Defects in Liquid Crystals: Computer Simulations, Theory and Experiments formatIsbn:Softcover 9781402001703 many countries are substantially re engineering 18 many countries are substantially re engineering their education systems with an increasing emphasis on promoting equity and fairness A principal objective of the Conference series has been for workers' compensation insurance researchers to apply state of the art research methodologies to policy questions of interest to the workers' compensation insurance community This book is the first attempt to present together complementary approaches to the investigations of topological defects in liquid crystals using theory Liquid crystals are fascinating materials which present a great variety of these mathematical objects and can therefore be considered as an extremely useful laboratory for topological defects