Speaker: 

Professor Shih-Hsien Yu

Institution: 

City University of Hong Kong

Time: 

Friday, February 2, 2007 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

In this talk we will survey the development on the Green's functions of the Boltzmann equations. The talk will include the motivation from the field of hyperbolic conservation laws, the connection between the Boltzmann equation
and the hyperbolic conservation laws, and the particle-like and the wave-like duality in the Boltzmann equation. With all these components one can realize a clear layout of the Green's function of the Boltzmann equation. Finally we will present the application of the Green's function the an initial-boundary value problem in the half space domain.