Scope and Programme

The scientific programme of the XIX Czech-Polish seminar will be focused on:

Ferroelectric and structural phase transitions
Dielectric and microwave properties, THz and IR spectroscopy
Liquid crystals and polymeric liquid crystals
Structural and microstructural studies
Non-linear optics and related phenomena
Inelastic light and neutron scattering
Domains and domain boundaries
Ferroelectric thin and thick films
Nanomaterials and size effect
Piezoelectrics and pyroelectrics
Relaxor ferroelectrics
Multiferroics
Applications

The official language of the conference will be English.

Programme

Monday, May 24

14:00	Bus departure from Prague to Telc
16:00	Arrival to Telc
16:00	Conference desk starts – Registration – Mounting of ALL posters (PS 01 & PS 02)
18:00–18:40	W. Kleemann Magnetoelectricity in disordered multiferroics
19:00–20:00	Dinner (menu) – Hotel Anton
20:00–24:00	Welcome get together party (buffet) – Hotel Anton

Tuesday, May 25

7:30–9:00	Breakfast (buffet)
9:00–9:10	Opening
9:10–9:50	B. Dkhil Multiferroic BiFeO₃: A model system for competing tilt and polar instabilities in perovskites
9:50–10:30	S. Kamba Electromagnons, soft and hard phonons in multiferroics
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:40	J. Dec Dielectric nonlinearity – a key feature of ferroelectric phase transitions
11:40–12:00	I. Jankowska–Sumara Pretransitional effect and intermediate phase in antiferroelectric PbZr_1-xSn_xO₃ single crystals
12:00–12:20	V. Zelezny Soft mode spectroscopy of epitaxial BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ superlattices
12:20–12:40	O. Hudak Dielectric susceptibility of nanoparticles in paraelectric phase: dependence on radius, frequency, temperature and damping
12:40–13:00	J. Kroupa Second harmonic conical refraction and quasi-phasematched noncollinear SHG in GUHP
13:00–15:00	Lunch (menu) – Hotel Anton
15:00–15:40	C. Pawlaczyk Anhydrous protonic conductors for use as solid electrolytes
15:40–16:00	A. Ostrowski EPR and impedance spectroscopy studies of superprotonic–ferroelastic phase transitions in M₃H(XO₄)₂, where: M = NH₄, K, Rb; X = S, Se
16:00–16:20	R. Swietlik Anion ordering transitions in paramagnetic organometallic radical cation salts [Cp₂Mo(dmit)]X (X = PF₆, SbF₆) studied by IR and Raman spectroscopy
16:20–17:00	Coffee break
16:20–18:45	Poster Session I
19:00–20:00	Dinner (menu) – Hotel Anton

Wednesday, May 26

7:30–9:00	Breakfast (buffet)
9:00–9:40	K. Roleder Spontaneously broken local symmetry
9:40–10:00	P. Marton Atomistic approaches in the multi-scale simulation chain for study of ferroelectric PbTiO₃
10:00–10:20	B. Rozic Giant electrocaloric effect in polymeric and inorganic ferroelectric relaxor systems
10:20–10:40	A. Levstik Magnetoelectric relaxor 0.8Pb(Fe_1/2Nb_1/2)O₃ – 0.2Pb(Mg_1/2W_1/2)O₃ and Burns temperature in ferroelectric relaxors
10:40–11:10	Coffee break
11:10–11:50	W. Kuczynski Viscoelastic properties of tilted smectic liquid crystals
11:50–12:10	S. Urban Phase behavior of four homologous compounds of 4–alkyl–4'–isothiocyanatobiphenyl (nBT) under pressure
12:10–12:30	A. Emelyanenko Evolution of ferroelectric, antiferroelectric and ferrielectric smectic phases in the electric field
12:30–12:50	V. Domenici NMR studies of ferroelectric liquid crystals
13:00–15:00	Lunch (menu) – Hotel Anton
15:00–15:40	V. Novotna Re-entrancy of smectic A below the ferroelectric SmC phase*
15:40–16:00	K. K. Raina Morphological and dielectric behaviour of composite materials: ferroelectric liquid crystal doped with CNT
16:00–16:20	P. Perkowski How to determine the limits of using Afⁿ function for extracting high frequency losses in ITO cell?
16:20–16:40	K. Fodor–Csorba Bent-core liquid crystals with asymmetric structure
16:40–17:10	Coffee break
16:40–18:50	Poster Session II
19:00–20:00	Dinner (menu) – Hotel Anton

Thursday, May 27

7:30–9:00	Breakfast (buffet)
9:00–9:40	I. M. Reaney Intermediate phases in perovskite solid solutionss
9:40–10:20	W. S. Chang Synchrotron X-ray diffraction study of PZN–PT single crystals
10:20–10:40	E. Buixaderas Effect of doping on the dielectric response of soft and hard PbZr_xTi_yO₃
10:40–11:10	Coffee break
11:10–11:30	M. Kempa Dielectric, magnetic and microwave studies of the new “multiferroics” PFW–PZT
11:30–11:50	J. A. Moreira Coupling between spins and phonons in orthorhombic Eu_1-xY_xMnO₃
11:50–12:10	I. Sterianou Investigation of co-doped BiFeO₃ ceramics
12:10–12:30	V. Goian Strain induced ferroelectricity in antiferromagnetic EuTiO₃ thin films
12:40–13:50	Lunch (menu) – Hotel Anton
14:00–17:00	Excursion
17:00–17:40	T. Ostapchuk Critical dynamics of ferroelectric phase transitions in Ba_xSr_1-xTiO₃ ceramics
17:40–18:00	J.–H. Jeon Hydrothermal synthesis and post heat-treatment of (K,Na)NbO₃ powders
18:00–18:20	M. Galaska An influence of the order parameters coupling and of the plane of measurements on the Curie–Weiss constants ratio
18:20–18:40	M. Wojtas Ferroelectric switching in MAPBB single crystal
19:30–24:00	Conference dinner – Hotel Anton

Friday, May 28

7:30–9:00	Breakfast (buffet)
9:00–9:40	P. Kuzel Tunable dielectric metamaterials for the terahertz range
9:40–10:00	H. Nemec Ultrafast electronic response of semiconductor nanostructures studied by time-resolved terahertz spectroscopy
10:00–10:20	M. Berta Near-field terahertz imaging of ferroelectric domains in BaTiO₃
10:20–10:40	V. Skoromets Electric field tuning of hard modes in strained SrTiO₃ films
10:40–11:10	Coffee break
11:10–11:30	P. Zielinski Surface waves and surface resonances in materials of complex structures and geometries
11:30–12:10	W. Schranz Length scale of cooperativity in glasses measured by DMA
12:10–12:15	Closing
12:20–13:00	Lunch (take away pack)
13:30	Bus departure to Prague)

A summary of the event has been given in the paper XIX CZECH–POLISH SEMINAR (W. Piecek, Liquid Crystals Today 20, pp. 28–30, January 2011, Taylor & Francis Ltd., reprinted by permission of the publisher).