天元讲堂（3.27） Legendre Tranform of Electrostatic Free-Energy Functional
下午4点——5点
地点：数学楼报告厅
Bo Li
Department of Mathematics and Graduate Program in Quantitative Biology
University of California, San Diego
Abstract
Lenendre transform is a basic notion for representing different quantities in physics. It is also a useful method in optimization. Recently, Maggs [Europhys. Lett. 98, 16012, 2012] proposed a Legendre transformed electrostatic free-energy functional. After an introduction of the Legendre transform, in this talk, I will present a proof of the equivalence of the Legendre transformed functional and the original one. I will also describe some of the extensions, in particular to a variational theory of molecular solvation. This is joint work with Benjamin Ciotti.