Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences

We consider a stochastic Navier-Stokes equation driven by a space-time Wiener process. This equation is quantized by transformation of the nonlinear term to the Wick product form. An interesting feature of this type of perturbation is that it preserves the mean dynamics: the expectation of the solution of the quantized Navier-Stokes equation solves the underlying deterministic Navier-Stokes equation. From the stand point of a statistician it means that the perturbed model is an unbiased random perturbation of the deterministic Navier-Stokes equation.The quantized equation is solved in the space of generalized stochastic processes using the Cameron-Martin version of the Wiener chaos expansion. A solution of the quantized version is unique if and only if the uniqueness property holds for the underlying deterministic Navier-Stokes equation. The generalized solution is obtained as an inverse of solutions to corresponding quantized equations. We will also demonstrate that it could be approximated by real (non-generalized processes). A solution of the quantized Navier-Stokes equation turns out to be nonanticipating and Markov. The talk is based on a joint work with R. Mikulevicius.

Research Horizons features Lunch Fun Break! The purpose is to create an opportunity for all graduate students, new and experienced, domestic and international, to meet, eat and have fun.AGENDA: ***"Suggestion box" for graduate students will be displayed in Faculty Lounge Skiles 236.*** Propective students' visit on Friday, April 2. *** Game: "Can you comunicate in silience?" *** PIZZAs, soft DRINKs, relax and have fun. ***

Schwarz algorithms have experienced a second youth over the lastdecades, when distributed computers became more and more powerful andavailable. In the classical Schwarz algorithm the computational domain is divided into subdomains and Dirichlet continuity is enforced on the interfaces between subdomains. Fundamental convergence results for theclassical Schwarzmethods have been derived for many partial differential equations. Withinthis frameworkthe overlap between subdomains is essential for convergence. More recently, Optimized Schwarz Methods have been developed: based on moreeffective transmission conditions than the classical Dirichlet conditions at theinterfaces between subdomains, such algorithms can be used both with and without overlap. On the other hand, such algorithms show greatly enhanced performance compared to the classical Schwarz method. I will present a survey of Optimized Schwarz Methods for the numerical approximation of partial differential equation, focusing mainly on heterogeneous convection-diffusion and electromagnetic problems.

Last week we motivated and defined Khovanov homology, an invariant of oriented links whose graded Euler characteristic is the Jones polynomial. We'll discuss the proof of Reidemeister invariance, then survey some important applications and extensions, including Lee theory and Rasmussen's s-invariant, the connection to knot Floer homology, and how the latter was used by Hedden and Watson to show unknot detection for a large class of knots.