Reminder: lunch seminar by Yoav Kallus this thursday, 3/10

[ben.machta]

Dear all,

We will have a lunch seminar this Thursday (3/10) by Yoav Kallus from the Santa Fe Institute titled 'Nailing down the landscapes of hard and sticky spheres'.  Abstract is below.

Lunch will be served at 12:00 and the talk will start at 12:15 in Carl Icahn Laboratory 200.

Best,
Ben

Title: Nailing down the landscapes of hard and sticky spheres

Abstract: The configuration space or energy landscape of finitely many hard spheres or sticky spheres (hard spheres with surface adhesion) are the cleanest toy models for small self-organized systems. However, theoretical barriers stand in the way of fully characterizing them even for small numbers of spheres. Beside the combinatoric problem of enumerating the rigid clusters of sticky spheres and certifying their rigidity, there is the analytic problem of estimating their relative thermodynamic stability when the interaction range is finite but small. I will describe some recent work to overcome these barriers. Once the landscapes of small clusters is resolved, the question that arises is how does the idiosyncratic behavior of small numbers evolve toward the bulk limit.

March 10: Yoav Kallus (Santa Fe Institute)
March 17: APS/spring break (no meeting)
March 24: Ulisse Ferrari
March 31: Curation
April 7: OPEN
April 14: Curation
April 21: Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young)
April 28: Matthew Fisher (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics)