Title    name Hot Topics International Workshop on The Mathematics of Materials Science : Liquid Crystals and Related Topics     Title Mathematical issues relating to the Landau – de Gennes theory of liquid crystals I   Speaker John Ball   Date 2012-12-21   Host   Place NIMS   File     Abstract : In the Landau - de Gennes theory of liquid crystals the orientation of the molecules is described by a tensor order parameter. The lectures will describe this theory and how it relates on the one hand to more microscopic descriptions such as the Onsager model (joint work with Apala Majumdar), and on the other hand to the simpler Oseen-Frank theory (joint work with Arghir Zarnescu)

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