From microscopic to macroscopic: some consideration on a simple model for a gas in or out of equilibrium

Series
Research Horizons Seminar
Time
Wednesday, February 6, 2013 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Federico Bonetto – Georgia Tech, School of Math – http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bonetto/
Organizer
Robert Krone
The derivation of the properties of macroscopic systems (e.g. the air in a room) from the motions and interactions of their microscopic constituents is the principal goal of Statistical Mechanics. I will introduce a simplified model of a gas (the Kac model). After discussing its relation with more realistic models, I'll present some known results and possible extension.