Speaker:
Professor Fraydoun Rezakhanlou
Institution:
UC Berkeley
Time:
Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 11:00am
Location:
MSTB 254
Smoluchowski's equation is used to describe the coagulation-fragmentation
process macroscopically. Microscopically clusters of various sizes coalesce to
form larger clusters and fragment into smaller clusters. I formulate a conjecture about the nature of the fluctuations of the microscopic
clusters about the solutions to the Smoluchowski's equation. I also sketch the proof of the conjecture when the model is in equilibrium.