Mark Roberts, Anne Skeldon, Cesare Tronci and Claudia Wulff attended the workshop on “Symmetry, bifurcation and order parameters” which was held the week of 7 January at the Newton Institute Cambridge.  This workshop is part of the 6 month programme on “The mathematics of liquid crystals“.  The workshop was organised by David Chillingworth and Peter Palffy-Muhoray and further details can be found here.