Bild
En person skriver med krita på svarta tavlan.
Foto: Julia Sjöberg
Länkstig

Seminarium om teoretisk fysik – J.S. Wettlaufer

Naturvetenskap & IT

Detta är en del av seminarieserien för studenter och forskare som är intresserade av teoretisk fysik och tillämpad matematik. J.S. Wettlaufer från Nordita håller i ett seminarium med titeln "The Power of Film".

Seminarium
Datum
27 jan 2022
Tid
15:15 - 16:15
Plats
Digitalt via Zoom
Ytterligare information
Zoom-länk till seminariet

J.S. Wettlaufer: The Power of Film

Abstract

The pandemic has had a deleterious influence on the Hollywood film industry.  Fortunately,  however, the thin film industry continues to flourish.  A host of effects are responsible for confined liquids exhibiting properties that differ from their bulk counterparts. For example, the dominant polarization and surface forces across a layered system can control the material behavior on length scales vastly larger than the film thickness.  This basic class of phenomena, wherein volume-volume interactions create large pressures, are at play in, amongst many other settings, wetting, biomaterials, ceramics, colloids, and tribology.  When the films so created involve phase change, the forces can be so large that they destroy the setting that allowed them to form in the first place.  I will describe the connection between such films in a semi-traditional wetting dynamics geometry and active brownian dynamics.  I then explore their power to explain a wide range of processes from materials science to astro- and geo-science. 

Seminariet hålls digitalt via Zoom

Zoom-länk: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/68654155504

Läs mer om seminarieserien

Seminarium om teoretisk fysik