In this talk, we consider kinetic equations containing random

terms. The kinetic models contain a small parameter and it is well

known that, after scaling, when this parameter goes to zero the limit

problem is a diffusion equation in the PDE sense, ie a parabolic equation

of second order. A smooth noise is added, accounting for external perturbation.

It scales also with the small parameter. It is expected that the limit

equation is then a stochastic parabolic equation where the noise is in

Stratonovitch form.

Our aim is to justify in this way several SPDEs commonly used.

We first treat linear equations with multiplicative noise. Then show how

to extend the methods to nonlinear equations or to the more physical

case of a random forcing term.

The results have been obtained jointly with S. De Moor and J. Vovelle.

Abstract:  For the second  phase transition line $\lambda=e^{\beta}$ of  almost Mathieu operator, we prove that for dense $\alpha$, the operator has purely singular continuous spectrum for every phases, and  for dense $\alpha$, the operator has pure point spectrum for almost every phases. This is joint work with Artur Avila and Svetlana Jitomirskaya. 

We will talk about a paper by A. Moreira and J.C. Yoccoz, where they proved a conjecture by Palis according to which the arithmetic sums of generic pairs of regular Cantor sets on the line either has zero Lebesgue measure or contains an interval.

We continue our discussion of perfect and scattered subsets in the generalized Cantor space. We focus in particular this week on constructing certain types of trees in 2^{<\kappa} for uncountable \kappa which exhibit fundamentally different behavior than trees in 2^{<\omega} can, from the perspective of adding branches, cardinal dichotomies, etc. We also generalize the games previously discussed, and introduce alternative notions of \kappa-perfect and \kappa-scattered.