Université Paris-Est Université Paris-Est - Marne-la-Vallée Université Paris-Est - Créteil Val-de-Marne Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

PDE methods for statistical physics

Site: 
Date: 
09/11/2016 - 16:00 - 17:00
Salle: 
B211, bâtiment Coriolis
Orateur: 
ROUSSEL Julien
Localisation: 
ENPC
Localisation: 
France
Résumé: 

The Langevin Dynamics and the Overdamped Langevin dynamics are two widely used stochastic models which describe systems at a microscopic level. In a first part I introduce these dynamics and how macroscopic properties are deduced from statistics on the trajectories. Then I define the generator of such a stochastic differential equation (SDE), which is a differential operator, and show how its properties can be linked to the speed of convergence of the empirical averages. Finally I focus on the Langevin dynamics and explain what is the hypocoercivity. I may have time to speak about Galerkin methods for hypocoercive problems.