Mathematics Colloquium I
Speaker: Frederic Herau, Universite de Nantes
Host: Harsha Hutridurga
Title: What is hypocoercivity?
Time, day and date: 2:15:00 PM – 3:15:00 PM, Friday, February 06
Venue: Ramanujan Hall
Abstract: Twenty years ago, the notion of hypocoercivity appeared into the mathematical community. This neologism stands for time evolving physical systems that have a natural convergence property towards an equilibrium. Beginning with very simple examples, we shall try to present this notion, some parts of its history, some natural applications in statistical and fluid mechanics and, if enough time, some recent developments.