Meeting Report 

After twenty years the ILCC this year returned to its birth place in Kent State University. In comparison with the last time the ILCC visited Kent, it was much larger and at this year's conference nearly 750 participants from 40 countries contributed over 900 papers during the week. The conference was organized by Professors 5. Kumar (chairman), 1. West (vice-chairman), D. Finotello (secretary), and J. Fulghum (treasurer), while Professor William Doane, retiring director of the liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State, served as honorary chairman.