Spectral Analysis of Brownian Motion with Jump Boundary

Speaker: 

Professor Wenbo Li

Institution: 

University of Delaware

Time: 

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 10:00am

Location: 

MSTB 254

Consider a family of probability measures $\{\mu_y : y \in
\partial D\}$ on a bounded open domain $D\subset R^d$ with smooth
boundary.
For any starting point $x \in D$, we run a
a standard $d$-dimensional Brownian motion $B(t) \in R^d $ until it first
exits $D$ at time $\tau$,
at which time it jumps to a point in the domain $D$ according to the
measure $\mu_{B(\tau)}$ at the exit time,
and starts the Brownian motion afresh. The same evolution is repeated
independently each time the process reaches the boundary.
The resulting diffusion process is called Brownian motion with jump
boundary (BMJ).
The spectral gap of non-self-adjoint generator of BMJ, which describes the
exponential
rate of convergence to the invariant measure, is studied.
The main analytic tool is Fourier transforms with only real zeros.

SINGULAR PERTURBATION SOLUTION of the BECKER-DORING EQUATION, and NUCLEATION in an ISING FERROMAGNET

Speaker: 

Vitaly Shneidman

Institution: 

New Jersey Institute of Technology

Time: 

Thursday, November 8, 2007 - 2:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

I will first briefly review the classical,
"Becker-Doring" (BD) theory of nucleation and describe
the solution of the discrete time-dependent BD equation.
Then, I will discuss low-temperature nucleation in a
two-dimensional Ising system driven by Glauber/Metropolis
dynamics. Here, accurate values of the nucleation rate can
be derived and used to assess the phenomenological BD
picture.

Burning Bubbles

Speaker: 

Andrejs Treiberg

Time: 

Friday, June 8, 2007 - 4:00pm

Location: 

MSTB 254

The region between two vertical parallel glass plates is filled with fuel.
A reaction is initiated whose combustion product is lighter than the fuel.
I'll informally present some stability results for Jingyi Zhu's Hele-Shaw
model for the evolution of a boundary curve of the reaction region. The
normal velocity is the sum of the combustion effect depending on the
curvature of the curve plus the nonlocal buouyancy effect due to pressure.
This model admits a simple treatment, viewing the evolution as a
perturbation of curvature flow.

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