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The hard sphere model, sphere packings, and algorithms

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  • UserMatthew Jenssen (King's College London)
  • ClockThursday 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. 

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