<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Il giorno Giovedi 16 Maggio 2023, alle ore 13:00, Umberto Zerbinati (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford) terrà un seminario dal titolo<br><br><b><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>“F</i></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b><i>rom Polyatomic Gas to Liquid Crystals: A Kinetic Approach</i></b></span><b><i> "<br></i></b><br>Il Seminario si terrà nell’aula U5-3014 </div><div><br>Segue l’abstract. </div><div><br></div><div>Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.<br><br>Blanca Ayuso de Dios</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto"><span data-ogsc="black" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Abstract: Presenting a novel kinetic model for calamitic fluids, we diverge from traditional Curtiss theory by incorporating nematic ordering. Through a kinetic point of view, we derive an energy functional akin to the Oseen-Frank energy, enhancing understanding of anisotropic effects. Employing the Noll-Coleman procedure we obtain a novel expression for stress and couple-stress tensors. Additionally, we develop an existence and uniqueness theory for stationary solutions of modified Leslie-Eriksen equations with a prescribed nematic field, utilizing Muckenhoupt weighted Sobolev spaces.</span><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>