The hard sphere model, sphere packings, and algorithms

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• Matthew Jenssen (King's College London)
• Thursday 24 August 2023, 11:30-12:00
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PMVW01 - 5th International Conference on Packing Problems: Packing and patterns in granular mechanics

The hard sphere model is one of the oldest and simplest models of a gas of interacting particles. Simply put, the hard sphere model places non-overlapping, identical spheres uniformly at random in a fixed box. Despite its simple nature, the hard sphere model is at the heart of major challenges in a number of different fields. In this talk I will introduce the hard sphere model and discuss its connections to statistical mechanics, the theory of algorithms, and the sphere packing problem. I will discuss some of the aforementioned challenges, discuss the connections between them, and survey some recent progress on these topics. 

This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.

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