Seminar In the Analysis and Methods of PDE (SIAM PDE): Sir John Ball

The talk will discuss some energy minimization problems for liquid crystals described at different levels of detail by the probability density function of molecular orientations, by a tensor average of this function (the de Gennes Q tensor theory), and by the expected orientation of molecules (the Oseen-Frank theory).

Speaker: Sir John Ball, Heriot-Watt University, U.K.

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