Speaker: 

Yang Kang

Institution: 

Michigan State University

Time: 

Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 2:00pm

Location: 

RH 306

In this talk, we consider the evolution of a tight binding wave packet propagating in a time dependent potential. We assume the potential evolves according to a stationary Markov process and show that the square amplitude of the wave packet converges to a solution of a heat equation. This is joint work with Jeff Schenker.