Special Session 120: 

Global and local minimizers in Liquid Crystals

Jinhae Park
Chungnam National University, South Korea
Korea
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Abstract:
In this talk, we briefly introduce Landau-de Gennes theory for liquid crystals and consider interface problems between two different liquid crystal phases. We study profiles of global or local minimizers of the energy functional. If time permits, we plan to discuss various unsolved mathematical questions. Some part of this talk is joint work with Z.Zhang, P. Zhang and W. Wang