Speaker:
Professor Jack Xin
Institution:
UCI
Time:
Saturday, December 1, 2007 - 3:15pm
Location:
McDonnell Douglas Auditorium
I shall give an overview of reaction-diffusion fronts in
random flows, especially the variational formula of front speeds of
Kolmogorov-Petrovsky-Piskunov reactions. Large deviation of the random
flows is essential to the formula and the analysis of front
speed asymptotics.