Colloquium

Scheduled Talk - November 9, 2009 - [ 3:00PM in DH 1064 ]

Ricardo Alonso
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Computational & Applied Mathematics
Rice University and Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), UCLA

"On the Mathematical Theory for the Boltzmann Equation"

Abstract:
In this talk I will offer a general view of the mathematical theory for the Boltzmann equation. I will cover important mathematical advances developed in the last 30 years regarding existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions for this equation and give recent fascinating developments. I will finish the talk addressing briefly advances in deterministic numerical simulation a possible future research.