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Gradient flows with random energies

  • Nicolas Dirr (Cardiff University, Cardiff)
Felix-Klein-Hörsaal Universität Leipzig (Leipzig)

Abstract

We introduce some random energies and associated gradient flows motivated by the evolution of phase boundaries in heterogeneous media. The talk will focus on new effects due to the random nature of the energies and on the interplay of techniques from statistical mechanics and analysis.

conference
6/24/13 6/26/13

Emerging structures in Analysis and Probability

Universität Leipzig Felix-Klein-Hörsaal

Katja Heid

Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Contact via Mail

Jürgen Jost

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

Felix Otto

Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften

Matthias Schwarz

Universität Leipzig