Seminars & Lectures
| * TITLE | Mayer expansions and Matrix Model | ||||||
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| * DATE / TIME | 2013-12-03, 11AM | ||||||
| * PLACE | 512 Seminar Room | ||||||
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| This talk is an introduction to several topics related to my last paper (1310.3566). It will provide a short and elementary review on instantons and on the Mayer cluster expansion. The latter is an important tool in statistical physics to evaluate grand canonical partition functions and derive the equation of state of various fluids. Then, I should explain how grand-canonical and canonical partition functions are related, and, if time permits, the connections to (generalized) matrix models. This talk will also review some general techniques (e.g. collective field theory, Fredholm determinants) that find applications in many areas of theoretical physics. | |||||||
