SMS scnews item created by Martina Chirilus-Bruckner at Sun 7 Sep 2014 1752
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 21 Sep 2014
Calendar1: 10 Sep 2014 1400-1500
CalLoc1: Carslaw 275
Auth: martinac@como.maths.usyd.edu.au

Joint Colloquium

Mathematics of interfaces in solids

Professor Sir John Ball

Date:
Wednesday, 10/09/2014 - 2:00pm

Location:
Carslaw 275, Sydney University

Speaker:
Professor Sir John Ball

Title:
Mathematics of interfaces in solids

Abstract:
Solid phase transformations give rise to a variety of unusual kinds of interfaces between
different phases, some only observed in recent experiments. The lecture will discuss
ways of describing and predicting these, and related questions of nonlinear analysis.