Date:
Mon, 28/12/1987 to Wed, 06/01/1988
Statistical Mechanics of Membranes and Surfaces
The Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia
All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus
General Director: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin
The School will explore the delicate interplay between geometry and statistical mechanics in these materials such as microemulsions, wetting and growth interfaces, bulk lyotropic liquid crystals, chalcogenide glasses and sheet polymers, using tools from the fields of polymer physics, of differential geometry and of critical phenomena.