Title    name Hot Topics International Workshop on The Mathematics of Materials Science : Liquid Crystals and Related Topics     Title Surface Superconducting States versus Surface Smectic States   Speaker Xingbin Pan   Date 2012-12-22   Host   Place NIMS   File     Abstract : In this talk we review some of the recent progresses on the mathematical theory of the surface superconducting states of superconductors and of the surface smectic states of liquid crystals. We discuss the effects of domain geometry and physical parameters to the characterization of the phase transitions, with emphasis on the analogies between the mathematical descriptions of superconductors and liquid crystals.

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