Apala Majumdar

Biographie: 
Professor Apala Majumdar is full professor of applied mathematics at the University of Manchester. Apala was awarded her PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Bristol in 2006, followed by research fellowships at the University of Oxford during 2006-2012. 

Professor Majumdar has over 80 research papers to her credit, with an international interdisciplinary research network spanning across four continents. Apala has core expertise in the mathematical theories of liquid crystals and their applications across the physical sciences and engineering. Apala has made important contributions to the analysis of the Landau-de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals, Landau-de Gennes-type theories for complex liquid crystal phases, and multiscale liquid crystal theories. Apala has won several prizes for her research, including a London Mathematical Society Anne Bennett Prize in 2015, two prizes from the British Liquid Crystal Society in 2012 and 2020 respectively and a Humboldt Foundation Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award in 2022. In 2024, Apala Majumdar was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Titre de la communication: 
Nematic, Smectic and Cholesteric Liquid Crystal Droplets - Exotic Defects, Lunes and Focal Conic Domains for New-Age Applications