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Discrete Crystal Elasticity and Discrete Dislocations in Crystals

Topological Aspects of Liquid Crystals

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Material symmetry and singularities in solids

Coarsening dynamics in uniaxial nematic liquid crystals

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Defect dynamics and coarsening dynamics in smectic-Cfilms

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Planar 2π Line Disclinations in Nematics

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