Event time:
Thursday, October 11, 2018 - 4:15pm
Location:
LOM 215
Speaker:
Ian Jauslin
Speaker affiliation:
Institute of Advanced Study
Event description:
In 1979, O.Heilmann and E.H. Lieb introduced an interacting dimer model with the goal of proving the emergence of a nematic liquid crystal phase in it. In such a phase, dimers spontaneously align, but there is no long range translational order. Heilmann and Lieb proved that dimers do, indeed, align, and conjectured that there is no translational order. I will discuss a recent proof of this conjecture. This is joint work with Elliott H. Lieb.