Workshop IV: Asymptotic Methods for Dissipative Particle Systems - IPAM

Workshop IV: Asymptotic Methods for Dissipative Particle Systems

Part of the Long Program Quantum and Kinetic Transport: Analysis, Computations, and New Applications
May 18 - 22, 2009

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 18, 2009

Morning Session

08:30-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:50
Robert Pego (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Self-similarity and eternal solutions for a model of min-driven clustering
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Wolfgang Wagner (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS))
Fragmentation equations and stochastic models
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Rossana Marra (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
Kinetic models of phase transition

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
The Evolution of a Tagged Particle in the Boltzmann--Grad Limit
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Miguel Escobedo (Universidad del País Vasco)
Non zero flux solutions for homogeneous kinetic equations.
17:00-19:00
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Michael Loss (Georgia Institute of Technology)
The Markov Sequence Problem for Jacobi Polynomials
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Bernt Wennberg (Chalmers University of Technology/University of Göteborg)
Kinetic models for the collective behavior of fish schools
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Irene Gamba (University of Texas at Austin)
Extensions of the Kac N-particle model to multi-particle interactions

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Govind Menon (Brown University)
Kinetic models for shock collisions and Burgers turbulence.
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Thierry Goudon (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))
Regularity Analysis for Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Strong Transport in Weakly Disordered Systems
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Jani Lukkarinen (Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland))
Proof of the kinetic conjecture in a weakly nonlinear Schrodinger equation with random initial data
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
María Caceres (University of Granada)
The BGK model with external confining potential

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Clement Mouhot (Université de Paris IX (Paris-Dauphine))
On the Landau damping
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Xuguang Lu (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University)
Exponential Convergence to Equilibrium for Measure Solutions of the Specially Homogeneous Boltzmann Equation

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Silvia Caprino (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")
On a Plasma-Charge Model
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Raffaele Esposito (Università di L'Aquila)
Some stability problems in Kinetic Theory
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Anne Nouri (Université d'Aix-Marseille I (Université de Provence))
Kinetic stability of the Rayleigh-Benard problem

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:20
Jacek Polewczak (California State University, Northridge (CSU Northridge))
On stochastic models of innert and reactive dense fluids
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:50
Pavel Dubovski (Stevens Institute of Technology)
On coagulation transport processes with diffusion

Friday, May 22, 2009

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:50
Mario Pulvirenti (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”)
Kinetic equations as scaling limits of particle systems
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:05
Philippe Laurencot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))
The Oort-Hulst-Safronov coagulation equation: finite speed of propagation and self-similar solutions
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:20
Eric Carlen (Rutgers University New Brunswick/Piscataway)
Controlled Concentration and Long time Behavior of the Critical Mass Keller-Segel Equation
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