On kinetic models for the collective self-organization of agents

Series
PDE Seminar
Time
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 3:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 006
Speaker
Konstantina Trivisa – University of Maryland
Organizer
Geng Chen
A class of kinetic models for the collective self-organization of agents is presented. Results on the global existence of weak solutions as well as a hydrodynamic limit will be discussed. The main tools employed in the analysis are the velocity averaging lemma and the relative entropy method. This is joint work with T. Karper and A. Mellet.