Modeling of Soft Matter

Foreword.- Preface.- An energetic variational formulation with phase field methods for interfacial dynamics of complex fluids: advantages and challenges.- Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of nematic liquids.- Anisotropy and heterogeneity of nematic polymer nano-composite lm properties.- Non-Newtonian constitutive equations using the orientational order parameter.- Surface order forces in nematic liquid crystals.- Modelling line tension in wetting.- Variational problems and modeling of ferroelectricity in chiral smectic C liquid crystals.- Stripe-domains in nematic elastomers: old and new.- Numerical simulation for the mesoscale deformation of disordered reinforced elastomers.- Stress transmission and isostatic states of non-rigid particulate systems.- List of workshop participants.