Stefano Olla, Universite Paris-Dauphine

Date
Oct 20, 2010, 2:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Jadwin 343

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Event Description
Title: From microscopic hamiltonian dynamics to heat equation Abstract: One of the main problems in non-equilibrium statistical mechanics is to derive, by space-time rescaling, macroscopic irreversible diffusive evolution for the co nserved quantities of an (large) hamiltonian system. I will describe the mathematical setup of the problem, and some recent progress when the hamiltonian dynamics is perturbed by energy conserving stochastic collisions.