Dear all,

Today's speaker at the Analysis and Probability seminar is Mike Novack, an ARP here at UConn. The tile of his talk is "A Model for Phase Transitions in Liquid Crystals with Highly DispaRate Elastic Constants," and the abstract is below.

The talk will begin at 1:30PM in MONT 313. You can find information about future A/P talks here: http://calendar.uconn.edu/2019/month/12/376/.

Best,

Scott

Abstract: Phase transitions in liquid crystals are often characterized by islands of one phase surrounded by the other with the phase boundary itself  sometimes possessing corners or cusps. In this talk I will introduce a mode  l problem that seeks to describe these transitions and has a mechanism for    phase boundary singularity formation. The study is part rigorous, part form    al, and part computation. This is joint work with D. Golovaty, P. Sternberg     , and R. Venkatraman.