Seminar
Plane-like minimizers in periodic media., Tim Blass, Carnegie Mellon University, Thu, 20 October, 2011, 4:00 p.m. A-211
Abstract
This presentation will describe methods for constructing plane-like minimizers of periodic energy functionals via gradient descent and perturbation methods. These minimizers are used to compute the associated minimal average energy, which as a physical interpretation in terms of crystal shape.