M
ichigan Technological UniversityDepartment of Physics
is pleased to announce a colloquium
with
Professor Michael Wertheim
Michigan Technological University
Physics Department
Fluids of Hard Convex Molecules
A fluid of impenetrable convex bodies with no added soft interactions is conceptually an extremely simple model. For long or flat shapes, such fluids exhibit complex physical behavior. I will discuss: why are such fluids interesting models? Why do the usual methods of classical fluids theory fail? An unusual theoretical approach: can it go somewhere?
Thursday, March 23, 2000
4:00 p.m. Fisher Hall 139
Refreshments will be served