J5-4002 — Final report
1.
Liquid crystals in education

The invited workshop performed in Belgrade, Serbia at the meeting focused on sciecne education, introduced several experiments appropriate for teaching liquid crystals. Participants were active and have performed experiments by themselves. The workshop was extremely well accepted, several participants established contacts with the authors of the workshop and have tested some of the experiments also with their students.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 8982601
2.
Toward understanding of liquid crystal display

In the workshop presented at the GIREP conference on physics education in Prague, Czech republik, a teaching unit was presented on students learning about liquid crystals and on the basis of their properties explaining how a liquid crystalline display operates.

B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference

COBISS.SI-ID: 9736265
3.
Liquid crystals and other anisotropic materials - our every day friends

The project group performed five workshops and lectures on liquid crystals for various audiences: for public (Science Cafe), for younger gifted students, for university students, for high school teachers and for researchers at the Department for physics. The series of workshops was performed upon invitation of University of Pennsyilvania, US

B.05 Guest lecturer at an institute/university

COBISS.SI-ID: 9724745
4.
Present scientific research results in the classroom

The lecture was presented upon invitation of Italian physical society. The approach discussing the introduction of new scientific results into classroom was presented and illustrated with the case of liquid crystals.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 9853513
5.
Liquid crystals in the lecture room - what and how to teach?

ILCC is the conference, which is focused on results of academic and applicative research. The community has recently become aware of the importance of the transfer of the academic knowledge to the public and education. The invited talk was focused on the preparation of liquid crystalline samples and simple experiments with them. Academic and applicative research usually requires special techniques, advanced research equipment, clean rooms and similar, which is not available in the lecture room. The talk has shown and discussed several possibilities of overcoming these problems.

B.04 Guest lecture

COBISS.SI-ID: 9351753