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.