Scaling Limits in Statistical Mechanics and Microstructures in Continuum Mechanics

Statistical Mechanics of Ising systems.- Thermodynamic limit in the Ising model.- The phase diagram of Ising systems.- Mean field, Kac potentials and the Lebowitz-Penrose limit.- Stochastic Dynamics.- Mesoscopic Theory, non-local functionals.- Non-local, free energy functionals.- Surface tension, Gamma convergence, Wulff shape.- One dimensional interfaces.- Phase transitions in systems with Kac potentials.- Ising systems with Kac potentials.- The LMP model and the Pirogov-Sinai strategy.- Phase transitions in the LMP model.- DLR measures and the ergodic decomposition.