Mini-Symposium Topic: Variational Methods: Theory and Applications

Organizer: Rustum Choksi (Simon Fraser University)

Domains and Patterns in Ferromagnets

Carlos Garcia Cervera

Courant Institute, New York University

New York, New York, U. S. A.

It is observed experimentally that the magnetization in ferromagnetic materials does not have a uniform direction, but rather it varies from one region to another on a macroscopic scale. These configurations correspond to local minima of the energy. In this talk I will present some simulations that produce patterns with strong resemblances to both the theoretically predicted structures and to the experimentally observed ones.


Friday, 11:50 a.m. - 12:10 p.m. Room 1520