Laurent Bétermin
Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics and Modeling group
University of Vienna
Faculty of MathematicsUniversity of ViennaOskar-Morgenstern-Platz 11090 Vienna, Austria
Office 04.130
Funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project F65
Taming Complexity in Partial Differential Systems (Multiphysics effects in solids)
Research interests: Geometry optimization for crystals, Crystallization, Two-component systems, Theta functions, Lattice energies.
Mathematics areas: Mathematical Physics, Nonlinear Analysis, PDE, Calculus of Variations, Special Functions.
RECENT NEWS:
15/01/2021: New preprint Lattice ground states for Embedded-Atom Models in 2D and 3D (with M. Friedrich and U. Stefanelli)
16/12/2020: I gave a (recorded) talk for the Point Distributions Webinar on Theta functions, ionic crystals energies and optimal lattices
25/11/2020: New publication. Our paper On the optimality of the rock-salt structure among lattices with charge distributions (with M. Faulhuber and H. Knüpfer) has been accepted for publication in Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS).
17/11/2020: New (teaching) book "Topics in Mathematics for the Traveling Student" published by Polyteknisk
19/10/2020: New preprint Theta functions and optimal lattices for a grid cells model
06/10/2020: My Lise Meitner project "New Challenges for the Mathematics of Crystallization" has been granted by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund)
25/09/2020: New preprint Angle-rigidity for Z^2 configurations (with M. Friedrich and U. Stefanelli)