- Series
- Math Physics Seminar
- Time
- Friday, October 3, 2025 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Will Perkins – Georgia Tech Department of Computer Science
- Organizer
- Matthew Powell
The hard sphere model is a simple to define and long studied mathematical model of gas, in which the only interactions are the hard-core constraint that two spheres cannot overlap in space. In three dimensions it is expected to exhibit a gas-to-crystal phase transition. Despite its simplicty, rigorous results on the model are rather sparse. I will introduce the model, discuss some of the main open questions, and present some results new and old.