BIRS workshop (09w5050) at Banff on

Theory and Applications of Classical and Quantum Kinetic Theory

June 21 - June 26, 2009


Monday, June 22, 2009

Kazuo AOKI: Fluid dynamics for a vapor-gas mixture derived from kinetic theory

Laurent DESVILLETTES: Collisions in the context of sprays

Vladislav PANFEROV: On some kinetic models of flocking

Eric CARLEN: Entropy and Chaos in the Kac Model

Maria CARVALHO: On Strong Convergence to Equilibrium for the Boltzmann Equation with Soft Potentials

Hung-Wen KUO: Short time behavior for Rayleigh problem

Anne NOURI: Stability for Rayleigh-Benard convective solutions of the Boltzmann equation

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Philip MORRISON: A discontinuous Galerkin method for the Vlasov-Poisson system

Bernt WENNBERG: A model for sympatric speciation

Christian SCHMEISER: A contribution to hypocoercivity

Florian MEHATS: A new variational approach to the stability of gravitational systems

Gerhard REIN: Gravitational collapse for the Einstein-Vlasov system

Robert STRAIN: Recent global results for the relativistic Boltzmann equation

Wolfgang WAGNER: Fragmentation models

Slim IBRAHIM: A direct proof for the energy exponential decay of the damped nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Henning STRUCHTRUP: Beyond Hydrodynamics: Macroscopic Transport Equations for Rarefied Gas Flows

Athanasios TZAVARAS: Kinetic hierarchies and macroscopic limits for crystalline steps

Irene M. GAMBA: Generation and propagation of exponential weighted estimates to solutions of non-linear collisional equations

Yan GUO: Phase Transition in a Vlasov-Boltzmann model for binary fluid

Anton ARNOLD: Asymptotically correct finite difference schemes for highly oscillatory ODEs

Daniel MATTHES: Random kinetic models on the real axis

Alexis VASSEUR: Global regularity of solutions to systems of reaction-diffusion with Sub-Quadratic Growth in any dimension

Martial AGUEH: A variational approach to uniqueness of ground states for certain quasilinear PDEs

Maria GUALDANI: Global Existence of a Free Boundary Problem with Non-Standard Sources

Friday, June 26, 2009

Lorenzo PARESCHI: Moment-guided Monte-Carlo methods

Ansgar JUENGEL: Macroscopic quantum models with diffusion

Tai-Ping LIU: Bifurcation phenomena for transonic condensation

Shih-Hsien YU: Pointwise time-asymptotic stability of a Boltzmann shock profile