Raghavendra Venkatraman, Carnegie Mellon University, Interfaces and Defects in Heterogeneous and Anisotropic Media: From Materials Science to Geometric Flows
ZoomEnergy-driven pattern formation is ubiquitous in nature; the character and dynamics of such patterns is selected as local minimizers and gradient flows, respectively, of non-convex, and often, non-local energies with multiple spatio-temporal scales. Analysis of such patterns sheds valuable insight upon their origins, and from the viewpoint of applications, is necessary for their control. In this talk, after introducing a…