Joint USYD-UNSW Seminar on Stochastic PDEs: Min-Chun Hong (University of Queensland) -- Some results on the Ericksen-Leslie system and the Beris-Edwards system in nematic liquid crystals

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Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was awarded the Nobel prize in physics in 1991 for the 
Landau-de Gennes theory, which generalizes the well-known Oseen-Frank theory. The 
Ericksen-Leslie system is obtained by coupling the Navier-Stokes equations with the 
gradient flow for the Oseen-Frank energy. Based on the celebrated Landau-de Gennes 
Q-tensor theory, Beris-Edwards proposed a hydrodynamic theory to generalize the 
Ericksen-Leslie system from uniaxial to biaxial nematic liquid crystals. In this talk, 
we will give a general introduction to the Ericksen-Leslie system and the Beris-Edwards 
system. We will discuss some new mathematical results.