Seminar series
Date
Fri, 08 Jun 2018
Time
16:00 -
17:00
Location
L1
Speaker
Sir John Ball
Organisation
University of Oxford
It is at first sight surprising that a minimizer of an integral of the calculus of variations may make the integrand infinite somewhere.
This talk will discuss some examples of this phenomenon, how it can be related to material defects, and related open questions from nonlinear elasticity and the theory of liquid crystals.