June 18,  19,  20   2003
 
 
 

10:00 AM - Friday, June 20, 2003 - Amphitheater Hermite

Yann Brenier

Laboratoire J.A.Dieudonné UMR CNRS 6621
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Parc Valrose
06108 Nice Cedex 2 France

brenier@math.unice.fr

The Born-Infeld Theory of Electromagnetism, from Extremal Surfaces to Magnetohydrodynamics

In 1934, Born and Infeld designed a nonlinear version of the Maxwell equations. The Born-Infeld equations enjoy remarkable mathematical features and have received a renewed interest among high energy physicists. We discuss their link with extremal surfaces in one side, and Magnetohydrodynamics in the other side.