Analysis of Stochastic Surface Evolution: From Microscopic Models to Large Scale Behaviour

Program

All lectures will be held in Leibniz-Hörsaal (G 10),
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Inselstraße 22).

Thursday, January 29, 2009

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30

Errico Presutti  (Universitá di Roma II, Italy)
Randomness in macroscopic equations  (see abstract)

11:30 - 12:30

Thomas Nattermann  (Universität zu Köln, Germany)
Interface depinning in random media: a physicist's approach  (see abstract)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Anders Szepessy  (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
A Stochastic Phase-Field Model Derived from Molecular Dynamics  (see abstract)

15:30 - 16:30

Markos Katsoulakis  (U. of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
Hierarchical and multi-level coarse-graining methods  (see abstract)

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00

Hendrik Weber  (Universität Bonn, Germany)
Sharp interface limit for a stochastic Allen-Cahn Equation  (see abstract)

Friday, January 30, 2009

09:00 - 10:00

Giuseppe Da Prato  (SNS Pisa, Italy)
Some results on stochastic porous media equations

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30

Dirk Blömker  (Universität Augsburg, Germany)
On an SPDE describing amorphous surface growth  (see abstract)

11:30 - 12:30

Nung Kwan Yip  (Purdue University, USA)
Interfacial Propagation in Inhomogeneous Medium, Some Results and Questions  (see abstract)

12:30 - 14:30

Lunch

14:30 - 15:30

Panagiotis Souganidis  (University of Chicago, USA)
Moving fronts in self averaging media  (see abstract)

15:30 - 16:30

Rainer Buckdahn  (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France)
Pathwise Stochastic Taylor Expansions and Stochastic Viscosity Solution

16:30 - 17:00

Coffee break

17:00 - 18:00

Harald Oberhauser  (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Towards a (rough) pathwise theory of fully non-linear stochastic partial differential equations  (see abstract)

Saturday, January 31, 2009

09:00 - 10:00

Laurent R. Ponson  (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Depinning transition in material failure, Barkhausen effect and contact line motion  (see abstract)

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:30

Nicolas Dirr  (University of Bath, United Kingdom)
Optimal paths for phase boundaries  (see abstract)

11:30 - 12:30

Matteo Novaga  (University of Pisa, Italy)
Motion by curvature in discrete media  (see abstract)

Fully funded by DFG Research Group 718.

Date and Location

January 29 - 31, 2009
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Inselstraße 22
04103 Leipzig
Germany
see travel instructions

Scientific Organizers

Patrick Dondl
Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

Stephan Luckhaus
Leipzig University

Max von Renesse
Technische Universität Berlin

Administrative Contact

Katja Bieling
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

01.07.2010, 09:03