Speaker: 

Nathan Glatt-Holtz

Institution: 

University of Southern California

Time: 

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 3:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

The Primitive Equations are a fundamental model describing large scale oceanic and atmospheric processes. They are derived from the fully compressible Navier-Stokes equations on a combined basis of scale analysis and meteorological data. While an extensive body of mathematical literature exists in the study of these systems, very little is known in the stochastic setting. In this talk we discuss recent joint work with M. Ziane concerning existence and uniqueness of solutions for the 2-D equations in the presence of multiplicative noise terms.