Date Oct 20, 2010, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Location Jadwin 343 Share on X Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Details 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.