Elliott Lieb
Princeton University
October 3, 2008 from 16:00 to 18:00 (Montreal/Miami time) On location
Colloquium presented by Elliott Lieb (Princeton University)
Three examples are given, in order of historical development, of minimization problems in quantum mechanics arising from attempts to model the N--body Schroedinger equation by simpler energy functionals involving only densities. These simpler models are Thomas-Fermi theory, Hartree-Fock theory and the Mueller density matrix functional theory. This talk is for non-specialists: no knowledge of quantum mechanics is needed.
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