Events for 10/31/2017 from all calendars
Working Seminar in Orbit Equivalence and Measured Group Theory
Time: 10:00AM - 11:00AM
Location: BLOC 624
Speaker: Konrad Wrobel
Title: Stable Actions and Asymptotically Central Sequences IV
Abstract: I'll finish proving a characterization of stable actions in the sense of Jones-Schmidt using Kida's language of groupoids.
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: BLOC 628
Speaker: Alex Mahalov, Arizona State University
Title: Nonlinear PDE's seminar
Abstract:
Title:Stochastic Three-Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations + Waves: Averaging, Convergence, Regularity and Nonlinear Dynamics
Abstract:
We consider stochastic three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations + Waves on long time intervals. Regularity results are established by bootstrapping from global regularity of the averaged stochastic resonant equations and convergence theorems. The averaged covariance operator couples stochastic and wave effects. The energy injected in the system by the noise is large, the initial condition has large energy, and the regularization time horizon is long. Regularization is the consequence of precise mechanisms of relevant three-dimensional nonlinear interactions. We establish multi-scale stochastic averaging, convergence and regularity theorems in a general framework. We also present theoretical and computational results for three-dimensional nonlinear dynamics.
Analysis/PDE Reading Seminar
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: BLOC 624
Speaker: Dean Baskin, TAMU
Title: A brief introduction to resonances
Abstract: Spectral theory for the Laplacian on compact manifolds gives you a discrete set of eigenvalues and an orthonormal basis of eigenfunctions. For non-compact problems, there is typically continuous spectrum and only finitely many eigenvalues. Is there anything resembling a discrete family of eigenvalues in this context? In some sense, the answer is yes: these are the resonances. In this talk I will provide a brief introduction to the theory of resonances. I will provide some motivation for their study by working through the case of the one-dimensional wave equation. I will then talk about resonances on Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces, where they can be calculated explicitly. Finally I will provide some discussion of how to define them in the case of potential scattering (and maybe some geometric scattering) via the analytic Fredholm theorem. In a future talk I will use the explicit calculation of the resonances on hyperbolic space to calculate the asymptotic behavior of the wave equation on Minkowski space.