SINGULAR PERTURBATION SOLUTION of the BECKER-DORING EQUATION, and NUCLEATION in an ISING FERROMAGNET

Speaker: 

Vitaly Shneidman

Institution: 

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Time: 

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

I will first briefly review the classical,
"Becker-Doring" (BD) theory of nucleation and describe
the solution of the discrete time-dependent BD equation.
Then, I will discuss low-temperature nucleation in a
two-dimensional Ising system driven by Glauber/Metropolis
dynamics. Here, accurate values of the nucleation rate can
be derived and used to assess the phenomenological BD
picture.

Burning Bubbles

Speaker: 

Andrejs Treiberg

Time: 

Friday, June 8, 2007 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

The region between two vertical parallel glass plates is filled with fuel.
A reaction is initiated whose combustion product is lighter than the fuel.
I'll informally present some stability results for Jingyi Zhu's Hele-Shaw
model for the evolution of a boundary curve of the reaction region. The
normal velocity is the sum of the combustion effect depending on the
curvature of the curve plus the nonlocal buouyancy effect due to pressure.
This model admits a simple treatment, viewing the evolution as a
perturbation of curvature flow.

Mean-field dynamics of bosons in a trap: Exchangeability approach

Speaker: 

Professor Marek Biskup

Institution: 

UCLA

Time: 

Thursday, May 31, 2007 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

I will discuss the behavior of N bosons trapped in a potential well subject
to a pairwise interaction. In the mean-field limit -- i.e., when N tends to
infinity while keeping the interaction per particle bounded -- the evolution
of a product state remains, asymptotically, a product state. The single
particle wave-function then evolves according to a non-linear Hartree
equation. Versions of this result have been proved before, e.g., by
Hepp in 1977, Spohn in 1980 or, recently, by Rodnianski and Schlein, but
the proofs are often quite technically involved. I will describe a very simple,
and ideologically correct, proof (for bounded interaction potentials) based
on exchengeability and Stormer's (aka quantum deFinetti) theorem.
Based on recent discussions with Nick Crawford.

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