- Series
- SIAM Student Seminar
- Time
- Thursday, March 6, 2014 - 2:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Hagop Tossounian – School of Mathematics, Georgia Tech
- Organizer
- Fabio Difonzo
In 1956 Mark Kac introduced an equation governing the evolution of the velocity distribution
of n particles. In his derivation, he assumed a stochastic
model based on binary collisions which preserves energy but not momentum. In this talk I will
describe Kac's model and the main theorem of Kac's paper :
that solutions with chaotic initial data can be related to the solutions Boltzmann type
equation.