LMP Seminar: Opening nodes and inter-lamellar necks
LMP Seminar
- Date: Feb 18, 2020
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Dr. Hao Chen
- Discrete Differential Geometry Lab, University of Göttingen
- Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS)
- Room: SR 0.79, Am Faßberg 17, Göttingen
- Host: MPIDS / LMP
- Contact: jaime.agudo@ds.mpg.de
Inter-lamellar necks are often observed in bicontinuous structures, and are believed to be the precursors of bicontinuous cubic phases. Node-opening is a class of sophisticated techniques in differential geometry that construct smooth surfaces by perturbing surfaces with singular points. Similarity between the two is hard to miss, but inter-disciplinary barrier has prevented conversation between physics and maths. In this talk, I will present some physics interpretations of node-opening. In particular, a prevailing misunderstanding back to the 1990s is rectified by recent developments.