## Seminars and Colloquia by Series

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , , Georgia Tech , , Organizer: Galyna Livshyts

TBA

Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 13:55 , Location: Skiles 005 , , University of Crete , , Organizer:
Monday, September 2, 2019 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , , Organizer:
Friday, August 30, 2019 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , Mohammed Lemou , Université de Rennes 1 et ENS de Rennes , , Organizer: Molei Tao

Special time

I will start by giving a short overview of the history around stability and instability issues in gravitational systems driven by kinetic equations. Conservations properties and  families of non-homogeneous steady states will be first presented. A well-know conjecture in both astrophysics and mathematics communities was that  "all steady states of the gravitational Vlasov-Poisson system which are decreasing functions of the energy, are non linearly stable up to space translations".  We explain why the traditional variational approaches are not sufficient to answer this conjecture. An alternative approach, inspired by astrophysics literature, will be then presented and quantitative stability inequalities will be shown, therefore solving the above conjecture for Vlasov-Poisson systems. This have been achieved by using a refined notion for the rearrangement of functions and Poincaré-like  functional inequalities. For other systems like the so-called Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF), the decreasing property of the steady states is no more sufficient to guarantee their stability. An additional explicit criteria is needed, under which their non-linear stability is proved. This criteria is sharp as  non linear instabilities can be constructed if it is not satisfied.

Thursday, August 29, 2019 - 11:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , Philippe Chartier , Inria-Rennes/IRMAR/ENS Rennes , , Organizer: Molei Tao

special time

We introduce a new methodology to design uniformly accurate methods for oscillatory evolution equations. The targeted models are envisaged in a wide spectrum of regimes, from non-stiff to highly-oscillatory. Thanks to an averaging transformation, the stiffness of the problem is softened, allowing for standard schemes to retain their usual orders of convergence. Overall, high-order numerical approximations are obtained with errors and at a cost independent of the regime.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 15:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , Konstantin Tikhomirov , GeorgiaTech , , Organizer: Konstantin Tikhomirov
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 13:55 , Location: Skiles 005 , Michael Lacey , Georgia Tech , , Organizer: Michael Lacey

Fine properties of spherical averages in the continuous setting include
$L^p$  improving estimates
and sparse bounds, interesting in the settings of a fixed radius, lacunary sets of radii, and the
full set of radii. There is a parallel theory in the setting of discrete spherical averages, as studied
by Elias Stein, Akos Magyar, and Stephen Wainger. We recall the continuous case, outline the
discrete case, and illustrate a unifying proof technique. Joint work with Robert Kesler, and
Dario Mena Arias.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 11:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , Mohammed Lemou , Université de Rennes 1 et ENS de Rennes , , Organizer: Molei Tao

special time

In asymptotic analysis and numerical approximation of highly-oscillatory evolution problems, it is commonly supposed that the oscillation frequency is either constant or, at least, bounded from below by a strictly positive constant uniformly in time. Allowing for the possibility that the frequency actually depends on time and vanishes at some instants introduces additional difficulties from both the asymptotic analysis and numerical simulation points of view. I will present a first step towards the resolution of these difficulties. In particular, we show that it is still possible in this situation to infer the asymptotic behavior of the solution at the price of more intricate computations and we derive a second order uniformly accurate numerical method.

Monday, August 26, 2019 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 006 , , University of Michigan , , Organizer: Justin Lanier

In complex dynamics, the main objects of study are rational maps on the Riemann sphere. For some large subset of such maps, there is a way to associate to each map a marked torus. Moving around in the space of these maps, we can then track the associated tori and get induced mapping classes. In this talk, we will explore what sorts of mapping classes arise in this way and use this to say something about the topology of the original space of maps.

Monday, August 26, 2019 - 14:00 , Location: Skiles 005 , , University of Minnesota – Twin Cities , , Organizer: Yingjie Liu

Soot particles are major pollutants emitted from propulsion and power generation systems. In turbulent combustion, soot evolution is heavily influenced by soot-turbulence-chemistry interaction. Specifically, soot is formed during combustion of fuel-rich mixtures and is rapidly oxidized before being transported by turbulence into fuel-lean mixtures. Furthermore, different soot evolution mechanisms are dominant over distinct regions of mixture fraction. For these reasons, a new subfilter Probability Density Function (PDF) model is proposed to account for this distribution of soot in mixture fraction space. At the same time, Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) studies of turbulent nonpremixed jet flames have revealed that Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), the gas-phase soot precursors, are confined to spatially intermittent regions of low scalar dissipation rates due to their slow formation chemistry. The length scales of these regions are on the order of the Kolmogorov scale (i.e., the smallest turbulence scale) or smaller, where molecular diffusion dominates over turbulent mixing irrespective of the large-scale turbulent Reynolds number. A strain-sensitivity parameter is developed to identify such species. A Strain-Sensitive Transport Approach (SSTA) is then developed to model the differential molecular transport in the nonpremixed “flamelet” equations. These two models are first validated a priori against a DNS database, and then implemented within a Large Eddy Simulation (LES) framework, applied to a series of turbulent nonpremixed sooting jet flames, and validated via comparisons with experimental measurements of soot volume fraction.