What is… a hydrodynamic limit?

Where & When

• Friday, February 1, 2019, 1.15pm @ TU, BMS seminar room (MA 212)

Abstract

• We will consider one, a few or an infinite number of particles which move, interact or reproduce randomly. We explain in what sense a law of large numbers and a central limit theorem can hold for such systems. We exploit these structures to (re-)discover deep interactions between probability theory and the analysis of PDEs. We will discuss several prototypical examples and take a look at some rather ugly simulations.