Event
Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Topological Defects in Smectic Liquid Crystals: Applied Measured Foliations"
Randy Kamien (University of Pennsylvania)
Smectic liquid crystals are layered systems that abound in nature. I will introduce these materials and show how the long-lived, topologically protected
excitations defy simple classification. I will describe our attempts.
This seminar is also the Mathematics Colloquium and will be preceded by tea at 3:15 pm in DRL 4E17.