- Series
- Job Candidate Talk
- Time
- Thursday, December 11, 2014 - 11:00am for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 006
- Speaker
- Gang Zhou – California Institute of Technology – http://www.its.caltech.edu/~gzhou/
- Organizer
- Chongchun Zeng
It is known that certain medium, for example electromagnetic
field and Bose Einstein condensate, has positive speed of sound. It
is observed that if the medium is in its equilibrium state, then an
invading subsonic particle will slow down due to friction; and the
speed of a supersonic particle will slow down to the speed of sound
and the medium will radiate. This is called Cherenkov radiation. It
has been widely discussed in physical literature, and applied in
experiments. In this talk I will
present some rigorous mathematical results. Joint works with Juerg
Froehlich, Israel Michael Sigal, Avy Soffer, Daniel Egli, Arick Shao.