Distinguished Lecture Series (Lecture 2)

Starts: November 16, 2009 at 2:00 PM
Location: Tyler Hall 102
Event URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_G._Sinai
Contact: Nahum Zobin

Summary

Speaker: Yakov Sinai (Princeton University)

Full Description

Title: The construction of blow ups of complex valued solutions of equations of fluid dynamics.

Abstract: The renormalization group method allows to construct blow ups of complex-valued solutions of equations of fluid dynamics. I shall explain how this method works in the simplest case of the two-dimensional Burgers system.