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
8:30 - 8:50 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:50
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
Wolfgang Wagner (Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS))

Fragmentation equations and stochastic models
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
Rossana Marra (Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata")

Kinetic models of phase transition
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))

The Evolution of a Tagged Particle in the Boltzmann--Grad Limit

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Miguel Escobedo (Universidad del País Vasco)

Non zero flux solutions for homogeneous kinetic equations.
PDF Presentation
5:00 - 7:00 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Michael Loss (Georgia Institute of Technology)

The Markov Sequence Problem for Jacobi Polynomials
PDF Presentation
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
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Thierry Goudon (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique Automatique (INRIA))

Regularity Analysis for Systems of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
PDF Presentation

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Strong Transport in Weakly Disordered Systems
PDF Presentation
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:05
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20
María Caceres (University of Granada)

The BGK model with external confining potential

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Clement Mouhot (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS))

On the Landau damping
PDF Presentation
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
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
PDF Presentation
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
PDF Presentation
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:20
Jacek Polewczak (California State University, Northridge (CSU Northridge))

On stochastic models of innert and reactive dense fluids

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:50
Pavel Dubovski (Stevens Institute of Technology)

On coagulation transport processes with diffusion


Friday, May 22, 2009

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:50
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
PDF Presentation
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:20