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Random Media: Homogenization and Beyond

January 24 - 28, 2011


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Organizing Committee

Guillaume Bal (Columbia University, APAM)
Jim Nolen (Duke University)
George Papanicolaou (Stanford University)
Lenya Ryzhik (Stanford University)

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Scientific Overview

Homogenization theory in random media has been an active research area for the last thirty years and has become a fairly large field at the intersection of applied mathematics, probability theory, and PDEs. Traditionally, it addresses questions of the macroscopic description of solutions of PDEs in random media that do not involve the fine details of small scale variations of the medium. Similar questions arise in numerical computations and are related to uncertainty quantification. Despite much progress in this field, various engineering applications drive the current need to understand regimes where standard homogenization either fails completely or requires rigorous understanding of correctors to homogenization. It is an open challenge in mathematical random media to understand how to go beyond the homogenization regime and to study phenomena that arise outside of its range of validity.

This workshop will bring together experts in various sub-areas of homogenization, such as wave propagation in random media, stochastic averaging, many-particle systems, numerical homogenization, random Hamilton-Jacobi equations, and stochastic partial differential equations. One goal of the workshop is to bring current practical and numerical issues to the attention of mathematicians knowledgeable in random media techniques. Another goal is to address pressing issues beyond homogenization theory. These issues include random media models with slowly decaying correlations or without strong separation of scales. Other important questions to be addressed concern the stochastic stability of solutions and understanding their fluctuations and correctors.

This workshop will include a poster session; a request for posters will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop.

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Confirmed Speakers

Liliana Borcea (Rice University)
Luis Caffarelli (University of Texas at Austin)
Dmitry Dolgopyat (University of Maryland)
Mark Freidlin (University of Maryland)
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Josselin Garnier (Université de Paris VII (Denis Diderot) et Université de Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie))
Roger Ghanem (University of Southern California (USC))
Martin Hairer (University of Warwick)
Tom Hou (California Institute of Technology)
Inwon Kim (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Leonid Koralov (University of Maryland)
Frederic Legoll (Ecole Nationale Des Ponts et Chaussees (LAMI))
Jonathan Mattingly (Duke University)
Graeme Milton (University of Utah)
Stefano Olla (Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine))
Houman Owhadi (California Institute of Technology)
Etienne Pardoux (Université d'Aix-Marseille I (Université de Provence))
Olivier Pinaud (Université Claude-Bernard (Lyon I))
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Boris Rozovsky (Brown University)
Christoph Schwab (ETH Zürich)
Panagiotis Souganidis (University of Chicago)
Chrysoula Tsogka (University of Crete)

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Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Attn: RM2011
460 Portola Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095-7121
Phone: 310 825-4755
Fax: 310 825-4756
Email: ipam@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/rm2011/

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