Report on Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC) 2021 Satellite Workshop (SWS) 2022, Okinawa

The 19th Optics of Liquid Crystals (OLC2021) Satellite Workshop (SWS) 2022 took place in Bankoku Shinryokan, Nago City, Okinawa from 25 until 30 of September 2022. Last year, OLC2021 was affected by the fifth wave of COVID-19 in Japan, and it was not possible to hold a face-to-face meeting with participants on-site. The venue was also the location of the G8 Summit 2000, and it is located on a cape protruding into the sea in central Okinawa. A total of 32 oral invited lectures were given and 27 posters were presented. There were about 60 participants, four scientists came to Japan from overseas to give an invited lecture. All oral lectures were delivered simultaneously live and via Zoom and were made available free of fees to all OLC2021 participants. On Sunday 25th, a public lecture was held as a related event. Ten groups of elementary and junior high school students in Okinawa attended the lecture and listened carefully and with great interest to the research on neutrinos and gravitational waves from two professors at Kyoto University. On Monday, after the opening, Prof. H. Yokoyama of Kent State University, USA, gave a lecture on the podium and Prof. I. Smalyukh of Colorado University were shown on the screen through Zoom. After that, there were two domestic presentations in the morning and two in the afternoon, followed by online presentations from Prof. S. Žumer and Prof. M. Ravik of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. All the presentations were followed by lively Q & A from the venue audience. After these talks, there were 14 poster presentations in the area behind the venue, which provided plenty of space for the prevention of the novel corona virus. On Tuesday, after an online lecture by Prof. I-C. Khoo of the Pennsylvania State University, USA, followed by on-site lectures by Prof. M.H. Godinho of the NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal (Figure 1), Prof. G. Chu of Alto University, Finland and Prof. W. Lee of the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, two presentations in the afternoon, and an online lecture by Prof. I. Dierking of The University of Manchester, UK, and 13 poster presentations were followed by lively Q & A, as during the previous day (Figure 2). On Wednesday, after four lectures, a group photograph was taken in front of the venue under the clear skies at Okinawa as shown in Figure 3. In the afternoon of Wednesday, a conference excursion to Zakimi Castle Ruin was organised, which took participants to one of the world heritage sites of Japan. The castle was built in the beginning of the 15 century and now lays in ruins except for