Women in Math Lecture: Phase transitions and critical phenomena in lattice percolations

PLEASE NOTE TALK WAS ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR MAR 4 IN ELLIOTT 060 AND HAS BEEN POSTPONED TO MAR 6 IN DSB C118. 

Lily Reeves from the California Institute of Technology will be giving a Women in Math lecture "Phase translations and critical phenomena in lattice percolations" on March 6 from 3:30 - 4:30 PM in DSB C118.

Abstract:

A phase transition is a phenomenon in which the macroscopic
behavior of a system changes qualitatively when the tuning
parameter (such as temperature) that governs local interactions
is varied by a small amount through a critical value. In statistical
mechanics, percolation is a simple model that undergoes a phase
transition. At the critical threshold, percolation exhibits fractal
properties that prove to be a rich area of research. In this talk, I
will give a high-level introduction to the dimension-dependence of
critical phenomena for percolation on Euclidean lattices.

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