Seminar series
Date
Mon, 24 Oct 2011
Time
17:00 -
18:00
Location
Gibson 1st Floor SR
Speaker
Hung Tran
Organisation
University of California, Berkeley
This is a joint work with Craig Evans. We study the partial regularity of minimizers for certain functionals in the calculus of variations, namely the modified Landau-de Gennes energy functional in nematic liquid crystal theory introduced by Ball and Majumdar.