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Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 1:00pm

Bernardo Galvao-Sousa

Carnegie-Mellon University

Location

Drexel University

Korman Center 245

In this talk I will present some models for solid-solid phase transitions in thin films obtained by γ-convergence. The different models are determined by the asymptotic ratio between the characteristic length scale of the phase transition and the thickness of the film. Depending on the regime, I will show that a separation of scales holds or not and how this latter case is related to some rigidity results. This is joint work with V. Millot.