B. I. Senyuk, P. Palffy-Muhoray, O. D. Lavrentovich, H. Huang, E. C. Gartland, Jr., V. H. Bodnar, T. Kosa, B. Taheri, Phys. Rev. E 72, 061707 (2005) G. Liao, I.I. Smalyukh, J.R. Kelly, O.D. Lavrentovich, A. Jakli, Phys. Rev. E 72, 031704 (2005)  S.V Shiyanovskii, T. Schneider, I.I. Smalyukh et al, Phys. Rev. E 71, 020702(R) (2005) A. Vella, R. Intartaglia, C. Blank, I.I. Smalyukh et al, Phys. Rev. E 71, 061705 (2005)  G. Zhang, J. L. West, A. Glushchenko, I.I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, SID Digest 36, 691 (2005)  S.V. Shiyanovskii, O.D. Lavrentovich, T. Schneider, T. Ishikawa, I.I. Smalyukh, C. Woolverton, G. Niehaus, K. J. Doane, Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 434, 587 (2005) B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, SPIE Procs. 5936, 59360W1 (2005)  G. Zhang, A. Glushchenko, J. L. West, I.I. Smalyukh et al, SPIE Procs. 5936, 593615 (2005) I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, M. Gu, O.D. Lavrentovich, SPIE Procs. 5947, 594707 (2005)  I.I. Smalyukh, R. Pratibha, O.D. Lavrentovich, N.V. Madhusudana, Liquid Crystals 30, 877 (2003) S. Garg, K. Purdy, E. Bramley, I. Smalyukh, O. Lavrentovich, Liquid Crystals 30, 1377 (2003)  I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Phys. Rev. E 66, 051703-051716 (2002) S. Nazzal, I.I. Smalyukh, O. D. Lavrentovich, and M.A. Khan, Int. J. of Pharmaceutics 235, 247-265 (2002)  I.I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, D. Termine, O.D. Lavrentovich, G.I.T. Laboratory Journal 3, 118-120 (2002) I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Chem. Phys. Lett. 336, 88-96 (2001)  I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, D.J. Termine, O.D. Lavrentovich, Imaging&Microscopy 3, 16-19 (2001)  I.I. Smalyukh and Yu. A. Nastishin, Ukrainian Phys. J. 45, 941-948 (2000) Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, Optics & Spectroscopy 85, 465-468 (1998); Optika i spectroscopiya 85, 507-511 (1998)  Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, Journal of Physical Studies 2, 335-338 (1998)  Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, SPIE Procs. 3488, 149-155 (1998) Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, and Z.Yu. Gotra, SPIE Procs. 3488, 21-28 (1998)  Gotra O.Z., Senyuk B. I., Smalyukh I.I., Visnyk LPNU 305, 82-86 (1996)  Z.Yu. Gotra, Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, Visnyk LPNU 305, 91-99 (1996) Conference reviews I.I. Smalyukh, Microscience 2002, Procs. Royal Microscopical Society 37(3), 157-158 (2002) Conference Presentations & Proceedings I.I. Smalyukh, Invited lecture "Optical patterning of photonic structures in liquid crystals," Conference "Nanophotonics" of the Optical Society of America, June 17-22, 2007, Hangzhou, China I.I. Smalyukh, Invited lecture "Touchless optical control of defects, colloids, and structures in liquid crystals," Conference "Emerging liquid crystal technologies," Photonic West, Jan 20-25, 2007, San Jose, CA I.I. Smalyukh, Laser tweezing of colloidal particles, defects, and director structures in liquid crystals, Plenary lecture, 21st International Liquid Crystal Conference, ICLC2006, July 2-6, 2006, Keystone, CO, Book of Abstracts of ICLC2006, p.11 I.I. Smalyukh, G.C.L. Wong, A.N. Kuzmin, A.V. Kachynski, and P.N. Prasad, Defects, structures and elasticity-mediated colloidal interactions in liquid crystals studied using laser tweezers, oral presentation, Optics and Photonics SPIE Annual Conference, San Diego, August 12-18, 2006 I.I. Smalyukh, O.Zribi, J.Butler, O.D.Lavrentovich, G.C.Wong, Liquid crystalline pattern formation in drying droplets of biopolymers, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, March 13-17, 2006 B.I. Senyuk, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D.Lavrentovich, Electric Field-Induced Undulations in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, Information Display Research Conference IDRC2006, Kent, OH, September 18-21, Proceedings of IDRC2006, pp.43-46, 2006 I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, A.N.Kuzmin, A.A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, S. V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Colloidal Interactions and Defect Line Tension in Liquid Crystals studied Using Laser Tweezers and Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, February 27-March 4, 2005, Sesto, Italy I.I. Smalyukh, A.Kuzmin, A. Kachynski, P.N.Prasad, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Quantitative study of the colloidal interaction forces and defect line tension in liquid crystals using optical trapping of polymer particles and defects, March 20-25, Los Angeles, CA I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, S.V.Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Fast three-dimensional imaging of director fields in liquid crystals using Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, International Liquid Crystal Conference, July 4 - July 9, 2004, Ljubljana, Slovenia I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, S.V.Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Fast 3D Imaging Of Orientational Order Using Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004 I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Three-Dimensional Director Fields and Defect Patterns in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Poster presentation, June 15-20, 2003, Colby-Sawer College T. Schneider, I.I. Smalyukh, V. Nazarenko, O.D. Lavrentovich, G. Niehaus, K. Doane, and C. Woolverton,, Liquid Crystals for biological detection, Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Crystals, Poster presentation, June 15-20, 2003, Colby-Sawer College I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, O.Lavrentovich, Three-Dimensional Imaging of Liquid Crystals, MicroScience2002, July 9-11, 2002, London, UK, C4, Proceedings of MicroScience2002, P. 29. I.I. Smalyukh and O.D. Lavrentovich, Three-Dimensional Director Fields and Defect patterns in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, IGERT Biophotonics Symposium "Current Advances in Biophotonics", July 25, 2003, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, Lecture in recognision of the International Liquid Crystal Society's Multimedia award to graduate student I. Smalyukh, 19th International Liquid Crystal Conference 2002, Edinburgh, UK, 30 June-5 July, 2002 I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Three-Dimensional Imaging of Orientational Order by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, Light and Optics in Biomedicine 2002 (LOB2002), October 23-24, 2002, Warsaw, Poland, Book of Abstracts, p.43. I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, O.Lavrentovich, Three-Dimensional Visualization of Patterns in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals, ILCC2002, 30 June - 5 July, 2002, Book of Abstracts, C.21. B. Lev, A. Nych, U. Ognysta, D. Reznikov, V. Nazarenko, I. Smalyukh, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Droplet structure transformation in nematic emulsion under the action of magnetic field, ILCC2002, Edinburgh, UK, 30 June-5 July, 2002, Abstracts, p. P310, 2002 I.I. Smalyukh, O.P. Pishnyak, and O.D. Lavrentovich, 3D Director Structures and Shape of Meniscus in Free Standing SmA Films Studied by Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy, ILCC2002, 30 June - 5 July, 2002, Book of Abstracts, P.794. O.D. Lavrentovich, I.I. Smalyukh, and M. Kleman, Three-dimensional Imaging of Defects in Cholesteric Grandjean-Cano Wedges, Worshop on Tolopogy in Condensed Matter and Biology, M. Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, June 13- June 28, 2002 O. D. Lavrentovich, I.I. Smalyukh, and M. Kleman, Geometry and Defects in Liquid Crystals, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting, July 8-12, 2002, Philadelphia, USA, Book of Abstracts, p. 73, (2002) O. D. Lavrentovich, I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and D. Termine, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy: Three-Dimensional Imaging of Liquid Crystals, OLC2001, October 1-6, 2001, Sorrento, Napoli, Italy, Program and Book of Abstracts, lecture I-19, 2001 O.D. Lavrentovich, I.I. Smalyukh, and S.V. Shiyanovskii, Fluorescence Confocal Polariing Microscopy of Liquid Crystals, Gordon research conference on liquid crystals, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, 24-29 June 2001 I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal orientation by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy, ALCOM Symposium "Liquid crystals and polymers", Cuyahoga Falls, OH, October 30-31, Book of Abstracts, P.58 (2000) O. Lavrentovich, Yu.Nastishin, S. Shiyanovskii, I. Smalyukh, O.Yaroshchuk, B.Stiller, J.Stumpe. Retardation-voltage technique to measure polar anchoring and its application to local probing of photoaligned substrate, ILCC2000, Sendai, Japan, July 24-28, Book of Abstracts, P.149 (2000) I.I. Smalyukh, S.V. Shiyanovskii, and O.D. Lavrentovich, Three-dimensional imaging of liquid crystal orientation by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy, 6th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Haalle (Saale), Germany, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, March 25-30, Oral presentation, Book of Abstracts O13 (2001). I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, O. Lavrentovich, Fluorescence Confocal Polarizing Microscopy of Director structures in Chiral Liquid Crystals, Focuus on Microscopy FOM2001, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1-4, Book of Abstracts, P.93 (2001) T. Ishikawa, I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, O. Lavrentovich, Switching between 1st and 2nd Grandjean Zones, APS Ohio Section Spring 2001 Meeting, Kent State University, Book of Abstracts, p.7, April 20-21, 2001 I. Smalyukh, S. Shiyanovskii, O. Lavrentovich, Three-dimensional imaging of orientational order by fluorescence confocal polarizing microscopy, APS Ohio Section Spring 2001 Meeting, Physics and Biological Systems, Oral presentation O1-12, Book of Abstracts, P.29 (2001) S. V. Shiyanovskii, I.I. Smalyukh, O.D. Lavrentovich, Computer simulations of cholesteric textures, A NATO Advanced Research Workshop, 18-23 September 2000, Erice, Sicily, Italy Z.Yu. Gotra, Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, and B.I. Senyuk. Automatization of measuring of angle of rotation of light polarization plane, Conference materials, Avtomatyka, Vymiryuvannya, Keruvannya, 305, pp. 91-99 (1996) (In Ukrainian) Z.Yu. Gotra, Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, B.I. Senyuk, Modeling of cholesteric liquid crystals in pretransitional region of isotropic phase, Materials of 1-st International modeling school - Krym Autumn ' 96, Alushta (Ukraine), September 12-17, pp. 101-103, (1996) Yu.A. Nastishin and I.I. Smalyukh, Pretransitional optical activity in the isotropic phase of cholesteric liquid crystal, Abstracts of the European Conference on liquid crystals, Koscelisko Centre, Zakopane, Poland, March 3-8, p.226 (1997) Z.Yu. Gotra, Yu.A. Nastishin, I.I. Smalyukh, T. M. Sosnovskyi. Optical rotation in the supercooled blue phase, Abstracts of the European Conference on liquid Crystals, Koscelisko Centre, Zakopane, Poland March 3-8, 1997, p.293 Yu. Nastishin, I. Smalyukh, B. Senyuk, Some peculiarities of the isotropic - mesophase transition from in cholesteryl nonanoate, Abstracts of MMT98, Lviv, June 15-17, 1998, p.17. I. Smalyukh, Experimental study of the isotropic - mesophase transition in cholesteric liquid crystal, Abstracts of V-th Polish Conference on Crystal Growth, Naleczow, Poland, P.IV.02 Z. Mikityuk, B. Senyuk, I. Smalyukh, Anti-reflecting coatings for liquid crystal devices, Abstracts of European conference on liquid crystals, Zakopane, Poland, March 3-8, 1997, p.334 Internet presentations I.I. Smalyukh, FCPM: Imaging of Liquid Crystals in 3D, 2002

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