The HADES seminar on Tuesday, November 25th, will be at 3:30pm in Room 740.

Speaker: Joe Miller

Abstract: Interacting systems of particles and waves are foundational in many natural phenomena. This talk will outline mathematical approaches for deriving effective, statistical descriptions of such many-body dynamics by connecting them to solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations. Key examples include (i) the Boltzmann equation, which emerges as a limit of interacting hard spheres, (ii) the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes quantum particle dynamics initialized near a Bose-Einstein condensate, (iii) the Vlasov equation, which is an effective model for both non-collisional particles evolving under Newtonian dynamics or as a semiclassical limit of fermionic interactions, and (iv) the kinetic wave equations, which model the statistical behavior of interacting waves. I will discuss my joint work on each of these equations, highlighting how to frame these PDEs as limits of the underlying particle or wave dynamics. Time permitting, I will discuss ongoing work on deriving a Boltzmann mean field game from a jump diffusion process.